Autism/Neurodiversity
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Debi Brown An Aspie Girl's guide to Being Safe with Men
The Unwritten Safety Rules No-One is Telling You Here are some need-to-know facts and subtle social, emotional and safety issues surrounding dating, relationships and sex. Readers are guided through the practicalities of sex, and provided with helpful illustrative diagrams and sound practical strategies for staying safe in each situation. Clear, unambiguous advice is given on less tangible issues, including the importance of boundaries, what constitutes abuse and options for reporting suspected abuse. Crucially, the book advocates a female's right at all times to say no to anything she feels uncomfortable with, and suggests safe and realistic ways in which to decline.
$33.95
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Melanie Wells & Fiona Burton Anger Management (Children with Disabilities)
Practical Resource for Children with Learning, Social, or Emotional Difficulties Many children with language and learning difficulties also experience difficulties with social, emotional and behavioural development. Emotional literacy packages often contain worksheets, stories and abstract language concepts. Children who have difficulties with literacy, attention or speech and language may find it difficult to access many aspects of these packages.
$100.95
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Christopher Lynch Anxiety Management for Kids on the Autism Spectrum
Your Guide to Preventing Meltdowns and Unlocking Potential Lynch identifies five factors that are commonly known to elicit anxiety in children with autism and breaks down how to tackle each topic in a manageable and effective way. These factors include rigidity, particular sensitivities, social challenges, communication barriers, and task frustration. With this clear and comprehensive guide, parents, teachers, and therapists can take the first crucial step towards managing anxiety, relieving distress, and unlocking potential.
$24.95
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Any Game Cards
Simply add in these one-sentence cards to any popular game to make it therapeutic. There are six different card sets featuring relevant questions about bullying, social skills, self-esteem, anger, character, and staying healthy. In between turns, a child answers a question with an immediate response to keep the game pace going. Clinicians can also use these cards for opening up discussions. Contents: 36 Feeling Good cards, 36 Goodbye to Bullies cards, 36 Getting Along cards, 36 Do the Right Thing cards, 36 Get Fit cards, 36 Calm Down cards, and Instructions.
$38.95
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Kay Al-Ghani Are You Feeling Cold, Yuki?
A Story to Help Build Interoception and Internal Body Awareness for Children with Special Needs, Including Those with ASD, PDA, SPD, ADHD and DCD Yuki the snow monkey lives in Japan with his family and friends. He sometimes finds it hard to realize when his body is giving him signals, like when he is hungry or cold. Grandfather helps Yuki to understand what his 'funny feelings' mean, and what his brain is trying to tell him. This illustrated storybook will help children to build interoceptive awareness and gain an understanding of the body's activities. It also includes further information for parents and carers, as well as activities and strategies for building interoceptive abilities.
$29.95
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Nicole Martin Art as an Early Intervention Tool for Children With Autism
"Art as an Early Intervention Tool for Children with Autism" includes practical advice on helping a child move beyond scribbling, organizing the child's environment for maximum comfort and relaxation, and providing physical and sensory support. This book is packed with tips and suggestions for how to provide art therapy for children with autism - covering topics such as the basic materials required, safety issues, how to set up a workspace, and ideas for managing difficult behavior. The author writes from a professional and personal perspective - Nicole Martin is a qualified art therapist specializing in working with children with autism, and she also has a brother with autism.
$33.95
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Joel Shaul ASD Feel Better Book
A Visual Guide to Help for Brain and Body When You Feel Bad, for Children on the Autism Spectrum Learn to build individual strengths and work through problems with this picture-based guide for children aged eight to 13 with autism. The use of images and reproducible worksheets creates a simple and fun resource for identifying what you are good at and how to use those skills to deal with personal challenges.
$41.95
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Francis Tabone ASD Independence Workbook
Transition Skills for Teens and Young Adults with Autism This workbook offers skills to help teens and young adults with(ASD) successfully navigate the skills required for daily living and integration into their communities. This easy-to-follow and engaging workbook is designed to help young adults ages fourteen and up develop invaluable communication skills and practice with interactions they would encounter in everyday life. Teens will also find information on topics that are imperative for a successful transition into adulthood-including health and safety, self-care, and more. This unique book focuses on what adaptive skills are needed in the real world and gives ASD teens the ability to practice these skills independently or with a teacher/caregiver.
$37.95
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Penny Kershaw ASD Workbook
Understanding Your Autism Spectrum Disorder.This easy-to-use interactive workbook gives parents the help they need to explain ASDs to their child and provide practical and emotional support following diagnosis. Parents are invited to work through each chapter with their child as they grow older and go through adolescence, encouraging them to talk through how the ASD affects each area of their life, from making friends to problem-solving to planning a career. The information and advice is presented in a clear and positive way to help both parent and child understand more about what the diagnosis means for them.
$41.95
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Johnathan Griffiths Asperger Meets Girl
Happy Endings For Asperger Boys Men with Asperger's Syndrome, young and old, experience difficulty with social interaction, which can be a stumbling block when it comes to getting a girlfriend. Here is a book that demystifies the enigma of 'relationships' by explaining everything in Asperger-friendly terms (some of them mathematical, naturally). Asperger Meets Girl provides hope for all hopeless wooers by offering a choice of three interrelated abstract models for understanding boy-girl relationships. And, to make life easier, these models are presented in graph form where possible. The book also gives valuable practical tips for maximizing one's chances of successfully developing a relationship, such as how to start a conversation without scaring the other person off, avoiding the inclination to stare and understanding the concept of 'personal space'.
$34.95
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George Lynn Asperger Plus Child
How to Identify and Help Children with Asperger Syndrome and Seven Common Co-existing Conditions: Bipolar Disorder, Nonverbal Learning Disability, Obsessive Compulsive Disorder, Oppositional Defiance Disorder, High- Functioning Autism, Tourette's Syndrome, and Attention Deficit Disorder Author George Lynn combines current research with his own experience working for close to 20 years with children whom he calls attention different to create an indispensable guide about the many children with Asperger Syndrome who also demonstrate signs of other conditions. The book provides a map that helps people better understand the often complex issues of individuals with AS and, as a result, provide better services.
$34.95
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Ashley Stanford Asperger Syndrome (ASD) and Long-Term Relationships 2nd Edition:
Fully Revised and Updated with DSM-5 Criteria. Brought fully up to date, this second edition clarifies the new DSM-5 diagnostic criteria and explains how, without a solid awareness of the condition, ASD behaviors can easily be misinterpreted. Stanford's book provides a wealth of strategies for living with the more uncompromising aspects of ASD, pointing out that ASD also brings enormous strengths to a relationship. It shows how understanding the intentions, motivations and reasoning behind ASD behaviors can lead to better communication, relief of tension, and ultimately to a happier, more mutually fulfilling relationship.
$36.95
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Nick Dubin Asperger Syndrome And Anxiety
A Guide To Successful Stress Management. The first book on anxiety written specifically for adults with Asperger Syndrome, this book offers practical advice on how individuals with AS can manage their anxiety more effectively. As a person with AS who has struggled with feelings of anxiety and learnt how to overcome them, Nick Dubin shares his own tried and tested solutions along with up-to-date research on stress management for individuals with AS, including a chapter on Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT). Dubin explores the key problem areas that can lead to anxiety for people with AS such as lack of social skills, difficulties establishing romantic relationships and uncertainty about employment.
$33.95
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Roger Meyer Asperger Syndrome Employment Workbook
An Employment Workbook For Adults With Asperger Syndrome. Through step-by-step self-assessment, the reader is encouraged to engage actively in a self-paced exploration of their employment history, and ultimately to identify the work best suited to their personal needs, talents and strengths. The workbook contains practical exercises, with clear explanations and examples of how to use them. It leads the reader to identify and explore three jobs they have held in different life periods, their interests, skills and talents, and their application to work, their style of learning and style of work, the social skills required by specific jobs, as identified by other people than the autobiographer, the AS characteristics which further and impede work performance, successful and unsuccessful survival strategies, issues around diagnosis and disclosure which affect life at work and outside it, and creative problem solving for the present and the future - a personal wish list.
$68.00
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Francis Musgrave Asperger Teen's Toolkit
With minimal text and fun, comic-book style graphics, this is a treasure trove of information for young people with Asperger Syndrome and their caretakers. Exploring the science of how the human mind works, it gives handy tips on how to cope with all elements of the adult world, including responsibilities, health, sex, and relationships.
$32.95
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Hawthorne Educational Services Asperger's Disorder Intervention Manual
This resource is the intervention manual that complements the Asperger's Disorder Assessment Scale (ADAS). The scale was designed to contribute to early identification and service delivery for students with Asperger's Disorder, as defined by the American Psychiatric Association (2000). This book is useful for developing targeted intervention strategies based upon the identified characteristics from the ADAS. NOTE: This item is exempt from any special pricing or discount.
$74.95
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Tony Attwood Asperger's Syndrome
A Guide For Parents And Professionals The book provides a description and analysis of the unusual characteristics of the syndrome and practical strategies to reduce those that are most conspicuous or debilitating. Beginning with a chapter on diagnosis, including an assessment test, the book covers all aspects of the syndrome from language to social behaviour and motor clumsiness, concluding with a chapter based on the questions most frequently asked by those who come into contact with individuals with this syndrome. Covering the available literature in full, this guide brings together the most relevant and useful information on Asperger's Syndrome, incorporating case studies from the author's own practical experience as a Clinical Psychologist, with examples of, and numerous quotations from people with Asperger's Syndrome.
$33.95
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Chris Mitchell Asperger's Syndrome & Mindfulness
Taking Refuge In The Buddha Understanding who you are can be a lonely and difficult process following the diagnosis of Asperger's Syndrome (AS). Asperger's Syndrome and Mindfulness illuminates this experience as an empowering path of discovery through the teachings of Buddhism. Chris Mitchell draws parallels between the experience of his own journey towards personhood through AS and the spiritual tenants of Theravada Buddhism, as outlined through the Eightfold Path, a guideline to personal development. This book takes the reader through the key beliefs of Theravada Buddhism, such as Mindfulness and the Four Noble Truths, showing how practices such as Insight Meditation can lead to a positive resolution of feelings.
$41.95
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Isabelle Henault Asperger's Syndrome & Sexuality
From Adolescence Through Adulthood Playing the dating game is often tricky: all the more so for individuals with Asperger Syndrome. How do AS adolescents and their families cope with sexual feelings and behaviour? How do people with AS deal with intimacy and communication in sexual relationships? In this comprehensive and unique guide, Isabelle Henault delivers practical information and advice on issues ranging from puberty and sexual development, gender identity disorders, couples' therapy to guidelines for sex education programs and maintaining sexual boundaries.
$48.95
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Blythe Grossberg Asperger's Teens
Understanding High School for Students on the Autism Spectrum This book helps you, a teen with Asperger's, use your strengths and unique personal style to feel more comfortable in high school. Chock full of quizzes, exercises, and examples, this book can help you: Understand your unique strengths and weaknesses; Work well with your teachers; Connect with other kids at school; Recognize and deal with bullying; Use social media safely and politely; Develop healthy habits; Cope with stress and strong emotions; Become more independent. Take a look inside, and find some ways to help yourself feel more comfortable and more relaxed in high school - and better able to make friends, understand teachers, and get the grades you are capable of!
$13.95
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Rudy Simone Aspergirls
Empowering Females With Asperger Syndrome Rudy Simone guides you through every aspect of both personal and professional life, from early recollections of blame, guilt, and savant skills, to friendships, romance and marriage. Employment, career, rituals and routines are also covered, along with depression, meltdowns and being misunderstood. Including the reflections of over thirty-five women diagnosed as on the spectrum, as well as some partners and parents, Rudy identifies recurring struggles and areas where Aspergirls need validation, information and advice. As they recount their stories, anecdotes, and wisdom, she highlights how differences between males and females on the spectrum are mostly a matter of perception.
$29.95
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Jennifer Cook Asperkid's Secret Book of Social Rules - 10th Anniversary Edition
Finally, teens can play the game of life with instructions. The 10th Anniversary Edition of The (Secret) Book of Social Rules reveals the essential secrets behind the baffling social codes surrounding making and keeping friends, dating, and catastrophic conversation pitfalls. It's no wonder Jennifer's is the navigation tool tens of thousands of fans have come to love! Chock full of funny illustrations, take-it-from-me explanations, and comic strip examples, this Book of the Year award winner is real, positive, and speaks from the heart (without ever sounding like your mother's guide to manners). It's confidence, humor, and smarts. For the Human Spectrum.
$29.95
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Jennifer Cook Asperkids: An Insider's Guide to Loving, Understanding and Teaching Children with Asperger Syndrome
This exciting book is full of effective and fun ways of engaging with children with Asperger syndrome. Jennifer explains how theory of mind difficulties create the need for concrete forms of communication, and provides original methods to inspire imagination through sensorial experiences. Affirming that different doesn't mean defective, this book offers the insight and guidance that parents, educators, and other professionals need to connect with the Asperkids in their life and get them excited about learning.
$33.95
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J.D. Kraus Aspie College, Work & Travel Survival Guide
The book analyzes three important points. The first one covers higher education and university/colleges. The book goes into detail on the steps in enrolling for a school, campus life, teachers, school surroundings, study tips, disability services, and more. The next point explores the workforce and how an individual with autism can prepare for employment. This section includes: resume building, job interview tips, commuting, managing money, and networking. The final point reviews basic tips on traveling abroad, including how to pack, choosing an airline, what to bring, and how to behave and dress in a foreign country.
$27.95
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