"Just Give Him the Whale!" : Paul H. Brookes Publishing : 9781557669605 : 1557669600 : 28 Feb 2008 : SAVE when you order the guide and the illustrated children's story together! When learners with autism have deep, consuming fascinations?trains, triangles, basketballs, whales?teachers often wonder what to do. This concise, highly practical guidebook gives educators across grade levels a powerful new way to think about students' "obsessions": as positive teaching tools that calm, motivate, and improve learning. Written by top autism experts and nationally renowned speakers Paula Kluth and Patrick Schwarz, this guide is brimming with easy tips and strategies for folding students' special interests, strengths, and areas of expertise into classroom lessons and routines. Teachers will discover how making the most of fascinations can help their students learn standards-based academic contentboost literacy learning and mathematics skillsdevelop social connectionsexpand communication skill