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Recently added titles to Autism Awareness Centre’s growing book catalogue.
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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.
$45.95Product Details »In stock
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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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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.
$27.95Product Details »In stock
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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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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.
$17.95Product Details »In stock
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Slaying Digital Dragons – Tips and tools for protecting your body, brain, psyche, and thumbs from the digital dark side
Without avoiding the dark side of technology, this interactive and comprehensive reference book empowers young adults to take charge of their digital life and improve their mental health and well-being. Quizzes and exercises guide readers through the process of evaluating their relationships with their screens, social media, and tech in general.
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Social Context and Self-Management: A System for Clarifying Social Information for Adolescents and Adults
Social Context and Self-Management: A System for Clarifying Social Information for Adolescents and Adults uses scales as a way of explaining social and emotional concepts to someone who might struggle with such information, but have a relative strength in understanding systems.
$26.95Product Details »In stock
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The Social Media Workbook for Teens – Skills to Help You Balance Screen Time, Manage Stress, and Take Charge of Your Life
Grounded in evidence-based cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT), this unique and relatable workbook will help you manage the stress and anxiety that can result from excessive screen time. You’ll discover how to choose friends over followers, find tips for navigating cyberbullying, and discover new ways to get back in touch with your own life-without your smartphone or other devices.
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Autism and Sensory Processing Challenges
Sensory Processing Disorder (SPD) or sensory issues describes the challenges children and adults have when the brain has trouble receiving and responding to information that comes in through the senses. Various studies have shown that between 69% to 95% of autistic children have sensory processing challenges.
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The Kids’ Guide to Getting Your Words on Paper – Simple Stuff to Build the Motor Skills and Strength for Handwriting
This fun guide supports kids age 7-12 to take control of their own writing difficulties, through worksheets and activities for building strength, coordination and stamina. As their skills improve, so too will their confidence and attainment. Illustrated throughout and with a quiz and handy checklists to track progress.
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Breath by Breath – A Mindfulness Guide to Feeling Calm
Lenny and Rosa are having tough days, and it’s hard to stay calm. Fortunately, their friend Sam is there to help! By teaching them how to use breathing exercises and other mindfulness techniques, Sam helps Lenny and Rosa relax, cope with worries and challenges, and turn their days around.
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Thriving with Autism: 90 Activities to Encourage Your Child’s Communication, Engagement, and Play
To help you in your efforts to help your child flourish, this book has 90 playful, evidence-based activities. Thriving with Autism provides an easy, effective toolbox to supplement and support the developmental work parents and caregivers are doing with their children. These solutions are designed for kids with autism from ages 1 to 11. The benefits can last a lifetime.
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The Awesome Autistic Go-To Guide – A Practical Handbook for Autistic Teens and Tweens
This is a guide for young people aged 10-14 on the autism spectrum. It encourages teens and tweens to identify their strengths, suggests how they can develop their identity, and celebrates neurodiversity. It also has tips for managing tricky situations such as anxiety and meltdowns, as well as fun activities and interactive sections.
$22.95Product Details »In stock
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Independent Living with Autism: Your Roadmap to Success
Independent Living with Autism is a guide for young adults with autism leaving the shelter of school and looking for guidance in the important tasks of adult life.
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What Science Tells Us about Autism Spectrum Disorder: Making the Right Choices for Your Child
Separating fact from fiction about causes, treatments, and prevention, the book guides you to make lifestyle choices that support the developing brain. From the impact of sleep, exercise, diet, and technology, to which type of professional help might be the right fit, the authors cover it all with expertise and compassion.
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