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Recently added titles to Autism Awareness Centre’s growing book catalogue.
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Autism, Identity and Me – A Professional and Parent Guide to Support a Positive Understanding of Autistic Identity
This informative and engaging guidebook provides key adults – parents, school staff and therapists – with the tools needed to support children and young people as they develop a positive understanding of their autistic identity.
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Autism and Difficult Moments, 25th Anniversary Edition: Practical Solutions for Reducing Meltdowns
A highly practical and user-friendly resource, Autism and Difficult Moments: Practical Solutions for Meltdowns, Revised Edition describes the three-stage cycle of a meltdown and identifies effective, evidence-based strategies to use at each stage. In addition, the book outlines how to prevent the occurrence of meltdowns through instruction, interpretation, and coaching.
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Autism Missed and Misdiagnosed
This comprehensive resource will help multidisciplinary professions to understand, contextualize, and better identify diverse autistic presentations. It includes an overview of the autism diagnostic process, an exploration of controversial and commonly confused diagnoses such as PDA, ODD, CD, ASPD, and BPD; discussions of best practice for investigating FII; and analysis of the specific challenges of autism diagnosis in relation to women and girls, BAME communities, schools, and the criminal justice system.
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My Senses Are Like Cups – What to Do When Everything Feels Too Much or Not Nearly Enough
Help your child aged 7+ think about, explore and develop ways to manage sensory overload and feeling under stimulated with quirky cartoons that visually illustrate the approach. Sections on each of the eight senses (including your internal ‘body signals’ like hunger) feature noticing and knowledge-building activities to help kids get their own, unique, senses cups feeling ‘just right’ for them. Get going on some sensory experiments!
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Enhancing the Well-Being of Students on the Autism Spectrum – Learning from Students, Parents, and Teachers
The importance of enhancing students’ well-being is recognized around the world, yet the well-being of autistic students remains largely unexplored. With the increasing enrolment of autistic students in mainstream schools, it is imperative to develop a comprehensive understanding of the well-being of autistic students to facilitate their sense of well-being in school. Enhancing the Well-Being of Students on the Autism…
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Freedom from Seclusion and Restraint – The Studio 3 Approach
This book is for any practitioner or family member supporting individuals in crisis. The Low Arousal Approach, designed and implemented by Studio 3, has been applied in a variety of different care settings, and is also becoming more popular in schools and classrooms. Applying the Low Arousal Approach to behaviour management and crisis situations is a complicated process. This book is full of honest examples about how to achieve restraint and seclusion elimination goals. This is a difficult and emotional subject, and readers may feel challenged by some elements of this book.
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Autism and Independence: Assessments and Interventions to Prepare Teens for Adult Life
Autism & Independence is a new clinical resource to help teens and young adults with autism become their own person. Focusing on a population often overlooked, autism expert Dr. Daniel Marston wrote this game-changing guide, filled with strategies and skill building exercises.
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Social Situation Mapping – Making Sense of the Social World
What’s happening around us influences our thoughts, feelings, and responses. Social Situation Mapping (formerly Social Behavior Mapping), a core teaching framework within the Social Thinking® Methodology, uses visual templates to encourage learners to engage social observation for figuring out what to do and say (or not do and say) based on a particular situation: where we are, who is present, and what is…
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Creating Quality of Life for Adults on the Autism Spectrum – The Story of Bittersweet Farms
Creating Quality of Life for Adults on the Autism Spectrum: The Story of Bittersweet Farms provides an overview of the first farmstead community for adults with autism established in North America. The book also provides a detailed description and evaluation of the intervention model used to promote quality of life for the adults with autism who live as residents at Bittersweet Farms.
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Fun with Food Card Deck: 99 Playful Activities to Help Picky Eaters and Problem Feeders Explore New Foods
Featuring 99 activities, this deck will help parents and therapists guide kids through six main steps – visually tolerating, interacting with, smelling, touching, tasting, and eating new foods – all while engaging in imaginative food-based games, songs, challenges, and art activities.
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The Autistic Teen’s Avoidant Eating Workbook
This guide will help you recognize the signs of avoidant eating, cope with food related anxieties and manage sensory overload, as well as the particular social stresses of communal eating. With top tips, a progress tracker, quizzes and worksheets, this is an engaging and informative resource for teens and parents alike.
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Comprehensive Autism Planning System (CAPS): Implementing Evidence-Based Practices Throughout the Day
Throughout this curriculum, the authors highlight evidence-based strategies that correspond to each area of the Comprehensive Autism Planning System (CAPS).
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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.
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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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Too Sticky! Sensory Issues with Autism
Holly has sensory issues because of her autism and doesn’t like anything sticky! With help from family and her teacher, Holly receives the accommodations and encouragement she needs to give slime a try.
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