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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The #ActuallyAutistic Guide to Building Independence
Transitioning into adulthood is already difficult, but being young and Autistic can make it so much harder. Leaving the protections and supports of childhood behind can feel daunting. In a world that often marginalizes Autistic people, how do you begin to figure out and pursue your own goals and dreams, while also managing the new challenges of adulthood?
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Planning Your Career Through Intense Interests
Planning a career around your special or intense interests is possible and, in fact, easier than you might think! If you’re wondering how you can turn your love of animals, intense fascination of transportation or passion for information technology (and much more!) into a fulfilling career, that you will never get bored of, you’ve come to the right place!
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Autism Working – A Seven-Stage Plan to Thriving at Work
This self-guided workbook provides advice, strategies and activities to manage the difficulties that can arise at work. You will be given the tools to help minimize anxiety, sensory overload, unhelpful thinking patterns, difficulties with social communication, and organization and planning problems.
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Managing Your Money
This down-to-earth guide is filled with practical advice on everything from how to budget and be a smart shopper to student loans, mortgages and insurance. An essential book for equipping young people with the skills they need to manage their money now and in the future.
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Living Your Best Life: Acceptance-Based Guided Self-Help for People with Intellectual Disabilities
Living Your Best Life provides guided self-help materials for a person with intellectual disabilities to work through alongside a supporter such as a family member, paid carer, or mental health professional. The tools and guidance help the individual identify what is important to them and move towards a life where worries and doubts do not stop them doing activities they enjoy or trying new things.
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FLIPP the Switch 2.0 – Mastering Executive Function Skills from School to Adult Life for Students with Autism
FLIPP 2.0 provides a blueprint for identifying the executive function skills that students need for future success, along with specific strategies that will support kindergarten through high school students in building strong, long-term gains in executive function skills.
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Building Independence: How to Create and Use Structured Work Systems
This book presents an evidence-based approach to structured work systems. Individuals with autism and related disorders are supported by a variety of people throughout their day, whether in educational and work settings, transition programs, or at home. Structured work systems are one method that can be used to ensure that they develop and maintain their ability to work on their own without assistance and prompting from others.
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The Autism Toilet Training Handbook: Essential Strategies for Home and School
Toilet training can be a battleground for parents and children. In this book, Mary Wrobel offers a detailed roadmap for success, based on over twenty five years of experience. Easy-to-read bulleted lists offer effective do’s and don’ts, along with real-life examples.
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The Potty Journey: Guide to Toilet Training Children with Special Needs, Including Autism and Related Disorders
Parents of children with autism or other special needs frequently struggle with toilet training their child. Toileting a child with special needs is more difficult because there are often additional challenges such as communication difficulties, sensory issues, behavioral concerns, resistance to change, inability to generalize a newly learned skill, and the need for routine.
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Creating Quality of Life for Adults on the Autism Spectrum – The Story of Bittersweet Farms
Creating Quality of Life for Adults on the Autism Spectrum: The Story of Bittersweet Farms provides an overview of the first farmstead community for adults with autism established in North America. The book also provides a detailed description and evaluation of the intervention model used to promote quality of life for the adults with autism who live as residents at Bittersweet Farms.
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Visual Thinking – The Hidden Gifts of People Who Think in Pictures, Patterns, and Abstractions
With her genius for demystifying science, Grandin draws on cutting-edge research to take us inside visual thinking. Visual thinkers constitute a far greater proportion of the population than previously believed, she reveals, and a more varied one, from the photo-realistic object visualizers like Grandin herself, with their intuitive knack for design and problem solving, to the abstract, mathematically inclined “visual spatial” thinkers who excel in pattern recognition and systemic thinking.
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Bobby and Mandee’s Good Touch, Bad Touch, Revised Edition
When it comes to bad touches, Bobby advises children, “Whether it is a stranger, or someone you know well, the rules to be safe are always the same: Say no! Run away! And find a grown-up friend to tell!”
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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