The Autism Playbook for Teens
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ISBN: 9781626250093
About the Book
“When I was a teen, many of the exercises and activities in this book would have helped me calm down. . This book is a real, practical, and positive guide for reducing stress.”
-Temple Grandin, author of Thinking in Pictures
Teens with autism have the potential to be excellent actors. They are natural observers-able to study, imitate, and learn social behavior. The Autism Playbook for Teens is designed to bolster these strengths with mindfulness strategies and roleplaying scripts, while also helping teens reduce anxiety, manage emotions, be more aware in the present moment, and connect with others.
This book offers a unique, strengths-based approach to help teens with autism spectrum (including Asperger's Syndrome) develop social skills, strengthen communication, and thrive. The activities contained in each chapter are custom-designed to work with the unique perspectives, sensory processing, neurological strengths and challenges that teens with autism bring to their encounters with the social world. By engaging in these activities, teens will gain an authentic awareness of their surroundings, leading to better social interaction that is also rewarding, interesting, and fun.
The delightful and creative activities in this book are grounded in well-documented clinical observations and current empirical studies. They also take into account the real neurological differences that exist in young people with autism, and focuses on the unique pathways needed to connect with and inspire these exceptional and fabulous teenagers.
This is the only book available for teens with autism that specifically integrates mindfulness skills and imaginative scripted roleplaying activities for building authentic social experiences.
Contributors
Books by Irene McHenry
Books by Carol Moog
Books by Susan Kaiser Greenland
Praise
-Tony Attwood, author of The Complete Guide to Asperger's Syndrome
-Robert A. Naseef, PhD, in private practice at Alternative Choices and author of Autism in the Family: Caring and Coping Together
-Trish Broderick, PhD, research associate, Bennett Pierce Prevention Research Center, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA
The specific focus skills that mindfulness develops are precisely those needed by people on the autism spectrum: the ability to concentrate; the ability to detect cues from the environment; and the ability to experience emotional sensations with a kind of gentle matter-of-factness, not suppressing them, but also not holding onto them. These skills working together can help people experience more connectedness, pick up on social cues, and manage their emotional bodies. The book you have in your hand represents a practical guide for achieving these deep goals.”
-Shinzen Young, PhD
-Richard Brady, MS, president and cofounder of the Mindfulness in Education Network and co-editor with Irene McHenry of Tuning In: Mindfulness in Teaching and Learning
-Diane Reibel, PhD, director of the Mindfulness Institute at the Jefferson Myrna-Brind Center of Integrative Medicine and coauthor of Teaching Mindfulness: A Practical Guide for Clinicians and Educators
-Temple Grandin, author of Thinking in Pictures
