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Thriving with Autism: 90 Activities to Encourage Your Child's Communication, Engagement, and Play
Helping children with autism strengthen their connections―simple, supportive strategies
To help you in your efforts to help your child flourish, this book has 90 playful, evidence-based activities. Thriving with Autism provides an easy, effective toolbox to supplement and support the developmental work parents and caregivers are doing with their children. These solutions are designed for kids with autism from ages 1 to 11. The benefits can last a lifetime.
From building better conversation abilities to strengthening social skills, Thriving with Autism delivers practical, everyday ways to connect, encourage, and play. Featuring exercises like Acts of Friendliness, The Human Burrito, and Emotional Charades, this comprehensive guide encourages your child with autism to boost their communication, engagement, and self-regulation skills.
Thriving with Autism features:
Hands-on activities―Make learning fun with lots of lessons that can help kids across the autism spectrum.
Simple strategies―Tackle these easy, research-driven activities one by one at home.
Engaging and practical―Find helpful tips and suggestions, as well as full-color illustrations that are sure to inspire and delight you and your child.
Now there’s a smart, sensible way to help teach kids with autism necessary skills.
To help you in your efforts to help your child flourish, this book has 90 playful, evidence-based activities. Thriving with Autism provides an easy, effective toolbox to supplement and support the developmental work parents and caregivers are doing with their children. These solutions are designed for kids with autism from ages 1 to 11. The benefits can last a lifetime.
From building better conversation abilities to strengthening social skills, Thriving with Autism delivers practical, everyday ways to connect, encourage, and play. Featuring exercises like Acts of Friendliness, The Human Burrito, and Emotional Charades, this comprehensive guide encourages your child with autism to boost their communication, engagement, and self-regulation skills.
Thriving with Autism features:
Hands-on activities―Make learning fun with lots of lessons that can help kids across the autism spectrum.
Simple strategies―Tackle these easy, research-driven activities one by one at home.
Engaging and practical―Find helpful tips and suggestions, as well as full-color illustrations that are sure to inspire and delight you and your child.
Now there’s a smart, sensible way to help teach kids with autism necessary skills.
176 pages, Paperback
Published April 28, 2020
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About the author
Katie Cook
2 booksLibrarian Note: There is more than one author by this name in the Goodreads database.
Katie Cook, MED, BCBA, is the Academic Director at ATCConline.com, an award-winning ABA training center. ATCC offers online RBT Certification, eLearning Caregiver Training, and Remote BCBA Supervision. ATCC just released its first ever Autism Parenting Program & Caregiver Community called Activities-in-Action.com - where fun and easy learning strategies and activities are shared through video demonstrations including access to needed materials and professional support. Activities-in-Action.com is the perfect compliment to the popular book, Thriving with Autism.
Katie graduated with honors from California State University, Long Beach. Katie continued her education at National University, La Jolla, and earned her Master of Education with a Specialization in Autism. She later studied under Jose Martinez-Diaz, Ph.D., BCBA-D, associate dean, professor, and head of the School of Behavior Analysis at the Florida Institute of Technology.
She has dedicated her professional career to building strategies that bring entire families into the therapeutic environment for children with autism. Parent education and caregiver involvement are her passions and she believes these are the cornerstones of successful ABA programs. Katie is guided by her love for ABA and has spent years building her home therapy practice, ABA Services, into a wholehearted organization, characterized by complete sincerity and commitment to helping children with autism.
Katie is also the owner and academic director of Autism Therapy Career College (ATCConline.com), an online training institution which offers parent education resources, Registered Behavior Technician (RBT) certification services, and remote fieldwork supervision for graduate students seeking their Board Certified Behavior Analyst (BCBA) certification with the Behavior Analyst Certification Board (BACB).
Katie Cook, MED, BCBA, is the Academic Director at ATCConline.com, an award-winning ABA training center. ATCC offers online RBT Certification, eLearning Caregiver Training, and Remote BCBA Supervision. ATCC just released its first ever Autism Parenting Program & Caregiver Community called Activities-in-Action.com - where fun and easy learning strategies and activities are shared through video demonstrations including access to needed materials and professional support. Activities-in-Action.com is the perfect compliment to the popular book, Thriving with Autism.
Katie graduated with honors from California State University, Long Beach. Katie continued her education at National University, La Jolla, and earned her Master of Education with a Specialization in Autism. She later studied under Jose Martinez-Diaz, Ph.D., BCBA-D, associate dean, professor, and head of the School of Behavior Analysis at the Florida Institute of Technology.
She has dedicated her professional career to building strategies that bring entire families into the therapeutic environment for children with autism. Parent education and caregiver involvement are her passions and she believes these are the cornerstones of successful ABA programs. Katie is guided by her love for ABA and has spent years building her home therapy practice, ABA Services, into a wholehearted organization, characterized by complete sincerity and commitment to helping children with autism.
Katie is also the owner and academic director of Autism Therapy Career College (ATCConline.com), an online training institution which offers parent education resources, Registered Behavior Technician (RBT) certification services, and remote fieldwork supervision for graduate students seeking their Board Certified Behavior Analyst (BCBA) certification with the Behavior Analyst Certification Board (BACB).
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April 29, 2020
This is a wealth of information and full of activities for those of us who have kids with autism and sensory processing disorder. I would have loved a book like this when my daughter was younger.
I wouldn’t say the activities are new to me as we learned several of the
techniques from my daughters therapist. In other words they may be different in variety and play different or even using different items but are basically the same concept. This book would have been a huge resource for me when my daughter was younger. Having a resource like this would have been a game changer and gave me more things to do at home with her.
The activities are set up to work on communication, engagement skills, play skills, social skills, motor skills, sensory integration, and self-regulation skills. Each of these areas are discussed and expounded on.
The book tells you supplies needed. All the supplies are everyday items. The instructions are broken down step-by-step and easy to follow and understand.
I loved the chapter on being independent that helps with things like brushing your teeth, potty, money management, and going shopping. I love the activities on food introduction. This is one area I wish I would have known about when my daughter was younger. I would have done this early in her diagnosed rather than learning about it several years in. It might have helped my daughter to deal with texture, smell, and taste.
This is a great resource for parents and therapist alike.
I received a copy of this product from Callisto Publisher's in exchange for my honest review. I was not required to write a positive review.
I wouldn’t say the activities are new to me as we learned several of the
techniques from my daughters therapist. In other words they may be different in variety and play different or even using different items but are basically the same concept. This book would have been a huge resource for me when my daughter was younger. Having a resource like this would have been a game changer and gave me more things to do at home with her.
The activities are set up to work on communication, engagement skills, play skills, social skills, motor skills, sensory integration, and self-regulation skills. Each of these areas are discussed and expounded on.
The book tells you supplies needed. All the supplies are everyday items. The instructions are broken down step-by-step and easy to follow and understand.
I loved the chapter on being independent that helps with things like brushing your teeth, potty, money management, and going shopping. I love the activities on food introduction. This is one area I wish I would have known about when my daughter was younger. I would have done this early in her diagnosed rather than learning about it several years in. It might have helped my daughter to deal with texture, smell, and taste.
This is a great resource for parents and therapist alike.
I received a copy of this product from Callisto Publisher's in exchange for my honest review. I was not required to write a positive review.
April 17, 2020
I received a complimentary copy.
If you have a child with autism you may be able to see which of these will be ok and some that might not work with the more special needs. All great tips though and really interesting ideas.
If you have a child with autism you may be able to see which of these will be ok and some that might not work with the more special needs. All great tips though and really interesting ideas.
January 9, 2022
Great activities to try and loved all the representation in the illustrations
August 18, 2022
No. Bordering on ableist. Should have known Autism Speaks would be suggested resource in the back.
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August 10, 2025
Very helpful in switching things up with my little one and family. Would definitely recommend this book to other parents and families.
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