Life Skills
Developing life-skills for those with Autism or ASD is not only great for self esteem, it greatly reduces future stress for the parent or care-giver. This is a comprehensive list of books on higher education, employment, sexuality and hygiene, and basic life-skills. Scroll through the whole list to see what’s available, or choose a subcategory to hone your search.
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Independent Living with Autism: Your Roadmap to Success
Independent Living with Autism is a guide for young adults with autism leaving the shelter of school and looking for guidance in the important tasks of adult life.
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Sexuality and Relationships E-Book
Sexuality is always a difficult topic to think about and discuss, especially for parents. It’s hard to see your child as a sexual being. Sometimes people believe that if a person has an autism diagnosis, they won’t have sexual feelings or want a relationship. This simply isn’t true. Biological urges, body changes, and sexual feelings will happen so it’s important to address these in a sensitive and supportive way.
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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.
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Teaching Adolescents and Young Adults with Autism Spectrum Disorder – Curriculum Planning and Strategies
Teaching Adolescents and Young Adults with Autism Spectrum Disorder supports teachers in preparing secondary students with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) to succeed in school, work and beyond.
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The Spectrum Girl’s Survival Guide – How to Grow Up Awesome and Autistic
The ultimate advice guide for autistic teenage girls, written by an award-winning autistic teen campaigner. With practical tips on friendships, dating, mental health, bullying and school life to help you overcome any challenge.
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Launching Your Autistic Youth to Successful Adulthood – Everything You Need to Know About Promoting Independence and Planning for the Future
This book addresses the concerns parents of autistic teenagers may have as their child transitions to adult life. It explores specific aspects of adult life such as independence, employment and social life, and offers practical solutions for common transition-related challenges such as finding suitable living arrangements and financial planning.
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Queerly Autistic – The Ultimate Guide For LGBTQIA+ Teens On The Spectrum
An inspiring survival guide for autistic LGBTQIA+ teens, sharing experience and advice oncoming out, consent, staying safe in relationships, communicating with family members, finding a community and practicing self-care.
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Creative Coping Skills for Teens and Tweens – Activities for Self Care and Emotional Support including Art, Yoga, and Mindfulness
Presenting creative activities to young people who need to develop coping and self-care skills, this practical and fun book is ideal for practitioners working with young people who are feeling voiceless, ineffective or fearful at life events
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Preparing for Employment E-Book
Finding successful employment is a long term process. It is much more than writing a resume and doing a job interview. Preparation, planning, and patience really are the keys to a solid chance at employment.
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Happiness and Well-Being on the Autism Spectrum E-Book
Having a positive sense of well-being will help an autistic person in numerous ways. A person who feels happy and fulfilled tends to be more flexible, adaptable, calm, content, and resilient.
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Autism and Your Teen: Tips and Strategies for the Journey to Adulthood
If you have a child with autism spectrum disorder (ASD), your journey together through the teenage years to adulthood is often rewarding but may also be complicated, confusing, and financially challenging. The scientifically validated guidance that Blythe Grossberg offers in this book can help you during this journey.
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The Autism-Friendly Guide to Self-Employment
Successfully self-employed autistic author Robyn Steward shares her keen insights about the valuable skills and unique visions self-employed autistic people bring to the job market. This book will teach you how to bring these strengths into the world of self-employment, so that you can follow your passions as part of the community.
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Masturbation, Autism and Learning Disabilities – A Guide for Parents and Professionals
This frank and thorough guide looks at societal, cultural and religious views of masturbation, how teens develop into sexual beings, the right to be sexual, how to masturbate, appropriate public and private behaviour, professional responsibilities and boundaries, and legal aspects of this topic.
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Slaying Digital Dragons – Tips and tools for protecting your body, brain, psyche, and thumbs from the digital dark side
Without avoiding the dark side of technology, this interactive and comprehensive reference book empowers young adults to take charge of their digital life and improve their mental health and well-being. Quizzes and exercises guide readers through the process of evaluating their relationships with their screens, social media, and tech in general.
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Helping Children to Manage Transitions
Based on over thirty years of expertise, Deborah Plummer provides varied and straightforward activities for teachers, parents, and therapists to healthily engage with children and help them manage stress. This activity book allows space to explore stress and help children identify some of their worries, whilst also providing help on how to build skills and strategies that will help them recognize normal signs of stress and how to respond to these appropriately. It also explores the potential benefits and enjoyments of positive stress, allowing children to have a healthy relationship with difficult feelings.
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The #ActuallyAutistic Guide to Advocacy
The step-by-step guide discusses various aspects of how autism is perceived, explores how best to speak up for individual needs, and introduces advocacy for the wider autistic community. Each step outlines one vital aspect of advocacy and allyship, such as emphasizing acceptance, avoiding assumptions and assuming competence.
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What Is Menopause? A Guide for People with Autism, Special Educational Needs and Disabilities
This carefully written and explicitly illustrated book provides an explanation of menopause for people with autism and special education needs and disabilities (SEND). It helps readers to understand the physical processes and symptoms of menopause, as well as important practical information, such as how to cope with the emotional and hormonal changes in menopause, complementary therapies and tips on how to effectively communicate your experiences to support networks and professionals such as, doctors and therapists.
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Autism and Independence: Assessments and Interventions to Prepare Teens for Adult Life
Autism & Independence is a new clinical resource to help teens and young adults with autism become their own person. Focusing on a population often overlooked, autism expert Dr. Daniel Marston wrote this game-changing guide, filled with strategies and skill building exercises.
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The Neurodiverse Workplace – An Employer’s Guide to Managing and Working with Neurodivergent Employees, Clients and Customers
This practical, authoritative business guide will help managers and employers support neurodiverse staff, and gives advice on how to ensure workplaces are neuro-friendly. The book demonstrates that neurodiversity is a natural aspect of human variation to be expected and accepted, rather than a deficit to be accommodated.
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Dating While Autistic: Cut Through the Social Quagmire and Find Your Person
This book takes you from first date to friendship to love. You’ll find “Bad Idea/Better Idea” tips for what to avoid, and what to try instead. “A Couple of Singles” follows two fictional autistic characters, Bill and Trish, on their quest for love. “Ask Yourself” offers opportunities to reflect on what’s important to you.
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