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Recently added titles to Autism Awareness Centre’s growing book catalogue.
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A Kids Book About Disability
Sometimes people act like having a disability means you’re from another planet, even though over a billion people in the world have disabilities. So how do you talk about disability? How do you talk to people with disabilities? This book helps kids and grownups approach disability as a normal part of the human experience.
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Addressing Anxiety in Young Learners – A Teacher’s Guide to Recognizing Needs and Resolving Behaviors
Anxiety rates are skyrocketing among young learners—and their teachers need explicit training on how to understand and support these students. A concise, reader‐friendly guide written especially for teachers, this urgently needed book will prepare early educators to recognize anxiety issues in children ages 3–8, identify the associated behaviors, and work effectively with students who have anxiety symptoms.
$41.95Product Details »In stock
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Unstuck and On Target! Ages 11-15: Student Workbook
These packs of student workbooks are part of Unstuck and On Target! Ages 11–15, an executive function curriculum that supports flexibility, planning, and organization in middle school students.
$91.95Product Details »In stock
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The Unmasking Workbook for Autistic Adults – Neurodiversity-Affirming Skills to Help You Live Authentically, Avoid Burnout, and Thrive
If you grew up before the neurodiversity movement, chances are you were taught at an early age that your autistic traits were “wrong” or “bad.” Whether it was stimming, difficulties with making small talk, avoiding eye contact, sensitivities to loud sounds or certain textures, or even talking passionately about the things you care about-somewhere along the way you learned to mask these aspects of yourself to better fit in, avoid bullying from other kids, and in some cases to even gain the love of your own parents. The problem is that, over time, masking can lead to higher levels of stress, burnout, emotional dysregulation, anxiety, suicidal thoughts, and depression. So how can you be your authentic self and still succeed and thrive in a neurotypical world?
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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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The Comprehensive Assessment of Interoceptive Awareness – 3rd Edition Restock Assessment Forms 50 Pack
Using methods to understand a client’s unique interoceptive experience can offer valuable insights that are necessary for providing respectful and meaningful supports. If you are looking for a structured guide that will help you learn more about the inner world of the clients your serve, this assessment tool is for you.
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Unmasking Autism – Discovering the New Faces of Neurodiversity
A deep dive into the spectrum of Autistic experience and the phenomenon of masked autism, giving individuals the tools to safely uncover their true selves while broadening society’s narrow understanding of neurodiversity.
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The Adult Autism Assessment Handbook
This accessible and comprehensive adult autism assessment handbook covers the most up to date research and best practice around adult autism assessment, centering the person’s internal experiences and sense-making in clinical assessment, rather than subjective observation, thus providing the clinician with a truly paradigm shifting Neuro-Affirmative approach to autism assessment. Traditional clinical assessment tools are comprehensively explored and unpacked to enable the clinician to have full confidence in aligning traditional criteria to the Autistic person’s subjective experiences.
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The Autistic Guide to Adventure
Outdoor adventuring can be life changing – it makes you physically and mentally stronger, takes you to new places and introduces you to new friends, as well as being an exhilarating challenge – but it can be stressful when there are unexpected social and sensory challenges involved. Allie Mason, autistic adventurer extraordinaire is here to help.
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Listen, Learn, and Grow: A Whole Body Listening Larry Story to Help Kids Regulate, Listen, and Engage
Listening Larry is back, and he’s learned a few things about neurodiversity. It’s true that when we listen, we often use each ear. But listening is more than receiving what we hear! Listen, Learn, and Grow is a delightful rhyming story that explores the many ways kids can use their whole body as a listening tool. And here’s a hint: Listening looks different for everyone!
$20.99Product Details »In stock
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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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The Autist’s Guide to the Galaxy – Navigating the World of “Normal People”
A playful guide to understanding the ways of “normal people”, The Autist’s Guide to the Galaxy flips our usual scripts about neurodiversity.
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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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Autism and the Power of Music
Autism and the Power of Music helps find insightful, practical new ways for you and your child to connect through music, even when it feels difficult. Because music and language may be processed in the same hemisphere of the brain in children on the spectrum, the techniques in this book can help unlock language in an entirely new way. Music becomes a bridge to help children access language in ways other approaches cannot.
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The Big Book of Interoception Games
Play your way to enhanced interoceptive awareness! The Big Book of Interoception Games includes 53 fun activities that invite practice noticing, connecting and/or regulating body signals. Each game provides several variations–making for 100s of playful interoception learning ideas. If you are looking for fun interoception activities to use with learners young and old, this book is for you!
$82.95Product Details »In stock
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Ableism in Education – Rethinking School Practices and Policies
In this down-to-earth guide, Dr. Gillian Parekh unpacks the realities of how ability and disability play out within schooling, including insights from students, teachers, and administrators about the barriers faced by students on the basis of ability. From the challenges with ability testing to gifted programs to the disability rights movement, Parekh shows how ableism is inextricably linked to other forms of bias. Her book is a powerful tool for educators committed to justice-seeking practices in schools.
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Is This Autism? A Guide for Clinicians and Everyone Else
Though our understanding of autism has greatly expanded, many autistic individuals are still missed or misdiagnosed. This highly accessible book clarifies many ways that autism can present, particularly in people who camouflage to hide their autistic traits.
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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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Specific Learning Differences, What Teachers Need to Know – 2nd. Ed.
Highlighting some of the more commonly encountered Specific Learning Differences (SpLD’s), expert Diana Hudson concisely describes the signs of those that are most commonly encountered in the classroom.
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Autistic Adults – Exploring the Forgotten End of the Spectrum
Most research and writing about autism is focused on children, although most autistic people are adults. In this book, Daniel Smeenk addresses this gap by looking at how autistic adults present and how they see themselves and offers insights on autistic adults, from an autistic writer. He provides information and practical advice to inspire neurotypicals to a greater empathy and understanding of the autistic adults in their lives.
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