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Recently added titles to Autism Awareness Centre’s growing book catalogue.
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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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Rediscovered – A Compassionate and Courageous Guide For Late Discovered Autistic Women (and Their Allies)
With chapters on everything from masking, mental health, meltdowns, and menopause, to burnout, sensory processing, emotions, relationships, and work – this will help you to nurture your strengths as an autistic woman.
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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.”
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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 »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.
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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).
$39.95Product Details »In stock
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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.
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Underlying Characteristics Checklists – Self-Report Child (UCC2-SR-Child)
The UCC2-Self-Report-Child (UCC2-SR-Child) is for children ages 8-11 who have attained approximately a 3rd grade reading level and who have the ability to understand and respond to items. May be administered with assistance.
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Underlying Characteristics Checklists – Variety Pack
The variety pack comes with 2 copies of each of the six versions of the Underlying Characteristics Checklist 2nd Edition.
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Underlying Characteristics Checklists – Foundational UCC2-FD
The UCC2-Foundational (UCC2-FD) is intended for individuals 6 years through adulthood. The term “foundational” is used to describe those who are significantly below average in cognitive functioning.
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Autistic Logistics – A Parent’s Guide to Tackling Bedtime, Toilet Training, Tantrums, Hitting, and Other Everyday Challenges – 2nd. Edition
This updated edition is based on Kate Wilde’s decades of experience and the latest autism research. Tackling a wide range of common parenting milestones, the book offers tried-and-tested techniques to help you transform the challenges of home life and create harmony.
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The Kids’ Guide to Staying Awesome and In Control, 2nd. Ed.
Packed with fun ideas, this guide is all about understanding your feelings and learning cool tools to handle them. You’ll find ways to feel “just right,” whether you’re at home, at school, or anywhere else. And guess what? You can even use this book on your own or team up with a grown-up for extra help!
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Zones Triggers and Sparks Poster
The Zones Triggers poster is a companion product to the self-regulation curriculum The Zones of Regulation®, by Leah Kuypers, and coordinates with Lesson 9 “Caution! Triggers Ahead.”
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Zones STOP, OPT and GO Poster
With updated graphics and teaching, this durable, 18” x 24” STOP, OPT & GO poster supports the decision making that goes into Regulation while also addressing problem solving and group conflict resolution. First we pause (STOP) before we act, think about our OPTions and how they may work out, then use our GOal to decide on the best option.
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The IEP Checklist – Your Guide to Creating Meaningful and Compliant IEPs 2nd Edition
How can special education teams create effective IEPs that improve student outcomes and meet legal requirements? Find practical answers in the second edition of this one-stop IEP guide, updated with new chapters on key topics, online resources, and practical features that make this edition perfect for either preservice courses or in-service teamwork.
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Zones of Regulation Poster
This updated poster has additional content, a refreshed design, and new 4-color emotion illustrations with a diverse cast of characters! This durable, color-coded, 24” x 18” poster highlights and reinforces use of the four zones to categorize our feelings. This helpful visual tool is for use in the clinic, classroom, or home.
$27.95Product Details »In stock
