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Book Review of Active Imagination Activity Book
byKelly
Tilley, MCISc, OTR/L
Looking for the perfect gift for special needs parents? Know that
overwhelmed parents cannot deal with more preparation, equipment, or
time consuming reading of how-to books? Active Imagination
Activity Book: 50 Sensorimotor Activities for Children to Improve
Focus, Attention, Strength, and Coordination has all the
features to please busy parents. The fifty sensorimotor activities
will definitely please any child, not only children who need help
improving strength, coordination, focus, and attention.
Every play activity has an amusing name and an easy-to-read and
easy-to- follow description that leads to opportunities to develop
the whole child and not only do boring, meaningless physical
exercises like many programs offer.Kelly
Tilley’s unique book is the best resource for fun, effective and
fuss-free movement activities I have seen. If you have a child,
student, or client who could benefit from getting exercise, or who
needs specific movement activities for calming, energizing, or
strengthening, Active Imagination Activity Book has to be on at
arm’s length. Lorna d’Entremont
Kathy Labosh has prepared 15 Ready-to-Use
Scripture Lessons, from the Garden of Eden to the parting of the
Red Sea. Mom of two children with autism, Kathy has successfully
written step-by-step lesson plans to enable family members,
educators or church staff to feel competent that they can engage
children with ASD to grow in faith. Each detailed lesson plan
has a list of materials needed, the lesson objective, the
repeated opening prayer, circle time activities, a scripture
reading, packet time, group activity, and a closing prayer.
Each lesson is also accompanied by a Scripture Study for
instructors to help them prepare for each class, where the
author provides additional ideas and discussion questions. For
Bibles, activities, games, videos and songs, Kathy recommends
titles, CD’s and websites. The ever practical, frugal mom, Kathy
reminds us that that the 15 lessons should be made with durable
materials so they can be used over and over again. As a teacher
with thirty years in elementary classrooms that included
religious instructions during class time, I highly recommend
this wonderful resource for all who care for children with
autism.
Publisher: Future Horizons, Inc.
Publication date: 2011
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 97
Book Review
by Lorna d’Entremont
http://www.kidcompanions.com/blog
Barbara Jacobs.
Arlington, Texas: Future Horizons, Inc., 2003.
In this
well-written account of her relationship with a man with Asperger’s
Syndrome, the author is very transparent, sharing intimate details
of her struggles and intertwines information she gleaned from other
women who were in relationships with Aspies. Much of her writing is
almost poetic making it an enjoyable read. There is a large
resource list for people who want more information on various topics
surrounding Asperger’s and relationships. My favorite section of the
book is “Negotiating relationships with Aspergers” where it lists
major tips; dos and don’ts to guide a person in relating to someone
with Asperger’s syndrome. She does an excellent job of describing
the mindset of an Aspie and areas of mind blindness that they
struggle with, including binary thinking, inertia, scapegoating, the
importance of sharing a special interest, and, tendency toward
self-destructiveness and meltdowns. Helpful tips like making lists
are included throughout the book as well. She does a great job of
differentiating between OCD (Obsessive Compulsive disorder) and
OCD-like symptoms commonly found in those with Asperger’s. There is
a section with a questionnaire called the AQ (Autism Quotient). She
even addresses figures such as Bill Gates and Einstein with a brief
analysis. A good chapter on employment and Asperger’s along with
helpful tips including the effect of theory of min on negotiation
skills rounds out the scope of the book. This book is a must have
for those in a relationship with someone with Asperger’s as well as
the professional who is helping to support both partners.
Mary
Wrobel. Arlington, Texas: Future Horizons, Inc., 2003.
This book is
essential to the parent, caregiver, or educator who is working with
youth on the spectrum. It contains a full curriculum complete with
social stories, visuals, activities and essential information for
instruction in hygiene, health, modesty, growth and development,
menstruation, touching and personal safety, masturbation, and using
a urinal. With the large number of children in this population
suffering from abuse, this book has an excellent curriculum for
abuse prevention and recognition as well as all the other subjects
that teachers and parents struggle with in instruction.
Bonnie
Kimpling-Kelly, Teacher/Behavior Analyst
Rhonda Spellman
292 pages cover everything: beginning when my son was mercury
poisoned at two by an immunization and ending with him no longer
qualifying for services at school at ten years old. What triggers
Autism? What / Who can help and Why!
7,000 hours of logged research: the things that I discovered that
changed the way I look at medicine, life, health and (most of all)
people with auto-immune disorders. My journey is on education and
positive awareness: From Suspicion to Success!
The story of Jesus when He was a boy on the earth. Illustrated by
children ages 4 – 11, this book is like a photo album with Biblical
references on each page.
Includes complete CD-Rom. Turn the pages on line as I
read the book to you.
Pasqual,
the very small emperor penguin, shows that you don’t have to BE big
to DO big things in this delightful story that children will want to
hear over and over again.Includes
complete audio download
How Do I Teach This Kid to Read?:
Teaching Literacy Skills to Young Children with
Autism, from Phonics to Fluency.
Kimberly A.Henry, M.S. Arlington,
Texas: Future Horizons, Inc., 2010.
“Reading is so much
more than just letters and words on a page. Reading
is communication. Reading is imagination. Reading is
participation.” This quote from the introduction
really sets the theme for the book. Children with
autism spectrum disorder can be some of the most
difficult to teach every facet of reading due to
their difficulty with multi-tasking. Some are
excellent at decoding or word recognition, but not
reading comprehension. Sometimes the comprehension
is there, but the student’s receptive language
deficit gets in the way of them being able to answer
simple comprehension questions.
This book is an
excellent tool. It has precise, yet simple to
understand explanations of phonemic awareness and
other basics for reading. Hands on activities are
provided and explained for all areas of reading and
templates and worksheets are provided in the
accompanying CD. The materials presented take into
account the child with autism’s unique learning
style and uses a multi-sensory approach. It takes
into account the special interests of the child, and
incorporates music in some of the activities which
is great as so many of this population have a
special interest in music.
This book is good for
the professional or for the parent who is trying to
support their child’s ability to read. The book is
intended for grade levels K-3, but I can easily see
using these activities with the older student who is
struggling with literacy.
I highly recommend
this book for all of its fun, creative methods for
teaching full literacy, “from phonics to fluency”.
Bonnie
Kimpling-Kelly, Teacher
Asperger's in PINKby
Julie Clark ~ Book Review by Lorna
d’Entremont
Know
about Asperger’s
Syndrome? Know a young girl with AS? Read
Julie Clark’s
Asperger’s in PINK ~
A Mother and Daughter Guidebook
for Raising (or being) a Girl with Asperger’sand you will
know the challenges one family faces as they
sift through the
EAS (Educational Alphabet Soup) IEP, 504, PAT,
FAPE, CSE, OT…
Julie
explains in detail the
adaptations, alterations and perseverance needed
to win their daily battles. These battles were
sometimes with their immediate family, their
friends, medical and school systems and
sometimes with Kristina or even with their own
insecurities. This book fills the need for a
resource for families and educators of girls
with Asperger’s and it is also very beneficial
for all parents of a special needs child because
the Clark’s family struggles apply to all.
Readers will applaud this mom’s tenacity in
enlisting the aid of professionals, in
documenting the progress of her child’s
education and care and most importantly in
getting the all important diagnosis. The
comprehensive index allows parents to use this
book, after their first reading, as a resource.
Also this book makes a great gift for family
members, friends and educators so that finally
you can all be on the same page!
Asperger's in PINK
by Julie ClarkBinding:
Paperback Pages:
273 Purchase:Future
Horizons
I Am Utterly Unique: Celebrating the Strengths of
Children with Asperger Syndrome and High-Functioning Autism
Elaine Marie Larson (2006) , under 40 pages
Illustrated by Vivian Strand
I loved
this book for my son when he was younger. We read it
often. He loved being read to but he could also read
ii himself.
