Mobile App Monday - Simply Being

Wanting to find an app to help your classroom or an individual stay calm and focused? Simply Being allows you to choose from 5 meditation times and gives you to option to listen to the guided meditation with or without music or nature sounds. You can also listen to the music or nature sounds alone. In addition, you can choose how long to listen to the music or nature sounds after the voice guidance finishes.

To learn more about this app, please visit:
https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/id347418999

Overcoming anxiety in children and teens

Overcoming anxiety in children and teens "outlines both the science and art of anxiety therapy. The science of overcoming anxiety is using the well researched approach called gradual exposure therapy which involves helping individuals gradually face their fears. The art of therapy is figuring out how to actually convince someone to face their fears." -publisher

Want to learn more about it? Email us at cedir@indiana.edu to check out this title or use worldcat.org to find it in a library near you.

Anxiety and Autism

Staff at the Indiana Resource Center for Autism have published an article on their website on the topic of anxiety. Here is the first paragraph:

"Many children with autism spectrum disorders (ASD) will receive another diagnosis at some point in their development. In a 2008 study, seventy percent of a sample of children with ASD ages 10 to 14, had also been diagnosed with another disorder. Forty-one percent had been diagnosed with two or more additional disorders (Simonoff, et al). These additional disorders, or comorbid diagnoses, can at times be extremely debilitating for individuals with autism spectrum disorders. The most common types of diagnoses are those related to anxiety."

Want to know more? Please visit: http://www.iidc.indiana.edu/index.php?pageId=3616&utm_source=WhatCountsEmail&utm_medium=IRCA%20Reporter&utm_campaign=IRCA%20Reporter%20E-Newsletter%20Vol%2017%20No%209

Social Literacy

Looking for a social skills curriculum for high-functioning young adults? Social Literacy: A Social Skills Seminars for Young Adults With ASDs, NLDs, and Social Anxiety may fit the bill. This field-tested, hands-on seminar can help participants build their social skills using explicit instruction and coaching. Going beyond the basics to the higher level social skills, the seminar can adapt to any program's needs by targeting the areas most critical to an adult's success--skills for employment, relationships, and more.

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Facing your fears

Facing your fears: Group therapy for managing anxiety in children with high-functioning autism spectrum disorders comes as a packet of three books: a facilitator's manual, a parent workbook, and a child workbook. The three together form the basis for a cognitive-behavioral group therapy approach to help reduce fears and anxieties for children on the high-functioning end of the spectrum. Research cited in the programs indicates that high anxiety can lead to "serious educational problems, later underemployment, substance abuse, and other psychiatric conditions." Learning to manage fear and anxiety as a child offers hope for a better future.

To check out this title, email us at cedir@indiana.edu, or use worldcat.org to find it in a library near you.

Managing anxiety

Anxiety can often play a large role in the lives of people on the spectrum. Managing anxiety in people with autism: A treatment guide for parents, teachers, and mental health professionals addresses this problem with thoughtful and practical treatment approaches. With clear explanations and multiple examples, readers will learn about ways to reduce anxiety by first understanding what is causing it and then modifying the triggers. The book also explains how anxiety can affect the whole family and suggests different treatment options to reduce anxiety in everyone.

Want to check it out? Email us at cedir@indiana.edu. Or try worldcat.org to find it in a library near you.