Adventures in Special Education
by: Merrill Winston
This book is for behavior analysts, teachers and parents of children with disabilities who are being served in public school settings. The book shows practitioners how to reconceptualize behavior problems and how to come up with a variety of solutions to treat what is seemingly only a single problem.
ABLLS-R: Assessment of Basic Language and Learning Skills
by: James W. Partington
This book is an assessment, curriculum guide, and skills tracking system for children with language delays. It is based on the science of Applied Behavioral Analysis with Skinner's theory of Verbal Behavior along with research by Dr. Partington and includes 25 repertoire areas covering 544 skills.
VB-MAPP: Verbal Behavior Milestones Assessment and Placement Program
by: Mark L. Sundberg
contains a description of how to use Skinner's analysis of verbal behavior for language assessment, the assessment instructions, and the specific scoring criteria for each of the 170 milestones. In addition, it contains a placement guide that offers specific suggestions for programming and direction for each of the 170 milestones achieved, as well as suggestions for IEP goals for each skill presented in the three levels of the VB-MAPP.
Relationship Development Intervention with Young Children
by: Steven Gutstein & Rachelle Sheely
Friendship, even for the most able, requires hard work, and the odds are heavily stacked against those with autism spectrum conditions. Designed for younger children, typically between the ages of two and eight, this comprehensive set of enjoyable activities emphasizes foundation skills such as social referencing, regulating behavior, conversational reciprocity, and synchronized actions.
The Picture Exchange Communication System
by: Lori Frost and Andrew Bondy
The Picture Exchange Communication System( PECS) is a unique augmentative/ alternative communication training package developed for use with young children with autism and other social- communication deficits. It has been used with hundreds of young children with autism and other disabilities around the United States and in several other countries. It is a system that does not require complex materials or highly technical training.
The Way to A: Empowering Children with Autism Spectrum and Other Neurological Disorders to Monitor and Replace Aggression and Tantrum Behavior
by: Hunter Manasco
The Way to A, designed for children ages 3 to 9 years old, presents a simple, logical, and systematic strategy that clarifies and sequentially teaches the child how to manage his behavior by engaging in forethought and self-analysis before acting out.
A 5 Is Against the Law! Social Boundaries: Straight Up! An honest guide for teens and young adults
by: Kari Dunn Buron
This book takes a narrower look at challenging behavior with a particular focus on behaviors that can spell trouble for adolescents and young adults who have difficulty understanding and maintaining social boundaries. Using a direct and simple style with lots of examples and hands-on activities, A 5 Is Against the Law! speaks directly to adolescents and young adults.
The Teacher's Encyclopedia of Behavior Management: 100 problems/500 plans
by: Randall Sprick and Lisa Howard
Comprehensive and insightful, the Teacher's Encyclopedia offers more than 500 easy-to-implement intervention plans, covering over 100 common classroom problems, including Arguing-Students with the teacher and students with each other, Blaming others/Excuses for everything, Cliques/Ganging up, Forgetting materials, Homework issues, and many more.
Comic Strip Conversations
by: Carol Gray
Carol Gray combines stick-figures with "conversation symbols" to illustrate what people say and think during conversations. Showing what people are thinking reinforces that others have independent thoughts - a concept spectrum children don't intuitively understand.
Improving Social Behaviors in the Classroom
by: Stephanny Freeman, Gazi Begum, Kristen Hayashida, & Tanya Paparella
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.
Essential for Living: A Communication, Behavior, and Functional Skills Assessment, Curriculum, and Teaching Manual
by: Patrick McGreevy, Troy Fry, & Colleen Cornwall
Essential for Living is a communication, behavior, and functional skills assessment, curriculum, and skill-tracking instrument for both children and adults with moderate-to-severe disabilities. It is especially useful for learners with limited communication repertoires, minimal daily living skills, or severe problem behavior.
The ABA Program Companion: Organizing quality Programs for Children with Autism and PDD
by: J. Tyler Fovel, M.A. BCBA
This excellent new manual and CD is geared towards helping the reader integrate important theories and concepts from ABA into powerful, practical and comprehensive educational programming, from assessment through program methodology and evaluation of results.
Basic Skills Checklists: Teacher-Friendly Assessment for Students with Autism or Special Needs
by: Marelene Breitenbach, M.D.Ed., BCBA
Basic Skills Checklists is an easy-to-use, informal assessment tool that brings method to the madness of classroom assessment. It focuses on pre-academic, readiness, and academic skills expected from learners in the early elementary years. The author developed these helpful checklists in special-needs and inclusive classrooms while serving children with autism and other developmental disabilities.
The Incredible 5-Point Scale: The Significantly Improved and Expanded Second Edition; Assisting students in understanding social interactions and controlling their emotional responses
by: Kari Dunn Buron & Mitzi Beth Curtis
Using the same practical and user-friendly format as the first edition, Buron and Curtis let readers benefit from work done with the scales over the past 10 years, to result in refinements to the original scales, now considered "classics" in homes and classrooms across the country and abroad, as well as lots of new scales.
The New Social Story Book, Revised and Expanded 10th Anniversary Edition: Over 150 Social Stories that Teach Everyday Social Skills to Children with Autism or Asperger's Syndrome, and their Peers
by: Carol Gray
Social Stories provide REAL social understanding! Carol Gray developed the Social Story in 1991 to promote social understanding in children with autism spectrum disorders (ASD). Now, nearly twenty years after their inception, Social Stories have become a standard approach for teachers and parents all over the globe, and the stories are more effective than ever!
Brain Gym® Teacher's Edition
by: Paul E. Dennison and Gail E. Dennison
Brain Gym Teacher's Edition details the 26 Brain Gym activities used around the world by people of all ages and abilities to make learning easier. This is a stand-alone book for parents, teachers, and learners who want in-depth descriptions and variations for the 26 Brain Gym activities. The book references recent research in the field of neuroplasticity as it shows how learners can master the physical skills required for development of academic abilities.
Functional Assessment and Program Development for Problem Behavior: A Practical Handbook
by: Robert E. O'Neill, Robert H. Horner, Richard W. Albin, Keith Storey, and Jeffrey R. Sprague
This new edition of the authors' guide to functional assessment procedures includes a variety of strategies for assessing problem behavior situations and presents a systematic approach for designing behavioral support programs based on those assessments.
Behavior Management Strategies and a Curriculum for Intensive Behavioral Treatment of Autism
by: Ron Leaf, John McEachin, and Jaisom D. Harsh
Guide to Educate Children Diagnosed with Autism Through Applied Behavior Analysis
The Assessment of Functional Living Skills
by: James W. Partington and Michael M. Mueller
In all, more than 730 different functional skills are assessed across 24 different areas at home and in the community. The Assessment of Functional Living Skills is designed for use by Parents, Teachers, Behavior Analysts, Speech Language Pathologists, Psychologists, Direct Care Staff, and other care givers.
Teamwork Isn't My Thing, and I Don't Like to Share: Activity Guide for Teachers
by: Julia Cook
Julia Cook has created entertaining games and engaging activities (using everything from jigsaw puzzles and beach balls to spaghetti and marshmallows) that teach students in grades K-6 the social skills of working as a team and sharing. This guide offers everything teachers need: instructions, lists of materials when needed, activity sheets, homework ideas, and suggestions on variations and extensions.
Social Behavior and Self-Management: 5-Point Scales for Adolescents and Adults
by: Kari Dunn Buron, Mitzi Beth Curtis, Lisa King and Jane Thierfeld Brown
This book uses scales as a way of explaining social and emotional concepts to individuals who have difficulty understanding such information but have a relative strength in understanding systems. The 5-point scales can be used to increase communication between the person on the spectrum and their support person.
Understanding Applied Behavior Analysis: An Introduction to ABA for Parents, Teachers, and Other Professionals
by: Albert J. Kearney
Applied Behavior Analysis (ABA) is based on the premise that behavior can be influenced by changes in environment and by the reinforcing consequences of that behavior. This introductory guide to ABA demystifies the basic terminology, the underlying principles and commonly-used procedures of ABA using accessible, everyday language.
CHAMPS: A Proactive and Positive Approach to Classroom Management
by: Randy Sprick, Ph.D.
The second edition of CHAMPS assists classroom teachers to design (or fine-tune) a proactive and positive classroom management plan that will overtly teach students how to behave responsibly. The new 2nd edition includes tips and resources to make this definitive guide to classroom management even more user-friendly.
The Zones of Regulation
by: Leah M. Kuypers, MA Ed. OTR/L
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.
The Power of Positive Parenting: A Wonderful Way to Raise Children
by: Glenn Latham
It is more than a manual than it is a book; hence, it must be read, then reread, then read some more. Wide margins have been provided for note taking. Use it as a tool with which to build your family.
Quick Wins
by: Manuel Rodriguez, Paul Gavoni
By reading Quick Wins!, school leaders or any stakeholder will learn techniques for immediately engaging people in major turnarounds. These simple proven strategies will rapidly strengthen trust in leadership, drastically improve morale, and advance student achievement.
Books for Professionals
I Never Metaphor I Didn't Like
by: Dr. Mardy Frothe
In this intellectual smorgasbord, the author explains figurative language in a refreshingly down-to-earth way before taking readers on a tour of history's greatest word pictures. In chapters on wit, love, sex, stage and screen, insults, politics, sports, and more, you will find quotations from Aristotle and Maya Angelou to George Washington and Oprah Winfrey.
Teach Like a Champion
by: Doug Lemov
This book offers effective teaching techniques to help teachers, especially those in their first few years, become champions in the classroom. These powerful techniques are concrete, specific, and are easy to put into action the very next day. Training activities at the end of each chapter help the reader further their understanding through reflection and application of the ideas to their own practice.
