As Good As It Gets  - 139 min.

Tri-Star

Nicholson gives a show-stopping performance as Melvin Udall, an obsessive-compulsive novelist with Manhattan’s meanest mouth.  But when his neighbor Simon is hospitalized, Melvin is forced to babysit Simon’s dog.  And that unexpected act of kindness – along with waitress Carol Connelly – helps put Melvin back in the human race. 

VHS - entertainment

Asperger Syndrome Dad: Becoming an even better father to your child with AS

VHS

Coulter Video

This video offers practical action items you can use to help you understand your child with AS, deal with tantrums and meltdowns, make outings more manageable and pleasant, help your child absorb information and learn the lessons you want to teach, generate support from family and friends, create family fun, find and encourage your child’s strengths, help him prepare for adulthood, and more.

VHS

Asperger Syndrome Dad: Becoming an even better father to your child with AS

DVD

Coulter Video

This video offers practical action items you can use to help you understand your child with AS, deal with tantrums and meltdowns, make outings more manageable and pleasant, help your child absorb information and learn the lessons you want to teach, generate support from family and friends, create family fun, find and encourage your child’s strengths, help him prepare for adulthood, and more.

DVD

Asperger Syndrome:  Success in the Mainstream Classroom (1)

Coulter Video

DVD - Education

Asperger Syndrome: Success in the Mainstream Classroom (2)

Coulter Video

$50

DVD

Asperger Syndrome: Transition to College & Work (1) (57 minutes) VHS

Coulter Video

This program shows students how to find special education services at the college level and describes how to be a job candidate employers will want to hire.  Includes a step by step checklist for transition planning.

VHS - Transition

Asperger Syndrome: Transition to College & Work (57 minutes) DVD

Coulter Video

$50

This program shows students how to find special education services at the college level and describes how to be a job candidate employers will want to hire.  Includes a step by step checklist for transition planning.

DVD - Transition

Asperger Syndrome: Transition to Work (2) (57 minutes) VHS

Coulter Video

This video describes what young people with Asperger Syndrome need to do to find and hold a job.  It’s relevant for people with a range of challenges and abilities – and includes sections on making a good job match, how to approach employers, key workplace skills, disclosure issues, and negotiating accommodations. 

VHS - Transition

Asperger’s Diagnostic Assessment - DVD

Tony Attwood

Asperger’s DVD

Asperger’s Syndrome, Vol. 2: Anger Management, Teaching Teachers, Teenage Issues – DVD

Tony Attwood

Asperger’s DVD

Asperger’s Syndrome: A Guide for Parents and Professionals

Dr. Tony Attwood

Tony’s presentation is on Asperger’s Syndrome – diagnosis and support.  He covers the theory of mind of those with this challenge, and as he does, his ideas broaden our perception and understanding. 

DVD

Asperger’s Syndrome: A Guide for Parents and Professionals - DVD

Tony Attwood

Asperger’s DVD

Asperger’s Syndrome: Crossing the Bridge (VHS)

Liane Holliday Willey, Tony Attwood

Michael Thompson Productions

This video presents Asperger’s Syndrome through the eyes of Dr. Liane Holliday Willey, an adult diagnosed with the disorder.  Dr. Tony Attwood, one of the leading experts in the field, interview Liane as they discuss her life-time experiences, struggles, and triumphs with Asperger’s Syndrome.  They make it clear that those diagnosed as “Aspies” are not defective individuals but rather different thinkers who have many wonderful traits to share with humanity.

VHS

Autism & the new Law: Resources for Treatment.  Hope for a Cure.

Edvantage

This video is designed to help parents, educators and health care professionals better understand Autism or similar diagnosis such as Pervasive Developmental Disorder (PDD) and Asperger’s Syndrome.

VHS

Autism Dietary Intervention – cassette tape

Cassette Tape

Autism Spectrum Disorders (VHS)

39 min. – closed captioned

IEP Resources – Attainment Company, Inc.

Educational psychologist and author Glenis Benson, Ph.D. presents a comprehensive overview of autism spectrum disorders.  Her developmental perspective covers major issue areas:  Cognitive style, diagnostic characteristics, communication skills and deficits, social behaviors, support strategies and challenging behaviors.

Autism: The Road Back DVD

Grade Range: 7-12

Charts the journeys of three families with children diagnosed with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD).  It talks to parents, service providers and experts in the field about assessment, diagnosis, and treatment options.

DVD

Exploring Feelings: Cognitive Behaviour Therapy to Manage Anxiety, Sadness, and Anger - DVD

Dr. Tony Attwood

Behavior - DVD

Gather Stars for Your Children – cassette tape

Songs to enhance social skills and to foster a welcoming attitude.

Cassette Tape

GoTalk Overlay Software

Attainment

CD – Augmentative Device

Group Treatment for Asperger Syndrome: A Social Skill Curriculum + DVD

Lynn Adams

Asperger’s (with CD)

Intricate Minds II: Understanding Elementary School Classmates With Asperger Syndrome (1)

Coulter Video

$30

DVD - Social

Intricate Minds II: Understanding Elementary School Classmates With Asperger Syndrome (2)

Coulter Video

$30

DVD - Social

Intricate Minds III: Understanding Elementary School Classmates Who Think Differently (1)

Coulter Video

$30

DVD - Autism/Social

Intricate Minds III: Understanding Elementary School Classmates Who Think Differently (2)

Coulter Video

$30

DVD - Autism/Social

Intricate Minds: Understanding Classmates with Asperger Syndrome (1)

12 min.

Coulter Video

$50

Appropriate for Middle School/High School  & Staff Development–

This video provides an excellent introduction to Asperger Syndrome for typically developing adolescents and children.  Individuals with the disorder movingly describe their own experience of the condition.  This video will serve as an excellent resource for teachers, school psychiologists, speech pathologists, and guidance counselors in helping typically developing peers understand classmates with AS

DVD - Social

Intricate Minds: Understanding Classmates with Asperger Syndrome (2)

Coulter Video

$30

Appropriate for Middle School/High School  & Staff Development–

This video provides an excellent introduction to Asperger Syndrome for typically developing adolescents and children.  Individuals with the disorder movingly describe their own experience of the condition.  This video will serve as an excellent resource for teachers, school psychiologists, speech pathologists, and guidance counselors in helping typically developing peers understand classmates with AS

DVD - Social

Intricate Minds: Understanding Classmates with Asperger Syndrome (VHS)

Coulter Video

$30

Appropriate for Middle School/High School  & Staff Development–

This video provides an excellent introduction to Asperger Syndrome for typically developing adolescents and children.  Individuals with the disorder movingly describe their own experience of the condition.  This video will serve as an excellent resource for teachers, school psychiologists, speech pathologists, and guidance counselors in helping typically developing peers understand classmates with AS

VHS - Social

It’s All Part of the Job: Social Skills for Success at Work – (VHS) closed captioned  15 min.

Attainment Company, Inc.

Features real life workers with developmental disabilities and interview with their employers.  Focuses on job skills everyone needs to remember.

VHS

Jackson Sandwich DVD

(2007)

Grade Range: 9 to Adult

Features the behavioral and psychological problems Jackson, who was diagnosed with Autism Spectrum, faced.  It also shows the caring professionals that worked with him.  For Jackson, the very key to success was the early intervention that he received.

DVD

Kids Just Want to Have Fun! (VHS)

Teacher’s Toolbox

866-811-8665

Arnold Creek Productions

Kids with physical differences, like all kids, just want to have fun!  This upbeat, thought-provoking video breaks down stereotypes about children with physical differences and promotes discussion between children, teachers and parents.

VHS

Learn to Move, Move to Learn: Dinosaurs

Jenny Clark Brack

Sensory - DVD

M.O.R.E.  Integrating the Mouth with Sensory & Postural Functions

Patricia Oetter, Eileen Richter

$35.00

This companion to the popular M.O.R.E. book and M.O.R.E. course expands on concepts from the book, and offers a review of selected topics from the course.

DVD - Sensory/Oral Motor

Manners for the Real World: Basic Social Skills

Coulter Video

$30

VHS - Social

Manners for the Real World: Basic Social Skills (1)

Coulter Video

$30

This video demonstrates how to act during some of the most common interactions between people.  Designed for students from upper elementary school through senior high school.

DVD - Social

Manners for the Real World: Basic Social Skills (2)

Coulter Video

$30

This video demonstrates how to act during some of the most common interactions between people.  Designed for students from upper elementary school through senior high school.

DVD - Social

Manners for the Real World: Basic Social Skills (VHS)

Coulter Video

$30

This video demonstrates how to act during some of the most common interactions between people.  Designed for students from upper elementary school through senior high school.

VHS - Social

Manners for the Real World: Basic Social Skills (VHS)

Coulter Video

$30

This video demonstrates how to act during some of the most common interactions between people.  Designed for students from upper elementary school through senior high school.

VHS - Social

My School Day

CD-ROM

Social Skill Builder Quality Learning Tools

Interactive features allow the user to step inside a familiar social situation and predict what should be said and done next.  This innovative new CD-ROM program uses real life video to teach children and adolescents about social language in their lives.  Parents, educators, and therapists can use this tool in order to help children understand the rules and use of social interaction.

CD-ROM

No-Glamour Social Language/

Behavior – interactive software

Carolyn LoGiudice, Nancy McConnell, Margaret Warner

v     Over 350 fully-narrated items and responses

v     Manage multiple users, print results, and suspend/restart sessions

v     Isolate skills or target several at once

v     Set percentage correct goals and number of items to attempt per session

v     Easy-to-use interface for users of all levels

Interactive CD-ROM

Picture Stories & Language Activities – interactive software

Patricia Snair Koski

v     40 fun, fully-narrated stories in five themes: Autumn, Spring, Summer, Winter and Animals

v     5 activities for each story: Wh-Questions, Yes/No Questions, Sequencing, Vocabulary, and Text Match

Interactive CD-ROM

Positive Parenting for Young Children with Autism

LEAP Outreach Project and LEAP Preschool

In this video, parents and therapists provide an overview of the techniques and strategies that can improve outcomes for children with developmental disorders.

VHS

Rain Man

Metro Goldman Mayer, 20^th Century Fox

$10

Entertainment with the subject being Autism

Tom Cruise and Dustin Hoffman

DVD

Refrigerator Mothers (VHS)  54 min.

David E. Simpson, J.J. Hanley, Gordon Quinn

Kartemquin Educational Films www.kartemquin.com

From the 1950s through the early 1970s, the American medical establishment thought it had found the cause of autism: poor mothering… For a whole generation of women, branded as cold “refrigerator mothers,” the damage had been done.  What happened to these mothers offers powerful lessons for all of us. 

VHS

School Rules! Vol. 1

CD-ROM (1)

Social Skill Builder

Quality Learning Tools

Peer interactions, language and behaviors in: Classroom, Group Work, PE Class & Locker Room, Personal Hygiene, Hallway

CD-ROM

School Rules! Vol. 1

CD-ROM (2)

Social Skill Builder

Quality Learning Tools

Peer interactions, language and behaviors in: Classroom, Group Work, PE Class & Locker Room, Personal Hygiene, Hallway

CD-ROM

School Rules! Vol. 2

CD-ROM (1)

Social Skill Builder

Quality Learning Tools

Peer interactions, language and behaviors in: Lockers, Time Management, Social Awareness, Cafeteria, Hanging Out with Friends

CD-ROM

School Rules! Vol. 2

CD-ROM (2)

Social Skill Builder

Quality Learning Tools

Peer interactions, language and behaviors in: Lockers, Time Management, Social Awareness, Cafeteria, Hanging Out with Friends

CD-ROM

Signs of Autism: Educating Children with Autism  (DVD)  (Multiple copies)

Nebraska ASD Network – Grant funded

This video is an introduction of Autism for parents, childcare providers, educational staff.

DVD

Signs of Autism: Educating Children with Autism  (VHS)

Nebraska ASD Network – Grant funded

This video is an introduction of Autism for parents, childcare providers, educational staff.

VHS

Social Language Groups (VHS)

Sally Bligh, CCC-SLP

Michael Thom pson Productions

In this video, Sally Bligh describes the rold of the Speech Therapist, explains the use of Social Language Groups, and demonstrates how to facilitate the group sessions.  Speech Therapists, Social Workers, Psychologists, teachers, and parents will find this video to be an extremely valuable resource for working with children diagnosed with Asperger Syndrome, High-Functioning Autism, Non-verbal Learning Disability, and Pervasive Developmental Disorder.

VHS

Social Skills Training and Frustration Management: …..for parents and professionals…. – DVD

Dr. Jed Baker

$100.00

Social Skills - DVD

Straight Talk About Autism with Parents and Kids: Childhood Issues & Adolescent Issues (1)

Attainment Company, Inc.

Students: Relevant interviews with their peers, cool graphics and contemporary soundtracks.  Content driven with well-researched discussion guides anchoring the message.

Staff: Explore pivotal new ideas in your field and provide you with crucial survival tips.  Our experts and consultants are your peers.

VHS

Straight Talk About Autism with Parents and Kids: Childhood Issues & Adolescent Issues (2)

Attainment Company, Inc.

Students: Relevant interviews with their peers, cool graphics and contemporary soundtracks.  Content driven with well-researched discussion guides anchoring the message.

Staff: Explore pivotal new ideas in your field and provide you with crucial survival tips.  Our experts and consultants are your peers.

VHS

Struggling with Life: Asperger’s Syndrome (T.V. Production)

DVD – Multiple Copies

Tap Dancing in the Night CD-ROM

Martha Kate Downey and a cast of thousands

Insights into the world of Asperger’s Syndrome, High Functioning Autism and Pervasive Developmental Disorders.  The first children’s book on AS, HFA, and PDD to be presented in an interactive CD-ROM format.  A collection of stories, poems and art…truly a celebration of people with AS!

CD-ROM

Tell Me What Works: Features of Effective Early Intervention Programs For Children With Autism

Sam Odom

ASA – 2002

Indianapolis, IN

Bill Stephens Productions, Inc.

Cassette Tape

Temple Grandin “The Autism Spectrum” – Tape 2 – cassette tape

2-day conference

Cassette Tape

The Hidden Curriculum: Teaching What is Meaningful

Brenda Smith Myles

Using numerous everyday examples, Brenda Smith Myles emphasizes the importance of teaching hidden curriculum items directly to individuals with autism spectrum disorders and social-cognitive challenges, even if it means skipping other more traditional content for the moment.  See also “The Hidden Curriculum: Practical Solutions for Understanding Unstated Rules in Social Situations (2004), co-authored by Brenda Smith Myles.

DVD

The Incredible 5-Point Scale DVD (1)

Kari Dunn Buron & Mitzi Curtis

DVD/Behavior

The Incredible 5-Point Scale DVD (2)

Kari Dunn Buron & Mitzi Curtis

DVD/Behavior

The Incredible 5-Point Scale: Assisting students in understanding social interactions and controlling their emotional responses

Kari Dunn Buron

Mitzi Curtis

This DVD is a supplement to their book “The Incredible 5-Point Scale.”  This easy successful tool helps students with ASD learn self-regulation.  The DVD offers further guidance in the use of the scale and can be used to expertly and efficiently explain the use of the scale to a larger audience, such as a team of educators who are working with a student.  The scale is a must for students who need help managing emotions and difficult behavior.

DVD

The Way I See It: A Personal Look at Autism & Asperger’s

(2-09)

Dr. Temple Grandin

$50

In this revealing presentation, world-renowned author and autism advocate Dr. Temple Grandin gets down to the real issues of autism.  Backed by her personal experience and evidence-based research, Temple shares her valuable insights on a wide variety of topics, and offers useful do’s and don’ts. 

DVD & paper version of her Power Point

The Young Child with Special Needs

Contemporary Forums

Preconference A:

Autism in the Young Child

Nashville, TN  March 27-28, 2004

DVD

Understanding Brothers & Sisters (1)

Coulter Video

DVD – Family/Siblings

Understanding Brothers & Sisters (2)

Coulter Video

DVD – Family/Siblings

Using Visual and Behavioral Cues in the Home: Teaching Functional Life Skills to Young Children with Autism and Other Significant Developmental Disorders (VHS) 2-hours

Behavioral Services and Products, Inc.

Parents, professionals, and other caregivers with practical visual and behavioral strategies to enhance communication, prevent disruptive behaviors and increase their child’s independence in performing daily life skills.  The video will teach the viewer how to create conditions for success in the home/community environment and prepare for the child with functional supports across settings.  Samples of visual materials and video examples of children and their families utilizing the interventions described, the video also includes a demonstration on how to make visual cues and provides resources for other supportive information and products.

Visual Strategies Workshop

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VHS Tapes & Books

Watch Me Learn Vol. 2  VHS  38:29 min.

www.WatchMeLearn.com

Vol II demonstrates skills with a strong emphasis on expressive and receptive language.  Forty five skills are modeled in Vol. II through play scenes such as tag, hide & seek, and parachute play.

VHS - Education

We’ve Climbed Mountains:  Increasing Our Understanding of Autism Spectrum Disorder (1) (VHS)

Kim Davis

Indiana Resource Center for Autism (IRCA) 2001

Individuals with high-functioning autism/Asperger’s offer insights into their world.  They discuss school issues, employment issues, and social challenges.  The awareness gained from these individuals adds insight into some of the best ways to support and involve them in our workplaces, our schools, and in our communities.

VHS

We’ve Climbed Mountains:  Increasing Our Understanding of Autism Spectrum Disorder (2) (VHS)

Kim Davis

Indiana Resource Center for Autism (IRCA) 2001

Individuals with high-functioning autism/Asperger’s offer insights into their world.  They discuss school issues, employment issues, and social challenges.  The awareness gained from these individuals adds insight into some of the best ways to support and involve them in our workplaces, our schools, and in our communities.

VHS

What’s The Difference? (VHS)

Teacher’s Toolbox

866-811-8665

Arnold Creek Productions

Pre-teens and adolescents talk about their hopes and dreams, their relationships and what it is like to have physical differences.  This compelling video generates discussions between teenagers, teachers and parents. 

VHS