Think Good – Feel Good: CBT for Children

The book “Think Good – Feel Good: A Cognitive Behavior Therapy Workbook for Children”, and its companion manual “A Clinician’s Guide to Think Good-Feel Good: Using CBT with children and young people”, written by Paul Stallard is a great resource for clinical psychologists, teachers, speech language pathologists, occupation therapists and parents for addressing the needs [...]

Exploring Feelings: CBT to Manage Anxiety

The book “Exploring Feelings: Cognitive Behavior Therapy to Manage Anxiety”, written by Dr. Tony Attwood, is a program for use with children ages 9-12. It was originally designed for use with children with Asperger’s Syndrome, but has been used with children with other ASDs. There are workbook materials for each of the six two-hour sessions [...]

Arthur the Angry Engine and Frederick the Fidgety Fire Truck

Free children’s stories to help children deal with anger and self-regulation/attentional issues. Join Arthur the Angry Engine and Frederick the Fidgety Fire Truck as they deal with anger/self-regulation issues using concrete strategies. Available at family website: http://www.thewhisperersaga.com. On home page, click “click here” for free children’s stories to request the stories. Hope you enjoy them.

Exposure Anxiety – The Invisible Cage

Exposure Anxiety in Autism-Spectrum Conditions
by Donna Williams (from: Autism Today Website)
Exposure Anxiety (EA) is the involuntary self protection responses of compulsive avoidance, diversion, retaliation.
Often people with EA can handle doing things/communication when it is not ‘as oneself’ (can do it mirroring someone else, via a characterisation, putting on voices, via song/adverts, only to the prompt), [...]

When My Worries Get Too Big

During the month of May we are focusing on anxiety and autism. Our first featured book related to this topic is “When My Worries Get Too Big!” by Kari Dunn Buron. This book is designed to help kids with anxiety-related issues (including, but definitely not limited to, kids with autism spectrum disorders) learn how to [...]

Eating for Autism

Does your child with autism have issues with nutrition and diet? This has become a very prominent issue in the autism community especially in relation to the Gluten-Free/Casein-Free diet. In addition to that, though, many kids with autism have feeding issues related to food refusal, food selectivity, and other problem behaviors around the feeding routine. [...]

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