Tag Archives: Communication

Teach Me With Pictures

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Teach me with picsTeach Me With Pictures by Simone Griffin, Ruth Harris, and Linda Hodgdon

(XED Griff 2013)

This book provides fun and practical ideas to help motivate and extend communication and play skills in children with autism with the support of pictures. The book describes how picture scripts can help facilitate play and learning and provides 40 photocopiable scripts across a range of different activities such as drawing, cooking, using construction toys, imaginative play, arts and crafts, and social games.

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Four Steps of Communication with Michelle Garcia Winner

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Michelle Garcia Winner (she is the person behind “Social Thinking”) and a young man on the autism spectrum teach us about social communication.

The Social Skills Picture Book Teaching Play, Emotion, and Communication to Children with Autism

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social skills picture bookThe Social Skills Picture Book Teaching Play, Emotion, and Communication to Children with Autism by Jed Baker.

XSS Baker 2001

This book uses photographs of students engaging in a variety of real-life social situations. The realistic format plays to the visual strengths of children with ASD to teach appropriate social behaviors. Color photographs illustrate the “right way” and “wrong way” to approach each situation and the positive/negative consequences of each. A facilitator (parent, teacher, etc.) is initially needed to explain each situation, and ask questions such as “What is happening in this picture?” Children role-play skills until confident enough to practice them in real-life interactions.

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Spongebob Prepositions

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image (1)Spongebob Prepositions

The focus of this activity is to teach various prepositions by using the character Spongebob.  This kit includes laminated cards and accompanying prepositional words on Velcro pieces.

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It Means The Same Thing

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image (1)It Means The Same Thing

The focus of this activity is to choose three words from a group of five that are synonyms of the pictured word.  This kit includes instructions, two pages of matching synonyms to pictures, a key, and a page of extra words that do not belong on the board.

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Conversation Skills on the Jobs and in the Community

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conversation skillsConversation Skills on the Jobs and in the Community by Marily Banks.

(XSS Banks)

Provide basic conversation skills to students with developmental disabilities and show them how to initiate social interactions. With 50-plus self-managed lessons, this book is self-paced and takes only 12 weeks of bi-weekly, 10 minute training sessions during which students acquire a ready social repertoire. Pp. 106.

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Unintentional Humor Celebrating the Literal Mind

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unintentional humorUnintentional Humor Celebrating the Literal Mind by Linda Gund Anderson.  

(XOT Ander 2011)

Inspired by her son with autism, this book exposes the communication challenges that many people experience. Pp. 167.

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Autism- The Musical

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autism the musicalAutism- The Musical DVD by Elain Hall.

(XOT Music 2007 DVD)

This DVD follows the extraordinary and innovative acting coach Elaine Hall, five autistic children, and their parents as they improbably, heroically mount a full-length original stage production. Through trial and error, tears and laughter, these incredible families learn to communicate their feelings in song and performance, finding solace and joy in the act of creating.

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The Golden Bridge: A Guide to Assistance Dogs for Children Challenged By Autism or Other Developmental Disabilities (New Discoveries in the Human-Animal…New Discoveries in the Human-Animal Bond

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golden bridgeThe Golden Bridge: A Guide to Assistance Dogs for Children Challenged By Autism or Other Developmental Disabilities (New Discoveries in the Human-Animal … (New Discoveries in the Human-Animal Bond) by Patty Dobbs Gross.

(XIN Dobbs 2006)

This book tells how specially bred and trained dogs help to facilitate communication for children with autism and other developmental disabilities. It provides advice about living with autism, animal-assisted therapy, training an assistance dog, and using an assistance dog to deal with a child’s grief.  Pp. 180.

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Pivotal Response Treatments for Autism: Communication, Social, & Academic Development

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Pivotal Response TreatmentsPivotal Response Treatments for Autism: Communication, Social, & Academic Development by Robert L. Koegel and Lynn Kern Koegel.

(XIN Koege 2006)

Pivotal Response Treatment uses natural learning opportunities to target and modify key behaviors in children with autism, leading to widespread positive effects on communication, behavior, and social skills. This book explains the intervention and details strategies developed by the program to enhance communication, social and academic behavior in children from preschool to elementary school. Pp. 296.

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Teaching Conversation to Children with Autism

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teachingconversationTeaching Conversation to Children with Autism by Lynn E. McClannahan and Patricia J. Krantz.

(XCM McCla 2005)

By reading this book you will understand how scripts and script fading can provide a predictable and meaningful structure for children and adults with autism to engage in conversation.  By using this strategy, children begin by playing recorded words or phrases to initiate conversation and often progress to speaking spontaneously with other children or adults. Pp. 155.

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Comic Strip Conversations: Illustrated Interactions that Teach Conversation Skills to Students with Autism and Related Disorders

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comicstripComic Strip Conversations:  Illustrated Interactions that Teach Conversation Skills to Students with Autism and Related Disorders by Carol Gray.

(XBC Gray 1994)

This is a book of comic strip conversations that illustrate ongoing communication and provides additional support to individuals who struggle to comprehend the quick exchange of information that occurs in a conversation.  These strips identify what people say and do, and emphasize what people may be thinking. Pp. 37.

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Simple Signs (Picture Puffins)

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simplesigns Simple Signs (Picture Puffins) by Cindy Wheeler.

(XBC Wheel 1995)

A few basic words as expressed in American Sign Language are presented in this book. Each page is devoted to a single word or concept, e.g., “hello,” “cat,” and “happy.” A pen-and-ink diagram of the ASL gesture or sign appears beside a full-color watercolor illustration of the object or emotion being described. Pp. 32.

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A Pictures Worth: PECS and other Visual Communication Strategies in Autism

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apicturesworthA Pictures Worth:  PECS and other Visual Communication Strategies in Autism by Andy Bondy.

(XBC Bondy 2002)

This easy-to-understand guide presents in detail the Picture Exchange Communication System (PECS) — pictures used by a child to express his needs and desires without a prompt from another person — as well as an overview of other augmentative and alternative communication systems. Pp. 300.

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Picture Exchange Communication System Training Manual

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pictureexchangecommunicationsystemPicture Exchange Communication System Training Manual by Lori Frost & Andy Bondy.

(XCM Frost 2002)

This book presents an updated description of The Picture Exchange Communication System.  Emphasis is placed on the importance of laying the foundation for communication training by systematically structuring the learning environment.  The pyramid approach to education focuses on functional activities and communication, powerful reinforces, and behavioral intervention plans. It encourages creativity and innovation on the teacher’s part through data-based decision making.  Pp. 396.

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The Friendship Factor

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friendshipfactorThe Friendship Factor by Kenneth Rubin.

(XSS Rubin 2002)

A book on the importance of children’s friendships that helps parents to teach their children the essential life skill of working with and getting along with others. Dr. Kenneth Rubin researched 25 years on friendship and now reveals the importance of healthy social development to a child’s emotional and intellectual growth. Pp.308.

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