Teaching Playskills to Children With Autistic Spectrum Disorder: A Practical Guide

By Melinda Smith

Book Overview

Teaching Playskills is a comprehensive manual encompassing the many aspects of play and how they can be incorporated into the lives of children with developmental delays. Written accessibly and... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0966526635
• ISBN13: 9780966526639
• Release Date: January 2001
• Publisher: Different Roads to Learning Inc
• Length: 175 Pages
• Weight: 1.26 lbs.
• Dimensions: 10.8" x 0.8" x 8.3"

Customer Reviews

excellent

Phenomenal resource for parents and therapists. Great suggestions for play activities and language to supplement. Highly recommended.

Some great play ideas for kids with ASD

This book is what the title describes. It's not "sexy reading", and it's takes a little work to get through it, but it gives parents some great ideas for playing with their ASD kids. Heck, it has some great ideas for playing with normal/typical kids, too. If you are looking for some inspiration for working with your little one, I recommend.

Playing can be fun

As adults we forget "how" to play, this book more than reminds us. It outlines ways to play with blocks, legos, puzzles, action figures and lots more. Anything your child enjoys playing with can be used to teach playskills. The step-by-step concrete instructions include dialogue and almost guarantee success. Skills addressed include imitative play, pretend play, toy play, music, games and sensory play. This book is sooo helpful and full of great ideas.

This book has boosted our in-home ABA program!

This book has taken our in-home Verbal Behavior program to new heights! It is simple to read, understand and implement! My son has ASD and is 3.6 yrs. old....he has a vocabulary of maybe 25 words at this point but his play skills are now booming! The ideas that Dr.Smith gives are for all levels of dev. delays....this allows the book to assist us as my son moves onward and upward. My therapists are also extremely happy with his progress. Kudos! Dr.Smith....thank you for helping a parent in need....someday I'll have my son write you a thank you himself......just you wait and see!