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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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Helping Students with Cognitive Disabilities Find and Keep a Job
IntroductionThis Technical Assistance Guide is written for those involved in helping students with cognitive ...
Source: National Dissemination Center for Children With Disabilities
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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 ...
Source: Autism Society
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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. ...
Source: Autism Society
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Can Virtual Reality Help Autistic Kids?
Virtual Reality is a realistic simulation of an environment by a computer system. And for some children with autism, ...
Source: Education.com
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Incorporating Behavioral Strategies to Teach Social and Play Skills with Peers
Children with autism are likely to lack the behaviors of initiation and responding to social bids by peers and may need ...
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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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With Open Arms: Creating a Supportive School Community for Kids with Social Challenges
Mark, the beautiful boy with Asperger Syndrome (AS) whose fascination with dinosaurs makes him sound like an expert far...
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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 knows, but...
Source: Autism Society -
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Special Needs Siblings Have Special Needs, Too!
“Help! I will have a house full of relatives this Christmas. I know exactly what will happen and I don’t know what...
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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...
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Social-Emotional Issues in Autism Spectrum Disorders
Qualitative impairments in social interaction is one of the defining characteristics for the diagnosis of Autistic...
