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Recently added titles to Autism Awareness Centre’s growing book catalogue.
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Finding Your Superpowers: A Guide for People on the Autism Spectrum and Their Allies
This book is a quick read with a fun and approachable format for a wide age range. You will find examples, stories from individuals and families, as well as references and further resources in the text. At the end of each chapter, the reader can note their discoveries.
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Different Kinds of Minds – A Guide to Your Brain
With her knack for making science easy to understand, Temple Grandin explains different types of thinkers: verbal thinkers who are good with language, and visual thinkers who think in pictures and patterns. You will discover all kinds of minds and how we need to work together to create solutions to help solve real-world problems.
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A Different Way to Learn – Neurodiversity and Self-Directed Education
Neurodivergent children experience and interact with the world differently to many of their peers. Standard educational systems often fail to adapt to their unique strengths and ways of learning. School, and even the act of learning, can become a source of great anxiety and trauma. Self-directed education offers an alternative to traditional schools that can help neurodivergent children develop at their own pace and thrive.
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Exploring and Working With Autistic Regression
In this honest, poignant depiction of autistic regression, Sophie Gaston explores the unexpected joys and challenges of having a child that regresses and surveys the historic and latest professional perspectives on the causes of this little-understood occurrence.
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Different Thinkers: Autism
Using simple language, complemented by appealing and captivating illustrations, Different Thinkers Autism offers an accessible and uplifting message about what it means to have autism, how autism affects emotions and behaviors, and what children can do to manage any challenges while building on their individual strengths.
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Exciting Sensory Bins for Curious Kids
Sensory play is important to children’s development, and Mandisa Watts’s creative sensory bins are the perfect way for parents and caregivers to interact with toddlers and preschoolers in fun, engaging ways.
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Enhancing the Well-Being of Students on the Autism Spectrum – Learning from Students, Parents, and Teachers
The importance of enhancing students’ well-being is recognized around the world, yet the well-being of autistic students remains largely unexplored. With the increasing enrolment of autistic students in mainstream schools, it is imperative to develop a comprehensive understanding of the well-being of autistic students to facilitate their sense of well-being in school. Enhancing the Well-Being of Students on the Autism…
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The Family Experience of PDA
A light-hearted and digestible guide to being a PDA parent covering everything from tolerance levels, relationships and meltdowns to collaboration, flexibility, and self care to dip in and out as your schedule allows to help get to grips with this complex condition.
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Freedom from Seclusion and Restraint – The Studio 3 Approach
This book is for any practitioner or family member supporting individuals in crisis. The Low Arousal Approach, designed and implemented by Studio 3, has been applied in a variety of different care settings, and is also becoming more popular in schools and classrooms. Applying the Low Arousal Approach to behaviour management and crisis situations is a complicated process. This book is full of honest examples about how to achieve restraint and seclusion elimination goals. This is a difficult and emotional subject, and readers may feel challenged by some elements of this book.
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Fear Not! How to Face Your Fear and Anxiety Head On
By teaching children how to confront their fears and mindfully ride the wave of anxiety, this book equips them with the tools they need to deal with the inevitable stressors of life and feel confident no matter the challenge.
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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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Equitable and Inclusive IEPs for Students with Complex Support Needs
Students who have the most significant support needs are at high risk for exclusion from general education. Unlock access to inclusive education for these learners with this forward-thinking book, a step-by-step guide to person-centered, strengths-based, and meaningful IEPs for K–12 students with complex support needs.
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Fun with Food Card Deck: 99 Playful Activities to Help Picky Eaters and Problem Feeders Explore New Foods
Featuring 99 activities, this deck will help parents and therapists guide kids through six main steps – visually tolerating, interacting with, smelling, touching, tasting, and eating new foods – all while engaging in imaginative food-based games, songs, challenges, and art activities.
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Education and Girls on the Autism Spectrum – Developing an Integrated Approach
A multi-disciplinary collection about understanding and addressing the key issues in education for girls with autism. The book offers recommendations for a collaborative and integrated approach within a variety of settings that enable girls on the spectrum to reach their full potential.
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Fall Down 7 Times Get Up 8 – A Young Man’s Voice from the Silence of Autism
Based on his hugely successful blogs in Japan, Naoki Higashida gives us, in short powerful chapters, his moving, beautiful insights into life, identity, education, his family, our society, and personal growth.
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A 5 Is Against the Law: Social Boundaries – a Compassionate but Honest Guide for Teens and Young Adults
Kari Dunn Buron has done it again. Building on her popular 5-Point Scale, A 5 Is Against the Law! takes a narrower look at challenging behavior with a particular focus on behaviors that can spell trouble for adolescents and young adults who have difficult
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Developing Talents: Careers for Individuals with Autism, 3rd. Edition
Who knows better about developing the talents of those with autism than Temple Grandin? This updated and expanded third edition of Developing Talents considers the continuing dismal employment statistics for individuals with autism. The authors take an in-depth look at entrepreneurship and many other options.
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