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1001 Great Ideas for teaching and raising children with Autism spectrum disorders
By Ellen Notbohm and Veronica Zysk

Parents and professionals can now bypass countless hours spent seeking answers to the mystifying day-to-day challenges of autism. In a snappy, can-do format, this insightful book offers page after page of try-it-now solutions that have worked for thousands of children grappling with social, sensory, behavioral, and self-care issues, plus many more.

Applied Behavior Analysis and Autism: An introduction
By Suzanne Buchanan and Mary Jane Weiss

Behavioral Intervention for Young Children with Autism: A Manual for Parents and Professionals
by Catherine Maurice, Gina Green, Stephen C. Luce

Provides a wealth of practical information for parents professionals, and others concerned with helping such children.

Decreasing Behaviors of persons with severe retardation and autism
By Richard Foxx

Early Intervention and Autism: Real-Life Questions, Real-Life Answers
by James Ball

This book will guide you through your child's early years by providing sound advice based on over twenty years of experience. In an easy-to-read, question-answer format, Dr. Jim explains what makes your child tick, how to get the most out of early intervention services, and how to choose the most effective treatment options.

Everybody is Different: A Book for Young People who have Brothers or Sisters with Autism
by Fiona Beach

This book is different! It is specially designed to give answers to the many questions of brothers and sisters of young people on the autistic spectrum. As well as explaining the characteristics of autism, it is full of helpful suggestions for making family life more comfortable for everyone concerned.

Healthcare for Children on the Autism Spectrum: A Guide to Medical, Nutritional, and Behavior Issues
By Fred Volkmar and Lisa Wiesner

Although children with an autism spectrum disorder (ASD) can be as healthy as other children, keeping them that way can be a challenge. Routine doctor visits, for instance, can be especially trying for children with ASDs due to sensory sensitivities or communication difficulties. Issues such as sleep problems, unusual eating habits, and impulsive or aggressive behaviors can also threaten their health. Volkmar of the Yale University Child Study Center, and Wiesner, a pediatrician, experts in the field of autism, offer parents accessible and authoritative information for dealing with these challenges and understanding what's most important to their child's medical, nutritional, and behavioral well-being.

Helping a Child with Non-Verbal Learning Disorder or Asperger's Syndrome: A Parent's Guide
by Kathryn Stewart, Ph.D.

The book offers readers ways to evaluate their child's strengths and weaknesses in areas such as visual and spatial functioning, writing problems, information processing and organizational skills, social and emotional capabilities, language skills, and interactive abilities. It offers specific strategies for intervening and helping the child to cope with these obstacles, such as teaching the child how to socialize with humor and empathy, alternatives for learning to write, tips for organizing daily activities, multi-tasking, and more.

Increasing Behaviors by Richard Foxx

Living With Brain Injury: A Guide For Families by Richard Senelick and Karla Dougherty

The new, updated edition of the renowned classic-complete with cutting edge neuroplasticity and exciting experimental rehabilitation research! Living with Brain Injury will help readers-both families of patients and professionals alike-through new, uncharted territory of brain rehabilitation, a world where people we love may change before our eyes, physically, mentally, and emotionally.

Overcoming Autism: Finding the Answers, Strategies, and Hope That Can Transform a Child's Life
by Lynn Kern Koegel and Claire LaZebnik

Promotes the proven "pivotal response" methods and other recent advances in treating the disorder, while helping readers understand their child and their options for intervention.

Playing, Laughing, and Learning with Children on the Autism Spectrum: a Practical Resource of Play Ideas for Parents and Carers
by Julia Moor

Parents of young children newly diagnosed as on the autism spectrum are often at a loss for ideas about how best to help their child. Playing, Laughing and Learning with Children on the Autism Spectrum is not just a collection of play ideas; it shows how to break down activities into manageable stages, and looks at ways to gain a child's attention and motivation and to build on small achievements.

Each chapter covers a collection of ideas around a theme, including music, art, physical activities, playing outdoors, puzzles, turn-taking and using existing toys to create play sequences. There are also chapters on introducing reading and making the most of television. This updated second edition contains an extensive chapter on how to use the computer, the internet and the digital camera to find and make resources and activities, and suggests many suitable websites to help parents through the internet maze. The ideas are useful both for toddlers and primary age children who are still struggling with play.

Power of Positive Parenting
By Dr. Glenn Latham

Focus on positive behavior, deal with inappropriate behavior properly, and manage consequences to create a happy, safe, and healthy home environment where children can thrive.

Right from the Start: Behavioral Intervention for Young Children with Autism, second edition
by Sandra L. Harris, Ph.D. and Mary Jane Weiss, Ph.D. BCBA

Includes the latest research on the benefits of Early Intensive Behavioral Intervention, the types of instruction used (naturalistic instruction and other teaching methods that complement ABA), home-based professionals and their credentials, school-based programs, and more.

Sleep Better
By V. Mark Durand

When children have recurrent sleep problems, they and their families must deal with negative effects on behavior, mood, social interactions, physical stamina, step-by-step, "how to" instructions for helping children with disabilities get the rest they need. For problems ranging from bedtime tantrums to night waking, parents and caregivers will find a variety of widely tested and easy-to-implement techniques that have already helped hundreds of children with special needs - especially children with autism, Tourette syndrome, and cerebral palsy. Written by a psychologist who was inspired by many sleepless nights with his own child, this book delivers proven techniques from the author's clinical and personal experience, making it a one-of-a-kind resource for families and professionals.

Steps to Independence
By Bruce Baker and Alan Brightman

Provides step-by-step guidance for parents in managing behavior challenges, strengthening partnerships with teachers, and using technology. Discusses how to help children develop skills in seven different areas of behavior.

Teaching developmentally disabled children: The ME Book
By O. Ivar Lovaas

Designed for use with children from age 3 and above who suffer from mental retardation, brain damage, autism, severe aphasia, emotional disorders or childhood schizophrenia.

The Potty Journey: Guide to Toilet Training Children with Special Needs, Including Autism and Related Disorders
by Judith A. Coucouvanis

Using a no-nonsense, often humorous approach, Judith Coucouvanis, MA, APRN, BC, shares strategies that have produced remarkable results for parents of children with autism and related disorders nationwide. Promising no "quick fixes," The Potty Journey systematically guides you through the entire toileting journey, step-by-step, to the ultimate destination - dry pants.

The Way I See It
by Temple Grandin

In this innovative book, Dr. Temple Grandin gets down to the REAL issues of autism, the ones parents, teachers, and individuals on the spectrum face every day. Temple offers helpful do's and don'ts, practical strategies, and try-it-now tips, all based on her "insider" perspective and a great deal of research.

Thinking in Pictures
by Temple Grandin

Toilet Training for Individuals with Autism or Other Developmental Issues
by Maria Wheeler

Individuals with autism are reportedly one of the most difficult populations to toilet train. This second edition offers effective strategies that take the child's physical and emotional sensitivities into account instead of trying to force traditional methods. Easy-to-read bulleted lists offer more than 200 do's and don'ts, along with over 50 real-life examples, to help make the process more of a lesson and less of a battle for all involved. The young trainee will learn to overcome fear of the bathroom, properly use toilet paper, flush once, wash hands, and more. The toilet trainer will learn how to overcome challenges caused by communication needs, sensory sensitivities, motor challenges, anxiety levels, etc.

Visual Supports for People with Autism
By Marlene Cohen and Donna Sloan

Most of us use visual supports in our daily lives--for example, a shopping list, calendar, or a roadmap. Visual supports are particularly beneficial to people with autism because they help make abstract concepts concrete and capitalize on the user's inherent visual learning strengths.

VISUAL SUPPORTS FOR PEOPLE WITH AUTISM shows parents and educators how incorporating these aids while teaching can improve academic performance, behavior, interaction with others, and self-help skills. In a friendly, conversational-style, the authors, both certified behavior analysts, describe the deficits typical of autism--language, memory, temporal sequential skills, attention, motivation, and social skills--and present strategies to use visual supports to address those issues at school and home.

This guide presents an abundance of examples, illustrated by dozens of black & white and color photos, including: activity schedules; calendars; charts; checklists; color coding; flip books; graphic organizers; mnemonics; nametags; photo boards; Power Cards; scripts; Social Stories; to-do lists; and video modeling.

VISUAL SUPPORTS also explains considerations such as portability, durability, preferences, age appropriateness, and effectiveness. While visual supports can enhance learning, they should, however, eventually be eliminated to avoid over-dependence on them. An entire chapter describes different ways to fade visual supports.

With this book, there's no limit to what can be taught, from fostering social interaction by using a graphic organizer of conversational talking points to learning to put away toys from video modeling. Most of the visual supports presented in this book are low-tech and easy-to-use, making it simple for parents and professionals to create their own, suited to the needs of their students. Inspiring success stories will further motivate parents and professionals to get started.

Voices From the Spectrum: Parents, Grandparents, Siblings, People with Autism, Professionals Share Their Wisdom
by Cindy Ariel and Robert Naseef

"Voices from the Spectrum" is a compelling collection of personal accounts from people on the autism spectrum and those who care for them, including professionals, friends and family members. The broad scope of this book presents insights into the autism spectrum from many different perspectives - from first-hand accounts of the autistic child's school and childhood experiences to parents' and grandparents' reactions to a diagnosis. A number of chapters written by professionals explain their motivations for working with autistic people and reveal what they have learned from their work and how it has affected their lives. The contributors describe experiences of autism from the mildest to the most severe case, and share their methods of adapting to life on the spectrum.

Journals

Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis
The Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis is a psychology journal that publishes research about applications of the experimental analysis of behavior to problems of social importance.

Web sites

Autism Behavior Intervention
This site provides information on evaluating the ABA program/consultant for your child.

AutismWeb: A Parent's Guide to Autism and PDD
Educating Children with Autism and Pervasive Developmental Disorder Overview of Teaching Methods There are several methods of educating young children with autism. The most well-known strategies are:

  1. Applied Behavior Analysis and Applied Verbal Behavior, popularized by Dr. Ivar Lovaas and Dr. Vincent Carbone, respectively
  2. TEACCH
  3. DIR/ FLOOR TIME, developed by Dr. Stanley Greenspan
  4. Sensory Integration Therapy
  5. Relationship Development Intervention or RDI, advanced by Dr. Steven Gutstein

Education Resources Information Center
This site provides journal articles, books, research syntheses, conference papers, technical reports, policy papers, other education-related materials.

Intervention Central
Intervention Central offers free tools and resources to help school staff and parents to promote positive classroom behaviors and foster effective learning for all children and youth. Provides information about academic interventions, downloads, motivation, bully prevention, and reinforcers.

James Stanfield Publishing Company
This site provides information on programs, activities, anger management, bully programs, conflict resolution, coping skills, independent living, life skills, sex education, school to work transition, social skills.

TEACCH Autism Program
This site is the compilation of several experienced teachers' and consultants' suggestions about toilet training children with autism.

Utah State University: The Power of Positive Parenting by Dr. Glenn Latham
This course has been developed using portions from several of the books, videos, and audio products produced by Glenn Latham. These materials will give parents the skills necessary to raise children well. Glenn Latham said of his book, The Power of Positive Parenting, which is his definitive book, upon which this course is built, that it has been "subjected to more independent, scientific scrutiny than any parenting book in print today. In every instance, it has been shown to be an effective parenting tool. For that reason, it has been adopted by parent training programs, schools, university professors, early childhood and head start programs, and governmental programs as the basic text for teaching parenting skills."