Popular Autism Related Books

Autism: Hot Pink and Zebra-Striped

"Please note: this book was originally published as Effervescence: A True-Life Tale of Autism and of Courage Please visit Simone's website to view more information, as well as TV and radio appearances: autismembrace.com or effervescentclarity.com An excerpt from Autism: Hot Pink and Zebra-Striped: Imagine a beautiful little girl, with long curly, wild red hair, spinning in circles, completely delighted by all that she feels! She wears a long, blue dress, a replica of the one Cinderella wore to the ball. As you watch her, you get the sense that she isn't dreaming of Cinderella; in her heart and in her body, she is Cinderella. Now picture the same little girl, lying on her tummy, spinning on a merry-go-round, dipping her beautiful, long red hair in the puddle of mud that encircles the merry-go-round. When it comes to a stop, she savors the wonderful sensation of the cold mud running down her face. She then submerges her entire body in the puddle, as happy as can be and entirely oblivio

Occupational Therapy Activities for Kids: 100 Fun Games and Exercises to Build Skills

"Watch your child develop the skills to thrive with occupational therapy―for kids ages 1 to 6 Occupational therapy uses simple, fun activities to help kids learn the skills they need for daily life, from eating meals and writing the alphabet to socializing with friends and family. Occupational Therapy Activities for Kids is designed to help children at all developmental ability levels strengthen those skills by playing their way through 100 exciting exercises that are easy to do at home anytime. This family-friendly guide offers concise information on how occupational therapy works and shows you how to apply it in a way that benefits your child. The games are even divided into chapters based on different types of occupational therapy skills―sensory processing, motor, social-emotional, and cognitive and visual processing―so you can focus on the ones that are most important for your child. Occupational Therapy Activities for Kids offers: Customizable for your kid―Every chapter st

My Name is Ryan and I Have Autism

This book is about a typical family who learn that their youngest child is diagnosed with Autism. They struggle to understand and learn about Autism as they try to work together as a family. This is not a Hollywood story about millions of dollars going towards new research, organizing protests or trying expensive treatments. This is your everyday family who exhaust knowledge from any source that can offer help. Read about their heartbreak, daily struggles as well as innovative ideas to help them get through a typical day. For a glimpse into their world with Autism go to: youtube.com (RLeyden1) to view a series of documentaries filmed by their (then) 14yrold daughter

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A Parent's Guide to Developmental Delays: Recognizing and Coping with Missed Milestones in Speech, Movement, Learning, and Other Areas

Developmental delays affect millions of children each year, and often go undetected until an alert and caring parent recognizes there’s a problem. In A Parent's Guide to Developmental Delays, special education expert and consultant Laurie LeComer, M.Ed., provides essential information for any parent with a child who might have cognitive, physical, or emotional delays. Easy to understand, reassuring, and up-to-date, the book covers everything concerned parents need to know. Using real-life examples and case studies along with checklists, exercises, and other hands-on advice, the book covers a range of delays and disorders that include autism, ADHD, learning disabilities, Sensory Processing Disorder, aggressive behavior, and motor-control problems. Topics include:Spotting the "red flags" of delayed development, for every age groupIdentifying your child’s specific challengesActing swiftly in order to gain the advantages of early intervention. Getting a diagnosis and treatment plan that fi

Incredible Adam and a Day with Autism: An Illustrated Story Inspired by Social Narratives

Based on dozens of intensive interviews with parents, clinical psychologists, teachers, and speech and occupational therapists, Incredible Adam is the illustrated fictional story of Adam, a boy diagnosed with autism spectrum disorder. The story follows a social narrative format to depict a typical day in Adam's life within his therapeutic residential school. From the time Adam wakes to the hour he sleeps again, his day presents him with successes to experience and challenges to overcome. With the support of his caregivers and family, he is able to use tools he's learned to help with attention, engagement, and regulation of his behavior. Offering unique insight and understanding into the journey taken by lower skilled children with autism spectrum disorder, Incredible Adam offers parents, caregivers, teachers, and therapists a special tool to help the children in their lives. This book is part of the ORP Library series of disabilities books.

Living With Autism: Sammie's Story

This book was written to try to show the evolution of methods of teaching autistic children. When we lived in Michigan in 1971, the special education teachers were aware of autism and already had programs for their special needs. When we moved to California, we found the special education teachers well-equipped to teach trainable mentally retarded children, but woefully unprepared for autistic ones. These teachers and aides became remarkable and heroic advocates for autistic children.

The Autism Job Club: The Neurodiverse Workforce in the New Normal of Employment

"The Autism Job Club is a groundbreaking book for bringing adults with autism and other neuro-diverse conditions into the work world. This second edition of The Autism Job Club includes a new Foreword by Steve Silberman, author of the best-selling NeuroTribes , along with an Afterword by the authors. The Afterword covers the many employment initiatives for adults on the autism spectrum launched just in the three years since the book was originally published. The book has its basis in the autism job club that the authors have been part of in the San Francisco Bay Area, the job-creation and job-placement efforts the club has undertaken, and similar efforts throughout the United States. The authors review the high unemployment rates among adults with autism and other neuro- diverse conditions more than two decades after the ADA. Bernick and Holden also outline and explain six strategies that, taken together, will reshape employment for adults with autism: the art of the autism job coach;

Authoring Autism: On Rhetoric and Neurological Queerness

In Authoring Autism M. Remi Yergeau defines neurodivergence as an identity―neuroqueerness―rather than an impairment. Using a queer theory framework, Yergeau notes the stereotypes that deny autistic people their humanity and the chance to define themselves while also challenging cognitive studies scholarship and its reification of the neurological passivity of autistics. They also critique early intensive behavioral interventions―which have much in common with gay conversion therapy―and questions the ableist privileging of intentionality and diplomacy in rhetorical traditions. Using storying as their method, they present an alternative view of autistic rhetoricity by foregrounding the cunning rhetorical abilities of autistics and by framing autism as a narrative condition wherein autistics are the best-equipped people to define their experience. Contending that autism represents a queer way of being that simultaneously embraces and rejects the rhetorical, Yergeau shows how autistic peop

IS YOUR CHILD HYPERACTIVE DYSLEXIC AUTISTIC WHAT WHEN WHY OF OCCUPATIONAL THERAPY

F YOU ARE A PARENT AND OBSERVE SOMETHING OUT OF THE BOX IN YOUR CHILD THEN THIS BOOK IS FOR YOU. IF YOU ARE A DOCTOR AND NEED TO KNOW ABOUT OCCUPATIONAL THERAPY THEN THIS BOOK IS FOR YOU. IF YOU ARE A TEACHER AND HAVE WONDERED WHY CERTAIN CHILDREN BEHAVE WEIRDLY IN SCHOOL THEN THIS BOOK IS FOR YOU IF YOU LOVE WORKING WITH CHILDREN AND LOVE STUDYING SOMETHING DIFFERENT THEN THIS BOOK IS FOR YOU