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Online Article

Know Your Rights: Guardian Edition

Funded by the Law Foundation of British Columbia, "Know your Rights" serves as a handbook for parents of children with Learning Disabilities (LD) and/or Attention Deficit Disorder ...

Classifications: Advocacy, Education

Online Video

Autism Demystification® Online Course Manual

Friend 2 Friend Autism Demystification® Model

The Autism Demystification® Online Course provides participants with the knowledge, tools and techniques to implement the Friend 2 Friend Autism Demystification® Puppet Program c...

Classifications: Education

Website

Autism Training Program for First Responders

A Bilingual Resource

This training program was developed in order to assist first responders across Canada to train their teams about autism. This program includes basic information as well as strategi...

Classifications: Education, Safety

Online Article

360 Thinking

An Executive Function Model and Program

This online article describes the 360 Thinking model, which aims to promote children's executive functioning skills. The article emphasizes how this model encourages children to c...

Classifications: Related Conditions, Education

Online Article

Navigating College

A Handbook on Self Advocacy

This online guide features a number of essays written by autistic people about post-secondary, university, and college education. The essays offer advice about self-advocacy, inde...

Classifications: Education, Adults With ASD

Online Article

Youth with Autism Gain, Keep Jobs after Employer-Based Skills Program, VCU Research Finds

This online article discusses how employment programs delivered in high school can promote better employment outcomes for people on the autism spectrum as they enter adulthood. It...

Classifications: Employment, Education

Online Video

College and Students on the Autism Spectrum

Yale Autism Seminar

This online video (55 min), part of the Yale Autism Program's undergraduate seminar on autism, provides an introduction to the topic of post-secondary students on the autism spectr...

Classifications: Adults With ASD, Education

Online Video

Being a Professional in the Autism Field

What The Most Important Tools Are

This online video discusses some of the tools which professionals use in the autism field. The presenter notes that professionals do not always apply their theoretical knowledge i...

Classifications: Autism Spectrum Disorders, Education

Online Article

Daily Life Therapy and Autism

This online article describes and evaluates Daily Life Therapy, an approach which provides specialized education to children on the autism spectrum. The therapy focuses on physica...

Classifications: Evaluating Autism Information, Education

Online Article

Bullying Guide for Parents

This online article discusses how children on the autism spectrum are at an elevated risk of being bullied, and it discusses how parents can notice and address bullying. Founded...

Classifications: Safety, Education

Online Article

Bullying

This online article discusses how children on the autism spectrum are at a high risk for being bullied, and it provides suggestions which parents can use to help address bullying. ...

Classifications: Safety, Education

Online Article

Anxiety at School

Children and Teenagers with Autism Spectrum Disorder

This online article discusses how parents can work with schools to address anxiety in their children on the autism spectrum. Raising Children Network is an information resource ...

Classifications: Mental Health, Education

Online Article

Design for Autism

This online article describes how the New Struan School, for students on the autism spectrum in Scotland, was designed with the sensory issues experienced by people on the autism s...

Classifications: Education, Sensory Issues

Online Article

Avoiding Over-use of Paraeducator Support for Individual Students

This online article discusses some of the problems which can arise if students receive excessive support from para-educators, or education assistants. It suggests that para-educat...

Classifications: Education

Online Article

Effective Educational Practices for Students with Autism Spectrum Disorders

A Resource Guide

This online guide is intended as a resource for school teachers. It provides an introduction to autism, offers teaching strategies, introduces interventions and strategies for soc...

Classifications: Education

Online Article

Autism and School Phobia

Parents Seek Help for Anxious Teen

This online article discusses how young people on the autism spectrum can develop school phobia, anxiety specifically about going to school, or agoraphobia, anxiety about leaving t...

Classifications: Mental Health, Education

Online Video

Autism's Own Conference 2017

Conversations on Autism over the Lifespan

This online video shows the fifth Autism's Own Conference, which features three panel discussions with a number of self-advocates on the autism spectrum between the ages of 14 and ...

Classifications: Adults With ASD, Education

Online Article

Daily Life Skills

This short article, part of Scotland's Web Resource on Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASDs), discusses how people on the autism spectrum may have difficulty with daily living skills. ...

Classifications: Family Life, Education

Online Article

Healthy School Relationships

Children and Teenagers with Autism Spectrum Disorder

This online article discusses friendships and autism. It provides advice to help parents and caregivers promote healthy friendships for their children on the autism spectrum. R...

Classifications: Education, Social Skills

Online Article

Helping Children with Autism to Learn

Practical Information for Teaching Pupils with Autism

This online information sheet provides suggestions to help teachers better support the education of children on the autism spectrum. Autism West Midlands aims "to provide specia...

Classifications: Education

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