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Partners in Autism Suggested Reading and Web Site Links
Autism in the News
http://www.autismmedia.org/media11.html
This video gallery features clips of news stories and television programs
as they aired on major or local network television
Social Emotional
casel.org
Social and Emotions
Click programs and lessons and then click sample SEL activities
Project ExSEL has good children’s books on emotions
dotolearn.org
Free picture cards and activities, free emotion game
Autism-PDD Message Boards : Autism Resources
Social Stories
DIR-Floortime
celebratethechildren.org
Classroom, behavior, sensory… tips
icdl.org
floortime.org
Awareness/Support
strangeson.com
Facilitated Communication- sample spell board.
(Click on interviews and video clips and scroll down)
kylestreehouse.org
Understanding autism
autism.com
Research and biomedical treatments
tacanow.org
Jenny McCarthy spokesperson
wrightslaw.com
Online Guide to Special Education Law & Advocacy
Classroom Activities and Rewards on the Web
Students
Cindy’s Autistic Support
A comprehensive guide to a great many supports and services for teachers
Howstuffworks.com
Learn how everything works.
americaslibrary.gov
America’s story
sikids.com
Sports
nickjr.org
snoopy.com
school.discoveryeducation.com
creatingmusic.com
Fun and easy ways to make music
kidsquest.com/puzzlesandplay.php
Kids can print off a fun puzzle
factmonster.com
animaland.org
nasa.gov/audience/forkids/home/
crayola.com
funbrain.com
coolmath4kids.com
magickeys.com/books/
read storybooks online
janbrett.com
literacy activities
rhymezone.com
semantic rhyming dictionary
Classroom Activities and Rewards on the Web
Teachers
News-2-you.com
Free weekly online regular newspaper for special needs
kidsdomain.com
Free PC and MAC downloads checkout:
Praxis Splasher - keyboard banger; Kid Pix; Connect Four
starfall.com
Teach reading, teach comprehension
tinsnip.org –
Special ed resource
speakingofspeech.com –
Speech path resource
Autism Listserve
Mosaic
list via yahoo groups- a New Jersey parents only support Group
Publisher
aspergernet.com
Autism Aspergers Publishing Company
futurehorizons-autism.com
Future Horizon’s
Book Topics with links to websiteS
Sensory
Sensational Kids
By Lucy Miller, Ph.D., OTR
The Out-of-Sync Child
By Carol Stock Kranowitz
Answers to Questions Teachers Ask About Sensory Integration
By Carol Stock Kranowitz
Sensory Integration: A Guide for Preschool Teachers
By Christy Isbell
Building Bridges through Sensory Integration, Second Edition
By Ellen Yack
Motor Planning and Movement
Thinking Goes to School- Furth & Wachs
Exercises from this program should be used to develop higher level thinking skills
Smart Moves: Why Learning Is Not All in Your Head
By Carla Hannaford
Brain Gym (Teachers Edition)
By Paul E. Dennison
Social Skills
The New Social Story Book
By Carol Gray
The Social Skills Picture Book
By Jed Baker
Social Skills Training for Children and Adolescents with Asperger Syndrome and
Social-Communications Problems
By Jed Baker
Navigating the Social World: A Curriculum for Individuals with Asperger's
Syndrome, High Functioning Autism and Related Disorders
Jeannie McAfee
Do-Watch-Listen-Say: Social and Communication Intervention for Children with Autism-
Kathleen Ann Quill
What Does it Mean to Me?
By Catherine Faherty
An excellent social stories workbook for children with autism and asperger’s
Dietary/Nutritional Support
Special Diets for Special Kids
By Lisa Lewis
Special Diets for Special Kids, Two
By Lisa, Ph.D. Lewis
Enzymes for Autism and other Neurological Conditions
By Karen L. Defelice
DIR-Floortime
Engaging Autism: Using the Floortime Approach to Help Children Relate,
Communicate, and Think
By Stanley Greenspan, M.D.
The ICDL Clinical Guidelines
This is the Individual Relationship-based
Intervention(DIR) handbook ICDL-DMIC
Behavior
Steps to Independence
A Skills Training Guide for Parents and Teachers of Children with
Special Needs By Baker and Brightman
Fresh Approaches to Working with Children with Problematic Behavior
By Adele
M. Brodkin, Ph.D.
Children the Challenge
Rudolph Dreikurs, M.D.
Star Power for Preschoolers - Learning Life Skills Through Physical Play
Andrew Oser
The Explosive Child
By Ross Greene
Personal Accounts
The Mind Tree: A Miraculous Child Breaks the Silence of Autism
by Tito Rajarshi Mukhopadhyay
Strange Son
Two Mothers, Two Sons, and the Quest to Unlock the Hidden
World of Autism by Portia Iversen
Beyond the Silence:My Life, the World and Autism
by Lorna Wing
Tito Rajarshi Mukhopadhyay
Making Peace with Autism
One Family's Story of Struggle, Discovery, and
“Autism Is Not A Life Sentence”
How One Family Took On Autism and Won! by Lynley Summers
The Boy Who Loved Windows
Opening the Heart and Mind of a Child Threatened with
Autism By Patricia Stacey
Thinking in Pictures
By Temple Grandin
A Real Boy: A True Story of Autism, Early Intervention, and Recovery
By Christina Adams
Your Life is Not a Label:
A Guide to Living Fully with Autism and Asperger's Syndrome
By Jerry Newport
Look me in the eye: My Life with Asperger’s
By John Elde Robinson
Pretending to be Normal: Living with Asperger's Syndrome
By Liane Holliday Willey, Tony Attwood
Autism: An Inside-Out Approach
By Donna Williams
Autism and Sensing: The Unlost Instinct
By Donna Williams
Movies
Autism Is a World
A short subject documentary film written by Sue Rubin,
an autistic woman who learned to communicate via tying
Snow Cake
Sigourney Weaver plays a woman with autism.
Silent Fall rated R- Richard Dretfuss
Has an almost accurate portrayal of an autistic child.
Gift Ideas with links to site
Kidscopetoys.com
great sensory section. Place to find Pop Toobs
Abilitations.com
sensory equipment, check out aquatic lamps, dizzy disc.
Sensorycomfort.com
Check out disc-o-sit, fidget toys
bosu.com
good movement device for all ages Milton Bradley- Connect Four game
MagnaDoodle – many varieties
discoverytoysinc.com
check out- Hammer Away- younger children
kikaflik.com
Kickaflik board
ikea.com
snurrig (spin), PS lomsk (swivel chair), vippig (see saw), gunghult (rocker)
Target.com- 6’ parchute
Jump-O-Lene
Tangle Toys
Five Below
Many fidget toys
Toys R Us
Differently abled toy guide
Gift Ideas for the child with Autism
Bellaonline.com
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