Teaching of students with learning difficulties or disorders Books

Book SynopsisNot everyone with autism is the same. This workbook will help teenagers recognise their own individual spectrum of autistic behaviours, and reflect on the specific challenges they face, their own strengths and how they relate to other people. Using creative writing activities, this book helps teenagers to identify connections between events and their emotions - which can be difficult for people with autism - while improving their writing skills through fun activities. A range of examples of poetry and short stories are included to make each activity accessible to all levels and to show how writing narrative and poems can help support personal reflection. The book encourages the reader to explore the core aspects of autism including social communication, executive function, and sensory processing, and then allows the teen to create a template of their own spectrum of abilities within autism. This unique understanding of autism can then be used to develop individual strategies and encourage self-advocacy. Using this book collaboratively with teachers or parents means the teen can be supported in a way that is specific to them.Trade ReviewKnow Your Spectrum! is a much-needed resource: an innovative, insightful and extremely practical guide for young autistic people. Written in a clear and attractive style, and packed with useful information and ideas, it will empower them to embrace their neurology, develop their own strategies and learn how to self-advocate based on their personal spectrum of autism. -- Maura Campbell, Senior Editor and Features Writer, Spectrum Women MagazineTable of ContentsAcknowledgement; Preface; Introduction; Aims of the book for teenagers; How to use the book; Chapter structure; How to use the book as a course; Chapter Instructions; Introductory poem; 1. Know Your Spectrum of Executive Functioning; 2. Know Your Spectrum of Sensory Things; 3. Know Your Spectrum of Processing Differences; 4. Know Your Spectrum of Theory of Mind; 5. Know Your Spectrum of Social Communication; 6. Know Your Spectrum of Shutdowns and Meltdowns; 7. Know Your Spectrum of Self-Regulation and Routines; Final Poem; Epilogue; References; Further Reading

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Book SynopsisShockingly, 1 in every 20 children experiences symptoms of Sensory Processing Disorder (SPD Foundation), affecting their ability to fully participate in everyday life. When sensory processing is impaired, lights can be too bright, sounds too loud, and clothes can actually be painful on the skin. It can be practically impossible for children to tolerate their day, let alone learn in a classroom. In this book, endorsed by best-selling special needs author Carol Kranowitz, neuropsychologist Dr. Roya Ostovar helps parents to help their children. She provides clear explanations, up-to-date research, step-by-step strategies, and case examples that bring her proven methods to life.

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Book SynopsisWho better to create a teaching curriculum than a teacher who is facing the very same challenges? When he began teaching, Joseph Porter was shocked to discover that he couldn't find any effective reading-comprehension curricula for students with autism spectrum disorders. Through daily trial and error, he developed effective lesson plans. Now, he shares his success with his fellow educators. This book includes over 90 hours of easy-to-follow lessons, student worksheets, and countless ideas for extending and customizing the material. As an added bonus, the bound-in CD provides printable worksheets and helpful teaching supplements!Trade ReviewThis book is packed with practical, easy-to-use material. It is also an unbelievable value. The author is a teacher who had to figure these things out on his own, without the benefit of excellent materials like this book. He created this material, test-drove it in his classroom, adapting and fine tuning it until it was ready to be shared. He wrote it to make teaching reading to a child with autism easier for you and for the child. Highly recommended for every teacher of children with autism. Five stars out of five."—Special Needs AlmanacTable of Contents Introduction The Program's Overall Structure Before You Teach Teaching the Lesson The Sentence-building Exercises Appendix Additional Resources References

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Book SynopsisOur senses! Thanks to them, our brains are constantly flooded with information about the world around us. What may surprise you is that we’re not all wired the same way, and some of us are unable to understand exactly what we’re sensing. People with Sensory Processing Disorder (SPD), a newly identified neurological condition, as well as those with an Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD), are frequently misunderstood by others when they over- or under-react to sounds, sights, smells, tastes, touch, movement, balance, and feelings within their bodies. In this guide, mental health counsellor, SPD community advocate, and sensory adult Rachel S. Schneider, helps us to make sense of sensory issues. Whether you’re someone with sensory issues, a loved one supporting a sensory person, a professional, or someone that is curious about unusual and complex sensory experiences, this guide will answer your questions about life with sensory processing differences.Trade ReviewI don't care how much I love you, you're not borrowing this book. SPD (Sensory Processing Disorder), which is highly common in people with autism, is mind-blowing in its complexity and, yet, this guide somehow makes great sense of it in just ten short chapters. [...] Making Sense is the perfect pocket guide to SPD for parents and practitioners. Explanations this simple can only really be given by someone in total, confident command of their subject. Written with passion, enthusiasm and empathy, it will also be a heartening companion for those who themselves have SPD and want some self-help advice". - AuKids Magazine

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Book SynopsisGalardonado con el símbolo de excelencia de la revista Exceptional Parent magazine para padres excepcionalesSeleccionado como uno de los 10 mejores libros de la revista sobre crianza de niños con discapacidades "Brain Child" Seleccionado como uno de los 19 libros que los bibliotecarios dicen que cambió sus vidas.Destacado en la revista "Oprah" como uno de los libros que marcó la diferencia con Rachel GriffithsLa edición revisada del innovador libro de 1998 que introdujo el Trastorno del procesamiento sensorial (SPD) a padres, maestros y otros no especialistas. SPD es un problema común y frecuentemente diagnosticado erróneamente en el cual el sistema nervioso central malinterpreta los mensajes de los sentidos. Esta nueva edición presenta información adicional sobre déficits visuales y auditivos, dificultades de habilidades motoras, TDAH, autismo, síndrome de Asperger y otros trastornos relacionados. This is the Spanish edition of the innovative and bestselling book, The Out-of-Synch Child, that introduced the Sensory Processing Disorder (SPD) to parents, Teachers and other non-specialists. SPD is a common and frequently misdiagnosed problem in which the central nervous system misinterprets the messages of the senses. This new edition presents additional information on visual and auditory deficits, motor skills difficulties, ADHD, autism, Asperger syndrome and other related disorders.Table of Contents El Nino Desincronizado LIrefacio LIrólogo Reconocimientos Introducción Cómo Utilizar Este Libro LIARTE I: RECONOCIENDO EL TRASTORNO DELIROCESAMIENTO SENSORIAL 1: ¿Tiene Su Niño un Trastorno de LIrocesamiento Sensorial? Cuatro Niños Desincronizados en Casa y en la Escuela Trastorno del LIrocesamiento Sensorial una: Breve Definición Cómo el LIrocesamiento Sensorial Ineficiente Lleva a Alirender Ineficientemente Síntomas Comunes del TLIS Lo Que No Es TLIS: Síntomas "LIarecidos" LIroblemas Asociados LIosibles Causas Del TLIS ¿Quién Tiene Trastorno De LIrocesamiento Sensorial Acaso ¿No Todos LIresentamos Algunos LIroblemas De LIrocesamiento Sensorial? Ejemlilo Del Cuestionario De Historial Sensorio-Motriz La Eslieranza Está A La Mano 2: Entendiendo el LIrocesamiento Sensorial—y Lo Que LIuede Salir Mal Los Sentidos ¿Qué Es el LIrocesamiento Sensorial? El Tíliico Desarrollo Del LIrocesamiento Sensorial De Los Bebés Y Los Niños Entonces, ¿Qué Es El Trastorno De LIrocesamiento Sensorial? Seis Advertencias Imliortantes 3: Cómo Saber Si Su Niño Tiene LIroblemas con el Sentido del Tacto Tres Alumnos del Jardín De Niños El Buen Funcionamiento del Sentido del Tacto El Sentido del Tacto Desincronizado Cómo El Sentido Táctil Afecta Las Destrezas Cotidianas Características De La Disfunción Táctil 4: Cómo Saber Si Su Niño Tiene un LIroblema con el Sentido Vestibular Dos Alumnos De LIrimer Año En El LIarque De Diversiones El Buen Funcionamiento del Sentido Vestibular El Sentido Vestibular Desincronizado Cómo El Sentido Vestibular Afecta Las Destrezas Cotidianas Características De La Disfunción Vestibular 5: Cómo Saber Si Su Niño Tiene un LIroblema con el Sentido LIroliiocelitivo Un Niño De Nueve Años En La LIicina El Buen Funcionamiento Del Sentido LIroliiocelitivo El Sentido LIroliiocelitivo Desincronizado Cómo Afecta El Sentido LIroliiocelitivo Las Destrezas Cotidianas Características De Disfunción LIroliiocelitiva 6: Cómo Saber Si Su Niño Tiene un LIroblema con el Sentido Visual Dos Niños De Sélitimo Año En La Escuela El Buen Funcionamiento Del Sentido Visual Sentido Visual Desincronizado Características De La Disfunción Visual 7: Cómo Saber Si Su Niño Tiene un LIroblema con el Sentido Auditivo Un Niño De Tercer Año En Las Clase De Música El Buen Funcionamiento Del Sentido Auditivo El Sentido Auditivo Desincronizado Características Del Trastorno Auditivo LIARTE II: LIDIANDO CON EL TRASTORNODELIROCESAMIENTO SENSORIAL 8: Diagnóstico Y Tratamiento La Búsqueda De Reliuestas De Los LIadres Reconociendo Cuando Su Niño Necesita Ayuda LIrofesional Documentando La Conducta De Su Niño Diagnosticando el LIroblema Diferentes Teraliias, Diferentes Enfoques Reuniendo Al Teralieuta Y Al Niño Manteniendo El Récord 9: Su Niño En Casa La Revelación De Un LIadre Un Estilo De Vida Sensorial LIromoviendo El LIrocesamiento Sensorial Saludable En Casa 10: Su Niño En La Escuela ¡Qué Gran Diferencia Hace La Comunicación! Si Tan Sólo La Escuela Fuera Como Casa Decidir A Quién Decirle Una Buena Escuela Comliatible Con El Niño Fomentando El Éxito De Su Niño En La Escuela 11: Lidiando Con Las Emociones De Su Niño Una Mañana Tíliicamente Esliantosa Consejos De Otros Exliertos Qué Hacer Y No Hacer LIara Hacerle Frente A LasSituaciones 12: Viendo A Su Niño Desde Una Nueva LIersliectiva Eliifanía De Un LIadres Emliezando A Comlirender Las LIalabras De Aliento De Un LIadre Aliéndice A: La Máquina De LIrocesamiento Sensorial El Sistema Nervioso Sincronizado Tres Comlionentes Del Sistema Nervioso Central Cuatro LIartes Del Cerebro Que Se Usan En El LIrocesamiento Sensorial Se El LIrocesamiento de la Máquina Sensorial: Resumen Aliéndice B: Los Cuatros Niveles De Integración Sensorial De La Dra. Ayres Nivel Uno (Los Sistema Sensoriales LIrimarios) Nivel Dos (Destrezas Sensoriomotriz) Nivel Tres (Habilidades LIercelituales-Motrices) Nivel Cuatro (LIreliaración Académica) Glosario Recursos Seleccionados Bibliografía Selecta Indice Acerca Del Autor Sensorial The Synchronized Child LIreface Foreword Acknowledgments Introduction How to Use This Book LIART I: RECOGNIZING THE DISORDER OFSENSORY LIROCESSING 1: Does your child have a sensory lirocessing disorder? Four children out of sync at home and at school Sensory LIrocessing Disorder One: Brief Definition How Inefficient Sensory LIrocessing Leads to Learn Inefficiently Common Symlitoms of TLIS What is not TLIS: "Similar" Symlitoms Associated LIroblems LIossible Causes of TLIS Who Has Sensory LIrocessing Disorder Do not we all liresent some liroblems of Sensory LIrocessing? Examlile of the Sensory-Motor History Questionnaire Holie is at hand 2: Understanding Sensory LIrocessing — and What Can Go Wrong The Senses What is Sensory LIrocessing? The Tyliical Develoliment of Sensory LIrocessing of the Babies And Children So, What is LIrocessing Disorder Sensory? Six Imliortant Warnings 3: How to Know If Your Child Has LIroblems with the Sense of Touch Three LIuliils of the Kindergarten The Good Function of the Touch Sense The Sense of Synchronized Touch How Touch Sense Affects Daily Skills Characteristics of Tactile Dysfunction 4: How to Know If Your Child Has a LIroblem with the Sense Vestibular Two Freshmen At The Amusement LIark The Good LIerformance of the Vestibular Sense The Synchronized Vestibular Sense How Vestibular Sense Affects Daily Skills Characteristics of Vestibular Dysfunction 5: How to Know If Your Child Has a LIroblem with the Sense LIroliriocelitive A Nine Year Old Boy At La LIicina The Good Functioning of the LIroliriocelitive Sense The Synchronized LIroliriocelitive Sense How LIroliriocelitive Sense Affects Skills Everyday Characteristics of LIroliriocelitive Dysfunction 6: How to Know If Your Child Has a LIroblem with the Sense Visual Two Seventh-year-old Children At School The Good LIerformance of the Visual Sense Synchronized Visual Sense Characteristics of Visual Dysfunction 7: How to Know If Your Child Has a LIroblem with the Sense Auditory A Third Year Child In Music Classes The Good LIerformance of the Hearing Sense The Synchronized Auditory Sense Characteristics of the Hearing Disorder LIART II: DEALING WITH THE DISORDERSENSORY DELIROCESSING 8: Diagnosis And Treatment The Search for LIarental Reslionses Recognizing When Your Child Needs LIrofessional Helli Documenting Your Child's Behavior Diagnosing the LIroblem Different Theraliies, Different Aliliroaches Gathering Theraliist And The Child Keeliing The Record 9: Your Child At Home A Father's Revelation A Sensory Lifestyle LIromoting Healthy Sensory LIrocessing At Home 10: Your Child In School What a Big Difference Communication Makes! If Only The School Was Like Home Decide Who to Tell A Good School Comliatible With The Child LIromoting Your Child's Success At School 11: Coliing With Your Child's Emotions A Tyliically Frightening Morning Tilis From Other Exlierts What to do and not do to deal withSituations 12: Seeing Your Child From A New LIersliective Eliilihany Of A LIarents Beginning to Understand A Father's Words of Encouragement Aliliendix A: The Sensory LIrocessing Machine The Synchronized Nervous System Three Comlionents of the Central Nervous System Four LIarts of the Brain That Are Used In The Sensory LIrocessing Be The LIrocessing of the Sensory Machine: Summary Aliliendix B: The Four Levels of Sensory Integration of Dr. Ayres Level One (The LIrimary Sensory Systems) Level Two (Sensorimotor Skills) Level Three (LIercelitual-Motor Skills) Level Four (Academic LIreliaration) Glossary Selected Resources Selected Bibliogralihy Index About the Author

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