Autism Society of PEI
Book Resource List
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Siblings of Children with Autism - A Guide for Families (1994)
Harris, Sandra L.
This is an invaluable guide to understanding sibling relationships, how autism affects these relationships, and what families can do to support their other children as they cope with the intensive needs of a child with autism. She also teaches parents how to improve communication in the family, balance personal and family time, and foster interaction between children with autism and their brothers and sisters.
Bar Code: 2484
Call Number: 360-9
Location: ACL, AO
Dr. Ron Siemans' Handouts to Parents of Children Newly Diagnosed with Autism (2000)
Pediatric Clinic QEH
Includes: Pervasive Developmental Disorder (PDD) What Does It Mean?, Diagnostic Criteria for Autistic Disorder, Diagnosis of the Syndrome of Autism: Questions Parents Ask, Social Skills for Young Children,Communicative Temptations.
Bar Code:3791
Call Number: 200-77
Location: ACL
The Social Story Book (1993)
Jennison High School Students
The stories in this book were written for children and adults with autism by the students in Mrs. Johnson's psychology and sociology classes at Jenison High School, Jenison, Michigan. These social stories provide individuals with autism with accurate information regarding situations they encounter. For some students with autism, this type of written information appears to have a positive impact on their responses to social situations.
Bar Code: 1614,2025
Call Number: 200-24
Location: ACL
Solving Behavior Problems in Autism - Improving visual Communication Strategies (1999)
Hodgson, Linda A.
Provides summaries and examples of strategies that have worked to improve communication and solve behavior problems.
Bar Code: 3661
Call Number: 305-32
Location: ACL
Somebody Somewhere: Breaking Free From the World of Autism(1994)
Williams, Donna
Sequel to Nobody nowhere - in which Donna Williams gives readers a guided tour of life with autism - Williams explores the four years since her diagnosis and her attempts to leave her "world under glass" and live normally.
Call Number: 921 WIL
Location: PL
Son-Rise: The Miracle Continues (1993)
Kaufman, Barry Neil
Chapter Contents: Son-Rise; The Years that Followed; The Miracle Continues.
Call Number: UL - RJ506.A9.K383
Location: UL, PL
Speak-Easy (1990)
Schwier, Karin Melberg
People with mental handicaps talk about their lives in institutions and in the community.
Bar Code: 0018
Call Number: 100-2
Location: ACL
Targeting Autism; What We Know, Don't Know and Can Do to Help Children with Autism and Related Disorders (1998)
Cohen, Shirley
This booklet contains a balanced discussion of the many different types of educational programs. It will help parents and professionals make wise choices. Chapter Contents: What is Autism; Treating Autism; Looking for Cures, Recovery, and Better Lives.
Bar Code: 3400
Call Number: 200-54
Location: ACL, AO, 5
Teaching Children with Autism - Strategies to Enhance Communication and
Socialization (1995)
Quill, Kathleen Ann
This book describes teaching strategies and instructional adaptations which promote Communication and socialization in children with autism. These strategies capitalise on the individual strengths and learning styles of the autistic child.
Bar Code: 2028
Call Number: 502-5
Location: ACL, 5
Teaching Developmentally Disabled Children: The ME Book (1981)
Lovaas, O.Ivar
This book is intended for teachers and parents to help developmentally disabled persons learn to live more meaningful lives. It should be helpful for persons with autism. Although most of the programs were developed with children and youth, they can be used for persons of any age.
Bar Code:2496
Call Number: 515-5
Location: ACL
Teaching Language to Children with Autism or Other Development Disabilities
Sunberg, Mark and Partington, James
Location: 1, 6
Teach Me Language: A language manual for children with autism, Asperger's Syndrome and related developmental disorders.
Freeman, Sabrina and Dake, Lorelei
Behaviorally based, and designed for parents and therapists, Teach Me Language is a step-by-step ' How To' manual with 400 pages of instructions, explanations, examples, games and cards. Children who are visual learners, who can attend, are relatively compliant, and have developed some communication, will benefit, whether that communication is verbal or employs augmentative systems.
SKF Books
Langley B.C.
Bar Code:3354
Call Number: 550-10
Location: ACL, 1, 4
Theories of Autism (1990)
Siefert, Cheryl
Chapter Contents: Rethinking Theories of Autism; Defining Autism; And Evolutionary View of Personality Development; Piaget's Analysis of Intelligence; Language and Thought in Autism; Aphasias and Autism; Human-Figure Drawing as a Projection of Autistic Experience; Theoretical Bases of Treatments.
Call Number: RJ506.A9.S435
Location: UL
There's a Boy in Here (1992)
Barron, Judy
Call Number: 618.92 BAR
Location: PL
Thinking in Pictures and other reports from my life with Autism. (1995)
Grandin, Temple
Temple Grandin , PhD is a gifted animal scientist who has designed one third of all the livestock-handling facilities in the US. She also lectures widely on autism because she is autistic. In this book, Grandin delivers a report from the country of autism. Writing from the dual perspectives of a scientist and an autistic person, she tells us how that country is experienced by its inhabitants and how she managed to breach its boundaries to function in the outside world.
Bar Code: 2255
Call Number:200-30
Location: ACL, 5
Treatment of Obsessive and Ritualistic Behaviours (1987)
Howlin, Patricia and Rutter, Michael
This booklet describes various programmes for ways of dealing with the problems shown by children with autism in their own homes. The treatment programmes were individually designed for each child, with the help of their parents, and the outcome is described in terms of the progress made by the individual children.
Bar Code: 2252
Call Number: 305-21
Location: ACL
Unlocking the Potential of Secretin (1998)
Beck, Gary and Victoria
Information and questions for parents and physicians who want to learn more about secretin as its use is explored in Autism and other disorders.
Bar Code: 3352
Call Number: 225-20
Location: ACL
Visual Strategies for Improving Communication, Practical Supports for Home and
School (1995)
Hodgen, Linda A.
This book describes numerous strategies to enhance communication interactions for students who experience autism and other moderate to severe communication disorders. This is a "how-to" book, designed to assist teachers, Speech-Language Pathologists, and parents in devising solutions to the communication and self-management challenges that are common to these students. Full of examples and illustrations, this book describes specific strategies that capitalize on the visual strengths and learning style of this population.
Bar Code: 2385
Call Number: 550-6
Location: ACL, 1, 4, 5
A Work In Progress
Leaf, Ron and McEachin, John (eds)
The authors former colleagues of Ivar Lovaas at UCLA, provide a comprehensive, yet easily-approached methodology for intensive behavioral teaching, including chapters on Reinforcement, Disruptive Behaviors, Sleep Problems, Eating Problems, Toilet Training and Social Play. The larger portion of the book is devoted to "The Autism Partnership curriculum for Discrete Trial Teaching with Autistic Children."
Location: 1
The World of the Autistic Child: Understanding and Treating Autistic Spectrum Disorders (1996)
Siegal, Bryna
This book guides the parents of autistic children through the ticket of symptom labels, explaining the crucial importance of intensive early education, and giving advice on how to find resources and help that is available.
Location: PL