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An interactive workbook designed to assist users in identifying their unique profiles. Intended for older adolescents (16+) and for adults on the spectrum who have the desire to enhance their quality of life and achieve unmet goals.
This interactive workbook is designed to help young people, approximately 5th to 8th grade, develop their Personal Profile. By learning to identify their strengths and challenges, they are better able to participate in developing meaningful interventions and future plans, including playing and effective role in their own IEP meetings. With the help of a trusted adult, the child completes a series of exercises related to learning style, sensory issues, emotions, relationships and more, culminating in a written plan for each major area of this or her life that will serve as a constant guide and reinforcement.
Combining their years of experience working with individuals on the autism spectrum, the authors bring practical ideas and teaching methods for offering visual supports to students with autism spectrum disorders.
This title recognizes the importance of offering stabilization strategies that afford students a better regulated body, often enabling students with classic autism to increase their time in school, most of them working up to full-day participation.
A calender that covers topics such as social relationships, community, money matters, workplace, and many others.
The Walking the Path Model is a much-needed resource designed to guide youth with autism spectrum disorders to identify their gifts and strengths. The model leads youth into active community involvement during the transition to adulthood and provides emotional support throughout the process. With a focus on increased capability and independence, the guide/workbook helps establish goals and paths to pursue in the quest for self-value and a true quality of life beyond high school. The process is applicable to all levels of ASD.
An interactive workbook designed to help children with sensory issues learn how to identify their needs and develop strategies to address them. Also works on children's self-esteem.
An accessible guide to the most recent information about autism The revised and updated second edition of A Practical Guide to Autism offers an authoritative guide to the diagnosis, assessment, and treatment of Autism/Autism Spectrum Disorder. Written by two highly regarded medical professionals, the book offers parents, family memberts, and teachers a useful review of the concept of autism, its diagnosis, and the most current treatments available. This comprehensive resource covers the range of the condition in infants, young, and school age children, adolescents, and adults. The authors explore evidence-based treatments and review of some of the alternative and complementary treatments proposed for autism. Information on educational programs and entitlement services are also provided. In addition, the book contains information on issues, such as medical care, medication use, safety, behavioral, and mental health problems. The book covers the range of ages and entire spectrum of autism and provides an introduction to the diagnostic concept. With the expanding number of treatments and interventions this book is a useful guide for all those involved in caring for individuals on the autism spectrum. This important guide: Offers lists of resources for parents and professionals compiled by experts in the field and reviewed by parents. Includes updated research that adheres to DSM-5 standards. Provides an accessible resource with succinct content delivery Contains new discussions on modern treatments that have been identified since the publication of the first edition. Written for parents, teachers, and caregivers, A Practical Guide to Autism, Second Edition offers an updated and expanded edition to the practical guide to autism.
