The BASICS college curriculum

The BASICS College Curriculum is a series of books that  present a hands-on approach to learning essential independence and life skills for students with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD). The CeDIR Library has four titles in this series available to check out.

Independence, Social, and Study Strategies for Young Adults with Autism Spectrum Disorder focuses on the transition to college, developing key academic skills, navigating campus social life, and living away from home for the first time.

Developing Identity, Strengths, and Self-Perception for Young Adults with Autism Spectrum Disorder helps young adults to explore their identity and self-perception and encourages them to consider their personal characteristics and strengths, to help navigate college life more easily and to provide a starting point for thinking about future careers.

Turning Skills and Strengths into Careers for Young Adults with Autism Spectrum Disorder helps young adults to translate their strengths and interests into possible careers and develop job-hunting skills that will set them on the road to success.

Developing Workplace Skills for Young Adults with Autism Spectrum Disorder helps young adults to develop strategies for successfully managing workplace challenges, both before they enter the workplace and during employment.

Interested in checking out any of these titles? Email us at cedir@indiana.edu or use worldcat.org to find them in a library near you.

Act it out!: Social skills for teens with autism spectrum disorder and related disorders

Act it out!: Social skills for teens with autism spectrum disorder and related disorders is a 232-page guide to social skills lessons for teens in secondary schools. Written for parents, teachers, speech-language pathologists, and other professionals by a special educator and autism consultant, the book offers unique lessons that will break down complex social behaviors into steps that can be more easily managed.

The book begins with an extensive introduction covering some of the research and best practices on teaching social skills in addition to the components of the book and the way the units are structured. There are 16 units that are comprised of several different activities including warm-ups, explanations, quizzes, skits, discussions, and review. The units cover basic social skills such as self-introduction, conversation skills, apologies, negotiation, response to teasing, and more. After every two units, it is suggested to give students an opportunity to get out in the community to practice the skills that were learned. and after every four units is a review section to help reinforce what was covered.

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

Curriculum Materials and Programs

Looking for curricular materials for students on the autism spectrum? The folks at IRCA have made your search a little bit easier! An article has been published that offers a list of instructional materials and programs in subjects ranging from math to living skills.

View the article and the listing at:
https://www.iidc.indiana.edu/pages/curriculum-materials-and-programs-for-individuals-on-the-autism-spectrum

QUEST Program II: Social skills curriculum for middle school students with autism

Quest Program II is a social skills program created to help middle school students with autism who struggle with social skills and pragmatic language. Developed by a school social worker and speech language pathologist, the program uses an intensive, proactive approach to teaching social skills, combining written instruction with games, activities, and student interaction. -book description

Want to check it out? Email us at cedir@indiana.edu.

Curriculum Materials and Programs for Individuals on the Autism Spectrum

Looking for curriculum materials for students on the spectrum? The Indiana Resource Center for Autism has updated its article on the subject and posted it online. It contains a listing of examples of curriculum and programs that could be used to teach subjects ranging from math to living skills.

Want to look it over? Please visit:
http://www.iidc.indiana.edu/index.php?pageId=3712

Socially savvy: An assessment and curriculum guide for young children

The purpose of Socially Savvy is to provide an assessment and tracking tool, based on the principles of Applied Behavior Analysis (ABA), for the social skills of young children, as well as a guide for interventions. It focuses on the social skills that are important for a child preparing to transition into kindergarten.

Want to check it out? Email us at cedir@indiana.edu.

Mobile App Monday - Skill Champ

Skill Champ uses your child's interests to teach new skills. Quickly customize any of the 10 lessons with your child's favorite theme - so you can use sailboats to teach numbers or train signs to teach colors. Every Skill Champ lesson is based on best practice autism strategies and includes a printable curriculum so that your child can practice the skills on AND off the iPad.

Want to learn more about it? Please visit:
https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/skill-champ/id917542124?mt=8

The intensive phonological awareness (IPA) program

Transform struggling readers into successful readers with the intensive phonological awareness (IPA) program. This supplemental Tier 2 curriculum is the ideal way to deliver systematic, intensive phonological awareness instruction to students in Grades K–2, whether they have language impairments or just need extra help with literacy skills. Developed by SLPs, this proven program helps you sharpen struggling students' phonological awareness skills through focused, small-group lessons that take just 30 minutes each.

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

The incredible flexible you: A social thinking curriculum for the preschool and early elementary years

The Incredible Flexible You is a dynamic, developmental, Social Thinking and social emotional learning curriculum for children ages 4-7. It combines colorful storybooks, detailed lesson guides, parent involvement, and a music CD to teach children with and without social challenges to improve their social-emotional problem solving skills, allowing them to become better social thinkers.

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

Peer Mentoring: Learning Together

Looking for an interactive curriculum for students who want to be involved in the inclusion of students with disabilities in their schools? The Center for Community Living and Careers at Indiana Institute on Disability and Community has one free for those who live in Indiana.

For more information on this curriculum, please visit:
http://bit.ly/1AluJIJ

Seeing red: An anger management and anti-bullying curriculum for kids

Designed especially for use with small groups, Seeing Red enables participants to learn from and empower one another. Its unique group process helps children and teens build important developmental objectives such as leadership skills (taking initiative, presenting in front of the group), social skills (taking turns, active listening), and building self-esteem (problem solving, interacting with peers). -book description

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

A complete ABA curriculum for individuals on the autism spectrum with a developmental age of 1-4 Years

A complete ABA curriculum for individuals on the autism spectrum with a developmental age of 1-4 years is a comprehensive, evidence-based ABA curriculum that contains everything needed to teach foundational level skills such as appropriate sitting, attention, eye contact, motor skills, basic receptive and expressive language skills, play and basic skills of daily living. The book guides professionals step-by-step through using ABA task analyses to teach over 140 different foundational skills. Uniquely to this program, the task analyses can be individualized to meet the needs and interests of the child, and instructions are given on how to do this. -from the book description

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

A couple of things...

Need help identifying curricula that would be helpful to use with children on the spectrum? The folks at IRCA just made it easier. They have put together a list of curriculum materials and programs "ranging from math to living skills." Have a look at:
http://www.iidc.indiana.edu/index.php?pageId=3712

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Do you have a budding artist who is on the spectrum? The group HANDS in Autism® is looking for submissions to be displayed at the Art Splash Gallery in Carmel, IN, on August 30th. All proceeds will be used to support scholarships and programming for individuals with Autism Spectrum Disorder and their caregivers. For more information, please visit:
https://handsinautism.iupui.edu/conferences.html#.U-DbzfldVyx

Curriculum Guide for Autism Using Rapid Prompting Method

Curriculum Guide to Autism using Rapid Prompting Method is a syllabus guide for teaching individuals on the spectrum. The syllabus is prepared through careful consultation of different curricula used in schools. The book includes 10 teaching plans in English, 10 in social sciences and 10 in science. It also includes twenty examples of sensory activities in mathematics teaching.

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

Social skills program

Making friends, preK-3: A social skills program for inclusive settings is the second edition of Ruth Herron Ross and Beth Roberts' Wanna play? (Corwin ©2006). The book features lots of games and activities that can be linked to IEP goals for kids with disabilities. It targets topics such as safety and regulating emotions and can also be used with kids without disabilities.

Interested? Send us an email at cedir@indiana.edu to check out this title, or try worldcat.org to find it in a library near you.

Trainman: Gaining Acceptance... and Friends... Through Special Interests

Fascinations play an important part of the lives of children with autism. Trainman: Gaining acceptance... and friends... through special interests is a book about one such fascination: trains and maps. This book is about one boy's isolation in school at the start. After explaining autism to his classmates, understanding and acceptance follow.

To check out this title, send us an email at cedir@indiana.edu. Or you can try using worldcat.org to find it in a library near you.

Pedro's Whale

Written by Paula Kluth and Patrick Schwarz, Pedro's Whale is a book about fascinations. A young boy with autism is told to put away his favorite toy on the first day of school, but the teacher soon realizes that to use Pedro's whale and build a curriculum around it, not only helps Pedro learn, it also helps the whole class understand Pedro's fascination. When the students begin to share Pedro's love of whales, they also learn to embrace Pedro as a friend.

Interested? Send us an email at cedir@indiana.edu to check out this title. Or use worldcat.org to find the book in a library near you.

Families with special needs and worship

Looking for a resource designed to meet the spiritual needs of families with special needs? Don't feel comfortable in a traditional religious setting? The curriculum, Rhythms of grace: Worship and faith formation for children and families with special needs may be just what you're looking for. The program, designed specifically to support children on the spectrum, is a once-monthly gospel-based program for any child with special needs. It is centered around the Eucharist and was developed in an Episcopal church but is appropriate for everyone.

Interested in checking out this title? Email us at cedir@indiana.edu, or try worldcat.org to find it in a library near you.

Self-Advocacy Curriculum

The Integrated Self-Advocacy (ISA) Curriculum by Valerie Paradiz is a curriculum designed for educators and service providers, families and people with Autism who are interested in supporting greater autonomy in decision-making, vocational planning, self-regulation and more from the person-centered planning perspective.

This curriculum is geared towards students in middle school through high school, as well as adults, however throughout the Teachers Manual, you will find icons that signify helpful hints for modifying the lessons for elementary school students, nonverbal and partially verbal students as well as other disability groups.

This curriculum is made up of a Teacher's Manual and a Student Workbook, and focuses on topics such as defining self-advocacy, learning how to articulate thoughts and feelings, background information about Autism, teaching students how to understand and interpret their surroundings as well as practical advice for becoming involved in their IEP and understanding how the ADA will affect their life.

Interested? Call us at 812-855-9396. Not a Hoosier? Find it at a Library near you.

Social & Emotional Learning Curriculum

Social and emotional learning is a big part of what it takes for children to succeed in school and in life. Strong Start is a curriculum to help develop social-emotional competence in students from preschool through high school. Divided into five different age-appropriate texts, these curricula are easy for non-mental health experts to use, evidence-based, brief enough to fit into any program, and effective for all children in any setting.

• Strong Start, Pre-K
• Strong Start, K-2
• Strong Kids, Grades 3-5
• Strong Kids, Grades 6-8
• Strong Teens, Grades 9-12
  
  
  

Interested in checking some out? Contact us.

Not an Indiana resident? Check Worldcat for options near you.