This video offers practical actions fathers can take to help understand a child with AS. The program includes sections on: taking the offensive, customizing your approach, preparing a game plan, being flexible, being patient, becoming bulletproof and other steps to help find the bright side of AS. ...
This video describes what young people with Asperger Syndrome need to do to find and hold a job. It’s relevant for people with a range of challenges and abilities—and includes sections on making a good job match, how to approach employers, key workplace skills, disclosure issues, and negotiating accommodations. Video interviews include: ...
This book is a rich source of information for helping parents and professionals alike understand Asperger Syndrome and its implications. A major strength of the book is ...
Author(s): Holliday Willey and Tony Attwood, Michael Thompson Productions
Crossing the Bridge presents Asperger Syndrome through the eyes of Dr. Liane Holliday Willey, an adult diagnosed with the disorder. Dr. Tony Attwood, a leading expert in the field, interviews Liane as they discuss her struggles and ...
Organizational skills are traditionally broadly defined and broadly taught. For students with challenges in the areas of multi-tasking or executive functioning managing homework can be overwhelming to the point of meltdown.
Through her warmth and engaging teaching style, Michelle explains different types of organizational tasks, and how to help students focus more on their strengths than their weaknesses when approaching a homework assignment. Michelle presents 10 steps for organizing and producing homework. While this DVD focuses specifically on many of the skills needed to complete a night of homework, the skills learned apply far beyond this one task. We use these same 10 steps throughout our lives to manage our jobs, chores and even planning and going on vacations.
Michelle encourages us to ...
The authors (both mothers of AS children) effectively trace the disorder from the onset of symptoms through adulthood. While most parents may be tempted to skip straight to Chapter 2 to devour the list of telltale signs and apply them to their own child, they would do well to start at the beginning. ...
