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For Children on the Autism Spectrum
Workman Publishing Company
April 2011
On Sale: March 28, 2011
20 pages
ISBN: 0761157158
EAN: 9780761157151
Hardcover
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Non-Fiction
Conceived of, written, and designed for children on the
autism spectrum, Point to Happy combines a picture book and
a pointer to create a breakthrough in reaching children who
communicate best through pictures. Ingenious in its
simplicity, it was created by a grandmother, Miriam Smith,
and mother, Afton Fraser, for Ms Fraser’s son, a young boy
on the autism spectrum. Point to happy. Point to sad. Point to hug. Give me a hug.
The parent reads, the child points. It turns reading into a
joyful, shared experience. Dozens of friendly photographs
are compelling to look at and easy to understand. The text
is clear and direct. By pointing to the pictures in the
book—moods, activities, everyday objects, the rituals of
going to bed and getting ready in the morning—children will
learn to convey their wants and needs, their experiences
and, most importantly, their feelings. The simple device of the pointer, with its soft, molded hand
on a wand—safety-tested and 100 percent nontoxic and PVC-and
phthalate-free—begs to be held and used. And using it—the
motor task of holding and pointing, again and again—is an
effective tool to help a child focus.
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