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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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
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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.
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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.
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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.
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The Asperkid’s Game Plan: Extraordinary Minds, Purposeful Play…Ordinary Stuff
Showing how just about anything can be turned into an opportunity for learning and growth, the book is full of go-to ideas for making simple play equipment in the home or classroom and using it to develop core skills that Asperkids struggle with, from fine motor and social skills, to planning and organization. Whether it’s origami math, fried marbles, or a bug’s eye view scavenger hunt, every game, project, and idea in the book is explained with clear directions and learning objectives and illustrated with color photographs.
$36.95Product Details »In stock