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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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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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.
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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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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.
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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.
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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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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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