Visual Supports for People with Autism: A Guide for Parents and Professionals

by Marlene J. Cohen, Donna L. Sloan, Peter Gerhardt

Book Overview

Most of us use visual supports in our daily lives -- for example, a shopping list, calendar, or a roadmap. Visual supports are particularly beneficial to people with autism because they help make... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 189062747X
• ISBN13: 9781890627478
• Release Date: May 2007
• Publisher: Woodbine House
• Length: 168 Pages
• Weight: 1.13 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 8.5" x 11.0"

Customer Reviews

Book review

I really enjoy this book. It is very organized but unfortunately it isn't very colorful. There is a lot of helpful information in this book.

Excellent resource!

This is an excellent resource for those teachers working with students with autism. Visual supports are the best way to help an autistic child. The techniques described really work!!! The colored pictures of the supports were helpful, too!

An excellent, reader-friendly guide

Experts Marlene J. Cohen and Donna L. Sloan combine their expertise in Visual Supports for People with Autism: A Guide for Parents & Professionals, an educational guide for parents and professionals responsible for instructing children with autism spectrum disorder. Packed with examples and black-and-white photographic illustrations of over 140 visual supports, Visual Supports for People with Autism is an excellent supplementary resource for working on problem learning areas such as language, attention, memory, motivation, sequential skills, or social skills. An excellent, reader-friendly guide featuring reproducible diagrams to facilitate its ideas and concepts for enhancing learning.