Showing posts with label Teaching Children with Autism. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Teaching Children with Autism. Show all posts

Monday, October 12, 2009

Autism: Dr. Jed Baker Collection on Social Skills and Preventing Meltdowns



Dr. Jed Baker has recently appeared on ABC World News with Charles Gibson, Nightline, and CBS's "The Early Show".




No More Meltdowns: Positive Strategies for Managing and Preventing Out-Of-Control Behavior

"Jed Baker, in this excellent book, gives us the tools to deal with and prevent out-of-control behavior. Wisely, he leads us grown-ups to understand how to change our own behavior in order to help our children change theirs."

Carol Stock Kranowitz

Author of the best-seller

The Out-of-Sync Child



It could happen at the grocery store. At a restaurant. At school. At home. Meltdowns are stressful for both child and adult, but Dr. Baker can help! Author of the award-winning Social Skills Picture Book series, Dr. Jed Baker offers parents and teachers strategies for preventing and managing meltdowns. His 20+ years of experience working with children on the autism spectrum, combined with his personal experiences raising his own children, have yielded time-tested strategies, and results!

Dr. Baker offers an easy-to-follow, 4-step model that will improve your everyday relationships with the children in your life:

1) Managing your own emotions by adjusting your expectations,
2) Learning strategies to calm a meltdown in the moment,
3) Understanding why a meltdown occurs, and
4) Creating plans to prevent future meltdowns.


The Social Skills Picture Book Teaching play, emotion, and communication to children with autism

Social Skills Training for Children and Adolescents with Asperger Syndrome and Social-Communications Problems

Preparing for Life: The Complete Guide for Transitioning to Adulthood for Those with Autism and Asperger's Syndrome

Sunday, November 2, 2008

The Autism Book: Answers to Your Most Pressing Questions



The Autism Book: Answers to Your Most Pressing Questions (Paperback)
by Jhoanna Robledo (Author), Dawn Ham-Kucharski (Author) - HOW do you know if your child is truly different from others?.

Answers to more than one hundred of the most frequently asked questions about autism, a disease that affects an estimated 1 in 150 children.

At the age of two, Dawn Ham-Kucharski's son, Alex, was diagnosed with autism, and she was given little hope that he would ever express himself verbally or interact meaningfully with others. But, now at the age of six, Alex is an uplifting autism success story, due to his mother's tireless efforts to seek out an appropriate treatment program, educational plan, and socialization strategy.

In The Autism Book, health and parenting journalist S. Jhoanna Robledo and Ham-Kucharski, an impassioned advocate for educational opportunity for autistic children, use their hard-won knowledge and experience to objectively and compassionately answer the most urgent questions of parents and educators of autistic children. The authors offer comprehensive information on diagnoses, causes, manifestations, treatment options, managing emotions, family relationships, parenting and lifestyle issues, education, and common worries.

About the Author
S. Jhoanna Robledo is a graduate of the Columbia School of Journalism and is a freelance writer specializing in parenting and health. Her work has appeared in Newsweek, New York magazine, Self, Real Simple, and American Baby.

Dawn Ham-Kucharski is on the board of directors of the Michigan Autism Partnership and serves as the outreach coordinator for the PLAY Project. She and her family have recently been featured in Family Circle, the Detroit Free Press, The Detroit News, and The Ann Arbor News.
Product Details

* Paperback: 208 pages
* Publisher: Avery; 1 edition
* Language: English
* ISBN-10: 1583332243
* ISBN-13: 978-1583332245

Navigating the Social World: A Curriculum for Individuals with Asperger's Syndrome, High Functioning Autism and Related Disorders by Jeannie McAfee



Navigating the Social World: A Curriculum for Individuals with Asperger's Syndrome, High Functioning Autism and Related Disorders [ILLUSTRATED]

by Jeannie McAfee (Author), Dr. Tony Attwood (Author)

This important new book offers a definitive program with forms, exercises, and guides for the student. It also presents significant educational guidance and supportive assistance to caregivers and teachers.

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Navigating the Social World: A Curriculum for Individuals with Asperger's Syndrome, High Functioning Autism and Related Disorders
By Jeanette McAfee
Published by Future Horizons
ISBN 1885477821, 9781885477828
350 pages

Tuesday, October 14, 2008

1001 Great Ideas for Teaching and Raising Children with Autism Spectrum Disorders


In a snappy, can-do format, 1001 Great Ideas for Teaching and Raising Children with Autism Spectrum Disorders offers page after page of try-it-now solutions that have worked for thousands of children grappling with social, sensory, behavioral, and self-care issues, plus many more.

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1001 Great Ideas for Teaching and Raising Children with Autism Spectrum Disorders: A Lifesaver for Parents and Professionals Who Interact Children Wit
By Ellen Notbohm, Veronica Zysk
Published by Future Horizons, 2004
ISBN 1932565191, 9781932565195
218 pages

Saturday, October 11, 2008

Embracing Autism: Connecting and Communicating with Children in the Autism Spectrum



Embracing Autism: Connecting and Communicating with Children in the Autism Spectrum (Hardcover)
by Robert Parish

Review
Parish is an award-winning journalist with four nationally broadcast public TV documentaries about ASD to his credit. Filled with humor and hope, the essays give information on how people with ASD communicate and learn and what it takes to help them reach their full potential. (ASAP, 06/01/08)

Product Description
"The voices here confirm what I've always suspected: everyone is part of one large continuum, and the approaches and insights recounted here can help any parent, any educator, any person deal with any child—or, for that matter, any other person—more effectively and with more compassion. I only wish I'd encountered earlier this cadre of experienced and caring individuals whose humor and resourcefulness represent clearly how best to love and nurture a child."—Cynthia Nitz Ris, J.D., Ph.D., University of Cincinnati

Through sensitive, sometimes humorous, experienced-based writing from teachers, clinicians, and parent activists in the Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) community, this book will help educators and others to better understand the world inhabited by ASD children. The stories contained in the book will inspire and inform readers who are working day-to-day with children in the autism spectrum, providing valuable insights into what makes these kids tick and useful information on how they communicate, learn, and succeed.

Robert Parish (Cincinnati, OH) is an award-winning journalist with four nationally broadcast public TV documentaries about Autism Spectrum Disorders to his credit, as well as more than 100 digital video projects about ASD for the educational market.

Product Details

* Hardcover: 208 pages
* Publisher: Jossey-Bass; 1 edition (March 14, 2008)
* Language: English
* ISBN-10: 078799586X
* ISBN-13: 978-0787995867