Popular Autism Related Books

What You Can Do Right Now to Help Your Child with Autism

"""All children with autism have ways of dropping into their own world, leaving us behind for a minute, an hour, a day."" This is the essence of autism: a disorder that is, at its heart, about interaction. Many of the symptoms associated with autism come from either a lack of paying attention to other people or a lack of interest in joining in with the rest of the world. Because this is the case, it is important that when you work with your child, you are addressing the core issue of autism: your child, for one reason or another, is not spending enough time in our interactive world. What You Can Do Right Now to Help Your Child with Autism gives you the best techniques you can do – right now – to work with your child and draw him or her back into our interactive world. The ten techniques in the book are not just explained in detail, they are also illustrated by true stories of Mr. Levy's work with children with autism (and their parents). Topics include: Don't React: How you respond to

What is Autism? Neurodevelopmental Implications & Behavioral Therapy

Teaching Essential Discrimination Skills to Children with Autism: A Practical Guide for Parents and Educators (Woodbine House)

Discrimination skills enable us to tell one object from another, understand that different things have different names, and use those names to perform a wide range of cognitive and language skills, including following spoken instructions, communicating, and reading. TEACHING ESSENTIAL DISCRIMINATION SKILLS TO CHILDREN WITH AUTISM outlines a systematic, evidence-based curriculum to promote children's learning. Based on the authors' thirty years of research, this user-friendly book covers: -Delivering effective instruction -Types of discrimination skills -Prompting and prompt fading -Prerequisite skills -Overcoming barriers to learning -Assessing a child's entry level to the curriculum -Curriculum sequence, specific discrimination skills instruction, and remedial strategies Use this book to teach discrimination skills and help children master more complex academic material, apply learning across many situations, and become more independent in their daily lives.

Calvin: (An Autism Story)

"We all know someone who struggles with Autism, this is a story written by my son, it's his drawings and how he sees the world and its people. It's a touching glimpse into his thought process. It was years before our son spoke. I like to think he speaks only when he knows he has something to say, really he is one of the kindest people I know. Autism is different but it doesn't have to keep the people we love from experiencing life on their own terms. I am thrilled he has taken the time to share his perspective with you, if you have a child on the spectrum you will understand and if you don't, maybe now you will. All proceeds from these books will go to his care and education."

Let's Make a Contract: A Positive Way to Change Your Child's Behavior

"When a child is struggling with a behavior challenge or wants to learn a new skill, a contract can be a surprisingly effective solution that leads to more peaceful family dynamics. To help families create contracts as a collaborative process, Let’s Make a Contract offers an innovative combination of how-to text for parents and illustrated stories for children. For parents, Let’s Make a Contract describes a straightforward, four-step solution called behavioral contracting, a research-based technique with proven real-world success. While contracts are a tool that can benefit anyone, they’re particularly useful with children on the autism spectrum, or with learning or developmental disabilities, who benefit from understanding clear expectations and receiving positive feedback and rewards.For children, the book’s beautifully illustrated stories show a diverse group of families using contracts to address common problems, such as completing chores or homework, getting along, becoming ind

Totally Lost: A Brutally Honest Assessment of Raising a Child on the Autism Spectrum

This is a book written as it was being lived. This is not a medical journal written as a result of research nor is it a memoire written years or decades in retrospect. These are our experiences with autism spectrum disorder and the trials and tribulations our family has been through, almost in real time. The reader is taken into our emotions: the happiness, sadness, terror, and endless love that our family has experienced since diagnosis. You will meet our son, diagnosed just after his fifth birthday, and the many others that have helped us along this journey. Including, a very special friend that has become a member of our family and completely inseparable. The reader is taken into our home and experiences some of the same coping mechanisms and techniques that we have utilized to make this condition livable and life a little easier. I give my unsolicited advice as to how to make it through some of the most challenging times of this condition. This book is a reference for families livi

Let Me Hear Your Voice: Family's Triumph Over Autism

This is the profound moving story, told by their mother, of how two children were rescued from the tragedy of autism - and the first account in which diagnosis, therapy and authentic recovery are fully documented. From the opening page, when we are present at the first birthday party of Ann-Marie Maurice, readers of this extraordinary book enter deeply into the life of the Maurice family. We witness their rising anxiety as Anne-Marie, not long after that first birthday, begins to lose the words she has learned, to behave in bizarre ways, to become 'a person with a self' - and their response when they learn the terrible truth - Diagnosis: autism; Prognosis: incurable. We follow their frantic search for anyone who might offer hope, we follow their prayers and finally their providential discovery of intensive behavioural therapy - a treatment that has been documented to lead to dramatic improvement, and in some cases full recovery from autism. We are with the Maurices as they scramble to

I Think Differently My Family's Journey with Autism

"Hi, it’s Anthony. I’m here to tell you all about my journey with Autism, and now you have a front-row seat as you view the portal straight to my heart and thoughts. I will tell you all about me, my unique disorder, and my supportive family. Come on my journey to understand my family’s understanding of living with Autism. Bring your family along with you! This is not a journey we take alone, but as a family, a village, and a community. Let’s go on an adventure of a lifetime together."

The New Autism Handbook: The essential guide for parents of children with autism

"A fully updated edition of the widely praised and most trusted Australian guide on how to raise a child with autism spectrum disorder. An essential, comprehensive and INCLUSIVE guide for parents and carers of kids with autism. Advice from leading world experts delivers the information you can TRUST. Offers SUPPORT AND GUIDANCE on early signs of ASD; diagnosis; medical theories; schooling and growing up; intervention programs; treatments; dealing with emotions (parents and child); what not to say to your child and how to help them. SHARES the lived experience of fellow parents who are raising kids with autism and we hear from adults who have autism to hear their perspective. So much has changed since 2008: the language of autism, diagnoses, the understanding of disability, society, culture and agency. This new edition sparkles with new ENERGY and new horizons. "

The Gift of Autism

A Mother's account of the first few years following her daughter's diagnosis of autism disorder. Shed tears and laugh along as a family investigates therapy strategies for their daughter and adjusts to new expectations. In the end, discover that autism is not a tragedy, but a gift and a doorway to discovering greater joy and love in the journey of life.