Replays: Using Play to Enhance Emotional And Behavioral Development for Children With Autism Spectrum Disorder

✍ Scribed by Karen Levine, Naomi Chedd

• Year: 2007
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 141
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Replays addresses the challenging behaviors of children with autism spectrum disorders through interactive symbolic play. It shows parents and professionals how to help children access their emotions, whether the child is verbal or not, cognitively able or impaired, even-tempered or volatile. The chapters introduce and show readers how to implement Replays, and describe ways of adapting this intervention to address specific issues in different settings and circumstances. Levine and Chedd present more than just behavioral management strategies in the context of social, emotional and communication development: they have developed a technique that helps children to re-experience, play through and master the complex emotional response states that often lead to ongoing behavioral challenges. Replays is an easy and fun tool that provides numerous step-by-step examples and illustrations. It enables parents and professionals to guide children with autism spectrum disorders towards mastering, and changing, their emotional and behavioral responses.

✦ Table of Contents

COVER......Page 1
Replays......Page 5
Contents......Page 9
Part I: Introduction to Replays......Page 11
1.
Introduction......Page 15
2.
Understanding Children’s
Intense Responding
and how Replays Helps......Page 23
3.
How to do Replays......Page 32
Part II: Tailoring Replays for Children with Specific Problems......Page 41
4. Tailoring Replays for Younger or Less Verbal and Symbolic Children......Page 43
5. Tailoring Replays for Older, More Verbal Children......Page 52
6.
Tailoring Replays for Active
Children with Short
Attention Spans......Page 59
Part III: Replays for Specific Situations......Page 65
7. Replays for Children just Discovering Mischief......Page 67
8.
Replays for Sensory-related
Fears and Anxieties......Page 76
9. Replays for Anxiety, including Obsessive Issues, Birthday Party Fears, and other Fears or Phobias
......Page 89
Part IV: Adaptive Replays across Different Settings......Page 99
10.
Replays with Siblings
and Peers......Page 101
11.
Implementing Replays
in Educational Settings......Page 112
12.
Replays and Technology......Page 123
13.
Frequently Asked Questions......Page 130
Subject Index......Page 138
Author Index......Page 141