The Asperkid’s Game Plan teaches how to use purposeful structured play to engage the bright minds of Asperkids, building on strengths that they already have and developing core skills that
they often struggle with, such as fine motor and social skills.
Full of practical and fun learning games that can be used in the home or classroom, the following extracted activity is designed to find and concretely construct language, to help every Asperkid develop reading and “writing” long before their motor skills would ever have allowed them to do the same:
Cook O’Toole- The Asperkid’s Game Plan 37-41
Jennifer Cook O’Toole has Asperger syndrome and is the mother to three young Aspie children. She graduated from Brown University, and attended Columbia University’s Graduate School of Social Work. She has previously worked as a social worker, and a teacher in both special needs and mainstream education. She has also served on the Family Advisory Board for Levine Children’s Hospital, North Carolina, and regularly gives presentations at hospitals and local universities on special needs parenting. In 2002 she was nominated for Disney’s Teacher of the Year Award. More recently, she has been honored with the GRASP (Global and Regional Asperger Syndrome Partnership) 2012 Distinguished Spectrumite Medal, as well as the 2012 Temple Grandin Award for outstanding accomplishment and contribution to [her] family and community. She lives near Charlotte, North Carolina.