Asperger''s disorder is a common neuropsychiatric condition that affects children''s abilities to understand and become involved in social interaction. When a child in your life struggles with Asperger''s or Nonverbal Learning Disorder (NLD), developing social skills will be a particular challenge for him or her.
This illustrated workbook-written by the founders of SuperKids, an innovative program that treats hundreds of children with Asperger''s disorder each year-offers simple exercises you can use to facilitate this important process.
Knowing Yourself, Knowing Others includes activities that will help kids with Asperger''s disorder and related conditions learn how to read social cues, avoid meltdowns, understand others'' needs and intentions, resolve conflicts with friends, build basic nonverbal skills, and more.
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Nancy Widdows, MS, ATR-BC, LPC, is a licensed professional counselor and registered, board-certified art therapist with thirteen years' experience treating children in school, hospital, and private practice settings. Widdows' specialty is using art therapy to create concrete visual tools to help kids understand the social environment. Cooper and Widdows codirect SuperKids, a unique program that focuses exclusively on social skills development, in Ridgefield, Norwalk, and Orange, Connecticut.