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Top Selling and Most Requested Packages from Autism Today

For Educators, for Parent, for anyone who needs help for their special needs child!

Colored Reading Overlays

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2 packages:

  • 5 Page Sized
  • 10 Eye Level Reading Rulers

Just a few of the outstanding reasons to use colored reading overlays:
  • Improve Reading Speed
  • Raise Reading Grades Quickly
  • Improve Their Comprehension
  • Correct Word and Letter Reversals
  • Read for Longer Periods of Time
  • Read Easily from Line to Line
  • Raise Their Self-Esteem

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Bobby and Mandee: Complete Set

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Told through the eyes of the children, Bobby and Mandee, these books talk to the child reader giving them techniques they can use to STAY SAFE!

This bundle includes 5 books with engaging illustrations and narrated in simple easy to follow language.

In addition to learning basic skills, all children should know how to keep themselves safe and what to do when danger is present.

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The Official Autism 101 Manual

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The Official Autism 101 Manual is your ultimate resource for understanding and responding to autism as a parent or a professional. Only this master collection brings you the very latest ideas and insights from the authors and experts you already trust plus many new voices you can now hear for the first time.

With 44 contributors, you learn from dozens of caring experts and supporters who bring you the best the autism community has to offer.

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Drive Thru Menus

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32 Activity Cards and 2 posters

Designed to help teachers incorporate movement into the foundation skills of literacy, math, science and social studies. Students chant old and new rhymes while participating in fun exercises.

Drive-Thru Menus and Activity Cards increase body awareness and integrate the senses. With mind and body working together, complex tasks may be easier to accomplish./p> Full Offer Here

Dr Tony Atwood:
Exploring Feelings Bundle

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The Dr. Tony Atwood Bundle: Teach children to recognize and control their emotions!

This bundle includes 3 hours of DVD material and 2 workbooks for further and augmented instruction!

Children with an Autistic Spectrum Disorder are notorious for their difficulty coping with frustration and criticism, and their inability to manage their emotions.

This package is a great start toward a solution!

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Creative Movement and Sensory Skills

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Every Child Needs an Outlet for Creative Expression.

Children with autism and other sensory disorders may benefit from structured movement activites that encourage expression and provide a framework for play.

Each CD comes with it's own movement booklet bursting with ideas and suggestions!

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The SENSEational Alphabet Book
and Flash Cards Set!

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Learn the entire alphabet and many beginning words in Sign language and Braille! On top of all this, touch the corresponding key pad and recite the letters and words along with the book!

The SENSEsational Alphabet is a completely interactive ABC picture book focusing on integrated sensory methods to learning.

Comes with the SENSEational Alphabet book, and 28 Touch and Feel flashcards

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Chicken Soup for the Soul: Special People, Special Care

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This 4 book collection was created especially for the special people that touch your life. Each book celebrates with stories, and inspirational messages, from the very soul of the exceptional and wonderful people all around you!

  • Chicken Soup for the Caregivers Soul
  • Chicken Soup for the Soul: Children with Special Needs
  • Chicken Soup for the Parent's Soul
  • Chicken Soup for the Soul: Celebrating People Who Make a Difference

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Temple Grandin's Most Inspiring Book Ever! Different... Not Less

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This book is a MUST HAVE and will inspire, motivate and move us all--especially those that live, work and want to empower people on the autism spectrum, like their kids to continually empower people with autism to become their own personal best - whatever direction they want to go and wherever that may be.

In this innovative book, Dr. Temple Grandin gets down to the REAL issues of autism, the ones parents, teachers, and individuals on the spectrum face every day. Temple offers helpful do's and don'ts, practical strategies, and try-it-now tips, all based on her "insider" perspective and a great deal of research.

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Getting Ready to Work: Autism, Asperger's and Adult Transitions!

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Problem: Up to 85% of persons with Aspergers and on the autism spectrum are unemployed.

Solution: Teach teens and young adults how to prepare for the workforce, choose careers that fit and get the training they need!

  • Counseling for teens entering the work force
  • Guidance for choosing the right work experiences
  • Strategies for staying employed.
  • 3 book resource set featuring: Dr. Jed Bake, Dr. Temple Grandin, Kate Duffy and Rudy Simone

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Autism Flashcards: For Language Building

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Just using realistic pictures to interact with and teach children is not enough. The key is in the specific ways that you use the pictures to build vocabulary, communication, literacy and critical thinking skills.

Teach With Pictures!

350 flashcards

The Language Builder Series was created specifically to include all of the images necessary to teach matching, receptive labeling and expressive labeling across multiple subject areas.

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Mind Reading CD-ROM: The Interactive Guide to Emotions

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"Mind Reading" is a software system that teaches users to recognize human emotions. It was developed to help people on the autism spectrum improve interpersonal communication, and is also helpful for anyone who wants to learn more about emotion recognition. Mind Reading is appropriate for children ages 4 and up and adults, as individuals or in groups, in home or educational settings.

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Autism Handwriting Success

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The Basic Help with Handwriting Package!

  • Learn Letters
  • Learning Numbers with Spider Stories Kit,
  • Learn Letters Write On Kit
  • 2 packs of colored reading overlay writing paper
  • 2 packs of story paper with colored reading overlay writing space ,

School Conversation Starters

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Teaching your child to ask and answer questions on their way to and in school takes practice and good visual cues.

These easy to use conversation starters and instructional flashcards are easy to pull out on a moments notice to discuss the issues they will face and encourage positive behaviors.

Practice these skills at home before your child goes to school. Preparation is the key!

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Learn the Basics Skill Binders

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For emerging language learners and basic skills development

Brimming with activities and games...

this set is a great way to build reasoning skills AND enhance language!

  • Patterns
  • Things that go Together
  • What Doesn't Belong?

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Kimochis for Kids

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Raise Your Child's Emotional Intelligence!

Kimochis help children express and identify emotion while stimulating creative play and encouraging communication. They are soft and plush and engaging but not just as a toy. Kinochis are a tool that even non-verbal communicators can use to express emotion or indicate feelings.

As A bonus: We offer "Cloud's Best Worst Day Ever". A gentle story that can help children learn how to handle upset feelings and cloudy moods. Includes a note to caregivers from communication expert Ellen Pritchard Dodge, M. Ed CCC-SLP.

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Autism Empowerment

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Experience, at your leisure, complete presentations from 8 speakers at a 3 Day conference with a front row seat in the comfort of your own home.

Here is your opportunity to learn:

  • 7 myths about "curing" your child with autism
  • 5 best ways to help your child with autism behave better
  • 1 thing your child shouldn't eat if you want him to succeed
  • 10 easy ways to help your child reach their maximum potential
  • 7 tips every parent, and teacher needs to know about dealing with autism and tantrums

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Autism Life Skills

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Do you worry about your child's ability to be independent and successful when you aren't there?

The Autism and Life Skills Package will help you prepare the special children in your life for the road ahead with activities, worksheets and real world practice skills!

Teach your kids about hygiene, social skills, and life lessons with these 3 books, a CD and bonus printable material.

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GoTalk - Pocket Version

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The GoTalk Pocket is lightweight, contoured, and so small it fits nicely in your hand?or your pocket!

Six message keys with five levels give the user plenty to talk about. Overlays slide in easily and are stored in a removable compartment on the back. The Pocket is rugged, attractive, easy to use, and has great sound quality.

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No Fishing Allowed

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No Fishing Allowed is for children, teachers, and parents to use as a tool to stop bullying. Created by Carol gray

  • Teacher's Manual
  • Student Manual
  • DVD

Finally, one program teaches students and adults what they can do to prevent bullying! No Fishing Allowed is a violence prevention program that addresses various elements of bullying behaviors.

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Autism School Bundle

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Everything you need from IEP preparation to basic skills readiness and communicating with schools and teachers.

This three book set is a must read for anyone with children in school, and a valuable resource for advocates and therapists as they negotiate the often tricky road to school success!

Ideas are plentiful, materials colorful, and children love the repetitive nature of the "tasks," which help them learn to work independently! Sample data sheets are included.

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Sensory Solutions!

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Sensory Solutions for all children with sensory challenges

This 2 book and CD collection offers the following benefits:

  • Engage children in active play
  • Help children learn to calm down and stay focused
  • Enhance oral-motor skills and expressive language play
  • Decrease tactile, auditory, visual, and sensory defensiveness

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Autism & Occupational Therapy

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In its simplest terms, occupational therapy helps people across the lifespan participate in the things they want and need to do through the therapeutic use of everyday activities and play (occupations).

In this special bundle you get: 1 book for you 1 book for your child and 1 DVD to use together!

3 books

  • The Sensory Connection : An OT and SLP Team Approach
  • Sensory Sam: With the help of his OT, Sam's sensory adventure has a happy ending
  • OT for Children with Autism, Special Needs and Typical - DVD

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The Great Action Adventure

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The Great Action Adventure is an interactive CD-Rom which allows students to have fun learning about verbs. Students as young as 2 can easily play the action videos by themselves and learn the associated nouns or signs. Older children who already know common nouns and verbs, can use a more-advanced setting to learn appropriate verb tenses.

For parents that want to help their children learn and teachers who need additional classroom skill builders ...

The perfect tool for visual learners to discover and play their way through simple and advanced language skills!

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The Fine Motor Olympics

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65 activities using easy to obtain items, objective driven guides and easy to follow directions with a manual for In-Service Training, checklists and activity record form.

BONUS: Second Hand Therapies: Strategies for using small motor skills with recycled materials!

For all ages and stages and anyone who needs handwriting help or small motor skills help. Moms, dads, teacher and therapists will find this kit an valuable resouce to have.

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Autism Language Games

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The Animal Theme Kit is an exciting way to master new words, encourage conversation and have a great time! Posters, Memory, Bingo and Flahscards make up this stunning photographic package!

  • 15 posters
  • 30 flash cards
  • memory game
  • animal bingo

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Share and Prepare: 3 book set

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This bundle includes 3 books that are perfect for beginning readers. All three books are beautifullly illustrated and engaging and are a perfect addition to your child's library!

Share these books with a child and prepare them for transitions and life events in a positive way.

  • It's Haircut Time!
  • Autistic? How Silly is That! I Don't Need Any Labels at All
  • This is Gabriel Making Sense of School

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Teaching With Cartoons

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A Great Way to Learn and Teach for ASD kids!

A science curriculum that is perfect for visual learners!

Can you imagine if reading a science textbook was as much fun as reading comics? Well, now it is!
,br> This expertly designed software contains the entire science curriculum for grade 6, 7 and 8 in comics. It contains 998 screens and after each page is a quick review

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Autism Routines: Winding Down and Soothing the Senses

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Many families struggle as their ASD children have trouble with bedtime routines and sleep issues related to sensory integration.

This bedtime help bundle offers a DVD to wind down, a CD of calming music and a bedtime book that will lull the senses and make it easier to sleep.

Soothe and calm your child before sleep at night, during the day to decrease frustration, or anytime they need to wind down.

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Independent Skills: Cooking

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Teaching life skills is a crucial part of transitioning to adulthood and critical for independent living.

These 2 stand up books with step by step instructions on how cook simple but nutritious foods

Encourage success and self-sufficient skills in the kitchen. Decrease their dependence on care givers and foster a healthy approach to cooking!

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Visual Strategies

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Social skills instruction for K-8th grade children on the autism spectrum requires an emphasis on visuals, or "show-teaching" techniques, rather than language-based instruction.

Developing healthy visual-motor abilities may be more difficult in today's world than ever before, but there are things we can do to improve our visual skills. Occupational therapists have been teaching these skills to children as part of sensory integration, and they have found that poor visual skills can lead to behavioral problems.

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QCharms

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QCharms is a revolutionary system that uses the Dyna Vox Mayer-Johnson Boardmaker images on charms that attach to a portable wristband and allows for instant visual cues in every environment. The charms are easy to replace, the wrist bands are durable and the system is pre-packed in a kit that can be carried with you.

Each QCharm kit contains 30 icon charms and 3 reward charms that can be used for your own cuing system. For maximum usability, two wristbands, two keychains as well as a portable carrying case are included.

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Autism Weighted Belt

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The Miracle Belt(tm) stimulates the proprioceptive system through nerve receptors that are positioned in the muscles, joints and ligaments around joints. These receptors sense tension and pass this information to the brain where it is processed.

For:

  • Self-calming
  • Improved Focus
  • Increased Body Awareness
  • Reduced Hyperactivity
  • Improved Balance

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Apps For Autism

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Autism? There's an app for that!

Actually, there are more than 200 apps for autism, and this book will guide you through them so you can confidently utilize today's technology to maximize your child or student's success!

Speech Language Pathologist Lois Jean Brady wrote this book in order to educate parents, teachers, and other professionals about the breakthrough method she calls "iTherapy" - which is the use of Apple products (iPhone, iPad, iPod Touch) and various apps (computer applications) in meeting students. individual educational goals.

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Indigo Ocean Dreams

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Indigo Ocean Dreams is CD/audio book designed to entertain your child in an ocean setting while introducing them to four relaxation and stress-management techniques. Children follow their sea friends along as they learn to release and manage anger with Angry Octopus, build self-esteem with Affirmation Weaver, implement breathing with Sea Otter Cove and visualize with Bubble Riding.

Designed as the sequel to Indigo Dreams, this CD offers longer stories and expands on the relaxation techniques of breathing, visualizations, muscular relaxation and affirmations. Ideal for older children ages 6-12, or as step two for those already familiar with Indigo Dreams. Engaging characters present these adult level techniques in an easy to follow format that makes it fun for any child to learn.

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Artism: The Art of Autism

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Artism: The Art of Autism offers an incredible glimpse into the imaginative world of people on the autism spectrum. With 54 artists from around the world representing all ages, the book shows that autism has no boundaries and manifests differently in each person diagnosed.

At once inspiring and myth defying, the art spans a range of emotion and subject material. This is a must read for those who are interested in the creative potential of the human mind.

The book is 144 pages, 12 x 9 inches with 218 full-color illustrations and 4 essays by experts in the field. This book makes a perfect gift for someone to display on their coffee table.

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Autism Attainment Talker Package

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Attainment Talkers are easy to record and use, each with 10 seconds of recording time per message.

One holds 6 messages with a large (2-inch) active area for each message, while the the other has 24 messages with smaller (3/4-inch) active areas. Touch each active area to play back recordings.

Creating overlays is easy with GoTalk Overlay Software

Includes templates, thousands of photos, illustrations, and Imagine Symbols, plus, you can use your own images to create an overlay.

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Mommy I'm Here Child Locator

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Have you ever turned around and your child is not there? It happens thousands of times each day. Mommy I'm Here can help! With the Mommy I'm Here electronic child locator, you can keep your leashes on your pets and walk freely with your child without worry. You get:

  • The adorable bear that affixes to your child's shoe or belt. it emits a 90 decible alarm to stop your child and alert you to his location.
  • The locator receiver that stays with the parent and will "chirp" to alert you when your child wanders.
  • Long life batteries (pre-installed)

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Early Intervention and Diagnosis

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New CDC statistics indicate that 1 out of every 88 children is diagnosed with autism. Discover the emerging signs and learn the early invention techniques that could lead to teaching and developmental success!

3 books:

  • Autism Early Intervention FAST FACTS: A Guide that Explains the Evaluations, Diagnoses, and Treatment
  • Early Intervention and Autism: Real-life Questions, Real-life Answers
  • Autism Treament Guide

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The Parenting Autism Resource Guide

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If you'd like to have a better understanding of the reasons behind your autistic child's behaviors.....

So you can help your child more and take some of the pressure off you and the rest of your family then this could be the most important letter you ever read.

Plus we have added 5 bonuses for you. Full Offer Here

Puzzles for Visual Learners

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Each side of this beautifully photographed solid wood cube puzzle is part of a different picture depicting kids participating in healthy daily habits. . . so this is like getting 6 different puzzles for the price of one!

  • 2 Stunning Full Color Photographinc Puzzles
  • 12 Activity and Game Cards
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Sensory Integration

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Sensory integration therapy involves specific sensory activities (swinging, bouncing, brushing, and more) that are intended to help the child regulate his or her sensory response. The outcome of these activities may be better focus, improved behavior, and even lowered anxiety. Our Sensory Therapy bundle provides hundreds of ways to integrate movement and self-regulation in creative, fun ways for the child and provider!

2 activity card sets with over 100 activities and 1 book with 100+ activities too! Full Offer Here

Adolescents with Autism Tool, tips and total care for the ASD young person!

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Teenagers must learn to make their own choices.

Do they have the tools?

Giving choices will teach teens about decision making and accepting the consequences of their choices both good and bad, as well as help them realize they will eventually have more control over thier lives.

This library of information will help guide them on their way to making A LIFETIME of good choices! Full Offer Here

Back to School!

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Help for students with autism in this 3 book set covering IEPs, schedules and success in the classroom.

Take the stress out of back to school transitions by educating yourself and your child. Learn how to set up an IEP, how to work out schedules and how to help your child in school.

Many children with autism experience anxiety, over-stimulation, sensitivity on a daily basis but transitions and new tasks can make these situations unmanageable. With these three books, you will learn how to help your child adapt and move into a new school on a positive note and with success! Full Offer Here

Autism Rewards and Task Managment . . Made Easy

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A reward kit bursting with charts, tokens and over 65 tasks and rewardable behaviors. Positive reinforcement, visual cues and interchangeable task cards make keeping your child on task easy and fun!

Great for organizing school-home-play time routines! Full Offer Here

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