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June 2023 – Currently unavailable. Please contact CRU for more information.
A Manual of Sensitivity and Awareness Presentations on Autism Spectrum
The author’s goal is to provide a menu of teachings to help others learn about the unique ways in which individuals with autism experience this world by attempting to provide teachings that match a variety of learning styles and are appropriate for all ages of students.
While these sensitivity strategies have been primarily developed for school settings, they have applicability in a variety of non-school settings as well, including vocational sites, adult living facilities, day care settings, neighborhood and community settings, and family groups. Additionally, while the focus has been specifically on students with autism, there is obviously application across all areas of challenge and difference.
“This wonderful book lives up to the high standards I have come to expect from Kate McGinnity and Nan Negri—creative, thoughtful, sensitive, current and practical. A must for every parent, every professional and every child who lives with autism. Buy it. Read it. Love it.”—Anne M. Donnellan, Ph.D., Director of the University of San Diego Autism Institute, and Professor Emerita, University of Wisconsin-Madison.
“I especially liked the quotes from people with autism, Planet Autism [page 34], and the visual, auditory and tactile exercises to simulate the sensory problems of people with autism. The main thing is all the exercises people can do so teachers, parents, and others can experience how a person with autism senses and feels the world.”—Temple Grandin, Associate Professor of Animal Science at Colorado State University, and author of Emergence: Labeled Autistic, and Thinking in Pictures.