Stay cool and in control with the keep-calm guru

Stay cool and in control with the keep-calm guru is a 136-page guide for kids ages 7 to 14 years old. This winner of the Mom's Choice Award-Gold Seal offers strategies to guide children in the art of staying cool and in control in the face of overwhelming feelings. It will teach children to recognize and cope with anxiety, anger, frustration, and other difficult emotion using everything from yoga poses and pressure holds, to deep breathing and relaxing coloring activities.

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

Something different about dad: How to live with your amazing Asperger parent

Something different about dad: How to live with your amazing Asperger parent is a 152-page book written for children ages 7 to 15 years who have a parent on the autism spectrum. Written in a fun comic-book style, Sophie tells the story of her dad, Mark, and the journey their family took in order to understand Mark's differences better. Mark has some quirks. He does not like noisy family gatherings, gets upset when his family is late for dinner, and REALLY prefers things to be neat and clean. But he also has some really good quirks, too. Mark is always on time to pick Sophie and her brother, Daniel, up from school, he has a vast knowledge of engines and how they work, and then there is his obsession with buses.

In between the chapters of Sophie's story, the author and illustrator of the book explain to Sophie the aspects of asperger syndrome that make Mark different and offer ways to begin to understand situations when tempers may flare and what to do to remedy the situation.

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Big Red and the Little Bitty Wolf: A Story about Bullying

Big Red and the Little Bitty Wolf is for children in preschool through 3rd grade and is appropriate for bullying awareness. It is written by a licensed professional counselor and published by Magination Press, an imprint of the American Psychology Association and is beautifully illustrated by an Indiana University alumna. The illustrations fill most of the pages to keep young ones’ interest in the story.

The book starts off by talking about how Little Bitty Wolf used to love taking the path through the forest to go to school until Big Red moved into the neighborhood. Big Red began to terrorize Little Bitty by teasing and taunting him and pulling his tail. His teacher noticed Little Bitty’s sadness and asked him to go talk to the school counselor who gave him a different suggestion to use with Big Red. Life for Little Bitty got a whole lot better after that. A note to parents and caregivers at the end of the book discusses ways to use the book and common warning signs to look for when a child is being bullied. It also points out warning signs for when a child may be the bully.

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Strategies for a Successful Mealtime

Strategies for a successful mealtime offers parents, caregivers, and teachers help and hope for making mealtimes more successful for children on the autism spectrum with eating difficulties. Written by a speech/language pathologist with almost four decades of experience working with children with a variety of disabilities, this 132-page book details a program that can help children with a sensory-motor disorder overcome their aversions to the use of utensils and textures of foods.

The book covers typical feeding development from birth along with the oral movement components that make feeding possible and causes for concern at each stage of development. It then goes on to discuss how the senses are involved with feeding and introduces activities or play that can help desensitize children to the process of eating. A chapter on creating your child's treatment plan and one on sensory activities to do in the home or school precedes the conclusion chapter. Further resources, appendices, and a glossary of terms can be found at the end of the book.

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Building social relationships 2

"Building Social Relationships-2 (BSR-2) provides readers with a conceptualized framework that will improve their understanding of social functioning in youth on the autism spectrum. The book will teach readers how to assess and teach social skills and activate social cognitive processing in both children and adolescents. BSR-2 contains over 40 instructional strategies and includes a revised version of the Autism Social Skills Profile (ASSP-2), an instrument designed to measure social competence in youth on the spectrum." -publisher

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Finding your own way to grieve: A creative activity workbook for kids and teens on the autism spectrum

"With illustrations throughout, Finding your own way to grieve begins with a simple story about what happens when people die. Each chapter then expands on the issues that have been raised in the story and offers a variety of coping skills exercises including writing, art and craft, cooking, movement, relaxation, and remembrance activities. Encouraging children with autism to express their loss through discussion, personal reflection, and creative activity, the book is ideal for children and teens to work through by themselves, or with the support of a family member or professional." -publisher

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rain reign

In Rain Reign, "Rose Howard [a fifth grader with Asperger's] is obsessed with homonyms. She's thrilled that her own name is a homonym, and she purposely gave her dog Rain a name with two homonyms (Reign, Rein), which, according to Rose's rules of homonyms, is very special. Not everyone understands Rose's obsessions, her rules, and the other things that make her different – not her teachers, not other kids, and not her single father.

When a storm hits their rural town, rivers overflow, the roads are flooded, and Rain goes missing. Rose's father shouldn't have let Rain out. Now Rose has to find her dog, even if it means leaving her routines and safe places to search." -publisher

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Mobile App Monday - Avaz Lite

Avaz Lite is an AAC app that provides a voice for children with Autism. Avaz allows children with Autism and complex communication needs to use an extensive list of core words and research-based vocabulary to maximize their communications and express emotion. Designed for children with Autism, Avaz helps improve communications through interactive speech therapy sessions, all through touch on your iPad.

Learn more about this app at:
https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/id909574843

The survival guide for making and being friends

The survival guide for making and being friends can help kids improve their social skills so they can better enjoy the benefits of friendship. Practical advice covers everything from breaking the ice to developing friendships to overcoming problems. True-to-life vignettes, “what would you do?” scenarios, voluminous examples, quizzes to test learning, “Try This” assignments for practicing techniques, and advice from real kids make this an accessible life-skills handbook. -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.

Mobile App Monday - Yes/No Questions

Looking for help with teaching children to answer yes/no questions? Yes/No Questions offers five levels of questions beginning with simple questions and continuing to complex questions and comparing two objects.

Want to learn more about it? Please visit:
https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/id827141234

Sesame Street and Autism

Sesame Street is proud to partner with autism organizations throughout the country to embark on a nationwide initiative, “See Amazing in All Children.”

Our goal is to reduce stigma by celebrating the commonalities and differences among all children, while supporting families of children with autism through resources that reduce the stress of everyday routines.

Because every child is unique. Every child is amazing.

Sign up to find out more at:
http://www.sesameworkshop.org/autism/

The ASD zoo of Kalamazoo

The ASD Zoo of Kalamazoo is an illustrated, rhyming children's book that connects the characteristics of various zoo animals to the major social skills characteristics of children with autism spectrum disorder. The book demonstrates how these animals exhibit specific characteristics, eccentric behaviors and special needs.

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Growing together across the autism spectrum: A kid's guide to living with, learning from, and loving a parent with autism spectrum disorder

Growing together across the autism spectrum: A kid's guide to living with, learning from, and loving a parent with autismspectrum disorder provides a conversational starting point for families with a parent on the autism spectrum. It is narrated from the perspective of a boy whose father has ASD and a mother who does not, but his thoughts and questions apply equally to other variations of this family structure. This book takes children's feelings of love, confusion, and worry seriously and promotes mutual respect, affection, and accountability among family members.

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

Let's play social story

Looking for a book to help teach social play? Let's play social story can be read often to your child to help with behavior during playtime. The repetitive visuals along with reading to your child will help reinforce the concepts. The book also features "Word Fun" where you can practice saying words and talk about their meaning to help build relevant speech. -from the book description

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Solving Sleep Problems in Children with Autism Spectrum Disorders: A Guide for Frazzled Families

In Solving sleep problems in children with autism spectrum disorders, the authors show parents how to evaluate both daytime and night time habits and routines -- exercise, lighting, caffeine consumption, bedtime preparation, sleep environment -- to identify causes of impaired sleep and make necessary modifications. Parents are then taught to use strategies -- social stories, visual schedules, visual cues, rewards -- to help their child get ready for bed, fall asleep, and stay asleep. -book description

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Superflex Takes on One-Sided Sid, Un-Wonderer and the Team of Unthinkables

Superflex Takes on One-Sided Sid, Un-Wonderer and the Team of Unthinkables is the fourth comic book in the Superflex series, designed to help children learn more about their own social behavior and strategies to regulate it. Individuals should already be familiar with the Superflex Curriculum before reading this book. In this newest comic, children become familiar with several ways to squash the powers of two, related Unthinkable characters: One-Sided Sid, who gets people to talk only about themselves, and his sidekick sister Un-Wonderer, who likes to keep people from thinking about others. This clever duo tries to get students to do or say things that show they're only thinking about themselves and not others. Students learn helpful strategies to regulate their own behaviors when Sid and his sister invade their thinking.

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Programming for children and teens with autism spectrum disorder

Programming for children and teens with autism spectrum disorder is a boon to any library who serves this population, from public to school libraries. The author, who has first-hand knowledge of the topic, has developed a program called Sensory Storytime, a model for reaching children with autism in libraries. The book:

• Provides background information on the disorder to help librarians understand how to program for this special audience
• Features step-by-step programs from librarians across the country, adaptable for both public and school library settings
• Suggests methods for securing funding and establishing partnerships with community organizations

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The Reason I Jump

Book description for The Reason I Jump:
Using an alphabet grid to painstakingly construct words, sentences, and thoughts that he is unable to speak out loud, author Naoki Higashida, a young teenager with autism, answers even the most delicate questions that people want to know. With disarming honesty and a generous heart, Naoki shares his unique point of view on not only autism but life itself.

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A Week of Switching, Shifting, and Stretching

A Week of Switching, Shifting, and Stretching is a picture book that assists children, especially those on the autism spectrum, in thinking more flexibly. Using repeated rhymes and illustrations, children will begin to recognize that the more flexible their thinking is, the better they will be able to cope with the challenges that life presents.

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ASD and Me: Learning about High Functioning Autism Spectrum Disorder

Looking for help explaining autism to your kids on the spectrum? ASD and Me can help. Written for kids diagnosed with Aspergers, PPD-NOS, or autism. Follow along as Eli, a seven year-old boy that has high functioning autism spectrum disorder, explains how he was diagnosed and how ASD affects the way he thinks and interprets the world around him.

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