Catch The Incredible 5-Point Scale: Assisting Students With Autism Spectrum Disorders In Understanding Social Interactions And Controlling Their Emotional Responses Chronicled By Kari Dunn Buron Expressed As Print

Useful stuff! I look forward to implementing some of these ideas! A great little book with a powerful tool, ThePoint scale. The book give lots of visual examples of the many ways to use apoint scale and how to customize it for the individuals need.
I hope to use this in my role as a therapeutic riding instructor, Particularly useful for people who have not been exposed to using a number scale for emotional states, This is a basic intro, A number of case studies are presented along with the actual scales that were created, We post the scales throughout the house, Love this book Very helpful for my son, This second edition of THE INCREDIBLEPOINT SCALE book is a great resource for those in the education field and families touched by autism.
This book expands on the first book by including new ideas for teaching and also rewarding behavior and social management skills, The book details how scales can be used to teach individuals who are nonverbal or who are on the more severe side of the spectrum.
This technique is so basic and yet so easytouse and handson that anyone can start using the techniques immediately either with a pad of paper and pencil or by simply printing off scales from the included CD.


The table of contents includes:

Introduction using the scale, ultimate goals,a few personal examples
The "Tried amp True" Scales from the First Edition
Volume Control
Hurtful Words
Obsessions
Home Scale
Meeting Friends
Control
Taking Perspectives
Touching Rules
Understanding Feelings
Monitoring Anxiety
Scales for Young Children
Visual/Picture Scales
Scales for Students with More Classic Forms of Autism
Concrete, ActivityRelated Scales
AnxietyRelated Scales
More "Pretty Good" Scale Ideas
Sample Goals and Objectives RElated to the Use of thePoint Scale

Also included is a CD which contains blank scales making it easy to create useful resources for your classroom or family member.
Within minutes of opening up this book, you can come away with handson useful strategies to put to work immediately, These can be used by teachers, paraprofessionals and other campus staff members like school psychologists and therapists as well as readily usable by families in the home setting.


Two words: Awesome resource, I will be able to use this one all day long, I appreciate all the examples shared in how to use thepoint scale for children with Autism, The scales dealing with anxiety, competition, and anger will be the most useful to me, Good for any kid/student, Teaches in scalesmore concrete, I'm a mom of a nine year old with autism, and he is currently struggling with emotional regulation or, in layman's terms, not losing his s! when things change.
This book is easy to read and offers practical advice with scenarios that have been successful for other children, This isn't a onesizefitsall book, I don't think we can take samples directly off the page and make them work for our child, BUT this book offers so many ideas that I feel confident my husband and I can craft something that will work well for our child.


Side note for other parents of kids with ASD: I think this book does a nice job of providing examples for children of various ages I know there were some for as young asand as old asand various levels of functioning.
I know sometimes I feel like resources for autism parents are too focused on low functioning or high functioning kids, but this book has a nice variety.
In addition to clear explanations and examples of how to use thepoint scale, this book also contains blank templates that can be reproduced.
Very useful for ANY child, not just those who are on the autism spectrum, I've recommended it to several friends, Brilliant book loads of great ideas This is a book for parents, teachers and therapists, The book introduces a highly systematic method of teaching social and emotional information, Much of it was geared towards kids with significantly fewer verbal skills than mine have, but I see it being a useful tool and plan to implement ASAP.
/: This book presents a system so simple you'll ask yourself, now why didn't I think of that We use thepoint scale for everything from voice volume to energy level and anger management.


Amazon Book Description:
This musthave resource shows how the use of a simplepoint scale can help students understand and control their emotional reactions to everyday events.
This book shows how to break down a given behavior and, with the student s active participation, develop a scale that identifies the problem and suggests alternative, positive behaviors at each level of the scale.
I warmed to this book as it progressed, Initially it seemed simplistic, mechanistic and frankly not even very interesting, let alone useful for a child who when stressed cannot reliably decide which number is bigger.
I found the US terminology offputting unreasonably so However, by the end, they'd provided a sufficient variety of different examples to show that it is a potentially handy little tool.
I especially enjoyed the "Memo" they sent to one child who rejected 'social stories'

which are the common means of explaining the scale to students and good for him, say I Well laid out with a lot of tips, suggestions, and examples.
A lot of case studies are used to explain this concept, which is very effectual, Kari Dunn Buron is an autism educational specialist who has worked with children and young adults on the autism spectrum for thanyears, Kari was one of the founding members of the Minnesota Autism Project and developed the ASD certificate program for educators at Hamline University in St.
Paul, Minnesota. Kari currently teaches in the Hamline program and coordinates a summer camp for teens with Asperger Syndrome, She is the author of When My Worries Get Too Big! A Relaxation Book for Children Who Live with Anxiety and the co author of The IncrediblePoint Scale: Assisting Students with Autism Spectrum Disorders in Understanding Social Interactions and Controlling Their Emotional Responses and AIs Against the Law! Social Bounda Kari Dunn Buron is an autism educational specialist who has worked with children and young adults on the autism spectrum for thanyears.
Kari was one of the founding members of the Minnesota Autism Project and developed the ASD certificate program for educators at Hamline University in St.
Paul, Minnesota. Kari currently teaches in the Hamline program and coordinates a summer camp for teens with Asperger Syndrome, She is the author of When My Worries Get Too Big! A Relaxation Book for Children Who Live with Anxiety and the co author of The IncrediblePoint Scale: Assisting Students with Autism Spectrum Disorders in Understanding Social Interactions and Controlling Their Emotional Responses and AIs Against the Law! Social Boundaries: Straight Up! An honest guide for teens and young adults sitelink.