Using tabs to choose which of the 13 beautifully photographed spreads to look at, kids can easily navigate this large-scale board book, even if they have fine motor issues. Tabbed Board Books: My First Colors: Let's Learn Them All! I've rounded up 20 of my favorite board books and picture books that work particularly well for autistic kids. Tabbed Board Books: My First Colors: Let's Learn Them All! was an early favorite.Ĭolor concept books are wonderful, and important for generalizing knowledge about color vocabulary and concepts. His first solitary pleasure books were those big labeling books put out by DK Publishing with lots of pictures on spare backgrounds. My son Harry, who was always more interested in being read to, first developed an interest in independently looking at books around this time too. What I mean by that, is that even though it was hard to get my son Luke to attend to a book, he was interested in Pete the Cat: I Love My White Shoes because he could point to and correctly identify the prominently featured colors. Matching colors, sorting by color, and the receptive and expressive labeling of colors-these are some of the first skills I remember my twin boys working on with their ABA therapists after being diagnosed with autism.īecause their therapists worked so hard to reward them and praise them when they showed their color skills, it soon became clear that color concept books were reinforcing.
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