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Recently added titles to Autism Awareness Centre’s growing book catalogue.
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Tools to Try Cards for Tweens & Teens: Regulation Strategies to Focus, Calm, Think, Move, Breathe, and Connect – Zones of Regulation Series
Tools to Try Cards for Tweens & Teens is a visually rich card deck designed to help adolescents explore a variety of self-regulation tools and strategies. Expanded from the book, The Zones of Regulation (Kuypers, 2011), Tools to Try Cards for Tweens & Teens provides 50 practical, easy-to-use tools and strategies to help adolescents at the developmental ages 11-18+ explore, practice, and choose tools to…
$34.95Product Details »In stock
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Social Context and Self-Management: A System for Clarifying Social Information for Adolescents and Adults
Social Context and Self-Management: A System for Clarifying Social Information for Adolescents and Adults uses scales as a way of explaining social and emotional concepts to someone who might struggle with such information, but have a relative strength in understanding systems.
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Social Emotional Stories – Lessons and Learning from Plants and Animals
Storytelling is a learning device used by humans for centuries, and for good reason: storytelling is one of the best ways to increase critical thinking skills and social emotional learning (SEL). Social Emotional Stories combines storytelling with thought-provoking lessons and activities to help elementary students improve their self-esteem, increase their engagement with school, and give them a sense of empowerment.
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Students with Autism: How to improve language, literacy, and academic success
Katharine Beals describes the root causes of the language and learning challenges in autism, their various academic consequences, and a variety of tools and strategies for addressing them. Drawing on what the most current evidence shows about the nature of autism and which therapies are most successful, Beals discusses the implications for autism-friendly instruction in academic subjects.
$25.50Product Details »In stock
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Say Hi When You’re Shy
All kids feel shy at times. They might not know what to do or what to say. Or it might take them a while to warm up to people. This picture book helps children overcome shyness with manageable strategies.
$20.95Product Details »In stock
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The Social-Emotional Learning Toolbox – Practical Strategies to Support All Students
Strong social-emotional skills help students succeed in the classroom and beyond—but many teachers report that they lack the tools and time to effectively support social-emotional learning (SEL). Help is here with The Social-Emotional Learning Toolbox, a practical guide that shows K-5 teachers how to infuse their existing curriculum and routines with high-quality, evidence-based SEL instruction.
$57.95Product Details »In stock
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Raising Kids With Sensory Processing Disorders – A Week-by-Week Guide to Helping Your Out-of-Sync Child With Sensory and Self-Regulation Issues
Taking a look at the most common sensory issues kids face, Raising Kids With Sensory Processing Disorders offers a compilation of unique, proven strategies that parents can implement to help their children move beyond their sensory needs.
$25.95Product Details »In stock
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The Spectrum Girl’s Survival Toolkit
A companion to the bestseller The Spectrum Girl’s Survival Guide, this essential toolkit workbook for teen autistic girls gives you the coping strategies needed to overcome the challenges that may be holding you back. Using clinically proven techniques like mindfulness, acceptance, and cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT), autistic teenager Siena Castellon shares her experiences, strategies, and tools to help you thrive at home, at school, and beyond.
$37.95Product Details »In stock
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A Social Story for the Rest of Us
In A Social Story for the Rest of Us, Carol merges her expertise and experience as an autism consultant as she describes with disarming honesty what “the rest of us” need to know to work effectively on behalf of those in our care.
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The Zones of Regulation Storybook Set – Understanding Feelings and Emotions & Exploring Tools to Help Manage Them (Zones of Regulation Series)
These two storybooks provide engaging social scenarios and strategies to help children at developmental ages 5-11 explore how lessons from The Zones of Regulation curriculum book can be used at school and at home. Kids love stories and will identify with the characters and the everyday situations as they learn about their feelings and emotions and how their bodies help show and tell them what they are feeling. Readers will also learn along with the characters that they can manage and control how they feel by using tools—such as movement, activities, and art—to relax, focus, and stay calm so they can meet their goals and needs of the day.
$62.95Product Details »In stock
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Sincerely, Your Autistic Child: What People on the Autism Spectrum Wish Their Parents Knew about Growing Up, Acceptance, and Identity
Most resources available for parents come from psychologists, educators, and doctors, offering parents a narrow and technical approach to autism. Sincerely, Your Autistic Child represents an authentic resource for parents written by autistic people themselves.
$22.95Product Details »In stock
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Supporting Autistic People with Eating Disorders – A Guide to Adapting Treatment and Supporting Recovery
This book explores the link between autism and eating disorders, sharing findings from both clinical research and first-hand experience. Chapters explore ways in which traditional eating disorder treatments can be adapted to support autistic people towards full recovery.
$33.95Product Details »In stock
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Understanding ADHD in Girls and Women
The symptoms of ADHD are no less impairing in females than males, but can be missed or misunderstood. This book arms professionals, parents, and women themselves as it maps out where to go for information, who can help and how to understand ADHD better
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Sensory Play for Toddlers and Preschoolers – Easy Projects to Develop Fine Motor Skills, Hand-Eye Coordination, and Early Measurement Concepts
Sensory Play for Toddlers and Preschoolers is a practical, hands-on guide for parents and educators who want to inject more play into their children’s day! Since this collection features simple sensory play ideas with items you already have in your home, playtime has never been easier.
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The Teen Guide to Sensory Issues
In this guide, written especially for teens and those who love them, Rachel S. Schneider breaks the challenges of sensory teenagehood into hilarious, thoughtful, and manageable chunks. Through personal stories about her own experiences as an undiagnosed sensory teen as well as tips and tricks to survive and thrive during these years, Rachel reminds us that we’re not alone.
$24.95Product Details »In stock
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The Teacher’s Introduction to Pathological Demand Avoidance
This essential guide for working with PDA pupils outlines effective and practical ways that teachers and school staff can support these pupils, by endorsing a child-led approach to learning and assessment.
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Screen Time is Not Forever
As important as screens are in our lives, we all need to unplug, especially children. This reassuring picture book offers children and families a starting point for limiting screen time and making the most of the time you have with your screens and without.
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Social Thinking Frameworks Collection | A Set of 13 Social Thinking® Teaching Frameworks Set 1
Start unpacking the social world with Core Practical Treatment Frameworks: Set 1, part of a two-set collection of 26 visual teaching scaffolds for social learning and self-regulation strategies—curated and distilled for the first time in one practical and user-friendly collection. After 25 years of research, teaching, and learning, Social Thinking has powerful ideas and concrete strategies for helping interventionists help their social learners see and understand the social world and develop lifelong strategies for meeting their social goals.
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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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Social Thinking Frameworks Collection | A Set of 13 Social Thinking® Teaching Frameworks Set 2
Here are 13 more of Social Thinking’s most helpful and popular teaching frameworks in a portable, user-friendly set to help social learners ages 4–adult build social competencies across a wide range of social landscapes. Tried, tested, and perfected over 25 years, these visual supports dissect complex social concepts into user-friendly graphics and logical steps that make sense to social learners. The frameworks in this set explore perspective taking and social communication, different types of friendships, and executive functions.
$34.95Product Details »In stock