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Growing Up Together: A Booklet About Friends With Autism
What Does it Mean to Have Autism? Children with autism think differently and act differently because their brains work ...
Source: Autism Society
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Living With Autism: Life After High School
One of the most challenging times for individuals with autism and their families is when they must transition from the ...
Source: Autism Society
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Living With Autism: Stress on Families
Stress - something parents in general are all too familiar with. There is the physical stress from carpools, preparing ...
Source: Autism Society
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Promoting Friendships for Preschool Children with Special Needs
Preschool children with special needs often face difficulties in social-emotional development. Here's how teachers and ...
Source: NYU Child Study Center
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Social Cognition: What Is It and What Does It Tell Us About How to Teach?
Understanding how a person learns is essential to understanding how to teach. If a math teacher asks a student to ...
Source: Autism Society
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Social Stories, Social Scripts and the Power Card Strategy
Social Scripts, Social StoriesTM (Gray, 2000) and the Power Card Strategy (Gagnon, 2001) are three types of social ...
Source: Autism Society
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Making Sense of the Hidden Curriculum
Lavoie (cited in Bieber, 1994) described the “hidden curriculum” as important social skills that everyone ...
Source: Autism Society
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Strategies to Help Children with Autism Cope with Social Situations
Social stories and picture activity schedules are two relatively new and promising interventions for students with ...
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Social and Emotional Development in Children with Autism
According to the National Research Council (2001), children with autism have major difficulties in both their social ...
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Characteristics of Students with Autism Spectrum Disorders
Although autism is like most of the other low-incidence disabilities in that it can exist in many variations, from mild ...
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Strategies to Help Children with Autism Cope with Social Situations and Increase their Independence in the Classroom
Social stories and picture activity schedules are two relatively new and promising interventions for students with...
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Growing Up Together: Teens With Autism
When you’re a teenager you find your unique identity and figure out your relationship to the world and to others. When...
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Integrated Play Groups: Using a Social-Constructivist Approach
Pam Wolfberg (1999, 2003) has designed a curriculum for encouraging play between peers with and without autism spectrum...
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On the Road to Adulthood: You've Gotta Be a Social Thinker
By now you are an older teen or young adult and you’ve started to consider what you want to do with the rest of your...
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Developing Social Skills Programming: Changing Barriers into Strategies and Tactics
People with autism spectrum disorders (ASD) frequently exhibit social skill problems that impact their imediate quality...
Source: Autism Society
