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Author name: Marlene J. Cohen, Donna L. Sloan

 : Visual Supports for People with Autism: A Guide for Parents and Professionals (Topics in Autism)
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Type of bind: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 371.94
EAN num: 9781890627478
ISBN number: 189062747X
Label: Woodbine House
Manufacturer: Woodbine House
Quantity: 1
Page Count: 226
Printing Date: May 15, 2007
Publishing house: Woodbine House
Release Date: May 25, 2007
Sale Popularity Level: 85022
Studio: Woodbine House




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(2008 IPPY Awards: Bronze Medalist, Education/Academic/Testing)

Most of us use visual supports in our daily lives--for example, a shopping list, calendar, or a roadmap. Visual supports are particularly beneficial to people with autism because they help make abstract concepts concrete and capitalize on the user's inherent visual learning strengths.

VISUAL SUPPORTS FOR PEOPLE WITH AUTISM shows parents and educators how incorporating these aids while teaching can improve academic performance, behavior, interaction with others, and self-help skills. In a friendly, conversational-style, the authors, both certified behavior analysts, describe the deficits typical of autism--language, memory, temporal sequential skills, attention, motivation, and social skills--and present strategies to use visual supports to address those issues at school and home.

This guide presents an abundance of examples, illustrated by dozens of grey & white and colour photos, including: activity schedules; calendars; charts; checklists; colour coding; flip books; graphic organizers; mnemonics; nametags; photo boards; Power Cards; scripts; Social Stories; to-do lists; and video modeling.

VISUAL SUPPORTS also explains considerations such as portability, durability, preferences, age appropriateness, and effectiveness. While visual supports can enhance learning, they should, however, eventually be eliminated to avoid over-dependence on them. An entire chapter describes different ways to fade visual supports.

With this book, there's no limit to what can be taught, from fostering social interaction by using a graphic organizer of conversational talking points to learning to put away toys from video modeling. Most of the visual supports presented in this book are low-tech and easy-to-use, making it simple for parents and professionals to create their own, suited to the needs of their students. Inspiring sucess stories will further motivate parents and professionals to get started.



Customer Reviews
User popularity level:  out of 5 stars

Rated by buyers 3 out of 5 stars - Teacher needs pictures
This did not include pictures as I was hoping for but the information was excellent.



Rated by buyers 4 out of 5 stars - Book review
I really enjoy this book. It is very organized but unfortunately it isn't very colorful. There is a lot of helpful information in this book.



Rated by buyers 2 out of 5 stars - Not as helpful as I hoped
I have a 3 year old with autism. She hit a rough patch and I was hoping for ideas on visual cues to help with transitions. This book was not at all helpful to me as the cues are much better geared to school age kids, even older school age kids in my opinion.



Rated by buyers 5 out of 5 stars - Excellent resource!
This is an excellent resource for those teachers working with students with autism. Visual supports are the best way to help an autistic child. The techniques described really work!!! The colored pictures of the supports were helpful, too!



Rated by buyers 5 out of 5 stars - An excellent, reader-friendly guide
Experts Marlene J. Cohen and Donna L. Sloan combine their expertise in Visual Supports for People with Autism: A Guide for Parents & Professionals, an educational guide for parents and professionals responsible for instructing children with autism spectrum disorder. Packed with examples and black-and-white photographic illustrations of over 140 visual supports, Visual Supports for People with Autism is an excellent supplementary resource for working on problem learning areas such as language, attention, memory, motivation, sequential skills, or social skills. An excellent, reader-friendly guide featuring reproducible diagrams to facilitate its ideas and concepts for enhancing learning.



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