How Do I Teach This Kid?: Visual Work Tasks for Beginning Learners on the Autism Spectrum

First Runner-Up in the 2006 Writer's Notes Book Awards, this book utilizes the strengths of children with ASD to help them develop new skills. Tasks are visually oriented, consistent; expectations are clear. Using easy-to-make "task boxes" children learn:

• motor
• matching
• sorting
• reading
• writing
• and math skills

Tasks include:

• pushing items through a small openings (children love the "resistance" it takes to push them through)
• matching simple, identical pictures or words
• sorting objects by c...