A 5 Could Make Me Lose Control!

By Kari Dunn Buron
For professionals and parents to use with students in high school to young adults. This unique hands-on activity helps students who are highly anxious cope with their stress by systematizing social and emotional information. Using this self-contained product, the student literally sorts cards describing highly stressful situations into colorful pockets designating stress levels, ranging from 5-1, as a first step in changing the way he or she thinks about and responds to emotions such as anxiety, sadness and anger.
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A 5 is Against the Law!

By Kari Dunn Buron. For professionals and parents to use with students in upper elementary school - young adulthood. Building on the 5-point scale, Kari has written a workbook for adolescents and young adults called A 5 Is Against the Law! The book takes a narrower look at challenging behavior with a particular focus on behaviors that can spell trouble for youth who have difficulty understanding and maintaining social boundaries.
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Auschwitz, Auschwitz... I Cannot Forget You

By: Priscilla Alden Thwaits Garcia
Recently updated, this book retells the remarkable story of Max Garcia, Michelle Garcia Winner's father, who survived the Holocaust and rebuilt his life in America. "As one of those who liberated that camp, I highly recommend the reading of this book." - Bob Persinger, the sergeant in the first tank that entered KZ Ebensee
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Autism Collection

By MindWing Concepts, Inc.

For professionals and parents to use with students in kindergarten - high school.

MindWing’s NEW Autism Collection uses the Story Grammar Marker® and Narrative Development to help children with verbal organization, writing, expression & recognition of feelings, Perspective-Taking, Theory of Mind, Oral Language, Cause-Effect, Inference, Problem Solving, Planning, Sentence Structure, Consequence and more!

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Being Part of a Classroom - Poster

For professionals and parents to use with students 3rd grade and up. Social skills are expressed each time we co-exist in a group. To use our social skills well simply means each of us is sharing space effectively. What does it take to share our space? This poster lays out the 4 steps of being part of group for home, school and therapy room.
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Parent's Guide to College for Students on the Autism Spectrum

Jane Thierfeld Brown, Lorraine Wolf, Lisa King & G Ruth Kukiela Bork Learn how to select the right campus, how to work with Disability Services staff, what legal protections apply, how to prepare your son or daughter to be an effective self-advocate on campus, what assistance can be reasonably be expected from residence hall managers, faculty, and much, much more.
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Beyond the Blues

By: Lisa Schab
For parents and professionals to use with high school students. Talking directly to students about depression, this workbook encourages students to reframe their recent experiences or memories. Each chapter starts with a “you need to know” section and then encourages specific exploration into topics, including the power of perspective, the gift of the moment, believing in yourself, the use of social skills, even food to help your mood...
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Boring Moments, The - Poster

For use by professional and parents with students 3rd grade and up. An important life skill is coping with boredom when participating in groups. The Boring Moments Poster uses humor to explicitly state the “expected” and “unexpected” behaviors related to boredom. With the support of the poster teachers can have more explicit discussions with students
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Asperger’s Syndrome and Sexuality

by Isabelle Hénault

For professionals, parents and individuals with AS to read.

Playing the dating game is often tricky: all the more so for individuals with Asperger Syndrome. How do AS adolescents and their families cope with sexual feelings and behavior? What help can be given if a man with AS oversteps the mark in expressing his sexuality? How do people with AS deal with intimacy and communication in sexual relationships? In this comprehensive and unique guide, the author delivers practical information and advice on issues ranging from puberty and sexual development, gender identity disorders, couples' therapy to guidelines for sex education programs and maintaining sexual boundaries. This book will prove indispensable to parents, teachers, counselors and individuals with AS themselves.

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Growing Up Social - DVD

For professionals and parents. Active social skill development begins with birth and expands across our lifetime. This DVD looks at how social thinking supports the development of social skills from the first year of life, influencing language development and academic success, as well as skills for adult living. Social thinking concepts and strategies are introduced to support teaching across the home and school day.
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Brain (Foam Rubber)

For students to use! Students enjoy squeezing the small, blue foam rubber brains as the brains encourage them to think more flexibly and abstractly about the size of their problems and the choices they are making. Used in lessons that encourage flexible thinking, including those in Superflex and Thinking About YOU Thinking About ME, the brains offer a fun way to inspire our students to think about their social thinking and related skills. "Social Thinking is Flexible Thinking" is inscribed on the brains to reinforce the lessons the students are learning.
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Social Thinking Across The School and Home Day - DVD

For professionals and parents to use with all ages. In Social Thinking Across the Home and School Day, Michelle Garcia Winner presents a DVD workshop defining the ILAUGH framework, her six-point model of social thinking. The focus of this workshop is on the fact that students with social thinking deficits express these deficits not only during social interaction but also in the classroom. They may have difficulty working as part of a group, interpreting and producing abstract language and organizational challenges. Strategies are presented for assisting these students across their home and school day. Supports teaching and treating students in K-12th grade--not intended to be viewed by the students directly.
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Brilliant Cognitive Behavioral Therapy

By Dr. Stephen Briers. For professionals, parents and individuals with AS to use themselves. Brilliant Cognitive Behavioral Therapy: How to Use CBT to Improve Your Mind and Your Life has been specially written to help give readers the insight, tools and confidence they need to understand and use CBT in their own lives. It offers a cohesive approach to this groundbreaking therapeutic technique that unfolds in a wholly logical, accessible and practical manner whilst enabling the reader to personalize the information and apply it to their own unique situation.
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Coping with Cliques

By Susan Sprague
For professionals and parents to use with students in middle school - transitioning into adulthood. This book teaches adolescent girls to think more deeply about aspects of their own social world and how cliques tick. Chapters address: Teasing: the good, bad and unintended; the profile of the bully; how to defend yourself online and more. This workbook encourages your child in their process of self-discovery and can help parents think of ways to engage them in discussions related to this under-addressed topic.
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Diary of a Social Detective

For professionals and parents to use with students 4th grade through high school. Detective agencies come in many shapes and forms, but never before has there been a one-man social detective agency! Johnny Multony, himself transformed from a social misfit to a socially savvy kid, starts the first-ever social detective agency!
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