New Books & Products
Recently added titles to Autism Awareness Centre’s growing book catalogue.
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Beyond Words- Using Paralanguage to Communicate Effectively
The main emphasis throughout this curriculum is that it is activity based. Like learning a new language, what is needed is a lot of practice and repetition. A wide variety of engaging activities are used to teach and reinforce skills, including listening practice, games, movie clips, role-plays, and apps
$30.95Product Details »2 in stock
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Successful Social Articles into Adulthood
The first book on using Social Stories™ with young adults focuses on developing a social understanding around some of the most common issues faced by autistic young adults, including applying for a job, looking after physical and mental health, and staying safe in a new home.
$31.95Product Details »2 in stock
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Worries Are Not Forever
This book assures children that lots of kids—and grown-ups—feel worried, and that they can learn to make their worries “smaller and smaller and smaller.”
$17.95Product Details »4 in stock
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Talking with Your Child about Their Autism Diagnosis
For parents coming to terms with their child’s autism diagnosis, this guide is both a practical tool and a source of moral support. Helping you decide who needs to know about the diagnosis and how to explain it, it includes photocopiable worksheets designed to help your child understand what autism is.
$25.95Product Details »2 in stock
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Working with Girls and Young Women with an Autism Spectrum Condition – A Practical Guide for Clinicians
This concise, practical guide shows how to enable girls and young women with ASD to reach their full potential, by adopting more individualized approaches. Drawing on clinical experience and clients’ testimonies, it covers diagnosis, comorbidities, sensory issues, self-harm, emotional regulation, assessments, interventions and strategies.
$35.95Product Details »2 in stock
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A Guide to Mental Health Issues in Girls and Young Women on the Autism Spectrum
Girls with autism require tailored support for dealing with mental health issues. This book offers interventions specifically for supporting girls with their mental health, by looking at looking at how girls are assessed and diagnosed for autism, and explaining which mental health conditions girls with autism most frequently experience.
$35.95Product Details »1 in stock
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Spectrum Women – Walking to the Beat of Autism
Barb Cook and 14 other autistic women describe life from a female autistic perspective, and present empowering, helpful and supportive insights from their personal experience for fellow autistic women. Michelle Garnett’s comments validate and expand the experiences described from a clinician’s perspective, and provide extensive recommendations.
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Autism and Employment: Raising Your Child with Foundational Skills for The Future
This book was written to help you, the parent, to raise your child with the foundational skills he or she will need for the future.
$27.95Product Details »2 in stock
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Sleep Easy – A Mindfulness Guide to Getting a Good Night’s Sleep
Twins Billy and Betty are having trouble sleeping. Billy’s mind is noisy, constantly chattering, keeping him awake. Betty finds that as soon as her eyes close she starts to worry about what will happen the next day at school.
$18.99Product Details »4 in stock
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Visual Supports for 10 Key Social Thinking Vocabulary Concepts
These visual supports encourage the active use of 10 Social Thinking Vocabulary concepts that lay the foundation for social learning, which are fundamental to the social experience and are relevant across languages, cultures, and ages (starting at age 4).
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How to Build a Hug: Temple Grandin and Her Amazing Squeeze Machine
As a young girl, Temple Grandin loved folding paper kites, making obstacle courses, and building lean-tos. But she really didn’t like hugs.
$23.99Product Details »3 in stock
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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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Autism and the Family – Understanding and Supporting Parents and Siblings
Drawing upon clinical research and firsthand family interviews, this book helps clinicians understand the experiences of parents and siblings of a child with ASD from the time of diagnosis through adulthood.
$45.95Product Details »3 in stock
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The Parents’ Practical Guide to Resilience for Children aged 2-10 on the Autism Spectrum
Building resilience and independence in children with autism can be hugely beneficial in helping them live an independent and rewarding life. This book is a practical resource based around major life events; each milestone includes exercises that you can work through to more effectively build resilience and independence in your child.
$25.95Product Details »2 in stock
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Practical Strategies for Supporting Emotional Regulation in Students with Autism
The authors’ years of experience working with students with autism have helped them develop nine effective cognitive and language strategies for enhancing their engagement and learning in the classroom. This book includes tips for using each strategy, plus reasons why they work, as well as sample goals for regulation and a ‘cheat sheet’ overview.
$29.95Product Details »3 in stock
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It Hurts When I Poop! A Story for Children Who Are Scared to Use the Potty
Ryan’s scared to use the potty. He’s afraid to have a poop, because he’s afraid it’s going to hurt. He does NOT want to go. This story, along with Ryan’s “poop program,” will help young children gain the confidence they need to overcome this common problem and establish healthy habits.
$13.95Product Details »3 in stock