What do you do when a three-year-old with autism falls on the floor kicking and screaming?
How do you communicate with a child who looks away and flaps his hands?
Who can help if you suspect a child in your class has autism?
Preschool can be overwhelming for a child with autism. Autism affects how a child communicates, behaves, and relates to others. Teachers need to know what they can do to help children with autism reach their full potential.
Teaching Young Children With Autism Spectrum Disorder is a straightforward, easy-to-understand guide to working with children who have autism. It explains the major characteristics associated with autism and helps teachers understand the ways children with autism relate to the world. Each chapter offers specific strategies for teachers to use, including setting up a proactive preschool environment, helping children learn life skills, managing behavior, helping children with autism communicate, encouraging children with autism to play, helping them to get along with others, and working with families. Teaching Young Children With Autism Spectrum Disorder helps teachers connect with all children in meaningful ways, allowing children with autism to learn and grow.
Chapters Include:
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<li>Putting All the Pieces Together: Understanding This Puzzle Called Autism </li>
<li>From Hand-Flapping to Obsession with Routines: The Way Children With Autism Relate to Their World </li>
<li>Planning for Success: Setting Up a Proactive Preschool Environment Learning Life Skills </li>
<li>Misbehavior or Missed Communication: Managing the Behaviors of Children With Autism </li>
<li>Signs, Symbols, and Language: Helping a Child Communicate </li>
<li>Inside Their Own World: Encouraging Children With Autism to Play </li>
<li>Building Social Skills: Getting Along With Others </li>
<li>Lights! Camera! Action! Sensory Integration and Autism </li>
<li>We're All in This Together: Teaming Up With Families </li>
</ul>

Teaching Young Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder

Parenting & Relationships

Willis, Clarissa

Parenting

Gryphon House

Easy-to-implement strategies for teaching infants, toddlers, and twos with special needs. Placing children with special needs in environments that include typically developing peers has become commonplace as continuing research confirms that all children benefit and learn from each other as well as from their teachers.Teaching Infants, Toddlers, and Twos with Special Needs is written for all teachers and directors who work with infants, toddlers, and twos, including special educators and educators working with typically developing children. This book specifically addresses the needs of children with developmental delays, as well as children at risk for developing special needs. Each chapter includes information about how infants, toddlers, and twos learn. The strategies and adaptations in each chapter are easy to use and apply to all children. Examples are presented for managing the physical environment and for teaching skills that will enhance the overall development of infants, toddlers, and twos with special needs.

Teaching Infants, Toddlers, and Twos with Special Needs

There are no words to describe the changes in the lives of families when they learn that a child they love has been diagnosed with autism. This book was written for those families. It explains autism in simple terms, discusses the major characteristics associated with autism, and offers simple strategies for helping children with autism function in their homes, at school, and in the community.

My Child Has Autism: What Parents Need to Know

Best-selling, award-winning authors Pam Schiller and Clarissa Willis have teamed up to create this collection of 100 literacy lessons, designed to introduce children ages 3-6 to a variety of literacy concepts and build important literacy skills. Each of these simple, fun lessons offers adaptations for children with special needs, including:
<ul>
<li>Visual impairments </li>
<li>Hearing impairments </li>
<li>Cognitive challenges </li>
<li>Motor delays </li>
<li>Speech/language delays </li>
<li>Emotional/behavior issues </li>
</ul>
The first page of each two-page lesson features a learning objective, a literacy activity, extension activities, a daily reflection, and vocabulary. The second page has adaptations specific to the literacy lesson for children with special needs.
A great grab-and-use book for preschool teachers!

Inclusive Literacy Lessons for Early Childhood

Education & Teaching

Schiller, Pam

Schools & Teaching

Creating Inclusive Learning Environments for Young Children: What to Do on Monday Morning

This book provides information on common disabilities and practical strategies for creating inclusive environments and building student relationships.

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Mental Health

Corwin

This book provides information on common disabilities and practical strategies for creating inclusive environments and building student relationships.

There are no words to describe how families feel when they learn that their child has been diagnosed with autism. This book was written for those families. It explains autism in simple terms, discusses the major characteristics associated with autism, and offers simple strategies for helping children with autism function in their homes, at school, and in the community. With the help of this book, families will begin to understand the puzzle called autism. It provides strategies for families to help their child: Learn to be independent; Build social skills; Succeed in school; Communicate with others While there is no cure for autism, there is hope. My Child Has Autism provides strategies that draw on the author's years of experience working with children with autism and their families, as a teacher, speech pathologist, early interventionist, and consultant. My Child Has Autism

My Child Has Autism: What Parents Need to Know: Easyread Large Edition

Safety & First Aid

ReadHowYouWant

Anderson the Ornithologist

Anderson prefers to do everything alone. One day a new kid named Sam joins him for lunch. Anderson is surprised and doesn't know what to say. But Sam's friendliness gives Anderson the courage to tell him a little about himself, such as his love for (ornithology) birdwatching. To his surprise, Sam wants to go birdwatching with him. Anderson's story helps children recognize that being friends with someone different is rewarding. In addition, it shows how children with Asperger's syndrome can become true and loyal friends when given a chance. This is not a book about autism. This book is about Anderson, a child with autism, and his amazing hobby. Clarissa Willis, Ph.D., has worked for over 30 years with children with autism spectrum disorder and their families.

Children's Books

Animals

Solander Press

Johnny Fry was the first western rider for the Pony Express. From his humble beginnings in Missouri to his exciting first ride in 1860, Johnny never gave up. Even though he was small for his age, his love for horses helped him become one of the true heroes of the American west. With practice and determination, Johnny learned to ride like the wind.

Fast as the Wind: The Story of Johnny Fry, Pony Express Rider

Literature & Fiction

Fast as the Wind: The Story of Johnny Fry Pony Express Rider

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Books by Willis, Clarissa

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Teaching Young Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder

Teaching Infants, Toddlers, and Twos with Special Needs

My Child Has Autism: What Parents Need to Know

Inclusive Literacy Lessons for Early Childhood

Creating Inclusive Learning Environments for Young Children: What to Do on Monday Morning

Creating Inclusive Learning Environments for Young Children: What to Do on Monday Morning

My Child Has Autism: What Parents Need to Know: Easyread Large Edition

Anderson the Ornithologist

Fast as the Wind: The Story of Johnny Fry, Pony Express Rider

Fast as the Wind: The Story of Johnny Fry Pony Express Rider