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Resources for Caregivers
School Success for Kids With Autism
By Andrew Egel, Katherine Holman, and Christine Barthold
By outlining the best practices found in today's classrooms, School Success for Kids With Autism describes how parents and teachers can work together to create nurturing, supportive, and effective classroom environments from preschool to high school. With practical tools and advice from leaders in the field of autism education, this book is sure to give these students, their parents, and their teachers guidance for success.
An Early Start for Your Child with Autism: Using Everyday Activities to Help Kids Connect, Communicate, and Learn
By Geraldine Dawson & Sally Rogers, Audiobook Read by Ann Marie Lee
This encouraging guide from the developers of a groundbreaking early intervention program provides doable, practical strategies you can use every day. The authors make it surprisingly simple to turn daily routines like breakfast or bath time into fun and rewarding learning experiences that target crucial developmental skills. Vivid examples illustrate proven techniques for promoting play, language, and engagement. Get an early start and give your child the tools to explore and enjoy the world.
Coloring Outside Autism’s Lines: 50+ Activities, Adventures, and Celebrations for Families with Children with Autism
By Susan Walton
This book is packed with exciting ideas for families living with autism, with everything you need to know to make them a reality. Including: unconventional backyard fun, easy ways to adapt public places into stress-free outings, surprising activities that can lead to lifelong interests, and special activities for grandparents and extended family members, with tips and advice from dozens of creative families who have found fun with autism and want you to do the same!
Tic Toc Autism Clock: A Guide to Your 24/7 Plan
By Elizabeth Obrey & Linda Barboa
Autism does not sleep. When night falls, families everywhere tuck their children into bed for what will typically be a good night's sleep, but the care required by the child with special needs continues around the clock. Like Grandfather's pocket watch, if not wound consistently, the ticking will stop. Teachers and therapists often provide some services during the day, but the family is the 24/7 team.
A Treasure Chest of Behavioral Strategies for Individuals with Autism
By Beth Fouse & Maria Wheeler
A cornucopia of ideas, strategies, and concepts that will apply to virtually any situation! The authors address sensory, communication, and physical and social-emotional issues by increasing desired behaviors and decreasing unwanted behaviors. Whatever problems you face, you'll find helpful solutions to them in this book. This book should be on every teacher's and parent's bookshelf.
The Parent’s Guide to College for Students on the Autism Spectrum
By Jane Thierfield Brown, Ed.D.; Lorraine E. Wolf, PhD; Lisa King, MD; and Ruth Kukiela Bork, M.Ed.
Arranged in the order that students and their family will go through during the college process, each chapter of this book begins with an overview and a vignette of a student and where he or she is in the college process. This parent-friendly book, written by parents who are also autism professionals, takes the fear and mystery out of the college experience in a world that sees an increasing number of individuals with autism spectrum disorders attending college.
Resources for Teens & Adults
The Autism Job Club: The Neurodiverse Workforce in the New Normal of Employment
By Michael S. Bernick & Richard Holden
The Autism Job Club is a groundbreaking book for bringing adults with autism and other neuro-diverse conditions into the work world. The authors review the high unemployment rates among adults with autism and other neuro-diverse condition, and outline and explain six strategies that, taken together, will reshape employment for adults with autism. The Autism Job Club will be a vital resource for adults with autism, their families, and advocates who are committed to neuro-diverse employment, not unemployment.
The Autism Playbook for Teens: Imagination-Based Mindfulness Activities to Calm Yourself, Build Independence, and Connect with Others
By Irene McHenry & Carol Moog
This book offers a unique, strengths-based approach to help teens with autism spectrum (including Asperger's Syndrome) develop social skills, strengthen communication, and thrive. The activities contained in each chapter are custom-designed to work with the unique perspectives, sensory processing, neurological strengths and challenges that teens with autism bring to their encounters with the social world. This is the only book available for teens with autism that specifically integrates mindfulness skills and imaginative scripted roleplaying activities for building authentic social experiences.
The Aspie Teen’s Survival Guide: Candid Advice for Teens, Tweens, and Parents, from a Young Man with Asperger’s Syndrome
By J.D. Kraus
The teenage years are a time when being social is the #1 priority for kids. But for kids with Asperger's, who have acute social challenges, these years can be the most difficult, confusing time in their lives. Enter J. D. Kraus, a young man who has been there, done that! He offers practical advice to his peers so they can get the most out of middle school and high school, both academically and socially. Parents and teachers will love seeing life through J.D.'s eyes, plus "Notes to Parents" sections offer great advice for caregivers and educators alike.
Resources for Educators
Teaching Children with Autism in the General Classroom: Strategies for Effective Inclusion and Instruction in the General Education Classroom
By Vicky Spencer & Cynthia Simpson
Teaching Children With Autism in the General Classroom provides an introduction to inclusionary practices that serve children with autism, giving teachers the practical advice they need to ensure each student receives the quality education he or she deserves. Promoting field-tested strategies and techniques, this book offers teachers sound advice for creating a classroom environment conducive to learning success for children with autism spectrum disorders.
Social Skills Games & Activities for Kids with Autism
By Wendy Ashcroft, Ed.D., Angela M. Delloso, and Anne Marie K. Quinn
This book provides complete instructions for using fun, engaging games and activities to teach social skills to children with Autism Spectrum Disorder. Perfect for teachers struggling to help their students with autism learn to interact socially with their peers, these games are sure to become a much-loved part of students’ daily routines.
Teaching Adolescents with Autism: Practical Strategies for the Inclusive Classroom
By Walter Kaweski
Award-winning educator Walter Kaweski offers secondary teachers practical strategies and heartfelt insights based on his extensive experience as an autism specialist, inclusion coordinator, and father of a son with Asperger syndrome. Teaching Adolescents with Autism offers hundreds of valuable ideas to help teachers. This unique book takes the mystery out of teaching adolescents with autism and inspires teachers to appreciate the individuality of each student.
Educating Young Children with Autism Spectrum Disorders: A Guide for Teachers, Counselors, and Psychologists
By Erin E. Barton & Beth Harn
Educating Young Children with Autism Spectrum Disorders is aimed at providing strategies for teachers, school counselors, and psychologists to help address the needs of children on the spectrum, as well as their families. Including forms, charts, and a range of classroom activities, this is a great resource you will need 23 to gain the insight and tools for making a difference in the educational lives of young children with autism.
Managing the Cycle of Meltdowns for Students with Autism Spectrum Disorder
By Geoff Colvin & Martin R. Sheehan
This practitioner-friendly guide provides special and general education teachers of autistic students with a six-phase positive behavior support model that includes interventions for each phase. This book outlines practical steps for preventing and responding to the various phases of meltdown behavior in students with autism spectrum disorder. Teachers will find experienced guidance for providing a supportive environment in which students with ASD can succeed.
Ten Things Your Student with Autism Wishes You Knew
By Ellen Notbohm & Veronica Zysk
For the teacher in all of us comes Ten Things Your Student with Autism Wishes You Knew. The unique perspective of a child's voice helps us understand the thinking patterns that guide their actions, shape an environment conducive to their learning style, and communicate with them in meaningful ways. This book affirms that autism imposes no inherent upper limits on achievement, that both teacher and child "can do it."
Practical Solutions for Stabilizing Students with Classic Autism to be Ready to Learn: Getting to Go!
By Judy Endow, MSW
This user-friendly book presents evidence-based, easy-to-use strategies within two major areas of stabilization found critical for students on the autism spectrum: sensory regulation and use of visual supports. With proper use of these strategies, the student with classic autism can get to GO! – feeling regulated and supported and, therefore, ready to learn and participate.
