Exploring Feelings: Cognitive Behavior Therapy to Manage ANXIETY - by Tony Attwood. Winner of a 2008 Teachers’ Choice Award! This book provides a guide for caregivers and then the workbook section allows children to identify situations that make them anxious and learn how to perceive the situation differently.

Socially Speaking - by Alison Schroeder. Socially Speaking will help you to introduce and practice skills your pupils need to develop and maintain relationships and to lead independent lives outside the school context. Contains teacher’s notes, photocopiable A4 illustrated worksheets, and assessment and evaluation forms.

The Social Skills Picture Book: Teaching play, emotion & communication to children with autism - by Dr Jed Baker. The Social Skills Picture Books immediately zoomed to the top of the chart in books on autism and Asperger’s because it provides a teaching tool that “engages the attention and motivation of students who need help learning appropriate social skills.” It demonstrates through pictures nearly 80 social skills, such as conversation, play, emotion management and empathy.

By Anna Tullemans and Rhonda Dixon - This book has 18 great A4 pages with an excellent picture to explain somany of the common challenges ASD students face in social and school situations. They include: Getting Someone’s Attention, Starting a Conversation, Interrupting, Asking Someone to Play, What if a Person Say’s "No"?, Asking for Help, How loud or soft your voice should be, Waiting in Line, Waiting on the Mat and Waiting at your Desk.