Catatonia, Shutdown and Breakdown in Autism
Dr Amitta Shah
This ground-breaking book provides the first detailed clinical analysis of the various manifestations of catatonia, shutdown and breakdown in autistic individuals.
SWAN Resource Library
The SWAN Resource Library is located at the SWAN Office, and contains more than 350 items. Books and DVDs are available for loan free of charge to all SWAN Members, and we have numerous FREE information pamphlets available to keep. Please contact us to enquire as to the availability of items and to borrow from our library. Resources will need to be collected from, and returned to our Busselton office, located at 12 Pettit Crescent, Busselton WA 6280.
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If you have a resource you would like to share with others, please contact us to make arrangements. Alternatively, make a Donation to SWAN. All donations over $2.00 are tax deductible.
The South West Autism Network relies on the generosity of our members and community to support the families of the south west region living with ASD.
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CBT To Help Young People With Asperger’s Syndrome (Autism Spectrum Disorder) To Understand & Express Affection
Tony Attwood & Michelle Garnett
Children and adolescents with Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD) are often not instinctive and intuitive in expressing...
their liking or love for someone, or in understanding that family members, friends and others need affection. Expressing affection to teachers, other close professionals, or family friends, can be even more challenging. This book, by the leading experts in the field, provides a carefully constructed CBT programme for professionals to help boys and girls with an ASD to feel confident recognising, expressing and enjoying affection. The activities will help the young person identify their own and others’ comfort and enjoyment range for gestures, actions and words of affection. They will also learn the variety of appropriate ways they can express liking or loving someone, helping them to strengthen friendships and relationships. This book will be an invaluable resource for professionals supporting a child with an ASD.
Challenging Behaviours Pocketbook
Fintan O'Regan
All children are challenging to some extent, but some are more challenging than others. Students with social, emotional and behavioural difficulties (SEBD) can be tough to support and teach.
The ‘Challenging Behaviours Pocketbook’ focuses on three particular behaviour disorders: Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD), Oppositional Defiant Disorder (ODD) and Conduct Disorder (CD). The author explains why some children are prone to developing a can’t learn, won’t learn or don’t care attitude.
Cliques, Phonies & Other Baloney
Trevor Romain
Cliques can make you sick. If you're on the outside, you're treated like dirt. And if you're on the inside, you have to follow the rules. Who needs more rules at school?
Written for every kid who has ever felt excluded or trapped by a clique, this book blends humor with practical advice as it tackles a serious subject. Trevor Romain starts by explaining what cliques are and why they exist: because everyone wants to have friends. He reveals why some cliques are so annoying-and often full of phonies. And he shares the secret to being popular: just be yourself! Trevor knows how to get through to kids. As readers smile at his cartoons and laugh at his jokes, they’ll also be learning skills they need to make and keep friends-real friends, not people who pretend to be cool. They’ll discover that some supposedly “popular” kids are lonely and miserable inside. And they’ll pick up important self-esteem tips that will help them feel good about themselves (because there’s no need to let a bad clique spoil a perfectly good day).
Collaborative approaches to learning for pupils with PDA
Ruth Fidler and Phil Christie
This book outlines the impact of this diagnosis profile on learning, and explains why collaborative approaches to learning is such a successful method for supporting pupils with PDA.
Coping With Cliques
Susan Sprague
This workbook will help you deal with cliques, teasing, and gossip, and show you how to avoid getting caught up in this hurtful pattern of behavior.
Coping with Cliques also includes key strategies for sticking up for yourself, maintaining your self-esteem even when others tease you, and finding friends who like you.
Crazy For Colours
Baby Bumble Bee
An understanding of colour is developed by exploring many different colour examples in nature, art and the man-made world.
It is this seemingly unrelated objects that builds your child’s sense of colour.
Creative Movement For The Developing Child
Clare Cherry
In essence, the principal objective of Creative Movement for the Developing Child is to develop an acute sensory perception during various stages of the child's growth...
in order to increase skills in areas of need. The human organism is constantly searching for something to which it can react. Interest is the force behind this constant search for a stimulus. By using the interests of the young child in motivating goal-directed action, we can help him to make maximum use of his capabilities.
Cyber bullying
Heather E. Schwartz
If a classmate sends threatening e-mails to you, do you know what to do? Don't worry if you don't. This book is here to help!
David’s Gift
Sally Thibault
When author & speaker Sally Thibault's son David was diagnosed with Asperger's Syndrome (AS), it was the beginning of a long struggle.
David’s Gift takes you through Sally’s family’s journey living with David’s difference. Eloquently written with raw truth & honesty, this real-life story confronts the truth about understanding difference and non-judgment. Sally’s exploration of the day-to-day struggles faced by parents of a child with AS is insightful and candid. Here is a special boy & his extraordinary parents, who move from wishing their son was ‘normal’, to recognizing his unique difference & personality. It is a love story about a very special mother who helped David take his first steps towards a less fearful, more connected life. This book shows the journey out of any fractured human situation is always through growth that comes from love, understanding, compassion & forgiveness
Death and Loss Through The Eyes Of A Teen
Maggie Dent
Decoding Dating
John Miller
The rules of dating are a conundrum for many men, but for men with Asperger Syndrome (Autism Spectrum Disorder) who often have difficulty understanding social communication,
they can be almost indecipherable. This book breaks down the social etiquette of dating and gives advice on the best places to meet women, where to go on a first date, what to talk about, and how to tell is a second date is on the cards. And if your dates are a success…how to make a relationship work!
