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Teaching Asperger’s Students Social Skills Through Acting: All Their World Is a Stage!
Author: Amelia Davies, Foreword by Jeanette McAfeePublishing Info: Paperback 191 pages/ December 2004To teach “the fine art of fitting in,” Amelia Davies instructs anyone who has a sense of humor and the desire to give their kids “a healthy dose of self-esteem” how to utilize the dramatic arts to build social skills.
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Teaching Children with Autism to Mind-Read: A Practical Guide for Teachers and Parents
Author: Patricia Howlin, Simon Baron-Cohen, Julie HadwinPublishing Info: Paperback 302 pages/ 1999The difficulties experienced by children with autism and related conditions in inferring the thoughts, beliefs, desires and intentions of others are well documented in numerous studies. It now seems that these deficits underlie many of the social and comm
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Teaching Students With Classic Autism Functional Social Skills in Natural Settings: A Program Based on Individualized Comprehensive Assessment and Evidence-Based Practices
Author: Deborah E. Bahme, MEd and Susan J. Sheridan, EdDPublishing Info: Paperback / September 2013This highly practical book guides teachers and other practitioners in developing and implementing comprehensive social skills programs for individuals with classic autism. This program was developed specifically for students with classic features of autism, who tend to learn best by participating in activities they find interesting, engaging, and part of their daily lives.
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The Autism Acceptance Book: Being A Friend to Someone with Autism
Author: Ellen SabinPublishing Info: Spiral Bound 62 pages / March 2006This book is an activity book, a conversation-starter, and an educational tool that engages children in learning to embrace people’s differences and treat others with respect, compassion, and kindness.
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The Autism Playbook for Teens – Imagination-Based Mindfulness Activities to Calm Yourself, Build Independence & Connect with Others
Author: Irene McHenry PhD, Carol Moog PhD, Susan Kaiser Greenland JDPublishing Info: Paperback 139 pages / August 2014Teens with autism have the potential to be excellent actors. They are natural observers – able to study, imitate, and learn social behavior.
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The Feelings Book
Author: Todd ParrPublishing Info: Paperback 23 pages / 2000This book vibrantly illustrates the wide range of moods we all experience. Kids and adults will appreciate Todd Parr’s quirky intelligence as he pays special attention to the ever-changing, sometimes nonsensical emotions that we all feel.
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The FRIEND® Program for Creating Supportive Peer Networks for Students with Social Challenges, including Autism
Publishing Info: Paperback 224 pages / October 2019With 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 Hidden Curriculum and Other Everyday Challenges for Elementary-Age Children With High-Functioning Autism
Author: Haley Morgan Myles and Annelise KolarPublishing Info: Paperback 68 pages / 2013Young authors Haley Myles and Annellise Kolar give simple, no-nonsense advice on how to handle everyday occurrences that can be challenging for children on the autism spectrum. This reader-friendly book provides social rules that help children with peer relationships, school and everyday activities.
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The Hidden Curriculum of Getting and Keeping a Job: Navigating the Social Landscape of Employment
Author: Brenda Smith Myles. Judy Endow, Malcolm MayfieldPublishing Info: Paperback / November 2012When teenagers or adults with autism spectrum disorders are ready to enter the working world, they may find themselves confused by all the new unwritten rules. How do they learn to make eye contact during interviews or keep small talk confined to the break room?
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The Incredible 5-Point Scale – Assisting Students with Autism Spectrum Disorders in Understanding Social Interactions and Controlling Their Emotional Responses. 2nd. Edition – Revised
Author: Kari Dunn Buron, Mitzi CurtisPublishing Info: Paperback 118 pages/ December 2021This much-awaited, second edition of the wildly popular Incredible 5-Point Scale is, as the title suggests, “significantly improved and expanded.” Using the same practical and user-friendly format as the first edition, Buron and Curtis let readers benefit from work done with the scales over the past 10 years, to result in refinements to the original scales, now considered “classics” in homes and classrooms across the country and abroad, as well as lots of new scales specifically designed for two groups of individuals: young children and those with more classic presentations of autism, including expanded use of the Anxiety Curve.
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The New Social Story Book, Updated 15th Anniversary Edition
Author: Carol GrayPublishing Info: Paperback with CD ROM 480 pages/ November 2015Since the early 90s, Carol Gray’s world-famous Social Stories have helped thousands of children with autism spectrum disorders. This 15th Anniversary Edition of her best-selling book offers ready-to-use stories that parents and educators have depended on for years.
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The PEERS® Curriculum for School-Based Professionals: Social Skills Training for Adolescents with Autism Spectrum Disorder
Author: Elizabeth A. LaugesonPublishing Info: Paperback 464 pages / 2014This sixteen-week program, clinically proven to significantly improve social skills and social interactions among teens with autism spectrum disorder, is now customized for the needs of psychologists, counselors, speech pathologists, administrators, and teachers. The manual is broken down into clearly divided lesson plans, each of which have concrete rules and steps, corresponding homework assignments, plans for review, and unique, fun activities to ensure that teens are comfortable incorporating what they’ve learned.
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The Power of Thought on Feelings
Author: Amy Kahofer and Jack PranksyPublishing Info: Paperback 42 pages / August 2021The wonderfully illustrated and engaging book introduces young readers to the abstract concept of thoughts and how our thoughts are linked to feelings. By helping children explore metacognitively how our thoughts create our feelings, we also learn to make choices that help us to manage our feelings (e.g., self-regulate based on our personal goals) across different situations in a day.
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The Science of Making Friends: Helping Socially Challenged Teens and Young Adults
Author: Elizabeth LaugesonPublishing Info: Paperback 384 pages and DVD / September 2013This book is based on UCLA’s acclaimed PEERS program, the only research-based approach in the world to helping adolescents and young adults with autism make and keep friends. This step-by-step guide helps parents, educators, and others to provide “social coaching” to teens and young adults on the spectrum.
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The Secret Rules of Social Networking
Author: Barbara Klipper and Rhonda Shapiro-RieserPublishing Info: Paperback / April 2015The one-of-a-kind resource outlines the unstated rules that guide relationships overall. The book also demonstrates how one can carry these relationships into an online environment.
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The Social Compass Curriculum – A Story-Based Intervention Package for Students with Autism Spectrum Disorders
Author: LouAnne E. Boyd, Christina L. McReynolds, Karen Chanin M.S., PPSPublishing Info: Paperback 192 pages / 2013Ideal for Grades 4-8 but easily adaptable for use with older children, this social skills intervention curriculum gives educators 24 lessons that help students with autism make progress in areas critical to social success.
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The Social Skills Picture Book for High School and Beyond
Author: Jed BakerPublishing Info: Paperback 250 pages / November 2006In 2001, Dr. Baker wrote The Social Skills Picture Book, designed for young children with social communication challenges. Now, in response to the deluge of requests from parents with children in their teens, here is Dr. Baker’s long-awaited book…
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The Social Skills Picture Book: Teaching Communication, Play and Emotion
Author: Jed E. BakerPublishing Info: Paperback 197 pages/ May 2003A dynamic teaching tool for children with autism or Asperger’s Syndrome, “The Social Skills Picture Book” offers pictures of the right and wrong ways to handle nearly 30 social skills, such as conversation, play, emotion, management, and empathy.
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The Social Success Workbook for Teens
Author: Barbara Cooper and Nancy WiddowsPublishing Info: Paperback 132 pages / May 2008Making friends is a skill like any other-there are rules to follow, ways to measure your progress, and reasons why some people are better at it than others. Although it may seem like this skill comes naturally to those who don’t have Asperger’s disorder, nonverbal learning disorder (NLD), or other problems relating to others, the reality is that even the most popular people must constantly hone their abilities in order to make new friends and keep the friends they already have.
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The Social-Emotional Learning Toolbox – Practical Strategies to Support All Students
Author: Kathy PerezPublishing Info: Paperback 240 pages / 2022Strong social-emotional skills help students succeed in the classroom and beyond—but many teachers report that they lack the tools and time to effectively support social-emotional learning (SEL). Help is here with The Social-Emotional Learning Toolbox, a practical guide that shows K-5 teachers how to infuse their existing curriculum and routines with high-quality, evidence-based SEL instruction.
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