ASD Videos / DVDs

Asperger's Syndrome, Volume 2: Anger Management, Teaching Teachers, Teenage Issues

This is the second DVD in the Attwood series on Asperger’s Syndrome. The first is a widely acclaimed introduction into Asperger’s Syndrome. This DVD goes into depth on three important issues: • Anger management • Teaching teachers • Teenage issues.

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Autism Spectrum Disorders and the SCERTS Model

The SCERTS™ (Social Communication, Emotional Regulation, and Transactional Support) model was developed by Barry M. Prizant, director of Childhood Communication Services (CCS) and adjunct professor in the Center for the Study of Human Development, Brown University and his colleagues. It is a comprehensive and multidisciplinary model designed to build a path toward improved communication and social-emotional abilities for children with ASD. The model encourages child progress in three primary areas: social communication, emotional regulation, and transactional support. Using this multidisciplinary model, parents, educators, and therapists will develop strong teamwork skills and learn specific goals and strategies for creating learning opportunities within daily activities for children who have ASD.

[ http://www.scerts.com ]

Intricate Minds: Understanding classmates with Asperger Syndrome

This DVD/video includes interviews with teenagers designed to promote positive interactions between classmates and reduce harassment and bullying. Through interviews with students who have Asperger Syndrome (AS), the video offers an inside look at how teenagers with AS act, think, and feel and how they're routinely treated. The students talk about their strengths as well as their challenges and describe how important is it to them to be treated with respect. After viewing this video, classmates should be less likely to ignore or harass students with AS and be more willing to treat them as equals. The program of three DVDs is designed for students in high school and middle school and is an excellent staff development tool.

Manners for the real world: Basic social skills

This program shows students from upper-elementary through high school how to act during some of the most common interactions between people. The program covers personal hygiene, conversations, introductions, telephone and Internet use, table manners, behavior for ladies and gentlemen, manners in public, serving as a host, and being a guest.

Viewers can watch one subject at a time, or play the entire video. The video can help young people who don't easily pick up social skills by themselves, but need clear, specific examples of appropriate manners and behaviors.

My Life Book: Future Planning for People with Developmental Disabilities

This program was designed to help families think through and design a plan for the future. The engaging video follows the stories of four families as they attend a future planning class of their child with a developmental disability and begin the process of making important life decisions. Parents of children with developmental disabilities can use this program with their child to create a record of important information and as a planning tool for the future. Sons and daughters can be active participants in creating My Life Book. The program can also be used by a group leader or instructor to teach a class on future planning for community members or participants in a special program.

Normal People Scare Me

Normal People Scare Me is a feature-length documentary sharing first-person accounts of life and living with autism. Created by Taylor Cross, a 17-year-old aspiring film maker with high-functioning autism, The DVD highlights portions of 65 interviews conducted over a two-year period by Cross.

Sensory Processing Disorder: Simulations and Solutions for Parents, Teachers and Therapists

This practical DVD presented by Jenny Clark Brack, a pediatric Occupational Therapist with over 16 years experience in school settings provides basic information about sensory systems along with simple solutions for how to deal with sensory challenges both at home and at school. Viewers will experience what it feels like to have a sensory processing disorder by engaging in simulated exercises for a variety of sensory-processing difficulties. Kit includes enough materials for a group of as many as 25-50 participants.

Social Thinking Across the Home and School Day

This resource was produced by The Gray Center in conjunction Michelle Garcia Winner a speech and language pathologist in private practice in San Jose, California. It is intended to assist parents and professionals in facilitating social thinking and related skills. In this two-part video series, the first video consists of a presentation defining the ILAUGH framework (a six-point model of social cognition). In the second, Michelle demonstrates ILAUGH with both elementary-and high school-aged children in individual and group sessions. This resource would be appropriate for staff development or parent group trainings.

Strategies for Organization: Preparing for Homework and the Real World

In this 2-part DVD series, Michelle explains different types of organizational tasks and how to help students focus more on their strengths than their weaknesses when approaching a homework assignment. Michelle presents 10 steps for organizing and producing homework. While this DVD focuses specifically on many of the skills needed to complete a night of homework, the skills learned apply far beyond this one task. These same 10 steps can be used throughout our lives to manage our jobs, chores and even planning and going on vacations. Michelle encourages educators and families to start the process of teaching toward more abstract homework assignments in early elementary school, rather than waiting until all the hard lessons hit at once.

[ http://www.thegraycenter.org ]

The Hidden Curriculum: Teaching What is Meaningful

In this DVD, Brenda Smith Myles, a recognized expert on autism spectrum disorders specializing in Asperger syndrome and a faculty member at the University of Kansas gives practical suggestions and advice for how to teach and learn those subtle messages that most people seem to pick up almost automatically but that have to be directly taught to individuals with social-cognitive challenges. Given the serious consequences that can befall a person who violates a social rule, the strategies discussed make this a much-needed resource.

Visual Strategies Workshop: Working with Autism and Related Communication and Behavior Challenges

The Visual Strategies Workshop is a five-video set filmed at a live presentation of a workshop by Linda Hodgdon, a speech/language pathologist who has published several books on the topic of visual strategies. It provides lots of information about how to use visual strategies and is packed with samples and examples of visual strategies that have proven successful with students with ASD and other moderate to severe communication or behavior challenges. The information is pertinent for every educator or parent who provides support for these students.

Writing Social Stories

In this three-hour presentation, Carol Gray who developed Social Stories™, explains the genesis for her concept and leads the audience through exercises where they can write their own social stories. Social Stories™ is effective strategy to teach social skills.

[ http://www.thegraycenter.org/ ]