Autism/Neurodiversity
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Guilford Publications Autism Spectrum Disorders in Adolescents and Adults
Evidence-Based and Promising Interventions Bringing together leading experts, this book presents effective practices for helping people with autism spectrum disorders (ASD) to thrive in adulthood. The book reviews the growing research base and describes ways to support adolescents and adults in succeeding in higher education and work, living independently, enjoying leisure activities, navigating meaningful personal relationships, and more. Specific behavioral and instructional interventions--such as functional communication training, positive behavior support, and applied behavior analysis--are discussed. Case examples illustrate practical aspects of applying the strategies in real-world school and community settings.
$57.50
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Emma Goodall Autism Spectrum Guide to Sexuality and Relationships
Understand Yourself and Make Choices that are Right for You Expert advice and real life examples will give you the knowledge to reflect on your own sexuality, provide you with information on different types of relationship, and gives you the confidence to decide which type of relationship is right for you. With important information on sexual health, this book will help you to understand how to find and maintain a relationship of your choosing in a safe and enjoyable way. Exploring the often unspoken rules of sex and relationships, this book also covers often unaddressed topics, such as sexual attraction, sexual identity, rights, safety, children, and power imbalances.
$41.95
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Eve Band & Emily Hecht Autism Through A Sister's Eyes for Pre-Teens & Teens
A Young Girl's View Of Her Brother's Autism. Written by Eve Band PhD, a clinical psychologist, this book gives voice to ten-year-old Emily's story: her questions about her brother, her search for answers about autism, and her exploration of her feelings as a sibling of a young man with autism. Told in her voice, Emily's story is as uplifting as it is filled with valuable information for parents and siblings, or any individual whose life is touched by a person with high-functioning autism or Asperger's Syndrome.
$22.50
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Emily Lovegrove Autism, Bullying and Me: The Really Useful Stuff You Need to Know About Coping Brilliantly with Bullying
This accessible guide for autistic children and teens is full of advice for coping successfully with bullying. It helps the reader understand what bullying is and debunks myths such as 'bullying makes you stronger.' It also lays out self-empowering strategies and practical tips on how to deal with situations where they are being bullied.
$28.95
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Robyn Steward Autism-Friendly Guide to Periods
Written by autistic author Robyn Steward, this is a detailed guide for young people aged 9 to 16 on the basics of menstruation. Created in consultation with young people, an online survey and a group of medical professionals, this is a book that teaches all people about periods, which can be a scary and overwhelming issue. Promoting the fact that everyone either has periods or knows someone who does, the book reduces the anxiety girls face in asking for help. It offers direct advice on what periods look and feel like and how to manage hygiene and pain. It also breaks up information using flaps and step-by-step photos of how to change pads and tampons, it discusses alternatives to tampons and pads, and gives information about possible sensory issues for people with autism.
$29.95
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Temple Grandin & Richard Panek Autistic Brain: Helping Different Kinds of Minds Succeed
Grandin and Panek explore neuroimaging, genetics, and brain science in this book. Readers get an insider's look at what causes autism, how it can be treated and diagnosed. Though coauthored, the narrative is largely told from Grandin's point of view, with many first-person references. Grandin and Panek discuss current practices related to the treatment of autism.
$22.95
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Autistic Pin
A beautiful enamel pin celebrating neurodiversity by local artist Margaux Wosk and their company Retrophiliac Art. Margaux is an Autistic self-taught artist and designer based in Vancouver, BC. These pins are a great way to promote understanding and reduce stigma for neuro-divergent folks and people with invisible disabilities.
$9.95
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Lynda Farrington Wilson Autistic? How Silly is That!
I Don't Need Any Labels at All The first book of its kind that tells children with autism they are KIDS with autism, as it gently pokes fun of the onerous label "autistic". The readers will feel better about themselves after reading about their new friend, the narrator, who also HAS autism, as well as many other more important characteristics. Having autism is just one small part of his overall character and humanity. And we would never again label him as simply "autistic".
$14.95
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Jody & Emilia Ramey Autistics' Guide To Dating
A Book By Autistics, For Autistics And Those Who Love Them Or Who Are In Love With Them This book presents strategies for overcoming social skills deficits and sensory issues, to make for relationship success. Emilia Murry Ramey and Jody John Ramey, both on the spectrum, reflect on their dating experiences and provide recommendations for relationships in both the short- and long-term. Their advice includes how to choose venues for meeting people that are free from discomfiting features; coping with typical experiences such as close proximity with a partner, eye-contact, and physical intimacy, in the light of sensory issues; and moving on to extended, committed relationships, co-habiting and continuing to date after marriage.
$37.95
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Yenn Purkis & Sam Rose Awesome Autistic Guide for Trans Teens
With helpful explanations, tips and activities, plus examples of famous trans and gender divergent people on the autism spectrum, this user-friendly guide will help you to navigate the world as an awesome autistic trans teen. Covering a huge range of topics including coming out, masking, different gender identities, changing your name, common issues trans and gender divergent people face and ways to help overcome them, building a sense of pride and much, much more, it will empower you to value yourself and thrive exactly as you are.
$28.95
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Marlene Breitenbach Basic Skills Checklists
Teacher-Friendly Assessment For Students With Autism Or Special Needs Basic Skills Checklists is an easy-to-use, informal assessment tool that brings method to the madness of classroom assessment. It focuses on pre-academic, readiness, and academic skills expected from learners in the early elementary years. Author and experienced teacher Marlene Breitenbach developed these helpful checklists in special-needs and inclusive classrooms while serving children with autism and other developmental disabilities. Simple, customizable charts make it easy to record children's progress in skill areas such as basic concepts, reading/language, math, fine motor, and independence. This flexible tool is great for one-on-one or group assessment.
$32.95
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Scott Walls & Deb Rauner Behavior Management Skills Guide
Practical Activities & Interventions for Ages 3-18. With decades of clinical and classroom behavior management success, authors Scott Walls and Deb Rauner have written a comprehensive manual featuring the best methods for effective change. The authors have identified 3 levels of negative behavior components and have paired these levels with interventions proven to increase positive behaviors and skills. Filled with strategies for individuals or groups, this guide also includes downloadable and ready-to-use assessments, exercises, tools and forms.
$37.95
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Berenstain Bears Talk About Feelings Bingo
This game teaches kids how to understand the feelings of others, understand nonverbal behavior, deal with difficult feelings, and more. This new bingo game is a perfect way to teach emotional intelligence skills in counseling sessions or classrooms. The teacher or counselor picks a card at random and calls it out. If a child can match it to his/her Bingo Card, he/she must answer a question before putting down a chip. A simple but effective way to teach emotional skills that kids will love! Ages 5-10
$62.95
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Janet Krauthamer Body Detective!
Decode Your Sensory Signals Learn all about sensory signals and how your brain and body communicate (also called interoception) through interactive, playful riddles in this STEM-filled book. This interactive book teaches kids how to deal with overwhelming sensory feelings. Includes pull-tabs that reveal the answers to the playful riddles and endnotes include more information about interoception and lift-the-flap games to reinforce learning.
$29.95
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Debra Leach Bringing ABA Into Your Inclusive Classroom
Applied behavior analysis (ABA) is a highly effective, rigorously researched intervention for children with autism spectrum disorders, but most teachers don't get the training they need to put it to work in their inclusive classroom. That's why every K-12 educator needs this practical guidebook, packed with teaching plans and plain-English guidance on using ABA to improve outcomes for students with autism and behavior challenges. Sample teaching plans that clearly demonstrate how to use ABA to support students across social, communication, behavioral, academic, and independent functioning domains.
$46.95
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Debra Leach Bringing ABA to Home, School, and Play
For Young Children With Autism Spectrum Disorders and Other Disabilities Applied behavior analysis (ABA) is one of the most effective interventions for children with autism spectrum disorders and other disabilities. Now you can bring ABA best practices into any early childhood setting with this book, your complete guide to using ABA within everyday routines to support children's learning, participation, and development. Ideal for use with children birth to five, this practical, reader-friendly guidebook is the first to combine ABA with natural environment intervention, the widely used, research-supported approach to meeting the needs of children with disabilities.
$44.95
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Paula Aquilla, Ellen Yack & Shirley Sutton Building Bridges Through Sensory Integration
Therapy For Children With Autism And Other Pervasive Development Disorders Written by three experienced occupational therapists, this book offers a combination of theory and strategies. Building Bridges provides creative techniques and useful tips while offering innovative strategies and practical advice for dealing with everyday challenges, including managing behaviours, improving muscle tone, developing social skills, selecting diets, and more. Part one explains the role of the occupational therapists in treatment and examines sensory integration theories. Part two offers methods of identifying sensory problems in children along with numerous strategies and activities.
$44.95
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Elizabeth Ives Field Building Communication and Independence for Children Across the Autism Spectrum
Strategies to Address Minimal Language, Echolalia and Behavior Expert author Elizabeth Ives Field combines over four decades of working in the autism field to provide functional, in-depth teaching strategies for children on the spectrum who struggle with communication. Incorporating descriptions of composite children at different developmental stages, this book sets out individual goals and therapy approaches for children who may have no speech, moderately functional speech or echolalia, as well as for highly verbal individuals who may not always use appropriate language. Covering a wide range of interventions that address communication and the related areas of independence and social behavior, the purpose of each goal is to make progress toward the child's maximum potential. This book sets out skills that are developmentally appropriate and that will be immediately useful to help children express themselves more effectively and build relationships with others.
$42.95
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Christine Reeve & Susan Kabot Building Independence
How to Create and Use Structured Work Systems Structured work systems are one method that can be used to ensure that people with ASD develop and maintain their ability to work on their own, without assistance and prompting from others. Briefly, structured work systems are designed to give visual information about what work needs to be done, how much works needs to be done, when the work is completed and what will happen next. Due to the predictability and sense of accomplishment that are built into the system, many individuals with ASD find the structured work time their favorite time of the day. Full of color photos and case examples spanning age and levels of functioning, the book provides an A-Z guide to work systems, including assessment, how to build them into the curriculum, IEPs, lesson planning and more.
$60.50
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Butter Pencil Grip 2 Pack
The Butter Grip is specially designed to promote proper finger positioning during writing tasks. The round serves as a tactile cue for the fingers to grasp around. The Butter Grip opens up the web space, provides support to the finger muscles, and can help decrease hyper-extension. It can be used with standard pencils, most crayons, and most pens. At a diameter of 1 inch, this grip is recommended for children and young adults. For those who need extra input to the hand, putting the second grip on the opposite end of the pencil will add more weight for added hand awareness and may help the pencil "fall into" the web space where it should rest.
$14.95
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Temple Grandin Calling All Minds
How To Think and Create Like an Inventor Temple Grandin delves into the science behind inventions, the steps various people took to create and improve upon ideas as they evolved, and the ways in which young inventors can continue to think about and understand what it means to tinker, to fiddle, and to innovate. Interlaced throughout the pages, Temple offers readers glimpses into her own childhood tinkering, building, and inventing.
$14.99
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Stuart Shanker Calm, Alert, and Learning: (ASD) Self-Regulation
Classroom Strategies for Self-Regulation Self-regulation is one of the critical keys to student success. Explore the five major domains, what they are, how they work, and what they look like in the classroom. Learn how to strengthen students' ability to monitor and modify emotions, focus or shift attention, control impulses, tolerate frustration and delay gratification. For anyone working with students. Canada's leading expert on this topic, Dr. Stuart Shanker is a Distinguished Research Professor at York University and Past President of the Council for Early Child Development.
$72.95
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Sarah Bargiela Camouflage
The Hidden Lives of Autistic Women Autism in women and girls is still not widely understood, and is often misrepresented or even overlooked. This graphic novel offers an engaging and accessible insight into the lives and minds of women with autism, using real-life case studies. The charming illustrations lead readers on a visual journey of how women on the spectrum experience everyday life, from metaphors and masking behaviours to communication online, dealing with social pressures and managing relationships. Fun, sensitive and informative, this is a fantastic resource for anyone who wishes to understand how gender affects autism, and how to create safer, more accommodating environments for women on the spectrum.
$28.95
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Jessica Kingsley Publishers Can I Tell You About Asperger Syndrome?
A Guide For Friends And Family Meet Adam - a young boy with AS. Adam invites young readers to learn about AS from his perspective. He helps children understand the difficulties faced by a child with AS - he tells them what AS is, what it feels like to have AS and how they can help children with AS by understanding their differences and appreciating their many talents. This illustrated book is ideally suited for boys and girls between 7 and 15 years old and also serves as an excellent starting point for family and classroom discussions.
$24.95
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