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USD #383 Autism & Special Needs Library Located at Eisenhower Middle School 800 Walters Drive, Manhattan, KS 66502 Helen Miller, Autism Coordinator 785-587-2880 2 The Autism Spectrum Disorders Library The special needs library provides information for parents and teachers on Autism Spectrum Disorders and a wide range of disabilities and issues related to various handicaps. To check out a book or video, fill out the card located in the back of the book (or on the back of the video) completely with name, date, and phone number or e-mail. Place the card in the black “check-out box” located on the shelf. All materials need to be returned within two months. When returning a book or video, replace the check-out card in the back of the book and cross off your name. The person checking out the book or video is responsible for the book. If, by whatever means an item is lost, please contact us and we will give you the replacement cost. 3 Books in the Library deal with the following topics: Autism & Asperger Syndrome Disabilities in General Learning Disabilities Physical & Mental Disabilities Stuttering Eating/Diets Video tapes Autism Spectrum Disorders Handbook for USD #383 4 A Title Author(s) Description A Is for Autism, F Is for Friend: A Joanna L. Keating- This upper elementary book touches on the importance of Kid’s Book on Making Friends with Velasco breaking down barriers to pave the way for unique a Child Who Has Autism friendships between kids who are not that different after all. The ABA Program Companion: J. Tyler Fovel, M.A. This book is written to help the reader integrate important Organizing Quality Programs for theory and concepts from Applied Behavioral Analysis Children with Autism and PDD (ABA) into powerful, practical, and comprehensive educational programming, from assessment through program methodology and evaluation. Activities for Developing Pre-Skill Toni Flowers This book gives lots of ideas for those working with autism. Concepts in Children with Autism Activities are suggested in the areas of auditory development, concept development, social development, speech and language development and visual-motor integration. Activity Schedules for Children with Lynn E. McClannahan, This book describes, in easy to understand terms, Autism: Teaching Independent Ph.D. and Patricia J. everything you need to know in order to develop Behavior Krantz, Ph.D. successful activity schedules. With this detailed and informative guide, I can envision how to increase my son’s current play and dressing schedules to include all aspects of daily living through adulthood. The A.D.D. Book William Sears and This book will explain what ADD is and what it is not, how Lynda Thompson to tell whether your child has ADD, and how to increase your child’s learning ability both at home and at school. The authors outline effective behavior modification strategies that reach beyond the widely prescribed drug therapy to improve the child’s cognitive abilities while reducing hyperactivity ADHD in the Young Child: Driven to Cathy Reimers, Ph.D. This book guides parents and teachers of young children Re-Direction and Bruce A. Brunger with ADHD. It offers many effective techniques to manage behavior. The ADHD Autism Connection Diane M. Kennedy This book provides help for frustrated ADHD patients and their families as well as those with autism, Asperger Syndrome. PDD-NOS, and other related conditions. Adolescents on the Autism Chantal Sicile-Kira This practical guide offers parents strategies for helping Spectrum: A Parent’s Guide to the their children, whatever their ability level through the Cognitive, Social, Physical, and physical and emotional changes of the teenage years and Transition Needs of Teenager’s preparing them for adulthood. with Autism Spectrum Disorders The Affect-Based Language Stanley Greenspan and Curriculum (ABLC) – An Intensive Diane Lewis Program for Families, Therapists & Teachers –2nd Edition All Cats Have Asperger Syndrome Kathy Hoopmann Touching, humorous and insightful, this book evokes the joys and challenges of raising a child who is different. It leaves the reader with a sense of the dignity, individuality and potential of people with Asperger Syndrome. Animals in Translation: Using the Temple Grandin & In this book Temple Grandin draws on her own Mysteries of Autism to Decode Catherine Johnson experiences with autism as well as her distinguished career Animal Behavior as an animal scientist to deliver an extraordinary message about how animal think, act, and feel. Ann Drew Jackson Joan Clark Two unlikely partners become true friends- a gripping and insightful book for readers in fourth to eighth grade. 5 Answers to Questions Teachers Ask Carol Stock Kranowitz In this elegant approach to the often elusive subject of About Sensory Integration and Stacey Szklut, MS, sensory integration, the authors have assembled an OTR/L extensive and easy to use set of checklists and other tools that are invaluable to every teacher and parent who has a child with sensory integration challenges. An Anthropologist on Mars: Seven Oliver Sacks Oliver sacks transports us into the uncanny worlds of his Paradoxical Tales subjects, including an artist who loses his ability to see color; a surgeon who performs delicate operations in spite of the compulsive tics and outbursts of Tourette’s syndrome; and an autistic professor who hold a Ph.D. in animal science but is so bewildered by the complexity of human emotion that she feels like and anthropologist on Mars. An Asperger Marriage Gisela & Christopher This book is the first to examine a successful marriage Slater-Walker from both perspectives and provides knowledge that will be of value, not only to similar couples and individuals with Asperger Syndrome who are considering a relationship, but also the organizations that support relationships. The Anger Workbook for Teens Rachelle Cassada 37 exercises designed to whow you effective skills to help Lohmann, MS you deal with feelings of rage without losing it. Ten minutes a day. The Anxiety Workbook for Teens Lisa M. Schab, LCSW This book will show you how to deal with the day-do-day challenges of anxiety. It will help you develop a positive self-image and recognize your anxious thoughts. Asperger Download Josie & Damian A guide to help teenage males with Asperger Syndrome Santomauro trouble-shoot life’s challenges. The Asperger Parent Jeffrey Cohen How to raise a child with Asperger Syndrome and maintain your sense of humor. Asperger’s... What Does It Mean To Catherine Faherty A workbook explaining self awareness and life lessons to Me? the child or youth with high functioning autism or Asperger’s. It includes structured teaching ideas for home and school. Asperger’s and Self Esteem, Insight Norm Ledgin The author has identified twelve people from history and and Hope Through Famous Role recent times, figures who are well known and respected Models for their achievements despite evidence of trait that scientists now identify with Asperger’s Syndrome. They include Glenn Gould, Albert Einstein, Orson Welles, Paul Robeson, John Hartford, Charles Darwin, Oscar Levant, Gregor Mendel, Bela Bartok, Carl Sagan, Marie Currie and Mozart Asperger Syndrome: A Guide for Brenda Smith Myles The need for basic information about Asperger Syndrome Educators and Parents and Richard L. Simpson is the foundation of this book. It addresses issues related to the characteristics of children and youth with the disorder, and outlines basic methods to facilitate growth and development. Asperger’s Syndrome Workplace Barbara Bissonnette This book is the definitive guide to surviving and thriving in Survival Guide: A Neurotypical’s the workplace for people with AS. It includes everything Secrets for Success from realistic strategies for meeting employer expectations, to how to get along with your colleagues and work as part of a team, multitask and manage projects, and handle anxiety and effectively resolve problems. Asperger Download – A guide to Josie & Damian A thoroughly enlightening guide to teenage life on the Help Teenage Males with Asperger Santomauro autism spectrum. This mother-and-son team is blessed Syndrome Trouble-Shoot Life’s with insights and explanatory powers that most of us can 6 Challenges only envy from afar. Asperger’s Syndrome:A Guide for Tony Attwood This book includes describing individuals with Asperger’s Parents & Professionals syndrome, highlighting the problems that they, their families, and teachers often face, and outlining the practical and achievable strategies for intervention and education. Asperger Syndrome and Difficult Brenda Smith Myles Practical solutions for tantrums, rage, and meltdowns. Moments and Jack Southwick Asperger Syndrome: An Owner’s Ellen S. Heller Korin, A workbook designed to help young people, approximately Manual What You, Your Parents M.Ed. 5th to 8th grade, develop their Personal Profile. With the and Your Teachers Need to Know help of an adult the child completes a series of exercises related to learning style, sensory issues, emotions, relationships, and more. Asperger Syndrome & Adolescence Brenda Smith Myles & An overview of the challenges that many learners with AS – Practical Solutions for School Diane Adreon face as they enter their teens and the practical, proven Success interventions to address these challenges. Asperger Syndrome and Sensory Brenda Smith Myles, This valuable book is filled with practical advice for Issues: Practical Solutions for Katherine Tapscott analyzing sensory processing difficulties. This book Making Sense of the World (4 Cook, Nancy E. Miller, provides realistic strategies and truly consolidates the copies) Louann Rinner, and variety of complex issues faced by parents in dealing with Lisa A. Robbins the symptoms of Asperger Syndrome. Asperger Syndrome and the Susan Thompson This book gives practical solutions for addressing the Elementary School Experience – Moore, M.Ed. academic and social needs of elementary-aged children Practical Solutions for Academic & with Asperger Syndrome. Lots of forms, checklists and Social Difficulties other visuals make these helpful ideas easy to implement.
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