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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Motivate to Communicate! 300 Games and Activities for Your Child with Autism
This practical resource is brimming with exciting ideas and guidance for motivating children with autism and other communication difficulties. The clear, user-friendly format enables quick access to over 300 practical, fun-filled games and activities…
$31.95Product Details »In stock
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Peer Play and the Autism Spectrum, Second Edition: The Art of Guiding Children’s Socialization and Imagination
This practical guide offers an introduction to the basic principles, tools and techniques that comprise the Integrated Play Groups model, designed to support children of diverse ages and abilities on the autism spectrum.This practical guide offers an intr
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Play Based Interventions for Autism Spectrum Disorder and Other Developmental Disabilities
Play-Based Interventions for Autism Spectrum Disorder and Other Developmental Disabilities contains a wide selection of play therapy interventions for use with children and adolescents with autism spectrum disorders, dysregulation issues, or other neurodevelopmental disorders.
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Play to Progress – Lead Your Child to Success Using the Power of Sensory Play
For children to develop to their fullest potential, their sensory system needs to be stimulated from the time they are born. Their senses flourish when they explore their environment by touching new textures, including food, running, jumping, climbing, and splashing outside. Play to Progress is a vital resource for any parent who wants to help their kid get back out into the world with the activity and engagement they need for healthy development.
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Playing, Laughing and Learning with Children on the Autism Spectrum – A Practical Resource of Play Ideas for Parents and Carers, 2nd. Edition
Playing, Laughing and Learning with Children on the Autism Spectrum shows how to break down activities into manageable stages, and looks at ways to gain a child’s attention and motivation and to build on small achievements.
$37.95Product Details »In stock
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Self-Esteem Games: 300 Fun Activities That Make Children Feel Good about Themselves
The key ingredient in children’s development, emotionally, socially, and intellectually, is a strong sense of their own self-worth. The 300 games and activities in this fun book will give them just that.
$20Product Details »In stock
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Sensory Play for Toddlers and Preschoolers – Easy Projects to Develop Fine Motor Skills, Hand-Eye Coordination, and Early Measurement Concepts
Sensory Play for Toddlers and Preschoolers is a practical, hands-on guide for parents and educators who want to inject more play into their children’s day! Since this collection features simple sensory play ideas with items you already have in your home, playtime has never been easier.
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Small Steps Forward – Using Games and Activities to Help Your Pre-School Child with Special Needs (2nd. Edition)
This new edition of the award-winning Small Steps Forward includes up-to-date research and practice, providing parents and carers with the information they need and a host of ideas to encourage their child’s development.
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Smart Play: 101 Fun, Easy Games That Enhance Intelligence
Children who move their bodies as part of the learning process are more stimulated and alert-and they retain more of what they are taught. By sharing the upbeat, joyful activities in “Smart Play”, you can enhance your child’s intelligence, boost his or her confidence, teach academic and motor skills, and provide a lasting foundation for learning.
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Social Skills Games and Activities for Kids with Autism
Social Skills Games and Activities for Kids With Autism provides complete instructions for using fun, engaging games and activities to teach social skills to children with Autism Spectrum Disorder.
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Spirit Games: 300 Fun Activities That Bring Children Comfort and Joy
Spirit games make children feel brighter and more confident. By tapping into children’s natural delight, spirit games restore the sparkle to their eyes. By sharing the upbeat activities in Spirit Games, you can encourage your child’s self-esteem and provide a lasting foundation for happiness.
$19Product Details »In stock
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Stepping Out – Using Games and Activities to Help Your Child with Special Needs
Stepping Out provides parents and carers with practical advice, and fun games and activities to improve a child’s skills in the six areas of development.
$48.95Product Details »In stock
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Tasks Galore: Let’s Play
The fourth book in the popular resource series for parents, teachers and therapists, is filled with 100’s of fun multi-modal tasks described in text and color photos.
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Teach Me With Pictures: 40 Fun Picture Scripts to Develop Play and Communication Skills in Children on the Autism Spectrum
An easy-to-use resource for professionals and parents, this book provides fun and practical ideas to help motivate and extend communication and play skills in children with autism with the support of pictures.
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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
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The FRIEND® Program for Creating Supportive Peer Networks for Students with Social Challenges, including Autism
With an emphasis on peer sensitivity and supportive environments, the FRIEND manual provides teachers with a wide variety of strategies to help school-aged children with social difficulties – such as attention deficit, anxiety, emotional or autism spectrum disorders – to successfully navigate social situations.
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The Whole Spectrum of Social, Motor and Sensory Games: Using Every Child’s Natural Love of Play to Enhance Key Skills and Promote Inclusion
Play is increasingly recognized by neuroscientists and educators as a vital component in brain development, academic success and learning social skills. In this inspiring and useful resource, Barbara Sher provides step-by-step directions for how to use children’s natural interests at different stages of their development to help them develop a wealth of sensory motor and social skills. All the games have also been designed to provide plenty of joyful opportunities for encouraging inclusion.
$19.95Product Details »In stock
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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.
$25.99Product Details »In stock
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Your Interests, My Interests – A Visual Guide to Playing and Hanging Out for Children on the Autism Spectrum
Children on the autism spectrum can find playing with other children difficult. This colourful and fun visual guide, full of examples and activities, shows how they can find common interests with their friends, peers and family, so that they can have more fun playing and hanging out together.
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