Education - ACER

Student Wellbeing
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Building Sensory Friendly Classrooms
to Support Children with Challenging
Behaviors
Rebecca Moyes
Future Horizons 2010
This easy-to-use book helps walk regular and special education teachers
through the process of setting up a sensory-friendly classroom. This is a
unique resource that discusses the importance of data-driven strategies
and helps teachers implement them.
Sensory integration disorder often presents as a behavioural problem;
although it’s an internal state, it has to be addressed based on what
observable behaviours are seen in the child. This book will help make any
student’s (and teacher’s) life easier.
5174BK $29.95
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Learning in Motion
101+ sensory activities for children
Patricia Angermeier, Joan Krzyzanowski and
Kristina Keller Moir
Future Horizons 2009
Learning in Motion features age-appropriate activities for every week
of the school year. Ideal for preschool, kindergarten and primary classes,
each activity has been developed to attract and keep children’s interest
by using a multi-sensory approach, in order to improve children’s learning
and behaviour.
Each classroom-ready activity includes:
• activity goals;
• time required;
• educational objectives;
• materials list;
• step-by-step procedures;
• adaptations for children with special needs; and
• multilevel instruction to match different abilities.
5011BK $79.95
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TRIBES
Jeanne Gibbs
CentreSource Systems, LLC
TRIBES is not a curriculum, nor a program or a collection of activities.
It is an on-going goal-oriented process based on sound principles and
practices that maximise academic, social and emotional development and
learning for today’s children.
How to Teach Life Skills to Kids with
Autism or Asperger’s
Jennifer McIlwee Myers
Future Horizons 2010
No matter how high-functioning children with autism or Asperger’s may
be, they are going to have trouble as adults if they lack skills such as
personal hygiene or multi-tasking. Co-author of the groundbreaking book
Asperger’s and Girls, author Jennifer McIlwee Myers’ personal experience
with Asperger’s syndrome and having a brother with autism makes her
perspective doubly insightful.
From basic skills such as domestic chores, dressing for success and being
polite, to abstract concepts like time management and task-switching,
Jennifer’s straightforward and humorous delivery will keep caregivers
turning the page for the next creative solution.
5167BK $32.95
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The Aspie Teen’s Survival Guide
Candid advice for teens, tweens, and parents
from a young man with Asperger’s syndrome
J D Kraus
Future Horizons 2010
The teenage years are a time when being social is a priority for kids. But
for kids with Asperger’s, who have acute social challenges, these years can
be the most difficult, confusing time in their lives.
Author J D Kraus is a young man who has been there, done that; here he
offers practical advice to his peers so they can get the most out of middle
and high school, both academically and socially.
From sensory sensitivity to awkwardness, dating to driving, this book
tackles it all. The Notes to Parents sections also offer great advice for
caregivers and educators alike.
5187BK $27.95
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All TRIBES resources are available exclusively from ACER.
Information about training being held in 2011 is available online.
http://shop.acer.edu.au/acer-shop/group/TRIBES10