Parent Resource Books

Embracing Play Video

Teaching Your Child with Autism

Developed by Hilary Baldi and Deanne Detmers
Produced by Behavioral Intervention Association

Playing is the doorway for a parent and young child with autism to connect and communicate. And this video gives parents a way to open that doorway.

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$34.95

We were so impressed with the quality and practicality of Embracing Play that for the first time, Woodbine House adds a video to our Special-Needs Collection. Embracing Play teaches parents how to keep a child with autism engaged through what comes naturally to most children---play. Playing is the doorway for a parent and young child with autism to connect and communicate. And this video gives parents a way to open that doorway. For a child with autism, interactions with people and objects such as toys can be very difficult or atypical. This video is an ideal tool for parents of newly diagnosed children waiting to begin a formal program such as ABA or for parents and therapists who want to supplement an ongoing course of therapy.

Embracing Play shows dozens of play sessions between parent or professional and child. Using a technique called “Object Focused Play,” developed by the Behavioral Intervention Association, the video teaches parents how to use toys to capture a child’s attention and initiate learning. Very easy-to-follow, these scenes allow parents to replicate the same play activities at home, and begin to help their child interact with people and objects in their surrounding environment.

Embracing Play opens up new avenues of interaction and learning for children with autism. The benefits of these play skills pave the way for communication and social development.

NEW!
The New Language of Toys

Teaching Communication Skills to Children with Special Needs
A Guide for Parents and Teachers
Third Edition

Sue Schwartz, Ph.D.

$18.95

2004 iParenting Media Award Winner

Many young children with special needs experience language delays and need additional help to build language skills. What better way to encourage communication development than through play? The completely updated third edition of THE NEW LANGUAGE OF TOYS, a perennial favorite of parents, speech-language pathologists, and early interventionists, offers a plan for doing just that.

The new edition presents sixty-five new toys and accompanying toy dialogs to use with children with a wide range of special needs from birth through age six. These sample toy dialogs show parents how to play purposefully with their child--using store-bought and homemade toys--to provide language learning opportunities and stimulate language development. The exercises are fun and educational, too, as parents help their child build receptive language skills (understanding), expressive language skills (communicating), and speech.

THE NEW LANGUAGE OF TOYS is organized by language developmental ages and each section includes:

toy dialogs
numerous photographs
a toy list
a list of suggested vocabulary and communication concepts
children’s book bibliography
a checklist to track progress

With THE NEW LANGUAGE OF TOYS, parents can help their children make gains in their language development and have an enjoyable and rewarding experience while doing it. It’s also a great tool for collaboration between parents and professionals.

Shelley, the Hyperactive Turtle, Second Edition

Written by Deborah Moss
Illustrated by Carol Schwartz

$14.95

The story follows Shelley through some bumpy times at school, on the bus, and with other kids. His worried mother takes him to the doctor, where she and Shelley answer a lot of questions about his behavior, and he plays with puzzles and blocks—-activities that a child would typically experience during an AD/HD evaluation. After Shelley is diagnosed, the doctor recommends therapy and medication to help control his AD/HD.

Shelley, the Hyperactive Turtle continues to be a popular, reassuring story for young children who are going through the diagnostic process or who are having problems behaving at school or making friends because of AD/HD.

Complete curriculum grade 1-5
Real World Social Skills pci $69.95

Coming soon

REAL-WORLD SOCIAL SKILLS
Teaches Appropriate Social Interactions.

Real-World Social Skills, by Pat Crissey, covers everyday social situations and issues that students encounter in school and at home. This 250-page curriculum includes lessons, interactive group and partner activities, role-plays, and reproducible activity sheets that help students learn positive behaviors. Can be used for small or large groups.

FEATURES
Each unit begins with an illustrated mini-poster that reinforces the featured social skill. An overview of the unit follows and includes lists of suggested children’s books and other resources that address the social skill. Activities include discussion starters and interactive simulations of real-world situations. Reproducible sheets reinforce these activities.

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Personal Success Book $39.00

Personal Success Book

75 Illustrated Step-by-step.
personal care activities

Objective: Reinforce Hygiene, dressing and personal care skills.
For special education students, grades 2 and up.

This book of illustrations covers essential areas: Personal care for men and women, dressing for success, clothing care and people skills. Each features social skill and step-by-step pages, all reproducible. Social skill pages use an adult-format comic scenarios like dressing appropriately, or controlling anger. It covers 53 activities, providing separate sections for men and women. Spiral bound,142 pgs., 1999

Community Success Attn $39.00

Community Success

An illustrated encyclopedia showing commonplace community activities step-by-step and the social skills needed for the activities. Gives students a chance to review outings, like shopping at a department store, using restrooms, crossing streets. Covers 60 activities with 1600 reproducible illustrations. Activities are organized by category: At home, shopping, eating out, appointments, going places and money matters. Includes an assessment component. 177 pgs., spiralbound, 1997.

WHY ARE YOU CALLING ME LD?

Student Workbook $7.95

Teachers binder $39.95

It is also an excellent parent and teacher resource

Newly updated, this popular resource helps students learn the meaning of the term 'learning disability.' The student workbook includes short chapters, followed by activities that help students better understand themselves and their strengths. By focusing on positive individual traits, the student workbook helps students improve their self-concept. The program now includes a teacher's binder with suggested lesson plans, extension activities, additional reproducible worksheets, and reproducible assessments.

Famous people with learning differences
One of the features of the student workbook is short, easy-to-read biographies and photographs of well-known people who achieved success by overcoming their learning differences. Celebrities from film, music, sports, science, politics, and more are featured, including Tom Cruise, Robin Williams, Whoopi Goldberg, Babe Ruth, Thomas Edison, Albert Einstein, Woodrow Wilson, and Winston Churchill.

Student Workbook
The consumable student workbook is designed to look like a small novel (5 1/2"x 8 1/2") so that students feel comfortable reading it. The short chapters are written with respect and understanding to individuals with learning differences. Each of the chapters is followed by a self-exploration activity that encourages readers to make personal connections with the text and express their own feelings about the subject.

Teacher's Binder $39.95
This 100-page binder, a new addition to the program, has a lesson plan that corresponds with each chapter in the student workbook to help teachers engage students in interactive discussions on each topic. Extension activities are also included. Reproducible activity pages promote reading comprehension, written expression, and problem-solving skills. Assessments for each chapter include matching, multiple-choice, and short-answer questions. appropriate for many audiences pci