• Recommended age: as early as possible; all
• Prerequisites: none

Guide to distinguishing and understanding ASD diagnoses, the evaluation process, treatments, and terminology. Useful for parents who suspect their child might have an ASD or question their child's current diagnosis.
 

• Recommended age: all
• Prerequisites: can accept physical prompts and use or learn to use activity schedules
• Diagnosis: Autistic Disorder, PDD-NOS

• Recommended age: all
• Prerequisites: none

• Recommended age: all
• Prerequisites: can indicate wants verbally

• Recommended age: all
• Prerequisites: none

Teaching strategies for parents that help children learn new skills and improve behavior so they can participate in family life, establish greater independence, and put into action what they're learning at school and in the community.

• Recommended age: kindergarten through early elementary
• Prerequisites: none

Provides general education teachers with an overview of the types, characteristics, and treatments for children with ASD and describes practical strategies to manage learning and behavior for students in inclusive classrooms.

• Recommended age: as early as possible; all
• Prerequisites: none

Explores what to look for in an early intensive behavioral intervention program and illustrates how ABA can be used to teach children speech and language, social, motor, and adaptive skills.

• Recommended age: toddlers to adults
• Prerequisites: none

Describes a strategy used to identify the factors contributing to problem behaviors--noncompliance, aggression, and repetitive actions--in people with ASD.

• Recommended age: all
• Prerequisites: none

Explains how to choose and teach replacement behaviors for problem behaviors once the function of those behaviors are known, plus strategies that can prevent challenging behaviors in the first place. Use with Functional Behavior Assessment.

• Recommended age: all
• Prerequisites: none

Describes motivational methods (reinforcements, rewards, token systems, choice) to teach people with ASDs valuable new skills and encourage independence and self-management.

• Recommended age: all
• Prerequisites: none

Overview and instructions for developing and using activity schedules--pictures or words that cue a child to independently complete a series of activities.

• Recommended age: all
• Prerequisites: none

Overview of how visual aids can be used to improve academic performance, behavior, language, interaction with others, and self-help skills in people with ASD.
 

• Recommended age: preschool to elementary
• Prerequisites: none
• Diagnosis: Autistic Disorder, Asperger's,
  PDD-NOS

Guide to helping children develop social behaviors using ABA techniques. Includes specific strategies and activities for fostering play and conversation skills at school and home.

• Recommended age: 2 years to early teens (or older people with skill levels in this range)
• Prerequisites: can pay attention to an activity (5-10 minutes), respond to name and the instruction "look," follow simple one-step directions, indicate wants nonverbally, imitate actions, accept physical prompts

Systematically describes trusted techniques for teaching eating, dressing, toileting, and personal hygiene skills by breaking complex skills into a series of small steps (task analysis). Describes how to select target goals, monitor progress, and fine-tune your aproach.

• Recommended age: as early as possible; all
• Prerequisites: none

Explores the impact of autism on sibling relationships. Covers siblings' understanding of autism at different ages and ways parents can foster play and social interactions between siblings.