ASD Educational Resources - Recently Updated Pages

SI - Junior/Senior High

lorelea — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 17:37:16 CDT

Name of resource	Brief description	Web site	Review
Mind Reading: The interactive guide to emotions	This DVD (developed by Simon Baren Cohen's research group in Cambridge) explores over 400 emotions by seeing and hearing each one performed by six different people. Originally designed for ASD students aged 4 to adult, it is now used by actors and others.	http://www.jkp.com/mindreading/
Thinking about You, Thinking about Me, 2nd edition (2007)	For ages K-adulthood, this foundational book introduces social thinking for teaching social interaction. Teaching perspective taking and social thinking to persons with social cognitive learning challenges.	www.socialthinking.com
Think Social! A Social Thinking Curriculum for School-Aged Students 2nd ed (2008)	Think Social! provides methods for teaching social thinking to students who have high-functioning autism, Asperger's Syndrome and ADHD, and all others, diagnosed and undiagnosed, with social-thinking challenges.	www.socialthinking.com

SI - Elementary

lorelea — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 17:31:58 CDT

Name of resource	Brief description	Web site	Review
Mind Reading: The interactive guide to emotions	This DVD (developed by Simon Baren Cohen's research group in Cambridge) explores over 400 emotions by seeing and hearing each one performed by six different people. Originally designed for ASD students aged 4 to adult, it is now used by actors and others. (See also The transporters on the Early Years page).	http://www.jkp.com/mindreading/
Thinking About YOU Thinking About ME, 2nd Edition (2007)	For ages K-adulthood, this foundational book introduces social thinking for teaching social interaction. Teaching perspective taking and social thinking to persons with social cognitive learning challenges.	www.socialthinking.com
Think Social! A Social Thinking Curriculum for School-Age Students (2nd edition, 2008)	Think Social! provides methods for teaching social thinking to students who have high-functioning autism, Asperger's Syndrome and ADHD, and all others, diagnosed and undiagnosed, with social-thinking challenges.	www.socialthinking.com

Books

JanetWebster — Sat, 18 Apr 2009 22:34:42 CDT

This section is intended for professional books that you have found useful.

Author (surname/first name)	Title	ISBN	Comments
Myles Smith, Brenda et al.	Asperger syndrome and sensory issues	0-9672514-7-8	Provides useful information on sensory processing
Attwood, Tony	Asperger's syndrome: A guide for parents and professionals

ASD Educational Resources Home

JanetWebster — Sat, 18 Apr 2009 22:17:59 CDT

Come and help me create a site for teachers in international schools to find out about teaching resources for social-interpersonal and communication skills for students with ASD.

Wiki organization

I've organized the wiki by the 2 major areas that challenge students with ASD: Social-interpersonal skills and Communication skills. Under those major headings, there are 3 sub-headings that relate to age groups: Early years, Elementary and Junior/Senior High. I thought this would be a good way to cut down on searching time for busy educators: you can just access the pages of the skill area you are interested in and for a particular age group. Each page is set up so you can see at a glance the name of the resource, a brief description, the website address, and a review. This can be a very valuable addition to our collective professional knowledge - to get the goods on the resource directly from the horse's mouth (so to speak!) rather than having to rely on the publisher's blurb.

I've also added a page for professional books. This is where you can identify books that have been useful in helping you understand the challenges of ASD and of working with students and/or their parents.

Currently, the last major heading is Wish List. This is a page where you can identify the kind of resources/materials you wish were available. Maybe another colleague will get busy and fill the gap!

Clearly, this wiki will only be useful if we take the time to add contributions. I'll start the ball rolling and invite a bunch of special educators I know in international schools to keep it going. Pass the news along and rope in as many people as you can.

Email address: janet@janetbwebster.com Website: www.janetbwebster.com

Wish List

JanetWebster — Fri, 17 Apr 2009 19:21:35 CDT

On this page, you can identify resources or materials you would find useful in teaching either social-interpersonal or communication skills to students with ASD. I'm making the assumption that you have checked out the other pages in this wiki and have also surfed the Net to see if what you want is available. If you can't find what you need, then this is the place to identify what you want. Someone else may know about a resource that might be useful or some of us might get busy and start creating materials.

Wish	Age range	Why I want this	Name and school	Email

Junior/Senior High

JanetWebster — Fri, 17 Apr 2009 19:11:42 CDT

Name of resource	Brief description	Web site	Review

Elementary

JanetWebster — Fri, 17 Apr 2009 19:11:27 CDT

Name of resource	Brief description	Web site	Review

Early years

JanetWebster — Fri, 17 Apr 2009 19:11:06 CDT

Name of resource	Brief description	Web site	Review

SI- Early years

JanetWebster — Fri, 17 Apr 2009 18:54:52 CDT

Name of resource	Brief description	Web site	Review
The Transporters	DVD of toy vehicles with human faces and emotions aimed at helping young children (aged 4 to 8) understand their own emotions and to 'read' the emotions displayed on faces of others.	http://www.thetransporters.com/ http://www.thetransporters.com/researchvid.html (Simon Baron Cohen on UTube talking about the transporters with examples from the DVD).

Social-interpersonal skills

JanetWebster — Fri, 17 Apr 2009 18:38:53 CDT

Students with ASD have difficulties with social interactions. This can range from the acquisition and use of conventional social skills (knowing when to say Hi and Bye), to entering and exiting a group, to establishing and maintaining friendships. The kind of difficulty and its intensity differs with each student and can change as they mature and face increased demands for social competency. Assisting students with ASD to develop social-interpersonal skills is important for their emotional well-being and their mental health. Students who find it difficult to connect with others and who do not learn friendship-making skills are prone to increase anxiety and depression as they grow older. As adults, deficits in social-interpersonal skills can affect many aspects of their lives especially their job opportunities and job satisfaction and their personal and intimate relationships.

Communication

JanetWebster — Fri, 17 Apr 2009 18:20:36 CDT

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