Website: Jacob’s Lessons
This website features games and activities that parents or professional can use to work with young children with autism spectrum disorders.
Website: Real Look Autism
Real Look Autism is a non-profit organization that offers information about different therapies and strategies through videos.
Webpage: PACER Center: Translated Materials – Spanish
This webpage contains publications, videos and other resources that have been translated into Spanish.
Website: Family Caregiver Alliance: National Center on Caregiving
Family Caregiver Alliance operates the National Center on Caregiving, through which they produce legislative analyses, reports, newsletters, and research documenting public policy, emerging trends and caregiver needs and services.
Video: Wrong Planet: How to Flirt and Get a Date
In this video, Liz Laugeson, from UCLA’s PEERS Program at The Help Group in Los Angeles, discusses the process of flirting.
Webpage: The ACCESS Project: Transition to College
This webpage contains information to help students with disabilities prepare for college while still in high school in order to pave the way for a smoother transition to higher education.
Webpage: Healthy Transitions: Speaking Up at the Doctor’s Office
This education module provides information that families and professionals can use to help youths who have developmental disabilities to speak up at the doctor’s office.
Video: Autism in Love
This documentary explores how adults with autism find and manage romantic relationships. It challenges the belief that people with autism cannot experience romantic love.
Webpage: AOTA: Living with an Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD): The High School Years
The American Occupational Therapy Association produced a tip sheet to help parents address the social communication and sensory processing challenges typically faced by teens with ASD during high school.
Guide: HANDS in Autism: 10 Do’s for Supporting Individuals with an ASD
This guide provides 10 tips to help professionals and caregivers effectively support individuals with autism spectrum disorders (ASDs).
