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Teaching Strategies: Education of Children with Attention Deficit Disorder 
Help for general educators and parents who are trying to understand and teach students with ADD. Gives teachers real examples of techniques they can use.
Ages: 1 to 18 Requirements: None |
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Teaching Test-Taking Skills
Gives guidance on different test formats and other criteria of testing.
Ages: 1 to 18 Requirements: None |
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Teamwork Strategy, The
Part of the cooperative strategies series, the teamwork strategy provides a framework for organizing and completing tasks in small work groups.
Ages: 1 to 18 Requirements: None |
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Ten Things Your Student With Autism Wishes You Knew 
"Ellen Notbohm's first book, Ten Things Every Child with Autism Wishes You Knew, was a shot heard throughout the worldwide autism community, branded by readers as "required reading for all social service workers, teachers and relatives of children with autism." Now, for the teacher in all of us comes Ten Things Your Student with Autism Wishes You Knew. The unique perspective of a child's voice is back to help us understand the thinking patterns that guide their actions, shape an environment conducive to their learning style, and communicate with them in meaningful ways. Ten Things Your Student with Autism Wishes You Knew affirms that autism imposes no inherent upper limits on achievement, that both teacher and child "can do it." It's the game plan every educator, parent, or family member needs to make the most of every "teaching moment" in the life of these children we love." From Amazon.com
Ages: 1 to 18 Requirements: None |
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Test-Taking Strategy, The
The test-taking strategy provides an efficient way to markedly improve student performance on classroom tests and is designed to help students allocate time and order of importance to each section of a test, carefully read and focus on important elements in test instructions, utilize other learning strategies in conjunction with this strategy, systematically and quickly progress through a test by selectively answering or abandoning questions, make well-informed guesses and take control of the testing situation through regular use of self-talk and the application of test-wiseness [sic] principles.
Ages: 1 to 18 Requirements: None |
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That's LIFE! Social Language 
Give your students the training in social language skills that will make them effective communicators in a wide variety of situations. This game provides plenty of chances to practice and evaluate social language skill performance.
Ages: 11 to 16 Requirements: None |
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The Autism Spectrum Disorders IEP Companion 
The Autism Spectrum Disorders IEP Companion provides programming guidance for some of the most significant communication, social, and behavioral challenges presented by students with ASD.
The units and the skills addressed are:
Communication - modality, apraxia/motor speech, single words, two-word combinations, echolalia, meaningfulness, asking and answering simple questions, following directions, concept acquisition, understanding verb tenses and personal pronouns, prosody, conversational rules, and ambiguous language
Social Pragmatics - joint attention, turn-taking, initiation, play, topicalization, conversational discourse (e.g., negotiation, persuasion, humor), nonverbal communication, and presupposition
Behavior - attention, noncompliance, task completion, perseveration, stereotypies, disruptive vocalizations, obsessive-compulsive tendencies, aggression, bolting, hygiene, and sleep disturbances
Sensory - proprioceptive, vestibular, visual, auditory, tactile, olfactory, and gustatory
Literacy - preliteracy, phonological awareness, phonics, sight-word recognition, reading fluency, reading comprehension, and written language
Classroom Considerations - management of space, people, curriculum, materials, time, and emotion
Transition - home to school, classroom to classroom, school to school, school to community, and school to work
Each goal has programming suggestions to make teaching visual, concrete, and understandable to children with ASD
Ages: 2 to 18 Requirements: None |
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The Bridge to Braille 
This is a practical, step-by-step guide that will show parents and teachers how to help blind children progress form early literacy experiences all the way to full participation in the classroom.
Ages: 1 to 18 Requirements: None |
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The Complete Idiot's Guide to Learning Sign Language 
You're no idiot, of course. You studied a foreign language, you can give good hand signals to a driver parallel parking, and you know when your boss is in a bad mood based on body language. But when it comes to using sign language, you feel like you're all thumbs. Don't throw up your hands yet! When you finish reading The Complete Idiot's Guide to Learning Sign Language, you'll have enough knowledge of the basic sign handshapes, grammar, and syntax to get started signing by yourself.
Ages: 1 to 18 Requirements: None |
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The Source for Behavior Management in Autism 
Certain characteristics of autism can be used to understand what causes behavior problems in children with autism. This revealing resource takes you through the causes and successful interventions available to help them.
Ages: 1 to 18 Requirements: None |
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The Source for Development of Executive Functions 
Learn the components of, problems in, anatomy, and physiology of executive functions
Understand how brain and executive functions develop and impact the growth of cognitive skills and self-control
Learn the components of executive function disorders associated with each of these disorders:
Autism
Asperger’s Syndrome
Nonverbal Learning Disorder
ADD/ADHD
Fetal Alcohol Syndrome
Tourette’s Syndrome
Williams Syndrome
Fragile X Syndrome
Childhood Traumatic Brain Injury
Learn assessment techniques for executive functions and the characteristics of:
language skill deficits
strengths and weaknesses in current functioning
developmental expectations
the impact of intelligence
Learn the global treatment approaches that benefit the child with executive function deficits
Discover seven variables to consider for a treatment plan
Features
Includes:
list of formal assessment instruments and checklists for informal assessments
strategies, goals, and environmental modifications for the areas of attention, impulsivity and inhibition, self-awareness and self-monitoring, flexibility, goal selection, initiation, and perception and expression of social and environmental cues
helpful information to share with teachers and parents on executive functioning
case study treatment plans
Ages: 1 to 18 Requirements: None |
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The Source for Nonverbal Learning Disorders 
The succinctly written chapter on Helping the Child with NLD at Home provides parents with appropriate information about the nature and significance of NLD, the special challenges they face, and how to take action at home and at school.
Educate your colleagues about NLD and help them make the appropriate classroom accommodations for the student.
Learn how to determine the most appropriate educational placement for the student with NLD.
Includes nine broad strategies for building social skills and specific suggestions tailored for the child with NLD
Learn how NLD sabotages social skill development and how to develop an effective treatment plan.
Implement the treatment strategies and make a meaningful difference in the development and education of the child with NLD.
Identifies the major symptoms of NLD so you can make an appropriate diagnosis
Features
Includes a wealth of useful checklists, anecdotes, methods, and resources
Includes a developmental profile of NLD through the lifespan that clearly shows the homogeneous cluster of signposts at each age
Provides a clear description of the three broad aspects of development in which NLD presents deviations and abnormalities: motoric, visual-spatial-organizational, and social
Includes case studies and descriptions of behaviors that clearly illustrate the traits of the child with NLD
Ages: 1 to 18 Requirements: None |
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Therapy Material Builder
A building tool for creating therapy materials using Unity icons.
Ages: 1 to 18 Requirements: None |
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Things I can say and do (Body parts and clothing) 
The 21 topics are functional and relevant and target appropriate communication and behaviors for the following body parts and articles of clothing:
head neck hair eyes
nose mouth ears arms
hands fingers legs feet
toes swimsuits shirts shoes
mittens and gloves hats and caps scarf coats and jackets
shorts and pants
Pragmatically stimulating web activities motivate students to communicate and interact with family, peers, and teachers
Empowers students to communicate by using the webs at functional and routine times throughout the day
Targets an array of speech and language goals including:
sentence formation turn taking
vocabulary social skills
language grammar
Use with individual students, small groups, and classrooms
Ages: 5 to 18 Requirements: None |
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Things I can say and do (Feelings and Actions) 
The 21 topics are functional and relevant and target appropriate communication and behaviors for the following feelings and activities:
happy mad sad scared sick
tired hungry bored need a break game
birthday morning dinner bedtime hurt
lost home school in trouble weekend
computer time
Pragmatically stimulating web activities motivate students to communicate and interact with family, peers, and teachers
Empowers students to communicate by using the webs at functional and routine times throughout the day
Targets an array of speech and language goals including:
sentence formation turn taking
vocabulary social skills
language grammar
Use with individual students, small groups, and classrooms
Ages: 5 to 18 Requirements: None |
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Things I can say and do (Holidays) 
The 21 topics are functional and relevant and target appropriate communication and behaviors for the following holidays:
Chinese New Year Martin Luther King, Jr. Day Groundhog Day
President’s Day Valentine’s Day St. Patrick’s Day
Easter Passover Cinco De Mayo
Mother’s Day Memorial Day/Veteran’s Day Father’s Day
Fourth of July Labor Day New Year’s Eve/Day
Rosh Hashanah & Yom Kippur Halloween Thanksgiving
Hanukkah Christmas Eve/Day Kwanzaa
Pragmatically stimulating web activities motivate students to communicate and interact with family, peers, and teachers
Empowers students to communicate by using the webs at functional and routine times throughout the day
Targets an array of speech and language goals including:
sentence formation turn taking
vocabulary social skills
language grammar
Use with individual students, small groups, and classrooms
Ages: 5 to 18 Requirements: None |
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Things I can say and do (People and Places) 
The 21 topics are functional and relevant and target appropriate communication and behaviors for the following people and places:
classmates parents teacher friends
someone new my pet a stranger be polite
lunch recess school movies
mall grocery store library park
car restaurant beach zoo
aquarium
Pragmatically stimulating web activities motivate students to communicate and interact with family, peers, and teachers
Empowers students to communicate by using the webs at functional and routine times throughout the day
Targets an array of speech and language goals including:
sentence formation turn taking
vocabulary social skills
language grammar
Use with individual students, small groups, and classrooms
Ages: 5 to 18 Requirements: None |
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Things I can say and do (staying clean and healthy) 
The 21 topics are functional and relevant and target appropriate communication and behaviors for the following situations:
brushing my teeth washing my face fixing my hair
washing my hair taking a shower using deodorant
wearing clean clothes washing my hands cleaning up
exercising eating healthy foods visiting the doctor
visiting the dentist blowing my nose taking medicine
getting enough sleep when I have a cold sneezing appropriately chewing with my mouth closed
coughing appropriately following safety rules
Pragmatically stimulating web activities motivate students to communicate and interact with family, peers, and teachers
Empowers students to communicate by using the webs at functional and routine times throughout the day
Targets an array of speech and language goals including:
sentence formation turn taking
vocabulary social skills
language grammar
Use with individual students, small groups, and classrooms
Ages: 5 to 18 Requirements: None |
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Things I can say and do (weather, seasons, and months) 
The 21 topics are functional and relevant and target appropriate communication and behaviors for the following seasons, months, and types of weather:
when it’s cold when it’s raining when it’s hot
when it’s sunny when it’s snowing fall
winter spring summer
January February March
April May June
July August September
October November December
Pragmatically stimulating activities motivate students to communicate and interact with family, peers, and teachers
Empowers students to communicate by using the webs at functional and routine times throughout the day
Targets an array of speech and language goals including:
sentence formation turn taking
vocabulary social skills
language grammar
Use with individual students, small groups, and classrooms
Ages: 5 to 18 Requirements: None |
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This is Asperger Syndrome 
Through brief vignettes, this introduces siblings, peers and other children to the everyday challenges faced by children with Asperger Syndrome at home or at school. Written for children ages 6-12, the book may be read independently by older children and serves as an excellent springboard for further discussion led by parents and teachers.
Ages: 6 to 12 Requirements: None |
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