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Originally published: Developing leisure time skills for persons with autism: a practical approach for home, school and community. A1999.
Make leisure time fun for all children and adults with autism spectrum disorders! Leisure time should be a part of the day that all look forward to enjoying, but for many it can cause anxiety and fear. This book provides comprehensive, structured strategies to introducing meaningful leisure time to ASD children and adults, which they can practice at home, school, and in the community. This book has a wealth of ASD information, including forms and charts that will help to assess sensory needs, age-appropriate activities and assistance in determining the level of interest in specific activities, thirty seven "Activity Cards" for going to the park, playing games, and many more! This detailed guide also covers the components of leisure development, assessing leisure patterns, skills, and preferences, activities that require minimal supervision, community activities, ongoing assessment, and more!
Free time should be part of the day that all kids look forward to. But for many children on the autism spectrum, it is a painfully unstructured part of the day defined by anxiety and fear. This book provides comprehensive, structured strategies to help adults introduce meaningful activities to ASD children, which they can practice at school or at home. The first half of the book provides forms and charts that will help adults assess the child's sensory needs, select age-appropriate activities, and then determine level of interest in specific activities. The second half provides numerous ""Activity Cards"" for going to the park, playing games, listening to music, and many more!
Beytien gives a balance of personal insight and effective strategies that seeks to inspire and inform all those who are connected to a person with autism. The author, both personally and professionally, understands the wide range of needs and challenges of those with autism spectrum order and explores in depth what helps, what hinders, and why.
A cornucopia of ideas, strategies, and concepts that will apply to virtually any situation! The authors address sensory, communication, physical, and social-emotional issues by increasing desired behaviors and decreasing unwanted behaviors. You will learn how to build sensory diets into everyday activities use antecedent control teach students to self-regulate deal with self-injurious behaviors, physical or verbal aggression teach toilet training handle obsessive-compulsive behavior and fixations deal with crisis/stress/data management handle data management and much more. Whatever problems you face, you'll find helpful solutions to them in this book. This book should be on every teacher's and parent's bookshelf. Great reference source!
Payton is afraid of dirt. He's afraid of germs and getting sick, and spends a lot of his time cleaning and worrying over his fears. Payton learns he has Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD). His OCD is like someone in his head is bossing him around all day long. It tells him that he has to wash and tidy, and cannot do the things he wants, like play outside. With the help of his family and doctor, Payton learns how to manage his OCD by putting it in an imaginary shrink machine, or ROARING it away! Learn how Payton, and others like him, make their OCD monsters smaller. You can do it, too!
Weaving her own experience with remarkable new discoveries, Grandin introduces the neuroimaging advances and genetic research that link brain science to behavior, even sharing her own brain scans from numerous studies. Readers meet the scientists and self-advocates who are introducing innovative theories of what causes, how it is diagnosed, and how best to treat autism.
Many children, especially those with developmental delays, have trouble understanding or expressing their feelings. The result can be difficulty with anger management. This book provides a guide for caregivers. It includes a workbook portion that asks children to identify situations that trigger their anger and find appropriate ways to respond.
