Thinksheets for teaching social thinking and related skills

Thinksheets for teaching social thinking and related skills consists of 250 worksheets specifically designed to offer lessons in teaching social thinking. The worksheets help to create a lesson plan, defining how to break down concepts for students to explore and they can used directly with students. The worksheets can be copied and sent to parents and other professionals to give an idea of what the student is learning and how to carry the concept over in their own environments. Each worksheet page is coded for the recommended age group it targets.

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

Superflex takes on Brain Eater and the team of unthinkables

Got a kid who is having a hard time staying on task? Third to 5th graders will enjoy Superflex takes on Brain Eater and the team of unthinkables. In it, the Social Thinking superhero takes on his nemesis Brain Eater, who distracts kids from doing their everyday tasks, like getting ready for school or listening in class. By using his Social Thinking strategies and his tool, the Superflex Distractor Shield, he is able to defeat Brain Eater, while also teaching the students invaluable strategies for defeating their own Brain Eaters!

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

Social Town Citizens Discover 82 New Unthinkables for Superflex to Outsmart!

Social Town Citizens Discover 82 New Unthinkables for Superflex to Outsmart! is the latest edition in the Superflex series, for 3rd through 5th graders. It is a compilation work that introduces 82 new Unthinkables and 14 new Thinkables submitted by Social Town citizens of all ages, which have been edited and expanded upon by Stephanie Madrigal and Michelle Garcia Winner. Unthinkables and Thinkables are grouped by theme/category for easy reference by student or adult, and each entry includes the character's power, related information about its characteristics, and strategies to defeat the Unthinkable or bolster a Thinkables' help. -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 - Tic Toc Time

Know a child who is having trouble learning how to tell time? Tic Toc Time might be the app for you. Six different games and more than a dozen different languages are available to help children learn the important skill of time-telling.

Want to learn more about it? Please visit:
https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/tic-toc-time-break-down-day/id647783374?mt=8

Challenging the myths of autism: New perspectives, new strategies, new hope

Provocative and meticulously researched, Challenging the Myths of Autism looks at the most prevalent fallacies, explains how they developed, examines why dispelling them matters and, most importantly, sets out a new understanding that will change the way parents and professionals view autism. With examples from his own practice, Alderson charts a whole new realm of possibilities for treatment and research. -book description

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

Mobile App Monday - Avaz Lite - AAC App for Autism

Avaz Lite is a FREE AAC app for children who are non-verbal, or who have difficulty with speech or language. Avaz has received top international awards, including being on MIT’s list of Top 35 Innovations, and is the subject of a TED talk.

Avaz allows you to create a vocabulary of photographs and voice recordings to help kids create messages. It comes with 3 research-based, graded vocabularies, and a Core Words set that will help a child begin to communicate. These have been designed to facilitate spontaneous novel utterance generation, encouraging a child to use language, and generalize from it.

Want to know more about it? Please visit:
https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/avaz-lite-version-aac-app/id838037460?mt=8

Happy 4th of July!

In observance of our Independence Day holiday, the library will close at noon today and will re-open on Monday, July 7th.

Have a fun and safe holiday!