Links and references

Web sites

  • Guidelines for Speech-Language Pathologists in Diagnosis,  Assessment, and Treatment of Autism Spectrum Disorders across the Lifespan.  http://www.asha.org/docs/html/GL2006-00049.html
  • Unbiased information about a variety of different possible intervention methods and strategies and much more helpful information.  My favorite site for this kind of information is http://staging.fingerprint-interactive.com/kyles_treehouse/
  •  Floortime is the most well-known of the play based interventions.  I recommend studying Floortime in order to understand children with special educational and parenting needs, particularly in the areas of emotional development and cognitive development:  http://www.floortime.org
  • If you are looking for some interesting information regarding which intervention system is most effective: Facts on Intervention for ASD 
  • Relationship Development Intervention (RDI) is a relative newcomer on the intervention method's block but the developers of RDI have reorganize intervention ideas from many different autism intervention programs and added some wonderful original programming ideas of their own.  My reading list of favorite books is almost all off of their website book list.   rdiconnect.com 

  • Autism Papers by Susan Stokes:  For great, practical information about visual supports and more  http://www.specialed.us/autism/index2.htm
  • SCERTS is a very well researched intervention system that was developed with a strong emphasis on communication and emotional regulation.  I organize my treatment plans using SCERTS objectives because these objectives are both general enough and specific enough.  http://www.scerts.com 
  • Two books that are good references for creating and using visual supports for children with ASD are Linda A. Hodgdon's books Solving Behavior Problems in Autism and Visual Strategies For Improving Communication.   
  • Virtues Cards by Virtues Project International, Inc (2002) virtuesproject.com
    I have included this site because far too much energy goes into a deficit model for understanding children: I use these cards as a counter weight for my own thinking and to help parents use the concept of virtues as a way of seeing the capacity in their child and in themselves.
  • Simplesongs, for music that is at the right speed, language level and complexity to appeal to the young child with ASD  simplesongs.blogs.com

Visual Supports

Augmentative Communication Systems

Books that have shaped my thinking

  • Fogel, Alan (1993). Developing Through Relationships. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
  • Gutstein, Steven E., and Sheely, Rachelle K. (2002) Relationship Development Intervention with Young Children. London, England: Athenaeum Press.
  • Gutstein, Steven E., Ph.D. (2000) Autism/Aspergers: Solving the Relationship Puzzle. Arlington, TX: Future Horizons.
  • Hobson, Peter (2004). The Cradle of Thought. New York: Oxford University Press.
  • Hodgdon, Linda A., M.Ed., CCC-SLP. (1999) Solving Behavior Problems in Autism. Troy, MI: Quirk Roberts Publishing.
  • Miller, Arnold, and Eller-Miller, Eileen. (1989) From Ritual to Repertoire. New York: John Wiley & Sons.
  • Prizant, Barry M., Wetherby, A. M., Rubin, E., Laurent, A.C., and Rydell, P.J. (2006). The SCERTS® Model: A Comprehensive Educational Approach for Children with Autism Spectrum Disorders, Volume I Assessment. Baltimore: Paul H. Brookes Publishing Co.
  • Prizant, Barry M., Wetherby, A. M., Rubin, E., Laurent, A.C., and Rydell, P.J. (2006). The SCERTS® Model: A Comprehensive Educational Approach for Children with Autism Spectrum Disorders, Volume II Program Planning & Intervention. Baltimore: Paul H. Brookes Publishing Co.
  • Greenspan, Stanley I., M.D., and Wieder, Serena, Ph.D. (1998) The Child With Special Needs. Reading, MA: Perseus Books.
  • Quill, Kathleen Ann. (1995) Teaching Children with Autism. Albany, NY: Delmar Publishers, Inc.
  • Wetherby, Amy M., and Prizant, Barry M. (2000) Autism Spectrum Disorders: A Transactional Developmental Perspective, Volume 9 in the Communication and Language Intervention Series. Baltimore, MD: Paul H. Brookes Publishing Co.
  • Wolfberg, Pamela J. (1999) Play and Imagination in Children with Autism. New York, NY: Teachers College Press.
  • Janert, Sibylle. (2000) Reaching the Young Autistic Child. London: Free Association Books.
  • Miller, Arnold, and Kristina Chretien (2007) The Miller Method.  Jessica Kingsley Publishers
    I actually read and read and read Dr. Miller's previous book, From Ritual to Repertoire: A Cognitive-Developmental Systems Approach with Behavior-Disordered  Children.  And I cannot recommend this book to any but the most brilliant a mind because it was sooo hard to read.  I am excited to see this second book and it does seem to be a simpler version of wonderful, original thinking.