Park County School District #1
Resources for Parents and Teachers
Please contact Darwin Rowton, Special Education Parent Liaison, at 764-6187 or [email protected] to check out any
of these materials.
DVD’s with Binder:
ADHD from A to Z: Advances in the Understanding and Management of ADHD in Children and
Adolescents: This seminar recording will provide a summary of the major advances over the past
decade in the nature, diagnosis, life course, etiologies, and management of ADHD in children and
teens. It also discusses the role of executive functioning and self-regulation in the disorder and what
this means for management of ADHD. New research exists on the life course of children with ADHD
and their adult outcomes that illustrate how impaired EF can negatively impact major life activities.
Autism/Asperger’s Conference: - Dr. Temple Grandin, Raun Melmed, MD, and Sean Barron will
inspire, direct and compel you into the world of Autism and Asperger’s. Some of the topics covered in
this 3 part DVD series are: learning environments, sensory challenges, behaviors, medication, career
paths, early interventions, socialization, communication, treatments, social relationships and rules.
Disruptive, Resistant and Noncompliant Kids: Update your “Discipline Toolbox” with Proven
Techniques for Handling Challenging Behaviors in Children and Adolescents: Get ready to learn,
laugh, and have some fun seeing a child’s behavior from a different perspective. Bill Corbett’s
seminar recording will examine what currently exists in a typical caregiver’s “Discipline Toolbox” and
demonstrate a realization that many of these tools are outdated or no longer work. Using lecture,
humor, interactive exercise, demonstration, & video clips, he works closely with parents and
professionals in helping them interpret a child’s behavior and at the same time, rebuild their toolbox
to make room for more effective tools and methods that truly work with today’s challenging child.
Executive Dysfunction: Effective Strategies and Interventions for Children and Adolescents: Children
with inattention, poor planning and organizational skills, memory deficits, emotional instability and
poor self-monitoring are at risk for academic underachievement and socialization/behavioral
difficulties. Children and adolescents with executive dysfunction are frequently brighter than their
academic performance suggests. Through the use of case studies and interactive discussion of
executive functioning, Dr. Susan Fralick-Ball will provide you with practical, effective and easily
adaptable skill building techniques for children and adolescents.
Late, Lost and Unprepared: Executive Dysfunction and The Disorganized Child/Adolescent Executive dysfunction is common in students with ADHD, LD and PDD and poses very real challenges
for therapists, teachers and parents. Dr. Laurie Dietzel uses humor and case examples to differentiate
between brain-based deficits and a lack of motivation and to develop the knowledge and skills you
need to assist disorganized children and their parents. Using a long-term developmental perspective,
she will focus on capitalizing on strengths and compensating for weaknesses.
Self-Regulation in Children: Keeping the Body, Mind and Emotions on Task in Children with Autism,
ADHD or Sensory Disorders - Children who have trouble self-regulating throughout the day are
missing out on typical childhood experiences in school, on the playground and with their families. This
workshop looks at the underlying factors of poor self-regulation and how they affect the child.
Experienced presenter, Teresa Garland, will teach you practical interventions and how to create
simple, but effective programs in clinical, school and home settings.
Smart but Scattered: Executive Dysfunction at Home and at School: Children who have deficient
executive skills often have trouble getting started on tasks, get distracted easily, lose papers or
assignments and forget to hand in homework. They make careless mistakes, put off work until the last
minute and have no sense of time urgency. Dr. Dawson uses case examples along with interactive
discussion to demonstrate how the executive skills manifest in daily home and school activities. Learn
how to assess these skills and take home evidence-based strategies to help children and adolescents
overcome executive skills weaknesses.
Books:
1001 Great Ideas for Teaching and Raising Children with Autism or Asperger's, Revised and
Expanded 2nd Edition: In this expanded second edition, Ellen Notbohm and Veronica Zysk present
parents and educators with over 1800 ideas try-it-now tips, eye-opening advice, and grassroots
strategies. More than 600 fresh ideas join tried and true tactics from the original edition, offering
modifications for older kids, honing in on Asperger's challenges, and enhancing already-effective
ways to help your child or student achieve success at home, in school, and in the community.
The 7 Habits of Highly Effective Families: (Book or Audiobook) Stephen R. Covey presents a practical
and philosophical guide to solving problems that confront all families and strong communities. By
offering revealing anecdotes about ordinary people as well as helpful suggestions about changing
everyday behavior, The 7 Habits of Highly Effective Families shows how and why to have family
meetings, the importance of keeping promises, how to balance individual and family needs, and how
to move from dependence to independence. The 7 Habits of Highly Effective Families is an invaluable
guidebook to the welfare of families everywhere.
A Friend Like Simon: This is a special education children’s picture books that introduces
autism. When an autistic child joins a mainstream school, many children can find it difficult to
understand and cope with a student that is somewhat ‘different’ to them. This story encourages
other children to be mindful and patient of the differences that exist and to also appreciate the
positive contribution that an autistic child can make to the group.
All About IEPs: Answers to Frequently Asked Questions About IEPs: Whether you are the parent of
a child with special education needs, a seasoned educator, or a professional advocate, you have
questions about Individualized Education Programs, (IEPs). In this comprehensive, easy to read book,
you will find clear, concise answers to frequently asked questions about IEPs. Learn what the law
says about IEP Teams and IEP Meetings, Parental Rights and Consent, Steps in Developing the IEP,
Placement, Transition, Assistive Technology and Strategies to Resolve Disagreements.
All My Stripes: A Story for Children with Autism: This is the story of Zane, a zebra with
autism, who worries that his differences make him stand out from his peers. With careful
guidance from his mother, Zane learns that autism is only one of many qualities that make
him special. Contains a Note to Parents by Drew Coman, PhD, and Ellen Braaten, PhD, as
well as a Foreword by Alison Singer, President of the Autism Science Foundation.
Asperger’s Syndrome and Sexuality: From Adolescence Through Adulthood: Playing the dating
game is often tricky: all the more so for individuals with Asperger's Syndrome. How do AS
adolescents and their families cope with sexual feelings and behaviour? What help can be given if a
man with AS oversteps the mark in expressing his sexuality? How do people with AS deal with
intimacy and communication in sexual relationships? In this comprehensive and unique guide,
Isabelle Hénault delivers practical information and advice on issues ranging from puberty and sexual
development, gender identity disorders, couples' therapy to guidelines for sex education programs and
maintaining sexual boundaries. This book will prove indispensable to parents, teachers, counsellors
and individuals with AS themselves.
The Asperkid’s Secret Book of Social Rules: The Handbook of Not-So-Obvious Social
Guidelines for Tweens and Teens with Asperger Syndrome: Being a teen or tween isn't easy for
anyone -- but it's especially tough for Asperkids. I know. I was one, I taught a whole bunch, and I am
going to be raising three! That's also why I know that Asperkids deserve their very own guide to all of
the hidden social rules that are awfully confusing to us, even if they seem obvious to everyone else.
The "Secret" Book gives Asperkids (aged 10-17) respectful, funny insights written "for Aspies by an
Aspie." Chock full of illustrations, logic and even a practice session or six this is the handbook every
adult Aspie wishes we'd had growing up, but never did.
Assistive Technology in Special Education: Families, teachers, and therapists who are
searching for an update about how to use the latest technologies to help individuals who
struggle with communication, literacy, and learning will benefit from the wealth of practical,
well-organized information in this second edition of Assistive Technology in Special
Education. The indexed update presents an overview of the uses of technologies to help
readers zero in on specific, powerful, cutting-edge resources they can use to enhance success.
The book features new tools to improve and compensate for challenges relating to speaking,
understanding, reading, writing, thinking and remembering, as well as strategies to help
students become more organized and efficient. The use of tablets such as the iPad and smartphones, as well as
cloud-based products, are highlighted.
Building Social Relationships 2: The Building Social Relationships (BSR) program was created to
address the need for effective social skills programming. The BSR program is a systematic social skills
program that addresses both social cognitive processing and social skill performance. BSR-2 contains
over 40 instructional strategies and includes a revised version of the Autism Social Skills Profile (ASSP2), an instrument designed to measure social competence in youth on the spectrum.
The Complete Guide to Asperger’s Syndrome: The Complete Guide to Asperger's Syndrome is the
definitive handbook for anyone affected by Asperger's syndrome (AS). Drawing on case studies and
personal accounts from Attwood's extensive clinical experience, and from his correspondence with
individuals with AS, this book is both authoritative and extremely accessible. There is also an
invaluable frequently asked questions chapter and a section listing useful resources for anyone
wishing to find further information on a particular aspect of AS, as well as literature and educational
tools.
The Conversation Train: A Visual Approach to Conversation For Children on the Autism
Spectrum: This inventive colour picture book uses the metaphor of a train to teach basic conventions
of conversation to children with autism spectrum disorders (ASDs). As well as attractive colour
photographs of trains, the book contains engaging photocopiable worksheets and colouring pages to
help promote skill generalisation. This highly visual approach to conversation is ideally suited to
children with ASDs aged approximately 5-13.
The Disorganized Mind: Coaching your ADHD brain to take control of your time, tasks, and talents:
For the millions of adults diagnosed with ADHD The Disorganized Mind will provide expert guidance
on what they can do to make the most of their lives. The inattention, time-mismanagement,
procrastination, impulsivity, distractibility, and difficulty with transitions that often go hand-in-hand
with ADHD can be overcome with the unique approach that Nancy Ratey brings to turning these
behaviors around.
The Dyslexia Checklist: A Practical Reference for Parents and Teachers: Essential
advice and resources for helping kids with dyslexia The Dyslexia Checklist is a valuable
guide for parents and teachers that can help them better understand children and teenagers
with dyslexia and other reading- and language-based disabilities. The book relays the most
current research available and is filled with practical strategies, supports, and interventions.
Using these tools teachers and parents can accommodate the needs and strengthen the skills of
students with reading and writing disabilities across all age levels. The book is presented in a
simple, concise, easy-to-read checklist format and is filled with useful advice and information
on a wide range of topics.
Freaks, Geeks, and Asperger Syndrome: A User Guide to Adolescence: Luke Jackson is 13 years old
and has Asperger Syndrome. Over the years Luke has learned to laugh at such names but there are
other aspects of life which are more difficult. Adolescence and the teenage years are a minefield of
emotions, transitions and decisions and when a child has Asperger Syndrome, the result is often
explosive. Luke has three sisters and one brother in various stages of their adolescent and teenage
years but he is acutely aware of just how different he is and how little information is available for
adolescents like himself. Drawing from his own experiences and gaining information from his
teenage brother and sisters, he wrote this enlightening, honest and witty book in an attempt to
address difficult topics such as bullying, friendships, when and how to tell others about AS, school
problems, dating, relationships and morality.
The Green Zone Conversation Book: Finding Common Ground in Conversation For Children
on the Autism Spectrum: In conversation, children on the autism spectrum often struggle to select
topics of interest to others. This book provides a simple visual model to help children experience more
success in finding common ground in conversation. The book, illustrated with hundreds of
photographs representing the range of other people's interests, clearly explains what the "Green Zone"
is and how to find it, and contains many photocopiable conversation practice activities and
reinforcement worksheets based on this simple visual.
The Hidden Curriculum for Understanding Unstated Rules in Social Situations for Adolescents and
Young Adults: In the revised and expanded edition of this popular book, the authors narrow their
target to issues common to adolescents and young adults. While many of the features of the original
book have been maintained, information on evidence-based practice has been added. Further, a
series of instructional strategies are provided that can be used to teach the hidden curriculum.
Instructional aids include charts, forms, and templates designed to make the job of teaching and
learning the hidden curriculum more effective.
How to Do Homework Without Throwing Up (Laugh & Learn): “Everybody who goes to school does
homework. You are not alone. And they feel just as sick as you do when they have to do it.” Trevor
Romain knows how horrible homework can be, and kids will see this right away as they page through
this book, grin at the cartoons, and smile at Trevor's funny insights. Meanwhile, they'll discover
valuable truths and pointers about homework. Kids will also learn how to make a homework
schedule, when to do the hardest homework (first!), the benefits of doing homework, and more—
serious suggestions delivered with wit and humor because laughter makes learning fun.
Hygiene…You Stink: How do you make young children understand the importance of bathing and
brushing? The story centers around a fork named Jean who hates taking baths in the sink and detests
showering in the dishwasher. Jean the Fork just can't figure out why people are not using her as
frequently, or why the other forks, knives and spoons avoid her. When she asks the wise old can opener
about it, he replies Well, I hate to break it to you my friend Fork, but it appears you smell like last
week's pork! In the fifth book in her award-winning
Building Relationships series, author Julia
Cook offers a hilarious approach to a very personal issue - good hygiene!
I Can’t Believe You Said That! My Story About Using My Social Filter… or Not! RJ says what he
thinks… no matter how it sounds or makes others feel. His mouth is getting him into a lot of trouble. A
rude comment at school earned him a detention. An insensitive remark at home earned him a scolding
and made his sister cry. RJ doesn't realize his words are wrong. He thinks he's just offering feedback.
It's time RJ starts using a social filter when he speaks. With help from his parents, he learns he doesn't
have to verbalize every thought that pops into his head. In fact, sometimes the less said the better!
This book is part of the BEST ME I Can Be series of books to help teach social skills to children.
IEP and Inclusion Tips for Parents and Teachers: Promotes inclusion success for students, teachers
and parents. Features 127 tips focusing on IEP and inclusion processes. Includes chapters on: Getting
prepared for IEP meetings, creating legally correct and educationally sound IEPs, ensuring access to
the general curriculum, tracking IEP progress and forming effective family/school partnerships. The
handout is an inexpensive version and is ready to give to those who benefit - parents and teachers.
Kids in the Syndrome Mix of ADHD, LD, Asperger’s, Tourette’s, Bipolar, and More! “Kids in the
Syndrome Mix" is a concise, scientifically up-to-date, all-in-one guide to the whole range of often coexisting neuro-behavioral disorders in children - from attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD),
obsessive-compulsive disorder, and bipolar disorder, to autistic spectrum disorders, nonverbal
learning disabilities, sensory integration problems, and executive dysfunction. Dr. Kutscher provides
accessible information on causes, symptoms, interactions with other conditions, and treatments. He
presents effective behavioral strategies for responding to children who display traits of these
disorders - whether at home, at school, or in other settings - along with case vignettes and practical
tips.
Late, Lost, and Unprepared: A Parents' Guide to Helping Children with Executive Functioning: Late,
Lost, and Unprepared is a must-have book for parents of children from primary school through high
school who struggle with: Impulse Control (taking turns, interrupting others, running off); Cognitive
Flexibility (adapting to new situations, transitions, handling frustrations); Initiation (starting
homework, chores, and major projects); Working Memory (following directions, note-taking, reading
and retaining info); Planning & Organizing (completing and turning in homework, juggling schedules);
Self-monitoring (making careless errors, staying on topic, getting into trouble but not understanding
why). The book also emphasizes the need for a two-pronged approach to intervention: 1) helping the
child to manage demands in the short run, and 2) building independent skills for long-term selfmanagement.
Learning To Slow Down & Pay Attention: A Book for Kids About ADHD: In this new, third edition of
Learning to Slow Down and Pay Attention, the authors have made a number of changes to reflect
changes in understanding of ADHD and in our approach to its treatment. For example, in response to
growing research on the safety and efficacy of stimulant medication in treating ADHD, we explain
more to the child about medication and how it works. Another important change in this edition is an
increase in child-centered focus. While the majority of what's written about ADHD emphasizes
behaviors that bother adults, this book emphasizes those aspects of ADHD that are troublesome to
the children, trying to look at the world more from their point of view.
The New Social Story Book: Since 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 bestselling book offers ready-to-use stories that parents and educators have depended on for years, and
new sections added are: How to most effectively use and apply the stories; How to improve the lives
of younger children; and Social Stories for teens and adults with autism. Developed through years of
experience, these strategically written stories explain social situations in ways children and adults
with autism understand, while teaching social skills needed for them to be successful at home,
school, work, and in the community.
No Longer A Secret: Unique Common Sense Strategies for Children with Sensory or Motor
Challenges: This invaluable resource by Dr Lucy Jane Miller and Doreit Bialer helps teach cost
effective, functional, on the spot tips to use for children with sensory issues at home, at school, or in a
community setting. Any parent, teacher, or therapist can use this book and help a child with sensory or
motor issues!
No More Meltdowns: Positive Strategies for Managing and Preventing Out-Of-Control Behavior: It
could happen at the grocery store. At a restaurant. At school. At home. Meltdowns are stressful for
both child and adult, but Dr. Baker can help! Dr. Jed Baker offers parents and teachers strategies for
preventing and managing meltdowns. His 20+ years of experience working with children on the autism
spectrum, combined with his personal experiences raising his own children, have yielded time-tested
strategies, and results!
On Their Own: Creating an Independent Future for Your Child with Learning
Disabilities and ADHD: An indispensable guide to the special challenges faced by parents of
learning-disabled children as they enter adulthood, by the author of Laughing Allegra, a leading
activist and parent of an adult child with LD. On Their Own is an invaluable road map to ease
these parents' fears and answer their questions, especially the one that haunts them daily: Will
or can their child be on their own, and how?
Our Brains Are Like Computers!: Exploring Social Skills and Social Cause and Effect with
Children on the Autism Spectrum: This highly visual social skills book uses computer metaphors
and visual diagrams to help children on the autism spectrum to understand how their words and actions
can affect other people. Easily identifiable computing and social networking metaphors are used to
explain how memories are saved in the brain, like files in computer folders, and how, just as files can
be shared and downloaded on the internet, people learn about you by sharing their positive and
negative impressions with each other.
The Out-of-Sync Child: The Out-of-Sync Child broke new ground by identifying Sensory Processing
Disorder, a common but frequently misdiagnosed problem in which the central nervous system
misinterprets messages from the senses. This newly revised edition features additional information
from recent research on vision and hearing deficits, motor skill problems, nutrition and picky eaters,
ADHA, autism, and other related disorders.
The Out-of-Sync Child Has Fun, Revised Edition: Activities for Kids with Sensory Processing Disorder:
Carol Stock Kranowitz presents more than one hundred playful activities specially designed for kids
with SPD. Each activity in this inspiring and practical book is SAFE—Sensory-motor, Appropriate, Fun
and Easy—to help develop and organize a child’s brain and body. Whether your child faces challenges
with touch, balance, movement, body position, vision, hearing, smell, and taste, motor planning, or
other sensory problems, this book presents lively and engaging ways to bring fun and play to everyday
situations.
Self-Advocacy Skills for Students with Learning Disabilities: Making it Happen in College and
Beyond: Self-Advocacy Skills for Students with Learning Disabilities offers high school students
guidance, proactive strategies, planning advice, and other critical information they need to make the
transition to college smooth and successful. Students who begin using this book in high school will find
it to be a useful resource throughout college. The book is also an indispensable resource for these
students' guidance counselors, special education teachers, and parents.
Sensational Kids: Hope and Help for Children with Sensory Processing Disorder (SPD): Sensory
Processing Disorder is an increasingly common diagnosis, with a wide range of symptoms that can be
difficult for parents and pediatricians to identify. In Sensational Kids, Dr. Miller shares her more than
forty years of experience and research findings on SPD. It is an authoritative and practical guide to
understanding and treating this little-understood condition. Newly updated, this revised edition will
include the latest research on SPD's relationship to autism, as well as new treatment options and
coping strategies for parents, teachers, and others.
Seven Steps to Help Your Child Worry Less: This guide for parents offers practical strategies to help
teach children relaxation techniques, correct ways of thinking to combat worry and anxiety, and
empowering behavioral interventions. Parents are encouraged to understand why children worry and
to recognize if a child needs help with excessive worry. Explained are how to create a plan to help a
child, effective strategies to reduce worry, and how to build a child's self-esteem and confidence so
he or she can become more resilient. Additional guidance for medical professionals and for teachers
is provided.
Should I or Shouldn’t I: A Game to Encourage Social Thinking and Social Problem Solving: The
Elementary Edition of our popular Should I or Shouldn't I? What Would Others Think? game
encourages players ages 8-11 to think about their own behavior choices and then compare how their
perceptions match (or don't) those of the other players. Game play offers abundant opportunities to
practice Social Thinking concepts, perspective taking, and problem solving skills, and discuss how our
individual behavior choices affect those around us. The game is based on the Social Thinking concepts
and vocabulary introduced by Michelle Garcia Winner and
outlined in her many books and articles on the topic.
Smart but Scattered: There’s nothing more frustrating than watching your bright, talented son or
daughter struggle with everyday tasks like finishing homework, putting away toys, or following
instructions at school. Your “smart but scattered” child might also have trouble coping with
disappointment or managing anger. Drs. Peg Dawson and Richard Guare have great news: there’s a
lot you can do to help. The latest research in child development shows that many kids who have the
brain and heart to succeed lack or lag behind in crucial “executive skills”--the fundamental habits of
mind required for getting organized, staying focused, and controlling impulses and emotions. Learn
easy-to-follow steps to identify your child’s strengths and weaknesses, use activities and techniques
proven to boost specific skills, and problem-solve daily routines. Small changes can add up to big improvements--this
empowering book shows how. (Also available in Audio Book).
Smart but Scattered Teens: This positive guide provides a science-based program for promoting
teens' independence by building their executive skills--the fundamental brain-based abilities needed
to get organized, stay focused, and control impulses and emotions. Executive skills experts Drs.
Richard Guare and Peg Dawson are joined by Colin Guare, a young adult who has successfully faced
these issues himself. Learn step-by-step strategies to help your teen live up to his or her potential
now and in the future--while making your relationship stronger.
Social Skills for Teenagers With Developmental and Autism Spectrum Disorders: This
parent-assisted intervention for teens is based on a comprehensive, evidence-based, 14-week
program at UCLA’s Semel Institute for Neuroscience and Human Behavior, the manualization
of the popular UCLA PEERS Program, and the success of the Children’s Friendship Training
(Routledge, 2002) manual for children. After reviewing techniques designed to help parents
and therapists tailor the manual to the needs of the teens with whom they are working, the text
moves on to the individual treatment sessions and strategies for tackling issues such as
developing conversational skills, choosing friends, using humor, get-togethers, teasing,
bullying, gossiping, and handling disagreements. Each session chapter includes handouts, homework
assignments, descriptions of what to expect (and how to handle challenges in delivering the intervention), and
customized tips for both parents and therapists.
Social Skills Solutions: A Hands-on Manual for Teaching Social Skills to Children with
Autism: Social Skills Solutions is a unique, hands-on manual that provides instruction on
building a social skills program from ten different comprehensive modules, all geared toward
the specific diagnostic and social deficits of children with Autistic Spectrum Disorder (ASD).
Social Thinking Thinksheets for Tweens and Teens: Thinksheets for Tweens and Teens focuses on
the social issues and challenges faced by pre-adolescents and adolescents and introduces social
concepts and strategies that can help individuals navigate these tricky years. The Thinksheets explore
a wide range of topics, starting with the basic Social Thinking understanding of the Four Steps of
Communication, to exploring the hidden rules of the classroom and when is it okay to correct others.
Super Skills: A Social Skills Group Program for Children with Asperger Syndrome, High Functioning
Autism and Related Challenges: To many children on the autism spectrum, social skills pose greater
challenges than academics! This series of social skills activities are designed to help elementary-aged
students with autism spectrum and other social cognitive deficits succeed in the social realm. Group
lessons are organized under four types of skills necessary for social success: fundamental skills, social
initiation skills, getting along with others, and social response skills.
Taking Care of Myself: A Healthy Hygiene, Puberty and Personal Curriculum for
Young People with Autism: Puberty can be especially tough when young people have autism
or other special needs. Through simple stories similar to Carol Gray's Social Stories, author
Mary Wrobel teaches caregivers exactly what to say and not say, and shows how you can
create helpful stories of your own. Mary addresses hygiene, modesty, body growth and
development, menstruation, touching, personal safety, and more. Young students can benefit
from self-care skills such as using the toilet, brushing teeth, and washing hands. The ultimate
goal is to maximize the child's potential for independence and lifelong social success.
Taking Charge of ADHD: The Complete, Authoritative Guide for Parents: From distinguished
researcher/clinician Russell A. Barkley, this treasured parent resource gives you the science-based
information you need about attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) and its treatment. It also
presents a proven eight-step behavior management plan specifically designed for 6- to 18-year-olds
with ADHD. Offering encouragement, guidance, and loads of practical tips, Dr. Barkley helps you:
*Make sense of your child's symptoms/*Get an accurate diagnosis/*Work with school and health care
professionals to get needed support/*Learn parenting techniques that promote better
behavior/*Strengthen your child's academic and social skills/*Use rewards and incentives
effectively/*Restore harmony at home.
Thinking about You Thinking about Me: Students with social cognitive learning deficits face
enormous challenges not only in their day-to-day relations with the world around them, but also in
the fact that few professionals, educational or medical, understand the core of these student's
deficits. One fundamental deficit relates to perspective taking - the ability of one person to consider
the point of view and motives of another. This book addresses the different ways this problem can
present itself, the current thinking on how to approach the problem and a wealth of exercises and
activities that can immediately be applied to the student.
Thinking Differently: An Inspiring Guide for Parents of Children with Learning
Disabilities: An innovative, comprehensive guide—the first of its kind—to help parents
understand and accept learning disabilities in their children, offering tips and strategies for
successfully advocating on their behalf and helping them become their own best advocates.
Focusing on how to arm students who think and learn differently with essential skills, including
meta-cognition and self-advocacy, Flink offers real, hard advice, providing the tools to address
specific problems they face—from building self-esteem and reconstructing the learning
environment, to getting proper diagnoses and discovering their inner gifts.
Too Loud, Too Bright, Too Fast, Too Tight: What to Do If You Are Sensory Defensive in an
Overstimulating World: We all know what it feels like to be irritated by loud music, accosted by lights
that are too bright, or overwhelmed by a world that moves too quickly. But millions of people suffer
from Sensory Defensive Disorder (SD), a common affliction in which people react to harmless stimuli
not just as a distracting hindrance, but a potentially dangerous threat. Sharon Heller, Ph.D. is not only a
trained psychologist, she is sensory defensive herself. Bringing both personal and professional
perspectives, Dr. Heller is the ideal person to tell the world about this problem that will only increase
as technology and processed environments take over our lives. In addition to heightening public
awareness of this prevalent issue, Dr. Heller provides tools and therapies for alleviating and, in some cases, even
eliminating defensiveness altogether.
Uniquely Human: A Different Way of Seeing Autism: Autism therapy typically focuses on ridding
individuals of “autistic” symptoms such as difficulties interacting socially, problems in communicating,
sensory challenges, and repetitive behavior patterns. Now Dr. Barry M. Prizant offers a new and
compelling paradigm: the most successful approaches to autism don’t aim at fixing a person by
eliminating symptoms, but rather seeking to understand the individual’s experience and what underlies
the behavior.
Unstuck and On Target: An Executive Function Curriculum to Improve Flexibility for
Children with Autism Spectrum Disorders: For students with autism spectrum disorders,
problems with flexibility and goal-directed behavior can be a major obstacle to success in
school and in life. But flexibility and goal-setting can be taught just like any other skill—and
this how-to manual equips professionals with simple, real-world ways to help students with
ASD develop this critical aspect of executive function. A classroom-based intervention
approach for high-functioning students ages 8–11, this innovative guide gives special educators
and other service providers ready-to-use lessons that promote cognitive and behavioral
flexibility in everyday situations, from compromising with peers to handling schedule changes.
What to Do When You're Scared and Worried: A Guide for Kids: From a dread of spiders to panic
attacks, kids have worries and fears, just like adults. This is a book kids can turn to when they need
advice, reassurance, and ideas. They’ll find out where fears and worries come from, practice Fear
Chasers and Worry Erasers, and learn to seek help for hard-to-handle fears they can’t manage on their
own.
Laminated Reference Guides:
Autism and the IPad: Communication and behavior difficulties are two of the greatest obstacles to
learning for students with Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD). This six-page (tri-fold) laminated guide
by Brian Friedlander and Christine Besko-Maughan helps educators select the most effective apps to
use with students with ASD, including ones that focus on: •Intentional/expressive communication;
•Speech and language development; •Organization/visual schedules; •Social skills; •Positive
behavior supports (reward/reinforcement); •Video modeling to strengthen targeted behaviors;
•Student assessment Autism and the iPad™ also provides information on apps that turn the iPad
into speech-generating devices and strategies for using these programs with non-verbal students to
help them express their wants and needs and control their environment.
Autism Strategies A-Z (Elementary): Autism: Strategies A-Z (Elementary) is a six-page (trifold)
laminated guide that offers general and special education teachers, parents and paraprofessionals
quick-access to practical tips and effective strategies for teaching elementary school-aged children
with autism and autism spectrum disorders (ASD). Authors Wendy Ashcroft, Sue Argiro and Joyce
Keohane provide an overview of common characteristics exhibited by students with autism,
including difficulty communicating and deficits in the area of social skills, to help teachers identify
students who may fall on the autism spectrum and should be referred for assessment and diagnosis.
Autism Strategies A-Z (Middle School): Autism Strategies for Middle Schools: A-Z, by Wendy
Ashcroft, Sue Argiro and Joyce Keohane, helps middle school educators meet this challenge by
offering, in one durable, 3-hole punched, laminated guide, quick and easy access to key information
about autism along with numerous easy-to-follow, evidence-based teaching strategies and behavior
management techniques that will help students with autism succeed in the middle school
classroom. A valuable resource for both general and special education teachers as well as
paraeducators and parents.
iPad™: Enhancing Learning & Communication for Students with Special Needs (Updated): by Brian
S. Friedlander and Christine Besko-Maughan, identifies ways of integrating the iPad and education
apps into the classroom to reach students with diverse learning styles, including those with special
needs such as learning disabilities, Autism Spectrum Disorders, and/or other language or
communication disorders. The guide identifies some of the best apps for enhancing communication
development, such as Proloquo2Go and iCommunicate, and offers guidance on how to use these
programs with students.
Test Anxiety: Strategies to Improve Student Performance: Testing—especially high-stakes testing—is
playing an increasing role in schools, giving rise to higher levels of anxiety for both students and teachers.
As a result, many students are actually experiencing performance declines rather than improvements. This
reference guide is specifically designed to provide teachers with practical, evidence-based strategies for
reducing test-related anxiety and improving test performance and overall well-being in students ranging
from elementary to high school age. The guide includes recommendations for teaching effective study skills
& habits, as well as specific test-taking skills. It also describes how to teach students stress-reduction
techniques such as deep breathing, freewriting, progressive muscle relaxation, guided imagery, mindfulness
and meditation, and positive self-talk.
Transitioning to College: A Guide for Students with Disabilities: School personnel, parents and high
school students with disabilities will all benefit from the four-page (bi-fold) laminated guide, by
Elizabeth Hamblet. It offers detailed suggestions of ways students with disabilities, with the help of
parents and teachers/school staff, can start preparing for the transition to college as early as
freshman year of high school. Referencing the “4 Rs” of College Disability Services, the author
provides an overview of Students’ Rights, Reasonable Accommodations, Responsibilities, Reality.
The issue of disability documentation is also covered in significant detail, as are several others.
What Educators & Parents Need To Know About Special Education Law: written by Karen
Norlander, Esq., is an easy-to-read reference tool that summarizes the key legal issues general and
special ed teachers and parents of students with disabilities face every day. This six page (tri-fold)
laminated guide clearly and succinctly outlines: •Major federal laws, including IDEA (IDEIA); •Basic
legal principles of special education; •Key terms and acronyms; •The eligibility and evaluation
processes; •The IEP. Additionally, the responsibilities of the parents, including participation in the
development of an IEP or 504 Plan, are explained.