Other Books and Tools
Meet Thotso, Your Thought Maker is an interactive board book in which our little guys and gals flip things up, pull things down, etc., all while learning about the thoughts they make!
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An Activity-Based Method for Evaluating and Supporting Highly Anxious Students by Kari Dunn Buron
This unique hands-on activity helps students who are highly anxious cope with their stress by systematizing social and emotional information. Using this self-contained product, the student literally sorts cards describing highly stressful situations into colorful pockets designating stress levels, ranging from 5-1, as a first step in changing the way he or she thinks about and responds to emotions such as anxiety, sadness and anger.
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Learning to Use the Power of Your Eyes - An Activity and Coloring Book. Social learning made fun! Zeebu has created an activity book to help your child/student become a social thinker!
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A Social Communication Skills Package by Alex Kelly. This hugely popular photocopiable manual provides professionals with a framework for the development of social skills. Initially piloted on adolescents with mild learning difficulties, it can be used with a variety of client groups, both children and adults.
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Comprehension Strategies for Adolescent Readers by Cris Tovani Many of our students can read, or appear to read, but don't really get what they're reading. Comprehension is a complicated and important skill, and one that can be taught. Cris Tovani is a teacher and reading specialist who takes teachers (and parents) into her classroom and offers practical strategies for real reading comprehension.
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by Ellyn Lucas Arwood, Ed.D.; Carole Kaulitz, M.Ed.; and Mabel Brown, M.A. Visuals of all kinds are used as supports for individuals on the autism spectrum who tend to think and learn visually. However, not all visuals are created equal! This new and important book explores "The Language of Pictures," showing how to match visual tools with the developmental level of the child or adult you are working with. A great way to learn the science behind the art!
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By Dr. Stephen Briers. Brilliant Cognitive Behavioral Therapy: How to Use CBT to Improve Your Mind and Your Life has been specially written to help give readers the insight, tools and confidence they need to understand and use CBT in their own lives. It offers a cohesive approach to this groundbreaking therapeutic technique that unfolds in a wholly logical, accessible and practical manner whilst enabling the reader to personalize the information and apply it to their own unique situation.
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Social Thinking therapists use this set of cards to gather informal assessment information and to work with students on looking for evidence of social cues verses environmental cues and then determining their relevancy given the context. These full-color photo cards capture the essence of 48 different emotions and can be used in sessions with school-aged children through adults.
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The newest offering by Carol Gray! Social Stories help the child with autism or Asperger's Syndrome to understand the social world around them. This book is an updated version of the New Social Story Book with new text and accompanying illustrations.
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Social Boundaries: Straight Up! An honest guide for teens and young adults by Kari Dunn Buron
Building on the 5-point scale, Kari has written a workbook for adolescents and young adults called A 5 Is Against the Law! The book takes a narrower look at challenging behavior with a particular focus on behaviors that can spell trouble for youth who have difficulty understanding and maintaining social boundaries.
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By: Lisa Schab
Talking directly to students about depression, this workbook encourages students to reframe their recent experiences or memories. Each chapter starts with a “you need to know” section and then encourages specific exploration into topics, including the power of perspective, the gift of the moment, believing in yourself, the use of social skills, even food to help your mood...
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By: Susan Sprague
This book teaches adolescent girls to think more deeply about aspects of their own social world and how cliques tick. Chapters address: Teasing: the good, bad and unintended; the profile of the bully; how to defend yourself online and more. This workbook encourages your child in their process of self-discovery and can help parents think of ways to engage them in discussions related to this under-addressed topic.
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By: Kathy Hirsh-Pasek, and Ph.D., Roberta Michnick Golinkoff, Ph.D., with Diane Eyer, Ph. D.
Einstein Never Used Flash Cards
Play Is Back!
In this book two highly credentialed child psychologists offer a compelling indictment of the growing trend toward accelerated learning. It's a message that stressed-out parents are craving to hear: Letting tots learn through play is not only okay - it's better than drilling academics!
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Students enjoy squeezing the small, blue rubber brains as the brains encourage them to think more flexibly and abstractly about the size of their problems and the choices they are making. Used in lessons that encourage flexible thinking, including those in Superflex and Thinking About YOU Thinking About ME, the brains offer a fun way to inspire our students to think about their social thinking and related skills. "Social Thinking is Flexible Thinking" is inscribed on the brains to reinforce the lessons the students are learning.
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By: Ronald M Rapee, Ann Wignall, Susan H. Spence, Vanessa Cobham, Heidi Lyneham
This expanded and updated version of a best-selling classic guides readers to help a child overcome anxiety and fears. It describes in detail strategies and techniques they can combine into a comprehensive self-help program for a child's particular needs.
All of us have experienced anxiety, but few of us have been taught strategies to help manage it. This book is very helpful for teaching the lay person (parent or professional) about the core concepts of anxiety and strategies that can be used to help our students work through it. Anxiety is alive and well in our schools and in our homes; it is time we all learn some basics for how to directly address this topic. This is an excellent starting place.
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An outstanding resource of VISUAL ORGANIZERS that helps children better recognize the predictable patterns within classroom language experiences.
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A great follow-up to Pathways for Learning I. Provides new visual organizers for classroom learning and organization. Assignment notebook templates provide cognitive cues so homework is written down, brought home, and completed.
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Let Zeebu help you socially engage your child or student! The DVD, “Playtime with Zeebu – Sharing,” is the beginning of a new brand of products specifically designed for children who have social delays. For children aged 3-10 who are emerging perspective takers, “Playtime with Zeebu” uses slow pace, deliberate language and simplified versions of Michelle Garcia Winner’s social thinking to build initial foundations for social thinking development.
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The adult set of pictures is recommended for ages 12 and above, since they show many teens pictured in these sequences. Michelle has described how she uses this product in her informal assessment section within the book,
Thinking About You Thinking About Me, 2nd edition. Not only are these pictures used for assessment tasks, Michelle also utilizes them to help students explore how we develop concepts such as "main idea" versus "details".
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The children set of pictures is recommended for students under 12 years old. Used for assessing your student, this tool can also encourage a variety of concepts, such as problem-solving, narrative language and making inferences and predictions. This product, and the adult one, serves as a tool for all speech language pathologists and teachers working with students with reading comprehension and narrative language challenges
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Last Updated: Thursday, 09 September 2010 08:09