Teachers are going to love this book! Passionate and practical, it moves beyond "sight words" and other functional literacy skills and provides the know-how for bringing quality, meaningful literacy instruction to students with autism.

This concise, highly practical guidebook gives educators across grade levels a powerful new way to think about students'"obsessions" as positive teaching tools that calm, motivate, and improve learning.

Ce témoignage est un voyage aux côtés d'un jeune homme aux capacités hors du commun. Comme le héros de Rain Man, Daniel Tammet est un autiste savant, un génie des nombres. Son cerveau lui permet d'effectuer des calculs mentaux faramineux...

This accessible resource for K–12 inclusive classrooms helps teachers create an environment for active and collaborative learning that encourages and supports all students, including those who may have marked differences in ability, need, language...

"Jumpin' Jellybeans" is the long-awaited new collection of songs from Gen Jereb and Friends.

When children's communication skills lag, all areas of learning and socialization are affected. "Jumpstarting Communication Skills in Children with Autism" describes how an ABA approach can help children age 2-10 who have significant communication problems—difficulty making requests, perseverative speech, a lack of fluency in conversational exchanges, trouble reading others' signals, and more—learn to understand and use speech and language.

This long-awaited critically needed book deals with a subject common to children with autism/Asperger's, offering a step-by-step comprehensive plan to address food aversions and food selectivitities.

Finding a way of simultaneously addressing the sensory, motor, emotional, communicative, cognitive and social needs of children on the autism spectrum can be a real challenge, and choosing from the vast array of options available is a daunting task. This book provides a blueprint for an educational intervention program that is evidence-based, comprehensive in scope and integrative in its approach.

Why are some children anxious, and how do their anxieties develop? An expert answers these questions as she describes various kinds of anxiety-related behavior commonly observed in children.

The Keys to Success was written as a practical, step-by-step guide to educating students with autism.

This book contains 40 simple,fun activities to teach kids to: read social cues, resolve conflicts with friends, and understand others' needs and intentions. Suitable for ages 9 - 12.

Executive functions are the cognitive skills that help us manage our lives and be successful. Children with weak executive skills, despite their best intentions, often do their homework but forget to turn it in, wait until the last minute...

Many children with disabilities have poor sensorimotor integration. In this lively DVD focusing on young children, get a first-hand view of a theme-based (dinosaurs) sensorimotor lesson.

Each of the creative theme-based group lessons in this practical resource follows a sensory-integrated developmental sequence consisting of seven activities, all related to the theme.

The centerpiece of the book consists of 30 sensorimotor, theme-based lesson plans that include literacy and curriculum suggestions for teachers, and suggests ways that they can be incorporated into busy elementary school schedules and environments.

These three talented occupational therapists demonstrate how sensorimotor activities provide an essential foundation for learning in young children.

Drawing from her personal experiences, Judy Endow, author of the 2010 and 2011 Hidden Curriculum Calendars, provides lots of hidden curriculum items that pertain to most areas of adult life. In relating how she personally has learned to more successfully maneuver social interactions, she also presents a framework for developing the ability to more quickly assess a situation and take steps to avoid making social blunders BEFORE they have been committed.

Children diagnosed with an autism spectrum disorder (ASD) often present parents and educators with perplexing symptoms. Even though the skills of children with ASD can range from very high to very low, they have similar underlying learning systems.

Cet ouvrage est un guide simple et concret, destiné à tous ceux qui travaillent avec de jeunes enfants autistes. Il explique les principales caractéristiques associées à l’autisme et aide les enseignants et les éducateurs à comprendre la manière dont les enfants autistes interagissent et fonctionnent au quotidien.

In their struggle to save their daughter, the Maurices plunged into a medical nightmare of false hopes, "miracle cures," and infuriating suggestions that Anne-Marie's autism was somehow their fault, to finally be saved by intensive behavioral therapy.