AUTISM BOOKS AND VIDEOS FOR PARENTS
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contains educational books and
videos for children, teens,
parents and teachers about
adolescence and growing up. The
books and videos featured on
this site cover a wide range of
topics. You will find topics
ranging from infant education to
dealing with teens with
different and sometimes
difficult situations. The books
and DVDs contain information at
all levels, including books,
DVDs, games and posters geared
to the children, teens, parents,
and teachers.
Product ID: AUT-007
Jonah Adams was diagnosed as
autistic at two years and eight
months. Just a few years later,
a doctor refused to believe such
a diagnosis could ever have been
given to this healthy, happy
boy. This is the true
story of how Jonah's mother,
Christina, seized his limited
window of opportunity for
recovery. This book
details how she utilized a
combination of a special diet
and tutoring with speech
therapists and behavioral
psychologists, Christina shares
the entire journey she undertook
to give her child a second
chance at a full life.
Pages: 318
Product ID: AUT-006
Jayne Lytel was a flourishing
syndicated columnist when her
son Leo was diagnosed with
autism. She used her
reporting skills to better
understand her son's health
issues, and helped Leo gain
essential abilities. After
four years of therapy, he no
longer meets the diagnostic
criteria for autism, attends a
mainstream school, and is a
thriving, healthy child.
Act Early Against Autism is a
practical and empowering guide
for parents on how early
intervention can change their
child's future.
Pages: 272
Product ID: AUT-003
The award-winning author of
Autism Spectrum Disorders
presents
Adolescents on the Autism
Spectrum, a
complete guide to the cognitive,
emotional, social, and physical
needs of preteens and teenagers
with autistic disorders, ranging
from the relatively mild
Asperger's Syndrome to more
severe ability impairment. Using
clear examples, practical
advice, and supportive insights,
this book covers:
- Health risks such as seizures
and depression
- Treatments, therapies, and
teaching strategies
- Teaching skills to cope with
puberty, self-care, and social
skills
- Teenage emotions, sexuality,
appropriate relationships, and
dating
- Middle/ High School, &
developing an Individual Educational
Program
- Preparing for life after high
school
Pages: 288
Product ID: AUT-022
Animusic is a powerful new vision in
music video entertainment with
unparalleled, universal appeal to
adults, children, musicians, engineers,
animation fans...all kinds of people!
With cutting edge computer animation,
and a broad collection of modern musical
routines and soundscapes, you'll get an
amazing visual musical experience.
Animusic will absolutely delight you as
the extraordinarily complex, invented
musical instruments come to life and
perform virtual concerts with note for
note precision.
Runtime: Over 75 mins
(program plus bonus material)
Product ID: AUT-023
Animusic 2 is the long awaited
continuation of Animusic's debut DVD
that has become unparalleled in
universal appeal to adults, children,
musicians, engineers, animation
fans...all kinds of people! In
this new video, they went over the top
with special features. For
example, the Starship Groove animation
was rendered in Fullscreen, Widescreen,
and 3 other camera views for the
multi-angle bonus for a total of 5
full-length versions. This
adds up to over 20 minutes of footage
just for that 4 minute music animation!
Runtime: 20 mins
Product ID: AUT-014
This book presents a positive and
empowering "bill of rights" for every
person with autism, regardless of
impairment level. With advice and
reflections from autistic adults across
the spectrum, as well as Sicile-Kira's
own experience as an advocate and parent
of an autistic teen, the book covers
these ten essential life skills:
- Making Sense of the World
- Communication
- Safety
- Self-Esteem
- Pursuing Interests
- Self-Regulation
- Independence
- Social Relationships
- Self- Advocacy
- Earning a Living
Pages: 224
Product ID: AUT-024
The number of children affected by
autism is growing larger every day.
Autism is an all encompassing term for a
wide range of disorders that include
classic autism, Asperger's syndrome, and
Rett syndrome. Developmental
problems can be recognized in infants as
young as four months old, and this book
provides information so you can
recognize the red vital flags and begin
treatment based on those first signs.
As the mother of a child who was
diagnosed with autism at the age of two,
the author uses her own experiences and
the most current research to provide
real strategies and emphasizes warning
signs as she describes the most
important milestones at each stage of a
child's growth, including things parents
and pediatricians often overlook.
She also tells parents to act on their
instincts or concerns, instead of the
wait and see, which is often encouraged,
and also explains the steps parents can
take to confirm or rule out a
developmental delay or disorder.
Pages: 272
Product ID: AUT-029
Autism is a complex disorder that has long
puzzled parents and experts, and it's very
distressing to learn that your child has been
diagnosed with autism. Doctors usually gave
parents almost no hope for fighting the
disorder, but in recent years, new treatments
and therapies have shown that it is possible to
improve. Children have even overcome the effects
of autism when correct therapies are started
soon enough, and with this intensive, early
intervention, some children have been integrated
into school and are impossible to differentiate
from other students. With this book, you'll be
able to: discover ten things you can do to begin
battling your child's autism immediately; See
why Applied Behavior Analysis has become the
most chosen treatment and examine its impressive
results; Get information on advanced biomedical
treatments such as secretin and immunotherapy;
Learn how dietary changes can positively impact
your child's behavior; Find out how additional
therapies can help, including sensory and
auditory integration; Explore caring ways to
keep your family together when your life has
been devastated by autism.
Pages: 208
Product ID: AUT-026
Autism ADHD, asthma and allergies have
risen dramatically to epidemic levels
over the last 20 years. One of
these conditions now strikes one in
every three children in America.
Leading medical innovator, Kenneth Bock,
M.D., has helped change the lives of
over a thousand children with this
important book. He has developed a
complete program that targets all four
of the 4-A disorders that can help to
children. Most doctors have never
made the connection between the 4-A
disorders, even with their concurrent
rise and the existence of numerous
medical clues. Over the years, the
medical establishment has considered
autism as incurable and medically
untreatable. Dr. Bock?s amazing
healing program, based on medical
research and drawing on years of
clinical success, gives a safe, sensible
solution that is individualized to each
child to help cure the underlying
causes. This particular approach
to autism, ADHD, and the other 4-A
epidemics, as devised by Dr. Bock and
some of America?s finest integrative
physicians, is an extremely promising
and exciting medical breakthrough.
Pages: 458
Product ID: AUT-019
Jenny McCarthy was having a cup
of coffee one morning when she
found her two-year old son,
Evan, in his room having a
seizure. Many doctors
misdiagnosed Evan until after
many traumatic, life-threatening
episodes - one good doctor
discovered that Evan is
autistic. With a foreword
from Dr. David Feinberg, medical
director of the Resnick
Neuro-psychiatric Hospital at
UCLA, and an introduction by
Jerry J. Kartzinel, a top
pediatric autism specialist,
Louder Than Words
tells Jenny's story as she
discovers an intense combination
of diet and supplements, along
with behavioral therapy, that
became the key to saving Evan
from autism. This story
sheds much-needed light on
autism through Jenny's own
heartbreak and struggle, giving
a wonderful example of how a
parent can shape a child's life
and happiness.
Pages: 202
Product ID: AUT-013
When Jenny McCarthy's book, Louder
Than Words, was published, the
story of her successful efforts to saver
her son, Evan, from autism, received a
tremendous response. After hitting
# 3 on the
New York Times
bestseller list, Jenny and Evan were
featured on the covers of several
magazines, including
People. What she
hadn't anticipated, was the overwhelming
response form other parents of autistic
children, who sought her out to share
their stories. No two autistic
children heal in exactly the same way,
and with her new book, Jenny expands her
message to share recovery stories from
parents across the country.
Mother Warriors tells how
each parent fought to find their own
child's perfect "remedy of
interventions" and teaches parents how
to navigate safely through the many
autism therapies. Jenny
shares her own journey as an autism
advocate and mother as well as the
progress of her son, Evan.
Touching and genuinely practical,
Mother Warriors
will inspire a generation of
parents with hope.
Pages: 248
Product ID: AUT-008
There have been huge advances in
diagnosing autism and in the development
of effective interventions that can
change children's lives. In this
informative book, Lynn Kern Koegel, a
leading clinician, researcher, and
cofounder of the renowned Autism
Research Center at the University of
California at Santa Barbara, combines
her cutting-edge expertise with the
everyday perspectives of Claire
LaZebnik, a writer whose experience with
a son with autism provides a rare view
into the disorder. Together, they
draw on the highly effective "pivotal
response" approach developed at the
center to provide concrete ways of
improving the symptoms of autism and the
emotional struggles that surround it.
They remind readers never to lose sight
of the humor that lurks in the
disability's quirkiness or the
importance of enjoying your child.
From the shock of diagnosis to the
step-by-step work with verbal
communication, social interaction,
self-stimulation, meltdowns, fears, and
more, the answers are here-in a book
that is as warm and nurturing as it is
authoritative.
Pages: 336
Product ID: AUT-027
In this book, the author explains the
most current information about reading
problems, along with verified, useful
techniques that together with hard work
and the correct help can enable anyone,
including intelligent people to conquer
these problems. She offers clear,
practical, scientific information and
advice as the tools that parents and
teachers need to help dyslexic children
of various ages and grades to gradually
obtain successful results. The book
covers topics that include: what
dyslexia is, how to identify dyslexia at
any age, from preschoolers to adults,
locating the best school for your child,
and learning how to work effectively
with their teacher. It also includes
exercises to show children how to use
the areas of the brain that control
reading, a 20-minute nightly home plan
to improve reading ability, the 150 most
common problem words to give your child
an advantage, useful ways to raise and
maintain a child's self-esteem and
reveal their strengths, and also tells
the stories of successful adults who are
dyslexic.
Pages: 432
Product ID: ADHD-006
For children with sensory
integration issues, including
those who have difficulty
processing everyday sensations
and exhibit unusual behaviors
such as avoiding or seeking out
touch, movement, sounds, and
sights, this book is an
invaluable resource. Long
thought to affect only autistic
children, or mistaken for ADHD,
SI dysfunction is finally being
recognized as a separate
condition. Coauthored by a
pediatric occupational therapist
and a parent of a child with SI
dysfunction,
Raising a Sensory Smart Child
is as warm and accessible as it
is authoritative and detailed
and is an indispensable guide
for parents, therapists, and
teachers who will turn to it
again and again.
Pages: 416
Product ID: AUT-005
This book is a true story of two
mothers, worlds apart, united in a
struggle to connect with their autistic
sons. Emmy(r)-winning art director
Portia Iversen's life was turned upside
down when her son Dov was diagnosed with
autism. After hearing about a
miraculous story of a woman in India who
had taught her own severely autistic son
to communicate, she brought Soma and
Tito Mukhopadhyay from Bangalore to
America to help researchers better
understand this amazing feat.
Pages: 448
Product ID: AUT-011
Preschool can be overwhelming
for children with autism.
Autism affects how a child
behaves, communicates, and
relates to others.
Teachers need to know how they
can get children with autism to
achieve their full potential.
This book is a straightforward,
easy-to-understand guide to
working with children who have
autism. It explains the
main characteristics associated
with autism and helps teachers
understand the ways children
with autism relate to the world.
Each chapter offers detailed
strategies for teachers to use,
including setting up a proactive
preschool environment, helping
children learn life skills,
managing behavior, helping
children with autism
communicate, encourage children
with autism to play, helping
them to get along with others,
and working with families.
Pages: 224
Product ID: AUT-025
Finally, there is help for ADHD patients
and their families who have become worn
out and frustrated. With this
book, you will get the many answers to
the questions youve been waiting for.
Attention deficit/hyperactive disorder
(ADHD) is one of the fastest growing
diagnoses of our generation.
Unfortunately, the diagnosis does not
provide actual help, and this leaves
patients, doctors and families at a loss
on how to proceed. But for the
first time ever, new understanding of
the many similarities between ADHD and
autism are giving patients with ADHD
real hope. At last,
The ADHD-Autism Connection
gives parents, doctors, and educators a
reason to confront autism with a belief
of hope and understanding. This
book will show how, with this new
knowledge, to reduce the misdiagnoses,
misunderstandings, and frustrations that
ADHD sufferers and their families
encounter.
Pages: 224
Product ID: AUT-001
This book has
answers to more than one hundred
of the most frequently asked
questions about autism, a
disease that affects an
estimated one in 250 children.
Dawn Ham-Kucharski's son, Alex,
was diagnosed with autism at the
age of two, and she was given
little hope that he would ever
express himself verbally or to
communicate meaningfully with
others. But, now at the
age of six, Alex is an inspiring
autism success story, due to his
mother's tireless efforts to
seek out an effective treatment
program, educational plan, and
socialization strategy.
In
The Autism Book,
health and parenting journalist
S. Jhoanna Robledo and
Ham-Kucharski, a passionate
advocate for educational
opportunity for autistic
children, use their hard-earned
knowledge and experience to
objectively and compassionately
answer the most urgent questions
of parents and educators of
autistic children.
Pages: 208
Product ID: AUT-028
For the parents of an autistic child,
everyday is a challenge. This can cause
them to lose themselves in the struggle
and unfortunately, their general quality
of life will become less satisfying. In
this book, the author blends the
different voices of autism parents,
along with researchers and professionals
to offer direction and encouragement on
how to find fulfillment and joy
throughout the difficult times that
occur while raising an autistic child.
The various topics covered in the book
include: showing the best way to deal
with feelings of despair and
hopelessness; finding ways to have fun
through even during chaotic times;
taking care of your marriage; and
finding a balance between seeking new
treatments and accepting your child for
what they are.
Pages: 208
Product ID: AUT-012
Useful, practical advice and information
from the world's foremost experts on
autism and a mother's own hard-earned
lessons from helping her son recover
from the disorder. When Karen Siff
Exkorn's son, Jake, was diagnosed with
autism, she struggled to pull together
comprehensive information about the
disorder. Fortunately, she was
able to educate herself quickly, and the
extensive at-home treatment of her son
led to his amazing full recovery.
However, the journey wasn't easy, and
now, in
The Autism Sourcebook,
Siff Exkorn gives parents the wisdom she
wishes she'd had at the beginning.
Pages: 416
Product ID: ADHD-010
Three years ago, magazine editor
Denise Brodey's precocious
four-year-old son, Toby, was
diagnosed with a combination of
sensory integration dysfunction
and childhood depression.
Struggling to make sense of her
new, often chaotic, often lonely
world, the thing she found most
comforting was talking with
other, hopeful, and insightful
parents of kids with special
needs, and learning how they
coped with the feelings they
encountered throughout the day.
In The Elephant in the Playroom,
parents from across the country
write in an honest and intimate
way about the joyful highs and
disordered lows of raising
children who are "not quite
normal". Laying bare the
emotional, medical, and social
challenges they face, these
stories address issues ranging
from if and when to medicate a
child, to how to get a child who
is overly sensitive to the
texture of food to eat lunch.
Pages: 256
Product ID: ADHD-020
This is the exciting,
true story of Jason McElwain-also known
as "J-Mac", who is the autistic student
that made headlines when he scored
twenty points, including a school record
six three-pointers for his high school
basketball team in 2006. It
includes the revealing perspectives of
J-Mac's family and coach. This is
McElwain's inspiring account of the
challenges of growing up autistic-not
just for himself, but for his family.
It's also the tale of his unlikely star
turn, and the difference it made in his
journey through life with all the
heart-breaking and heart-lifting stops
along the way
Pages: 256
Product ID: ADHD-009
The IQ Answer is not only fascinating and
user-friendly, but a great guide to
fulfilling one's potential. Adults who
have been frustrated by a stubborn mental
block will learn the steps to scale it and
tackle any project creatively, and with
millions of new cases of learning
disabilities diagnosed every year, this book
will help parents break through their
children's performance plateaus.
Written in response to the overwhelming need
that Dr. Lawlis sees every day in his
practice and in his role as Dr. Phil's
primary contributing psychologist,
The IQ Answer will be
a powerful tool for everyone who wants to be
as successful as they can be.
Pages: 272
Product ID: AUT-009
Price: $13.99 $12.55
Eloquent, philosophical, and
introspective. These are words that are
not usually associated with an autistic
child, but in an incredible display of
courage and creativity, this boy named
Tito has shattered stereotypes. In
The Mind Tree,
Tito makes us question all of our
previous assumptions about autism, since
he is severely autistic and nearly
nonverbal, and this is his story.
Pages: 224
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