New Books & Products
Recently added titles to Autism Awareness Centre’s growing book catalogue.
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Is This Autism? A Companion Guide for Diagnosing
This companion guide to Is This Autism? A Guide for Clinicians and Everyone Else shows clinicians how to assess for the possibility of autism in clients of all ages.
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Power Cards: Using Interests and Enthusiasms to Teach Social Problem Solving and Emotional Regulation Skills to Autistic Students
This invaluable resource is designed for dedicated teachers and caring parents seeking effective strategies to empower children and adolescents who grapple with social misunderstandings and emotional regulation challenges. The Power Card Strategy is a game-changer, harnessing the magic of a child’s interests and passions to inspire them to tackle the complexities of social interaction and problem-solving with newfound confidence.
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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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Henry and the Something New
It’s Field Trip Day! Henry’s class is excited to visit the museum, but Henry is not so sure. The museum means maybe seeing dinosaurs, Henry’s favorite. But it also means a lot of things that are new: a noisy school bus ride, a building full of echoes and hallways, and plenty of chances to get lost! Will he find something that makes all of this new worth the trip? Come along with Henry in this funny, bighearted tale about trying new things, exploring new places, and finding the courage to make yourself heard.
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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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Helping Children to Manage Stress
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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You Are a Social Detective! Teaching Curriculum and Support Guide
Bring Social Emotional Learning into the classroom with the You are a Social Detective! Teaching Curriculum & Support Guide! The aim of this visually rich, easy-to-use curriculum is to teach social learners the power of observation, reading context, and interpreting clues to give them power and choice in how they respond within specific situations in ways that meet their social goals.
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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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Art as a Language for Autism – Building Effective Therapeutic Relationships with Children and Adolescents
Art as a Language for Autism addresses the clinical challenges that are common in working with autistic spectrum disorder by exploring how artistic expression can provide a communicative language for younger clients who are set in their thought processes and preferences.
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How to Be a Brain Executive: And Get Sensory Sharp!
How to Be a Brain Executive: And Get Sensory Sharp! is an innovative workbook for children, ages nine through twelve, designed to support the understanding and management of sensory patterns. This book empowers young readers and their families, through the use of engaging concepts and child-friendly language, to apply the neuroscience of sensory modulation to increase self-understanding and to make functional changes that support engagement and well-being.
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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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The Autists – Women on the Spectrum
An incisive and deeply candid account that explores autistic women in culture, myth, and society through the prism of the author’s own diagnosis.
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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.
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Helping Children to Manage Anger
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.
$30.95Product Details »In stock
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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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All About Autism – A Practical Guide for Primary Teachers
All About Autism is an accessible and informative guide for primary school teachers, designed to increase their knowledge and understanding of autism and enhance their toolkit with practical, adaptable strategies to support autistic children in their care.
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Parenting while Autistic: Raising Kids When You’re Neurodivergent
If anyone suggests that autistic people should not have children, in the mistaken belief that they would not be good parents because of their neurodiversity, they are wrong. Completely wrong. This is not to say that every autistic person should have a child, any more than every neuro-majority person should. People usually know for themselves whether or not they want to become parents, and if they don’t, they shouldn’t. It’s as simple as that.
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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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Remarkable Remy
Remarkable Remy is a warm and optimistic story that introduces an Autistic character to a young audience. The story helps explain the Autistic brain – how it works a little differently and how unique it is – and how our neurodivergent friends make the world remarkable!
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The Autism Couple’s Workbook, Second Edition
Advice and activities to build understanding and communication in relationships where one or both partners is on the Autism Spectrum. This edition is fully updated to reflect contemporary research and changes to the DSM-V and provides exercises for couples to collaboratively work through the challenges that may arise in a neurodiverse relationship.
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