Autism Awareness Centre Inc. – New Books for April 2014

Autism Awareness Centre’s New Books for April 2014

New Books for April 2014

Can I Tell You About Tourette Syndrome?
By Mal Leicester
Price: $13.95Meet Max – a boy with Tourette syndrome (TS). Max invites readers to learn about Tourette’s from his perspective, helping them to understand what tics and triggers are and what it feels like to have TS. He explains how living with TS can sometimes be difficult, and how people around him can help him to feel happy and accepted. This illustrated book is ideal for young people aged 7 upwards, as well as parents, friends, teachers and other professionals working with children with TS.
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Sexuality and Severe Autism: A Practical Guide for Parents, Caregivers and Health Educators
By Kate E. Reynolds
Price: $27.95This practical handbook guides you through the process of teaching about sex and sexuality, answering all of the most crucial questions, including: Why is it necessary to teach this subject to my severely autistic child? When is the right time to start talking about these issues? How detailed and explicit should I be? What methods are most appropriate? It addresses male and female issues separately and covers public and private sexual behaviours, sexual abuse, cross-gender teaching and liaising with school, in addition to the more obvious areas such as physical changes and menstruation.
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Visual Supports for Visual Thinkers: Practical Ideas for Students with Autism Spectrum Disorders and Other Special Educational Needs
By Lisa Rogers
Price: $52.95This book is packed with simple, effective tools to assist in the education of students with special education needs. They can be adapted to be used with young children and older learners with a range of educational needs, including nonverbal learners. Based on the author’s years of teaching experience, the book covers how the classroom environment is laid out, how to use schedules and time planning aids, different education approaches and the teaching of social rules and appropriate behavior.
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Make Social Learning Stick! How to Guide and Nurture Social Competence Through Everyday Routines and Activities
By Elizabeth A. Sautter
Price: $25.95This book offers a “social learning diet” of concepts and actions that can be used in everyday life to increase verbal and nonverbal language, listening skills, understanding of hidden rules, perspective taking,executive functioning, and more.

The activities are recipes for social and emotional learning for which parents, teachers, and therapists typically already have the ingredients.

With close to 200 fun and easy activities, including contributions from leading experts, this book offers numerous ways to embrace teachable moments throughout daily routines without having to do extra work!

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Thinksheets for Teaching Social Thinking® and Related Skills (formerly titled Worksheets!)
By Michelle Garcia Winner
Price: $39.95One of Social Thinking’s best-selling books, Worksheets!, now has a new name: Thinksheets. Same great content, now with a new title and cover.Thinksheets encourages higher functioning individuals with autism spectrum disorder, social (pragmatic) communication disorder, ADHD, or other related social–emotional learning challenges to process more deeply what social thinking means to them.

The curriculum works best for students mid elementary through high school. The thinksheets are coded to suggest which ones are better for different aged students.

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Why Teach Social Thinking?
By Michelle Garcia Winner
Price: $28.95If you’ve ever wanted, or needed, to make a case for social instruction to be added to a student’s treatment plan, social goals written into a student’s IEP, or social thinking lessons infused into a classroom or campus curriculum plan,Why Teach Social Thinking? drives home the importance of social learning to a student’s academic success and later success in life.

Author Michelle Garcia Winner connects the dots from social emotional learning to the Common Core Standards to increased likelihood of success in adulthood.

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Upcoming Conferences

April 11 & 12, 2014 – Halifax, NS

Download the 2014 Resource Catalogue

Maureen’s Autism Blog

What in the World is Going On – April 2014 Edition

What in the World is Going On – March 2014 Edition

Autism Q & A Section

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