Mobile App Monday - ABC Food

Got a picky eater? Want to explore new foods with them?

"Honored to have been selected as a Parents' Choice Award winner.
Children's Technology Review Editor's Choice Award for Excellence in Design.

Expose your child to the exciting world of Food! Our award-winning ABC Series teaches children new words through sight, sound & touch. Let them chop celery, cook pasta, slice strawberries & more through beautiful pictures, lively videos, and interactive scenes." -iTunes

For more information, please visit:
https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/id460479661

Visual supports for people with autism

Visual supports for people with autism offers teachers, parents, and service providers a practical guide to making visual supports--any pictorial, graphic, or scheduling aid. These aids often help people with autism learn academic subjects, daily living and self-help skills. Strategies for using visual supports are also included.

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

The Indiana Resource Center for Autism also offers a collection of visual supports on their website. Please visit:
http://www.iidc.indiana.edu/pages/visualsupports

Summer 2016 Camps and Programs

Already looking for a listing of summer camps? The folks at the Indiana Resource Center for Autism have compiled a list of camps and programs that will be running this year. The list is lengthy and includes a couple of camps outside of Indiana as well.

To find the entire list, please visit:
http://www.iidc.indiana.edu/pages/summer-camps-and-programs

Autism in Love

The Institute’s Indiana Resource Center for Autism and Center on Community Living and Careers, along with WTIU Bloomington and the City of Bloomington, are sponsoring a viewing of the documentary film Autism in Love on Saturday, April 23, 2016 starting at 2:30 pm in the City Council Chambers, Bloomington. This highly acclaimed, insightful, and touching documentary, directed by Matt Fuller, brings awareness to the challenges of dating and love for people who have an autism spectrum disorder. Autism in Love is simultaneously sorrowful and heart wrenching while also encouraging and hopeful. It’s a raw, sometimes emotional look into the lives of four people with ASD who share their frustrations, pain, and successes in trying to find, date, love, and connect to someone understands and appreciates them.

Special Guests Lindsey Nebeker and Dave Hamrick, a couple featured in Autism in Love, will answer questions following the film. Questions and answers with Ms. Nebeker and Mr. Hamrick will follow at 4:00 p.m. Light refreshments will be served.

Educators, family members, parents, caregivers, and adults with ASD should plan to attend. The Indiana Institute on Disability and Community is committed to providing equal access to this event for all participants. If you have questions about accessibility or have a request for alternative formats or other accommodations, contact Lisa Bidwell (lbidwell@indiana.edu) at (812) 855-6481 with your request at least three weeks in advance of the event. Deadline for an accommodations request for this workshop is April 1, 2016. For questions about film content, contact Melissa Dubie at mdubie@indiana.edu or call (812) 855-6508.

This event is FREE, but seating is limited. Please register online at
http://go.iu.edu/197T

Executive Function Workshop

Executive Function Workshop

Presented by 

Brenda Smith Myles, Ph.D.

April 11, 2016 - Indianapolis, IN

Sponsored by
Indiana Resource Center for Autism
In Collaboration with the MSD of Lawrence Township

The newly defined 21st Century Skills recognized the importance of executive function skills to life success. Deficits in executive functioning mean students struggle with planning, being organized, following multi-step directions, time management, combining information from several sources to problem solve, and their working memory, among other things. The multiple aspects of executive function challenges that impact home, school, community, and employment will be described with examples that relate to each of these environments. In addition, the speaker will describe evidence-based interventions and supports that can be implemented to help individuals on the spectrum develop and use the diverse skills known as executive function.

For more information and to register, please visit:
http://www.iidc.indiana.edu/pages/executive-function-workshop

Take charge of treatment for your Asperger child

Take charge of treatment for your Asperger child offers you "the knowledge and tools to become an effective case manager for your child, this book provides straightforward, practical instructions to create a comprehensive guide to your child's unique ASD profile. The individualized guide will:

- Provide information about your child's unique profile for anyone who needs it
- Serve as a toolbox and teaching template for your child's teachers and support team, with effective strategies to use with him or her
- Be an instruction booklet for your child, helping him or her to thrive at home, school and in the community
- Act as a case management road map to help you support your child and collaborate with teachers and service providers.

The book includes checklists and worksheets, which can also be accessed online, so that you can easily create a personalized guide for your child with autism aged 5-14." -publisher

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

Autism spectrum disorder in mid and later life

"Including a range of personal, academic and clinical perspectives, [Autism spectrum disorder in mid and later life] considers historical and contemporary perspectives on autism, including diagnosis, developmental outcomes and life course issues. Attention is given to medical, care and psychological issues that arise as people with ASD age, such as declining cognitive function and speech and communication issues. Family, community support, housing, advocacy, and socio-cultural considerations for older adults with ASD are also given careful consideration, and there are chapters on relationship and sexuality issues and on environmental design." -publisher

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