Space Travelers (Student Manual) [Paperback]

Margaret Carter (Author), Josie Santomoura (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: October 15, 2004

Accompanying student manual for Space Travlers gives students a permanent record of their accomplishments and allow teachers and parents to review and assess children’s progress. This interactive social skills program, developed for students with ASD and other social cognitive challenges, takes students on a journey into space. Here they learn major social skills, including understanding emotions, feelings and thinking patterns, reflective problem solving, stress release, dealing with bullying, goal setting and self-regulation. The space theme is sure to appeal to students in 4-5 grade.

Editorial Reviews

Review

Children (space travelers) really enjoy the activities while benefiting from a social skills program that is out of this world! -- Teresa A. Cardon, M.A. CCC, Director of Speech Language Pathology Southwest Autism Research & Resource Center, and author

I recommend Space Travelers as a timely resource for schools. -- Rita Cleveland, Senior Education Officer, Support Teaching and Therapy Services Brisbane Catholic Education, Brisbane, Australia

Space Travelers takes young inhabitants of planet earth on a journey of helpful exploration. -- Wendy Lawson, Bss, Bsw, Gdip (PsychStud), Gdip (Psych)

About the Author

Margaret Carter has worked as a teacher with Education Queensland for nine years and for eleven years with Brisbane Catholic Education, both as a special education consultant and a guidance counselor. Behavior, conflict resolution, student achievement, inclusion and inclusive education, and childhood grief are the areas in which she is working. Reducing communication apprehension in primary school children is the focus of her doctorate degree. Margaret now works in private practice as a behavior change specialist.

Josie Santomoura has a postgraduate certificate in creative writing and is a full-time author. She is a children’s/young adult fiction author, and writes under the pseudonym of Josie Montano. Josie also self-publishes various resources on Asperger Syndrome.

Margaret and Josie met while working together on the same team, Margaret as a guidance counselor and Josie as a parent of a child with Asperger Syndrome. They have known each other now for seven years, and have collaborated on various projects, including this book.

Product Details

• Paperback: 72 pages
• Publisher: Autism Asperger Publishing Company (October 15, 2004)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1931282625
• ISBN-13: 978-1931282628
• Product Dimensions: 10.8 x 8.3 x 0.3 inches
• Shipping Weight: 9.6 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,115,739 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)