Bullying & Proactive Inclusion of Youth with Autism Spectrum Disorder: a Guide for Educators. Autism Ontario, $1.25

This pamphlet is a collection of ‘best practice’ responses to bullying of ASD students and the development of action plans for educators at all levels.

Growing Up Social: Exploring How Social Communication Develops and Strategies to Help DVD. Michelle Garcia Winner & The Gray Center, $44.95 (DVD format, 2 discs, 60 minutes each)

This DVD looks at how social thinking supports the development of social skills from the first year of life, influencing language development and academic success, as well as skills for adult living. Social thinking concepts and strategies will be introduced to support this teaching across the home and school day, including an exploration of how we organize our communicative interactions and utilize active perspective-taking throughout each day.

The Hidden Curriculum DVD: Teaching what is Meaningful. Brenda Smith Myles, $31.95, (46 minutes) DVD

Using common, familiar examples, Brenda Smith Myles emphasizes the importance of teaching hidden curriculum items directly to individuals with autism spectrum disorders and social-cognitive challenges. This DVD is a great companion to the book Hidden Curriculum: Practical Solutions for Understanding Unstated Rules in Social Situations, co-authored by Smith Myles, delivering a clear presentation on understanding and teaching the unspoken social rules of everyday life.

I Get It! Building Social Thinking and Reading Comprehension through Book Chats. Audra Jensen, $26.95

Reading is more that being able to decode words and sentences. True understanding depends on social thinking ability as well as language comprehension. Audra Jensen illustrates the relationship between social thinking and reading comprehension and offers a positive, practical approach to helping children learn to read for meaning.

Improving Social Behaviors in the Classroom: An Easy Curriculum for Teachers of Young Children with Autism, Developmental Disabilities and Typical Children.  Stephanny Freeman, Gazi Begum, Kristen Hayashida & Tanya Papartlla, $44.95

When it comes to teaching social skills to young learners, instructors are always looking for a defined curriculum that presents the precise skills to address and how to teach them. This book offers a curriculum that provides detailed day-by-day lessons to be incorporated into the regular school day. The intent is to provide teachers with a developmentally appropriate sequence of basic social skills by breaking each skill into its component parts. Each skill is introduced and then built upon throughout the weeks. This is a highly structured, sequenced curriculum that enhances specific social goals that are the stepping stones of building appropriate social behaviors.

The curriculum is designed for preschool or early elementary special education teachers of students with autism spectrum disorders but can also be used with any students who have developmental or emotional difficulties.

The Incredible 5-Point Scale - Assisting Students with Autism Spectrum Disorders in Understanding Social Interactions and Controlling Their Emotional Responses. Kari Dunn Buron & Mitzi Curtis, $32.50 (22 minutes) DVD

In this DVD, Kari Dunn Buron and Mitzi Curtis share their successful use of the simple concept of 5-point scales to help students understand and control their emotional reactions to everyday events that might otherwise set in emotion escalating reactions. Whether it is inappropriate touching, obsessions, yelling, hitting or making hurtful statements to classmates, use of the scale helps break down a given behavior and, with the student's active participation, develop a unique scale that identifies the problem and suggests alternate, positive behaviors at each level of the scale.

Life Skills Activities for Secondary Students with Special Needs. Darlene Mannix, $35.95

190+ ready-to-use lessons with reproducible worksheets to help adolescents develop the basic skills necessary to experience independence and success in everyday life.

The book provides 22 complete teaching units focusing on basic life skills such as handling money, succeeding at school, using the Internet safely, getting and keeping a job, and much more. The book also contains 90 reproducible worksheets for teaching students how to apply these life skills to real-life situations.

Life Skills Activities for Special Children. Darlene Mannix, $35.95

Over 150 ready-to-use reproducible worksheets to help children develop the basic skills necessary to experience independence and success in everyday life.

Each of the book's activities focuses on specific skills within the context of real-life situations and includes complete teacher instructions for effective use, from objective and introduction through optional extension activities and methods to assess student learning. The book includes numerous reproducible parent letters which can be sent home to help parents reinforce these lessons while children are away from school.

The New Social Story Book, Revised and Expanded 10th Anniversary Edition. Carol Gray, $37.50

Over 100 social stories that teach everyday social skills to children with autism or Asperger’s Syndrome and their peers. The book includes a CD-ROM of printable, editable social stories. This new edition is a bright, colourful and practical update to writing, modifying, teaching and using Social Stories at home and at school.

A Quest for Social Skills for Students with Autism or Asperger’s: Ready-to-Use Lessons with Games, Role-Play Activities and More. JoEllen Cumpata & Susan Fell, $26.50

QUEST (Questioning, Understanding, and Exploring Social Skills and Pragmatic Language Together) is a social skills program created to help middle school students with ASD who struggle with pragmatic language and social skills.

Developed by a school social worker and speech language pathologist, the program uses an intensive, proactive approach to teaching social skills, combining written instruction with games, activities, and student interaction. The book includes a CD of printable worksheets, letters, forms and more.

Social Behavior Mapping — Connecting Behavior, Emotions and Consequences Across the Day. Michelle Garcia Winner, Editor, $24.95

One of the most successful tools used at Michelle G. Winner's Center for Social Thinking is the Social Behavior Map (SBM). Michelle developed the SBM as a cognitive behavior strategy to teach individuals about the specific relationship between behaviors, other's perspective, other's actions (consequences), and the student's own emotions about those around him or her. The SBM is a visual tool that displays these abstract concepts through a flow chart.

Now, Michelle and her team of talented therapists have created a collection of over 50 Social Behavior Maps covering a range of topics for home, community and the classroom. Social Behavior Mapping is geared for use by parents and professionals to help those with social thinking challenges understand what behaviors are expected and unexpected in a way that makes sense to their way of thinking.

Social Behavior Mapping DVD. Michelle Garcia Winner & The Gray Center, $23.95 (DVD format, 50 minutes)

Social Behavior Mapping is a cognitive behavioral technique which helps students to understand how our behaviors affect others, which then impacts on how they treat us and ultimately how we feel about ourselves. This helps to demystify the complexity of social thought and related behaviors. On this DVD, the evolution of social behavior mapping is explained along with step-by-step instructions on how to use this valuable treatment strategy. The DVD corresponds with a book called Social Behavior Mapping, also by Michelle Garcia Winner. Included on this resource is a brief discussion of Michelle Garcia Winner's other books and DVDs and their applicability for a variety of situations and audiences.

Social Behavior Mapping DVD Templates: These templates (contained in a seven page pdf document) come FREE after you purchase a Social Behavior Mapping DVD by Michelle Garcia Winner. Just use the coupon code printed on the face of the disc when you receive your DVD.

Social Rules for Kids: the Top 100 Social Rules Kids Need to Succeed. Susan Diamond, $21.50 (ages 7-14)

Social Skills Activities for Secondary Students with Special Needs, Grades 6-12, 2nd Edition. Darlene Mannix, $35.95

200 ready-to-use lessons and worksheets to help students learn social skills for home, school, work and the community.

The updated new edition of this valuable resource offers an exciting collection of worksheets to help adolescents build the social skills they need to interact effectively with others and learn how to apply these skills to various real-life settings, situations, and problems. The book provides complete teaching units focusing on 20 basic social skills, such as being a good listener, "reading" other people, and using common sense.

Social Skills Activities for Special Children, Grades K-5, 2nd Edition. Darlene Mannix, $32.95

Over 160 ready-to-use lessons and worksheets to help children use social skills inside and outside the classroom.

Each lesson places a specific skill within the context of real-life situations, giving teachers a means to guide students to think about why the social skill is important. The hands-on activity that accompanies each lesson helps students to work through, think about, discuss, and practice the skill in or outside of the classroom.

The Social Skills Picture Book: Teaching Play, Emotion, and Communication to Children with Autism. Jed Baker, $42.95

Using photographs with speech balloons, and "social stories" style prompts, Jed Baker has created a "…dynamic teaching tool that engages the attention and motivation of students who need a little extra help learning appropriate social skills…" Part one includes discussion of the importance of visual supports, an overview of social skills teaching methods…discrete trial, incidental teaching, cognitive picture rehearsal, social stories, structured learning…and instructions on creating your own social skills picture stories. Part two is subdivided into communication-related skills, play-related skills and emotion-related skills. Over 200 pages.

The Social Skills Picture Book for High School and Beyond. Jed Baker, $45.50; CD-ROM, $32.95

The Social Skills Picture Book for High School and Beyond offers parents and educators of teens (and young adults) photos of actual students engaging in a variety of social situations. This visual learning format shows, rather than tells, students the right (and wrong) ways to interact in different circumstances. The photos illustrate the positive and the negative consequences of social interactions in a wide variety of real-life situations that are important to teens.

Social Thinking® Worksheets for Tweens and Teens: Learning to Read in Between the Social Lines. Michelle Garcia Winner, $35.95

The use of worksheets is powerful in helping our students to focus cognitively on core concepts related to social functioning. This particular set of worksheets focuses on pre-adolescent and adolescent social concepts. Given social rules and expectations change with age, these worksheets help to encourage more mature Social Thinking and related shifts in one's social skills. The book includes over 160 worksheets across 9 different lesson section. All of the worksheets are available for printing from the included CD-ROM. (Mac and PC compatible).

This book adds to the worksheet resources provided through Michelle Garcia Winner's WORKSHEETS FOR TEACHING SOCIAL THINKING AND RELATED SKILLS. Both WORKSHEETS books are easily used by parents, paraprofessionals, educators and other professionals.

Think Social! A Social Thinking Curriculum for School-Age Students is a social thinking curriculum to guide therapists, educators and parents who are exploring how to introduce social thinking to their students in a structured and thought out progression. Think Social is designed to assist children across the school ages who have been diagnosed with Asperger syndrome, PDD-NOS, high-functioning autism, AD/HD, hyperlexia, non-verbal learning disability (NVLD) and when there is no clear diagnosis, but social challenges are present.

The ZONES of Regulation®: a Curriculum Designed to Foster Self-Regulation and Emotional Control. Leah Kuypers, $46.95 (preschool through high school)

THE ZONES OF REGULATION is a curriculum geared toward helping students gain skills in consciously regulating their actions, which in turn leads to increased control and problem solving abilities. Using a cognitive behavior approach, the curriculum's learning activities are designed to help students recognize when they are in different states called "zones," with each of four zones represented by a different color. In the activities, students also learn how to use strategies or tools to stay in a zone or move from one to another. Students explore calming techniques, cognitive strategies, and sensory supports so they will have a toolbox of methods to use to move between zones. To deepen students' understanding of how to self-regulate, the lessons set out to teach students these skills: how to read others' facial expressions and recognize a broader range of emotions, perspective about how others see and react to their behavior, insight into events that trigger their less regulated states, and when and how to use tools and problem solving skills.