Activity Schedules for Children with Autism shows both parents and service providers how to use activity schedules to help children and adults with Autism to successfully engage in self-directed and purposeful activities. This second edition book discusses the latest research that reveals the positive outcomes from using activity schedules with children with Autism, including better self-management, decreased problem behaviors, and skill generalizations.

The new edition includes:

• How to use activity schedules to organize all aspects of a person's daily activities, and increase engagement, task completion, making appropriate choices, and sequencing activities
• An expanded section on the use of activity schedules by adults, describing how they are used at home and in the workplace and via iPods and Blackberries
• How to use activity schedules to promote social interaction and to teach children to point to and show objects to others in order to share a social experience

Detailed instructions and examples help parents prepare their child's first schedule, then progress to more varied and sophisticated schedules, leading to even greater independence.