Taking Care of Myself: A Hygiene, Puberty and Personal Curriculum for Young People with Autism

This book is well worth the purchase, read, and implementation!!! I am employed in the field of school social work and I parent a 9-year-old son with Asperger's Syndrome. I extracted the stories on the hygiene section and incorporated germy pictures to make my own version of social stories. It's easy to take for granted that your child already knows what it means to be dirty and carry germs, particularly when you have modelled good hygiene from the beginning. These stories explicitly explain the concepts in understandable and relatable terms. Within one week of reading these stories and incorporating a reward chart, my son went from rarely washing his hands to washing them appoximately five times each day. This book will grow with him. Upon mastery of the basic hygiene concepts, I plan to graduate to higher skills.

I have special needs kids and one in particular is hygiene challenged. This book has been a great help in teaching appropriate hygiene and some much needed information about boundaries between what is socially acceptable and what is not. I highly recommend for any educator and/or of special needs kids and those who are socially inept. This book has been a blessing.

After my son read the section about germs we ran out of soap in our hand soap pumps in two days. He really got the point about washing his hands. Also the "stories" are short, to the point, and extremely easy to understand. If your child is on the high functioning end of autism, you could very easily give them this book have them read certain pages then discuss them after they've read. It has been a very useful resource! Really glad I bought it!

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This works well for copying pages in order to give a child a checklist. I like it for that reason alone. Much of it, at this point in our journey, has already been dealt with but there are some things that still need visual help, so it is worth it. I only wish I had this book about 5 years ago!

This book is absolutely amazing!! I have searched everyone for a book to help my daughter with puberty. This book is very much geared for the pre-teen age and there are very few books out there like that. I would recommend this book to anyone who has a special needs child or even works with a special needs child! Very Helpful!!

Excellent book for anyone with autism. Very well explained and very helpful for parents teaching their autistic children. I didn't know how to explain certain things to my daughter in a way she would understand, but this book has helped me doing just that.

The perfect guide book to help students that are reaching puberty. Modified verbiage to help adults talk and consult withtheir students. I am a middle school teacher with Moderate/severe students and this book has been a great asset to me and my paraprofessionals.

I am a special ed teacher and I am glad to have this book in my resource library. It is full of ready-to-go social stories appropriate for any pre-teen (or older ) child. I have already sent it home with a parent and she was also impressed.

This book was originally shown to me by my daughters teacher who had had it recommended to her by the educational psychologist in anticipation of starting sex education at school. Her teacher said she didnt like it and didnt think it was suitable i asked to see it all the same..... i thought (although some of the terms used are American) it was very well written with the direct purpose of being read and used by autistic children. It is direct factual and almost written in the style of a Social story. My daughter took to the style with ease and took it on board in a far more positive way due to it limited pictoral content and social story and list of instructions layout. The pictures included are more cartoon based and not biological which for her is helpful. She is 9 and has been able to follow the start of it well and has learnt about having a bath and washing her hair alone which is a massive step. Although she did mention they had forgotten to state that the plug goes in first and there was a typo and said she should put hampoo on her hair:) which caused confusion then great laughter!!!! It will be well used throughout these coming years and i think it is a brilliant addition to any parents support material.

Absolutely essential forcany child but outstanding for those with additional needs. Informative, well presented ans vety readable. Suitable for boys and girls.

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Excellent - several others have had a look and are ordering for themselves / child