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Resources Available in the ISRC Library
about Autism Spectrum Disorders
Books
Title
Author
Summary
Autism
National Institute of Mental
Health
Autism & PDD: Social Skills
Lessons (Adolescent –
Health and Hygiene)
Reese, Pam Britton
Autism & PDD: Social skills
Lessons (Intermediate –
Healthy Habits)
Reese, Pam Britton
Autism Spectrum Disorders
from A to Z: Assessment,
Diagnosis - & More!
Doyle, Barbara T
Creative Therapy for
Children with Autism, ADD,
and Asperger's: Using
Artistic Creativity to Reach,
Teach, and Touch our
Children
Decreasing Behaviors of
Persons with Severe
Retardation and Autism
Tubbs, Janet
Chapters include: Understanding the problem; What is
autism; How is autism diagnosed?; What causes autism;
Are there accompanying disorders?; Finding help and
hope; Is there reason for hope; Can social skills and
behavior be improved?; What medications are available?;
This volume includes two types of social skills lessons
specifically for individuals with autism spectrum disorders:
instructional and behavioral. Topics covered include
healthy food, taking medicine, going to the dentist, and
brushing hair. Also includes forms for behavior
intervention planning.
This volume includes two types of social skills lessons
specifically for individuals with autism spectrum disorders:
instructional and behavioral. Topics covered include
exercise, eating off the floor, wearing glasses, washing
hands, and acne. Also includes forms for behavior
intervention planning.
This comprehensive book goes step-by-step through the
symptoms, definitions, assessments, and diagnoses of
autism spectrum disorders (ASDs). The author describes
ASDs in terms of the parents, teachers, the school
system, medical professionals, adult service providers,
and private agencies involved.
This powerful teaching tool to help parents, therapists, and
teachers work with their children. The author introduces
and explains her novel approach to teaching. She also
provides a wide variety of exercises, activities, and games
designed to reduce hyperactivity, and increase and
prolong focus.
Helps teachers, aides, and parents of individuals with
severe autism to apply behavioral interventions through a
problem-solving approach. Also includes information on
how to evaluate behavioral interventions and maintain
them if they are successful.
Foxx, Richard M
Many summaries taken from Amazon.com
Do-Watch-Listen-Say: Social
and Communication
Intervention for Children with
Autism
Quill, Kathleen Ann
Finding out about Asperger
Syndrome, High-Functioning
Autism, and PDD
Gerland, Gunilla
From Goals to Data and
Back Again: Adding
Backbone to Developmental
Intervention for Children with
Autism
Paul, Rhea
Incorporating Social Goals in
the Classroom: a Guide for
Teachers and Parents of
Children with High
Functioning Autism and
Asperger Syndrome
Learning and Behavior
Problems in Asperger
Syndrome
Moyes, Rebecca A
Prior, Margot R
Management of Autistic
Behavior: Information
Service for Educators
Parent's Guide to Autism
Hart, Charles
Self-Help Guide for Special
Kids and Their Parents
Matthews, Joan Lord
Solving Behavior Problems
in Autism: Improving
Communication with Visual
Strategies
Hodgdon, Linda A
Source for Behavior
Management in Autism
Reese, Pam Britton
This resource contains research-based techniques that
will enable educators to support the acquisition of social
and communication skills. It is an assessment tool to guide
curricula for individual students that will help educators
discover a range of proven strategies that use the best of
behavioral and developmental intervention practices.
The author uses simple language to explain what it feels
like to have an autism spectrum disorder. Topics
discussed include motor skills, eye contact, social
difficulties, language, sensory difficulties, and coping with
the diagnosis.
In this book, the authors argue that theory must be
combined with data in order for it to be used effectively in
developmental intervention. Aimed at professionals and
parents who want to be more involved in their child's
development, the authors explain how to write basic
developmental goals, and how to collect and analyze data.
This book provides practical, hands-on strategies to teach
social skills to children with high-functioning autism and
Asperger Syndrome. It includes a detailed description of
the social deficits of these children as they appear in the
classroom - difficulties with such things as taking turns in
conversation - and ways to address them.
Provides practical perspectives on diagnosing, assessing,
and educating people with Asperger syndrome (AS).
Detailed, informative, and highly readable, the book
contains many fascinating and moving accounts of the
problems faced in everyday life by people with AS, and
describes ways of helping them to cope.
Topics covered include students with autism spectrum
disorders in educational settings, educational program
considerations, application of behavior management
principles, assessment of preliminary behavior
management, and development of behavior management
programs.
Provides broad subject survey or a complete examination
of the anecdotal about treatments, life choices, and
possible cures. Includes the success rate of the bestknown treatments and more.
Covering everything from eye sensitivity, to knowing how
far away to stand from other people, to being polite when
someone is crying, this book describes the problems that
an individual with an Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD)
may face, and the solutions which they have found to work
successfully.
This book provides a practical approach to recognizing the
complexity of behavior management for students with
autism spectrum disorders and other students with
communication and behavior challenges. Continuing the
approach of supporting communication with visual
strategies, this book contains problem solving techniques.
The author begins by examining common characteristics
of individuals with autism spectrum disorders that often
lead to behavioral issues. She then offers interventions
that have been successful with these individuals. This
book also includes forms to assist in behavior
modification.
Many summaries taken from Amazon.com
Taking Autism to School
Edwards, Andreanna
Taking Care of Myself: a
Hygiene, Puberty and
Personal Curriculum for
Young People with Autism
Teaching Children with
Autism: Strategies to
Enhance Communication
and Socialization
Wrobel, Mary
Ten Things Every Child with
Autism Wishes You Knew
Notbohm, Ellen
You're Going to Love this
Kid: Teaching Students with
Autism in the Inclusive
Classroom
Kluth, Paula
Quill, K
This picture book simplifies and normalizes complicated
childhood conditions like autism. When read aloud, other
children can identify why a peer may be treated differently
and begin to empathize with them.
Through a unique combination of Social Stories and easyto-understand activities, this unique book offers a
curriculum that guides the child and caregiver on issues of
health, hygiene, and the challenges of puberty.
This book describes teaching strategies and instructional
adaptations which promote communication and
socialization in children with autism. It offers specific
strategies that capitalize on the individual strengths and
learning styles of the autistic child.
Framed with both humor and compassion, the book
defines the top ten characteristics that illuminate the minds
and hearts of children with autism. The author’s various
personal experiences with autism coalesce to create a
guide for all who come in contact with a child on the
autism spectrum.
Guide to understanding students with autism and including
them fully in the classroom. Includes specific ideas for
enhancing literacy; planning challenging, multidimensional
lessons; supporting student behavior; connecting,
communicating, and collaborating; fostering friendships;
and adapting the physical environment.
DVD/VHS
Title
Day by Day: Raising the
Child with Autism/PDD
Signing for Life
Format
VHS
DVD
Summary
Told through the experiences of two families, this
video demonstrates the daily life of autistic children
and their families. In addition to explaining the
challenges they face, the parents in this video offer
parenting strategies that have been successful for
them.
Teaches sign language but also includes tips for
teaching sign language to others, as well as special
considerations for signing with children and young
adults with autism spectrum disorders
Many summaries taken from Amazon.com