Autistic Spectrum Disorders
A Clinician’s Guide to Mental Health Conditions in Adults with Autism Spectrum Disorders: Assessment and Interventions
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This comprehensive and much-needed guide addresses the issues faced by clinicians in assessing and treating the range of mental health conditions, which can affect adults with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD). Its particular focus on adults fills a notable gap in the ASD professional literature, with an extensive array of contributors from across the psychology and healthcare professions.
Using Drama with Children on the Autism Spectrum: A Resource for Practitioners in Education and Health
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The second edition of Using Drama with Children on the Autism Spectrumtakes the perspective that support for the learning and development of children should have the purpose of giving them the freedom to be more fully who they are and able to function more effectively as themselves in a wider range of contexts. The focus of this new edition is on learning outcomes as expressed by autistic people, for example, to develop better understandings about the social world and to know how to manage everyday situations more successfully.
Early Childhood Music Therapy and Autism Spectrum Disorder, Second Edition: Supporting Children and Their Families (2nd Edition)
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This updated book offers a comprehensive understanding of music therapy services for young children with Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD) and their families in home, preschool, and community settings.
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Successful Social Stories™ for Young Adults with Autism: Growing Up with Social Stories
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The first book that explains how to use Social Stories™ to support younger adults with autism focuses on some of the most common issues that arise as they enter the adult world. Siobhan Timmins explores the thinking that can lead to particularly problematic situations, and shows how to construct effective stories that can enlarge understanding and reshape thinking to help young adults with autism approach the work in a confident and constructive way.
Building Reasoning and Problem-Solving Skills in Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder: A Step by Step Guide to the Thinking In Speech® Intervention
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This book shows students and professionals how to formally teach key skills for reasoning and problem-solving that aren’t usually explicitly taught, such as planning, pausing and reflecting and increasing emotional regulation. Focusing on the ‘inner voice’ – the dialogue that goes on inside our heads during every day routines – the authors explain how to help children with ASD solve problems independently.
Practical Strategies for Supporting Emotional Regulation in Students with Autism: Enhancing Engagement and Learning in the Classroom
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This practical guide outlines cognitive and language strategies that support emotional regulation, which the authors have found successful with their students with autism, supported by research that shows why they work.
A Guide to Mental Health Issues in Girls and Young Women on the Autism Spectrum: Diagnosis, Intervention and Family Support
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This book addresses the specific mental health needs of girls and young women with autism spectrum disorder (ASD). Looking at the ways autism presents differently in girls than in boys, and the mental health conditions that occur most frequently in girls with ASD, this is the essential guide for clinicians and educators on tailoring interventions and support to meet girls’ needs.
Developing Resilience in Young People with Autism Using Social Stories
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Young people with autism can be particularly susceptible to setbacks, often leading to depression and a sense of hopelessness. Using Social Stories(TM), this book introduces a different way of looking at common life setbacks, and offer tools to overcome these obstacles, build resilience and develop coping strategies for the future.
Successful Social Stories for School and College Students with Autism – Growing Up with Social Stories
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Social Stories(TM) is a highly regarded strategy that parents and teachers can use to help young people with autism understand the new social situations they face during this time.
How LEGO -Based Therapy for Autism Works: Landing on My Planet
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With in-depth descriptions of LEGO(R)-based therapy in action, this book explains how and why it helps to promote the development of social skills for children with autism spectrum disorders (ASDs) and related conditions.
Sex, Drugs and Asperger’s Syndrome: A User Guide to Adulthood
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Luke Jackson focuses on the pitfalls involved in navigating the transition to adulthood, and the challenges of adult life for someone with Aspergers.
Communicating Better with People on the Autism Spectrum
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Covering verbal and non-verbal communication, Paddy-Joe Moran presents 35 simple tips and strategies to help professionals improve their communication and relationships with individuals on the autism spectrum.
Dramatherapy and Autism
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Using extensive examples from practice with a range of client groups, this edited book confronts the assumption that people with autism are not able to function within the metaphorical realms of the imagination and creativity.
Autplay Therapy for Children and Adolescents on the Autism Spectrum (3rd edition)
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AutPlay Therapy is a behavioral play-based treatment approach to working with children and adolescents with autism spectrum disorder and other developmental disabilities.
Understanding and Treating Self-Injurious Behavior in Autism: A Multi-Disciplinary Perspective
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The book will be an invaluable addition to the bookshelves of any practitioner working with people with an ASD or related condition, as well as parents and direct care providers.
Family Therapy and the Autism Spectrum: Autism Conversations in Narrative Practice
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Family Therapy and the Autism Spectrum provides a guide to conceptualizing those differences and ways to discuss them with clients and their families.
Autism Spectrum Disorders in Adolescents and Adults: Evidence-Based and Promising Interventions
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Bringing together leading experts, this book presents effective practices for helping people with autism spectrum disorders (ASD) to thrive in adulthood.
Sensory Perceptual Issues in Autism and Asperger’s Syndrome: Different Sensory Experiences – Different Perceptual Worlds (2nd Edition)
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Completely revised and updated, this book focuses on sensory perceptual problems as identified by individuals on the autism spectrum.
Autism Movement Therapy Method: Waking Up the Brain!
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A practical guide to the innovative Autism Movement Therapy (R) (AMT) approach – structured movement and music classes designed to stimulate the brain, aid sensory processing and decrease problem behaviours in children with autism spectrum disorders.
Marriage and Lasting Relationships With Asperger’s Syndrome: Successful Strategies for Couples or Counselors
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Includes counseling strategies that will help improve the relationships of married, long-term or co-habiting couples with Asperger’s Syndrome.
The Essential Manual for Asperger Syndrome (ASD) in the Classroom: What Every Teacher Needs to Know
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Full of effective and innovative strategies, the book covers areas such as meltdowns, forming friendships, literal thinking and speaking, and the overwhelming influence of sensory sensitivities.
Colour Coding for Learners with Autism: A Resource Book for Creating Meaning Through Colour at Home and School
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This book explains how colour coding helps young people with autism to generalise lessons already learnt. For example, assigning the colour aqua to all personal care activities or the colour purple to timetabling and transitions establishes clear, visual categories.
The Autism Spectrum and Depression
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This title explores the aspects of everyday life that can cause people with ASD to feel low, explains how this can escalate and looks at ways in which depression can be prevented.
Been There. Done That. Try This!: An Aspinaut’s Guide to Life on Earth
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The world’s Aspie mentors pass on their insights for successful living! Temple Grandin, Anita Lesko, Liane Holliday Willey, Jennifer O’Toole and many others, offer words of wisdom on coping with key stressors such as self-esteem, employment, friendship, and love.