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General Information about Autism
Autism and Stranger Safety Awareness
'How to Make' and 'How to Use' Section
Visuals Resource Web sites: Free Downloadable Visual Aides
Visual Resources For Purchase: Pre-made Sets and Software
Social Stories: Free Pre-made Social Stories for Printing
General Information About Autism
Autistic Self Advocacy Network (ASAN)
Autism and Asperger's fact sheets and links
Autism Society
http://www.autism-society.org/
Autism Today
Disabilities: Guide to Autism
Life Skills:
This information is under the GNU Free License Agreement and is adapted from the Wikipedia article on Autism.
Five Important Reasons Why Your Child Needs Routine to Succeed
By Elaine Comeau
Teaching Autistic Children Life Skills- When and How to Begin
By Vickie Ewell
The Challenge of Potty Training
By Maureen Bennie
Tooth Brushing, Bathing, and Other Self-Care Skills
By Family Connect and The American Foundation for the Blind
How to Toilet Train a Child With Autism
By Angela Williamson
Travel:
Tips for Traveling With a Child With Autism
Portland Family Magazine, March 2010 Issue
By Clarissa Willis, Ph.D.
Flying Can Be a Rough Ride for Autistic Children and Their Families
By Rebecca Kaplan, USA TODAY
Autism Books
Autism and Asperger's Syndrome:
By Temple Grandin and Tony Attwood
By Chantal Sicile-Kira (Author), Temple Grandin (Forward)
The Way I See It: A Personal Look at Autism and Asperger's
By Temple Grandin
Thinking In Pictures: and Other Reports from My Life with Autism
By Temple Grandin
The National Autistic Society- This website offers a list of books for explaining Autism to siblings and peers as well as other information on autism.
Social Skills and Communication:
By Temple Grandin and Sean Barron
The Unwritten Rules of Social Thinking
By Temple Grandin and sean Barron
A 5 is Against the Law- "An honest guide for teens and young adults."
By Kari Dunn Buron
By Kari Dunn Buron
When My Autism Gets Too Big!:A Relaxation Book for Children with Autism Spectrum Disorders
By Kari Dunn Buron
When My Worries Get Too Big!: A Relaxation Book for Children Who Live with Anxiety
By Kari Dunn Buron
Life Skills:
Developing Talents: Careers for Individuals With Asperger Syndrome and High Functioning Autism
By Temple Grandin, Kate Duffy and Tony Attwood
By Carol Gray
Toilet Training:
By Judith A. Coucouvanis
Toilet Training for Individuals with Autism and Related Disorders
By Maria Wheeler
Autism and Stranger Safety Awareness
Activities for Stranger Danger- School Aged Children
Lovetoknow
Emergency Situations Social Stories by M. Gardner- Flemington-Raritan School District Resources
Stranger Awareness: How to Teach Safety Rules For Preschools
eHow
Stranger Danger-Preschool Age Children
Lovetoknow
Camps in Oregon:
ASD Oregon Camp Quest- An overnight camp in Oregon just for kids with Asperger's Syndrome and High Functioning Autism.
Camp Yakety Yak- Is a fully-inclusive, interactive day camp experience to improve social communication and emotional regulation skills in the Portland Metropolitan and Lake Oswego areas.
Science Camps for kids with High Functioning Autism and Asperger’s.
WhizKid Day Camp-Social Whiz Kids offers WhizKid Day Camp for children going into 2nd grade through 6th grade who struggle with social skills delays or disabilities.
Mt. Hood Kiwanis Camp for all areas of disabilities.
Meadowood Springs for Speech, language and hearing disabilities.
Camps in Washington:
Wild Wilderness - 1/2 Day or Full day - Our Summer Day Camps offer Nature Adventures for kids. Located in the Seattle, Bellevue, Kirkland and Olympia areas.
Computer ID Tech Camps - Weeklong |Co-ED |Day Camps | Overnight Camps
Course topics: Video Game Design, Programming, Web Design, & More.
Outdoors for All- This day camp's mission is to enrich the quality of life for children and adults with disabilities through outdoor recreation in Seattle.
'How to Make' and 'How to Use':
How to Make a Behavior Intervention Plan for a Child With Autism- wikiHow
How to Make a Picture Exchange Communication System(PECS) Schedule-eHow
How to Make Picture Schedules for Children With Autism-eHow
How to Make a Sensory Table- Earth's Kids
How to Create a Story Board- eHow
How to Use Visual Schedules for Children With Autism-eHow
How to Create Social Stories for Autistic Students-eHow
How to Use a Token Reward System With Kids-eHow
How to Use Visual Supports for Children With Autism-eHow
How to Write a Social Story-Carol Gray Center
'How to Make' and 'How to Use' Video Instruction Clips
How to Make a Story Board-howcast.com
How to Use a Picture Exchange Communication System as a Token Board-You Tube
How to Use a PECS Board-You Tube/Dorian Schenk
How to Use Picture and Object Schedules-National Training Center on Inclusion
How to Use an Object Representational-Object Functional Schedule-Nicole Sparapani (SLP-CCC)
How to Use An Object Schedule-Ocali
How to Use a First & Then Schedule-Ocali
How to Implement Visuals Supports for Activity Schedules-KIT, National Training center on Inclusion
How to Make a Sensory Table with Magnets-Childcareland.com
Bry-Back Manor-brybackmanor.com
Kids Cooking Activities-Non Reader Recipes
One Place for Special Needs-Visual Recipes
Daily Autism Freebie-Positively Autism.com
*How to Teach Cooking to Persons With Intellectual Disabilities-eHow
Visual Recipe Books for Purchase
Recipes To Reading-Picture based recipes that encourage reading
The Kitchen Classroom by Gabrielle Kaplan-Mayer
Video Recipes- Spatulatta.com
Visual Recipes A Cookbook for Non-Readers by Tabitha Orth
Visual Resource Websites: Free Visual Aid Materials for Printing
ABA Educational Resources, LTD.- This website has a lot of pictures for PECS, tokens, and information for autism.
About.com: Autism Spectrum Disorders
Absolutely Free Clipart- A great source for finding clipart with 100's of categories to choose from.
Autism. Hand in Hand- Flash Cards and Tell Me A Story.
Autism Resources- Nice, simple, downloadable visuals and supports.
Busy Teacher Cafe- A K-6 resource site for busy teachers! With resources, ideas, lessons, free printables, and more!
Dade County Public Schools- Boardmaker Downloadables.
Do2Learn: Educational Resources for Special Needs-Free Areas.
E-Learning- Free sample pages.
Enchanted Learning- Free sample pages.
Free Printable Behavior Charts.Com- This website offers behavior charts with a wide range of age appropriate levels for chores, potty training, pet care, teeth care, hygiene, daily routine and feeling charts.
Grocery List Photos-tripod.com
Positively Autism-This website offers free resources, lesson plans, teaching materials and more.
Set-This website offers Boardmaker activities, books, songs, lessons, sorting activities, schedules, etc that are pre-made and FREE.
Special Needs Teacher-Free printables.
Symbol World- Great site for visual supports.
TEACCH Work Jobs - Lots of picture examples of work tasks you can make for your student's independent work areas.TinSnips- Offers a wide range of Printables and PECS.
The Watson Institute-This website offers social stories with a wide range of topics for all ages.
Use Visual Strategies-This website offers free printable picture cards.
Visual Aids for Learning- Sets of free visuals in various themes and for various age groups. Visual aids that you can use at home or school.
Widgit-This website offers 10 popular stories with pictures.
Visual Resources for Purchase: Pre-made Sets and Software to Create Your Own Visuals
Do2Learn: Educational Resources for Special Needs
Autism4Teachers- Social Story Bank/Printable Samples
Flemington-Raritan Autism Program -Social Stories
Autism-PDD.net -This website offers social stories and printable samples
Region2 Digital Lending Library
Watson Institute- Behavior Stories
Social Stories: FREE Pre-made downloadable Social Stories
The Northwest Regional ESD would like to extend a formal thank you to Mayer-Johnson and Visual Aides for Learning for allowing us to make the following social stories available with images. The symbols and/or images used on the following material were used with permission.
Social Stories:
Behavior Goal Sheets:
Sea Creature Weekly Goal Sheet
Chore Charts
Chore Charts / Star Charts - This website offers custom chore charts that you create and print for free. There are many themes to choose from.
Stickers and Charts-Printable stickers and charts for behavior
Speech Language Resource Websites: Free Speech Materials for Printing
The following websites offer a wide variety of free Speech and Language Materials.
(The following 6 underlined topics are from freelanguagestuff.com)
Free Language Stuff!- Home Page
Language Cards- Verb sentence cards, adjective activities, conjunction cards, idioms cards, and multiple meaning word match cards.
Pronoun Activities- Pronoun activities, possessives, plural nouns, prepositions and verb tense cards.
Additional Pronoun Activities- Pronoun activities, verb sentence, noun sentence, adjective activities, preposition activities, verb tense activities and comparative & superlative activities.
Additional Idioms- Idiom activities
Additional Verb Activity Cards- Verb sentence cards, verb tense cards, curriculum vocabulary words, subject-verb agreement, sentence searches and irregular past tense verbs.
Speaking Of Speech.com!- This website offers free speech materials for printing.
Speech Language Materials for purchase:
Speech Articulation Products- Adaptive Technology Services
Thank you to all of the following people that have contributed social stories and visual aides to our Resource Library:
Ana Morehouse
Angie Harrington
Brenda Nakada
Christina Meier-Nowell
Deborah Justice
Fawn Anderson
Jackie Bergerson
Jenny Workman
Joy Dorsch
July Test
Kyle Smith
Laura Anderson
Laura LaMarsh
Traci Sevick
A special thank you to the following people and families that have contributed information and videos to our website.
The Bergerson Family
The Elfering Family
Ms. Michaels and her Students at Green Mountain School
