Play Skills
Learning interpersonal play skills can be an area that those on the spectrum find particularly challenging. At the same time, playing games, or engaging in fun activities can be one of the best ways to learn social skills and spark the imagination, all while having fun!
Below is a list of our favourite books and resources to help you understand how best to engage your child with autism or ASD in play.
PublishersShowing 1–20 of 40 results
-
Active Imagination Activity Book: 50 Sensorimotor Activities for Children to Improve Focus, Attention, Strength, & Coordination
The activities in this book tap into what kids love best? PLAY. The activities pictured in this book provide fun, easy, and imaginative exercises to build your child’s skills that are necessary for meeting the challenges of everyday life at home, school, and out in the community.
$27.95Product Details » -
An Early Start for Your Child with Autism: Using Everyday Activities to Help Kids Connect, Communicate, and Learn
This encouraging guide from the developers of a groundbreaking early intervention program provides doable, practical strategies you can use every day. Nearly all young kids including those with ASD have an amazing capacity to learn. Drs. Sally Rogers, Geraldine Dawson, and Laurie Vismara make it surprisingly simple to turn daily routines like breakfast or bath time into fun and rewarding learning experiences that target crucial developmental skills.
$23.95Product Details » -
Apprivoiser la jungle de la cour de récréation
Cet ouvrage est un ensemble de documents visant à faciliter la compréhension du volet social de la récréation.
$14.95Product Details »In stock
-
Attention Games: 101 Fun, Easy Games That Help Kids Learn To Focus
If you want to focus children’s attention, you first have to capture their interest. “Attention Games” is filled with interesting and child-tested activities that can help children of all ages become better at focusing and paying attention.
$22Product Details » -
Autism Abracadabra – Seven Magic Ingredients to Help Develop Your Child’s Interactive Attention Span
Designed around common special interests enjoyed by autistic people, this book includes over 180 activities for families to do together to help strengthen relationships and develop social skills. Kate shows how seven magic ingredients for optimal game-playing can be applied to a range of themes, from trains and planes to household appliances, the human body to animals and insects, TV and film characters, and what’s more, how you can introduce your loved one’s favorite topics.
$29.95Product Details » -
Autism and Play
This book describes play sequences which encourage the integration of social, emotional and cognitive development in autistic children. The strategies focus on four key skills of visualizing, imitation, mirroring and turn-taking. The book is illustrated with photographs, and includes a questionnaire for observing and assessing play interventions.
$34.95Product Details » -
Autism Intervention Every Day! Embedding Activities in Daily Routines for Young Children and Their Families
Children with autism often don’t get a diagnosis in their first few years of life—but if a very young child is exhibiting red flags, what should professionals and parents do in the meantime? This book has accessible, real-world solutions for use with children birth to three, with or without an autism diagnosis
$41.95Product Details »In stock
-
AutPlay Therapy for Children and Adolescents on the Autism Spectrum, 3rd. Ed.
AutPlay Therapy is a behavioral play-based treatment approach to working with children and adolescents with autism spectrum disorder and other developmental disabilities.
$62.95Product Details »In stock
-
Bringing ABA to Home, School, and Play for Young Children with Autism Spectrum Disorders and Other Disabilities
Ideal for use with children birth to five, this practical, reader-friendly guidebook is the first to combine ABA with natural environment intervention, the widely used, research-supported approach to meeting the needs of children with disabilities.
$41.95Product Details »In stock
-
Come and Play: Sensory-Integration Strategies for Children with Play Challenges
Early intervention is vital in addressing and redirecting play challenges in young children. Each of five common play challenges–children who roam playrooms, play repetitiously, appear anxious, are detached, or are rejected by peers–are highlighted. Also included are sensory integration ideas and activities to promote positive and productive play.
$41.95Product Details »In stock
-
Developing Leisure Time Skills for Persons with Autism (Revised & Expanded)
This book provides comprehensive, structured strategies introducing meaningful leisure time to ASD children and adults, which they can practice at home, school, and in the community.
$41.95Product Details »In stock
-
Early Intervention Games: Fun, Joyful Ways to Develop Social and Motor Skills in Children with Autism Spectrum or Sensory Processing Disorders
Barbara Sher, an expert occupational therapist and teacher, has written a handy resource filled with games to play with young children who have Autistic Spectrum Disorder (ASD) or other sensory processing disorders (SPD).
$19.95Product Details »In stock
-
Everyday Activities to Help Your Young Child with Autism Live Life to the Full
This book is brimming with simple ideas, activities and exercises to address these daily challenges that young children with autism face. Easy to carry out and to fit into your routines, they will help improve a child’s sense of body awareness, coordination and motor skills, and address key tasks such as eating meals and healthy sleep.
$27.95Product Details »In stock
-
Everyday Games for Sensory Processing Disorder: 100 Playful Activities to Empower Children with Sensory Differences
Award-winning author and occupational therapist Barbara Sher has over 45 years experience helping children with sensory processing disorder, autism and Asperger’s learn and thrive. In this new solutions-based guide, she’s collected 100 sensory-rich games that make working with your child a joy.
$22.95Product Details »In stock
-
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.
$29.95Product Details » -
Focusing and Calming Games for Children – Mindfulness Strategies and Activities to Help Children to Relax, Concentrate and Take Control
A book of games and activities to help children to focus, concentrate, and stay calm. The book includes a comprehensive but accessible theory section, and a host of games and activities suitable for use with groups or individual children aged 5–12. Ideas for adaptation for children with attention and concentration difficulties are included.
$45.95Product Details »In stock
-
Getting Into the Game: Sports Programs for Kids with Autism
Participation in individual and team sports plays an important part in children’s development and promotes growth in a number of areas. As well as the obvious health benefits, sport also provides the perfect backdrop to teach young people with autism about rules, strategy and teamwork – all invaluable lessons that can be applied to wider society.
$41.95Product Details » -
Giggle Time – Establishing the Social Connection: A Program to to Develop the Communication Skills of Children with Autism
Giggle Time is a step-by-step program for parents, teachers and other professionals to help develop the non-verbal, verbal and social reciprocity skills of children with autism.
$36.95Product Details »In stock
-
Happiness and Well-Being on the Autism Spectrum E-Book
Having a positive sense of well-being will help an autistic person in numerous ways. A person who feels happy and fulfilled tends to be more flexible, adaptable, calm, content, and resilient.
$3.90Product Details » -
Helping Children to Improve Their Gross Motor Skills – The Stepping Stones Curriculum
This step-by-step program enables children and young people with motor coordination difficulties to master basic skills and develop their sporting ability.
$68Product Details »In stock