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Recently added titles to Autism Awareness Centre’s growing book catalogue.
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The Road to Regulation Poster (Zones of Regulation Series)
Adapted from the colorful 2-page layout in The Regulation Station storybook, this 24” x 18” poster summarizes lessons taught throughout The Zones of Regulation 2-Storybook Set. The poster is an in-the-moment reminder of the four steps needed to (1) recognize your feelings, (2) identify your Zone, (3) choose a tool, and (4) use the tool to help regulate your feelings experienced across different situations.
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Autism Missed and Misdiagnosed
This comprehensive resource will help multidisciplinary professions to understand, contextualize, and better identify diverse autistic presentations. It includes an overview of the autism diagnostic process, an exploration of controversial and commonly confused diagnoses such as PDA, ODD, CD, ASPD, and BPD; discussions of best practice for investigating FII; and analysis of the specific challenges of autism diagnosis in relation to women and girls, BAME communities, schools, and the criminal justice system.
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My Senses Are Like Cups – What to Do When Everything Feels Too Much or Not Nearly Enough
Help your child aged 7+ think about, explore and develop ways to manage sensory overload and feeling under stimulated with quirky cartoons that visually illustrate the approach. Sections on each of the eight senses (including your internal ‘body signals’ like hunger) feature noticing and knowledge-building activities to help kids get their own, unique, senses cups feeling ‘just right’ for them. Get going on some sensory experiments!
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The Female Profile of Autism – A Guide to Clinical Assessment
Autism in women and girls is often misunderstood and misdiagnosed. This comprehensive guide offers a clinical definition and clinical criteria for Autism as well as case studies illustrating the autistic female experience.
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The Feelings Furballs – Emotional Regulation Activities and Ideas for the Classroom
With her approachable and adorable ‘feelings furballs’ characters, experienced SENCo Lynn How provides teachers and other childcare workers with a variety of activities to help children better understand, express and regulate their emotions. The furballs complement other popular classroom regulation strategies.
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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.
$73.95Product Details »In stock
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The Autistic Teen’s Avoidant Eating Workbook
This guide will help you recognize the signs of avoidant eating, cope with food related anxieties and manage sensory overload, as well as the particular social stresses of communal eating. With top tips, a progress tracker, quizzes and worksheets, this is an engaging and informative resource for teens and parents alike.
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Nurturing Nature: A Guide to Gardening for Special Needs
Learn how to start a garden, encourage growth and get great results—for both individuals and their plants!
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Executive Function Essentials in the Classroom – Strategies to Support Learning and Growth
This guide includes a step-by-step approach to improving executive functioning within the classroom and beyond. It will provide effective strategies to use in daily life, and show teachers how to enhance awareness in the classroom, as well as giving students activities to do, to develop their own skills.
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Connecting My Body Signals: A Science Lab Adventure Book 2
This playful, interactive storybook helps kids (and the adults who love them) explore the meaning of their body signals. While Book #1 focused on noticing body signals, Book #2 explores how body signals can hold meaning and how those meanings may look different for different people.
$72.95Product 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.
$24.95Product Details »In stock
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The Zones Pathway Poster (Dry Erase)
The Zones of Regulation Pathway is a refined Zones of Regulation core concept and Signature Practice, used after learners are familiar with the Zones and have established their toolboxes. The Zones Pathway poster provides learners with scaffolding to apply their understanding of the four Zones and their related tools in real-time situations by walking through a process to notice the situation, identify feelings, and to make healthy decisions about managing them.
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What Really Works for Children with Autism
What Really Works for Children with Autism aims to be a guide for anyone who has a child with autism, as well as for educators and caregivers. Many difficulties for these children arise due to a lack of knowledge about exactly what autism is and what its consequences are.
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The Young Person’s Guide to Autistic Burnout
In this informative and supportive guide, autistic author and advocate, Viv Dawes, gently provides you with all the information you need about autistic burnout: what causes it, how to prevent it and what helps with recovery.
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Including artwork from an autistic teen illustrator as well as first person lived experience stories, it will show you that you’re not alone.Product Details » -
Healthy Relationships – A Guided Journal for Teens
Relationships during the teen years can be amazing, confusing, exciting—and sometimes a little messy. This empowering journal is your tween/teen’s personal guide to figuring it all out. Whether it’s a friendship, a crush, or someone they’ve just started hanging out with, teens deserve to feel safe, respected, and heard. Through thoughtful prompts, honest conversations, and room to reflect, this journal helps them explore what makes relationships work—and what doesn’t.
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Clementine’s Great Big Uh Ohs: Preparing for the Unexpected
In the dynamic world in which we live, anxiety is becoming increasingly more prevalent in our kiddos. The management of anxiety can be challenging for kids and parents alike. The stories of Clementine create a playful environment for kids and parents to explore and face some of the challenges of anxiety with psychological distance.
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Zones Check-In Poster (Dry-Erase)
The new Zones Check-In dry erase poster supports a core concept and Signature Practice that helps develop the self-awareness that is foundational for regulation. A Zones Check-In starts with mindfully pausing to check-in with our body signals, emotions, and Zones.
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PEERS® for Preschoolers – Friendship Skills for Autistic and Neurodivergent Children
Through this new manual, providers will learn about important skills to enhance positive peer interactions and friendship development for young children, how to structure sessions and encourage skill-building effectively, and how to educate and empower parents to be valuable social coaches for their children.
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My Body’s Power Pack – How to Manage your Energy and Stay in Charge!
My Body’s Power Pack uses elements of neuroscience to help children understand why their energy ebbs and flows, and why this may cause dysregulation. It provides gentle neuro-affirmative coping strategies, including the basics of energy accounting (which is like the popular ‘spoons theory’ for adults).
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Thinksheets for Brain Hacks – Strategies to Inspire and Build Motivation
Turn insight into action. Thinksheets for Brain Hacks is the hands-on companion workbook to the Brain Hacks graphic novel—featuring 50+ pages of thinksheets (aka thinking based lesson plans), charts, reflection prompts, and practical tools that bring every chapter to life. Designed for educators and young adult readers alike, this workbook style teaching tool bridges the gap between understanding and doing. Whether you’re assisting tweens or teens or they are working through these ideas on their own, the neurodiversity-affirming tools within this book help connect the dots between what they’ve learned and how they can apply them in their daily lives.
$29.95Product Details »In stock