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Title: Making Visual Supports Work in the Home and Community: Strategies for Individuals with Autism and Asperger Syndrome by Jennifer L. Savner, Brenda Smith Myles ISBN: 0-9672514-6-X Publisher: Autism Asperger Publishing Co Pub. Date: 20 April, 2000 Format: Spiral-bound Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $16.95

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Average Customer Rating: 4.83 (6 reviews)

Rating: 4
Summary: Good but limited in scope
Comment: This is a small (33 page) ring bound book. It briefly touches on a number of circumstances (common one for children)that might benefit from visual communication offerings. The latter can be diagrams, drawings, or pictures that help the child manage their daily schedule. The idea is that the visual 'artwork' represents the rules for a particular set of circumstances. A wide variety of formats are mentioned and there are abundant pictures which may stir and inspire parents. For most readers that will be enough to justify purchasing the book.

My main reservations about the book are that the outlined methodology is so broad as to make it impossible to separate effective from less effective representational modes. The test-retest reliability question, hanging over all these type of intervention programmes, is never addressed. For instance the authors never explore the results of the use of the Picture Exchange Communication System. On a related point, the authors don't connect their strategies with general speech and language therapy approaches. These are moot points but ones that have to be acknowledged as autism intervention programmes try to formalise their methodologies.

Rating: 5
Summary: I really enjoyed this easy to read book!
Comment: This wonderful book is jam-packed with ideas. It complements the video on visuals by Jennifer Savner. Together (or separately) they are winners!

Rating: 5
Summary: A great video!
Comment: This video shows how visuals can work with children. I learned more in 20 minutes watching this video than I did in trying reading a thick book!

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