Visual Strategies for Improving Communication: Practical Supports for School & Home by Linda A. Hodgdon. (XCM Hodgd 1995) A comprehensive book used to explain the use of visual strategies in order to improve communication for students with autism spectrum disorders and other students who experience moderate to severe communication impairments. It is full of easy […]
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What Did You Say? What Do You Mean?: An Illustrated Guide to Understanding Metaphors
What Did You Say? What Do You Mean?: An Illustrated Guide to Understanding Metaphors by Jude Welton, Jane Telford, and Elizabeth Newson. (XBC Welto 2004) This visual workbook looks at a hundred of the most common figures of speech and is designed as a springboard for family and classroom discussions. Each figure of speech is […]
Tasks Galore: Creative Ideas for Teachers, Therapists and Parents Working with Children with Autism
Tasks Galore: Creative Ideas for Teachers, Therapists and Parents Working with Children with Autism by Laurie Eckenrode, Pat Fennell & Kathy Hearsey. (XED Ecken 2003) This book designed for teachers, therapists, and parents, assists in creating a fun and meaningful task collection. Emphasis is on helping any student/child feel successful. Pp. 66. If available, item can be […]
Tasks Galore for the Real World: Visually Structured Tasks for Teaching Domestic, Vocational and Other Independent Living Skills to Individuals with Autism
Tasks Galore for the Real World: Visually Structured Tasks for Teaching Domestic, Vocational and Other Independent Living Skills to Individuals with Autism by Laurie Eckenrode, Pat Fennell & Kathy Hearsey. (XED Ecken 2004) This book is also designed for teachers, therapists, and parents, and features over 240 full-color photos of highly organized, multi-modal tasks that emphasize functional skills […]
Tasks Galore: Making Groups Meaningful- Using Structured Teaching Strategies to Design Successful Group Activities
Tasks Galore: Making Groups Meaningful-Using Structured Teaching Strategies to Design Successful Group Activities by Laurie Eckenrode, Pat Fennell & Kathy Hearsey. (XED Ecken 2005) This book is designed for teachers. It features over 240 full-color photos of organized, multi-modal tasks that emphasize functional skills needed for successful group activities. Pp. 69. If available, item can be […]
Tasks Galore, Let’s Play
Tasks Galore, Let’s Play by Laurie Eckenrode, Pat Fennell, Kathy Heatsey, and Beth Reynolds. (XED Ecken 2009) This book utilizes play as the program for learning. Tasks Galore Let’s Play contains fun, multimodal tasks in full color that illustrate how routines, organizational strategies, and visual cues make play more understandable and enhance students’ toy play, […]
Visual Thinking Strategies for Individuals with Autism Spectrum Disorders
Visual Thinking Strategies for Individuals with Autism Spectrum Disorders by Ellyn Lucas Arwood, Carole Kaulitz, and Mabel Brown. (XCM Arwoo 2009) This book helps the reader understand how to match the developmental levels of pictures and visuals to the developmental level of the person looking at the visual. In this way, appropriate visuals provide the […]
Making Visual Supports Work in the Home and Community Strategies for Individuals with Autism and Asperger Syndrome
Making Visual Supports Work in the Home and Community Strategies for Individuals with Autism and Asperger Syndrome by Jennifer L. Savner and Brenda Smith Myles. (XCM Savne 2000) Visual supports help children and youth with autism, Asperger Syndrome and other special needs understand their world better and therefore help them function more independently. This resource […]
My Visual For Outsmarting Explosive Behavior
My Visual For Outsmarting Explosive Behavior by Judy Endow. (XBM Endow 2009) This program is designed to help decrease and in some cases eliminate explosive behavior in children with autism spectrum disorders. Four train cars represent the four stages of explosive behavior: Starting Out, Picking up Steam, Point of No Return, and Explosion. By using […]
Solving Behavior Problems in Autism: Improving Communication with Visual Strategies
Solving Behavior Problems in Autism: Improving Communication with Visual Strategies by Linda Hodgdon. (XBM Hodgd 1999) This book provides a practical approach to recognizing the complexity of behavior management for students with autism spectrum disorders and other students with communication and behavior challenges. Continuing the approach of supporting communication with visual strategies, this book is […]