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A Guide to Writing Social Stories – Step-by-Step Guidelines for Parents and Professionals
Created with the input of parents and professionals, this step-by-step guide shows exactly how to create effective Social Stories™ for children with an autism spectrum disorder. This book shows how to go from using ready-made stories to writing tailored stories that will improve social understanding, following Carol Gray’s popular guidelines.
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How Rude! The Teenagers’ Guide to Good Manners, Proper Behavior, and Not Grossing People Out- Revised and Updated Edition
Explaining etiquette from A (“Applause”) to Z (“Zits”), Alex J.Packer blends outrageous humor with sound advice as he guides readers and explains why manners and etiquette are important – because people who know how to handle themselves in social situations come out on top, get what they want, feel good about themselves, and enjoy life to the fullest.
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How to Teach Life Skills to Kids with Autism or Asperger’s
In the real world, people on the autism spectrum need the same kinds of day-to-day skills everyone else needs to be functional. No matter how high-functioning children with autism or Asperger’s may be or may become, they function better as adults if they’ve had the chance to learn basic skills such as being on time or good personal hygiene. Many reach adulthood without those skills.
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I Can’t Believe You Said That – Activity Guide for Teachers: Classroom Ideas for Teaching Students to Use Their Social Filters
It’s confusing for children to understand why we tell them to be honest or to speak up in one setting, then tell them to keep their thoughts to themselves in another. Author Julia Cook worked with expert Jill Kuzma to identify more than 20 activities designed to help students visualize what a social filter is, and then practice using their social filters in a safe setting. Reproducible activity sheets included on the enclosed CD.
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The Hidden Curriculum of Getting and Keeping a Job: Navigating the Social Landscape of Employment
When 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 Hidden Curriculum, 25th Anniversary Edition: Understanding Unstated Rules in Social Situations
The world around us is a complicated place filled with expectations, rules, assumptions, guidelines, regulations, and policies. This “hidden curriculum” exists across environments, places, people and cultures. Although rules and mandates, in themselves, can be complex, most of us take comfort in them—often unconsciously—because they help us to know what to do in most everyday situations. Most of us like rules if they are consistent. It is when they are unclear, or are unstated that we can become upset, indignant, or confused. Some people seem to learn the hidden curriculum and its impact almost automatically. Others learn the hidden curriculum only by direct instruction. That is the purpose of this book.
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