Power Cards: Using Special Interests to Motivate Children and Youth with Asperger Syndrome and Autism

Author: Elisa Gagnon
Publishing Info: Spiral Bound 63 pages / 2001

This step-by-step book shows parents and educators how to help change an unwanted or inappropriate behavior by capitalizing on the special interests that characterize children and youth with AS. A brief, motivational text related to a special interest or a highly admired person is combined with an illustration and made into a bookmark- or business card-sized POWER CARD that the youth can refer to whenever necessary. For younger children the special interest or hero is worked into a brief story.