EXCEPTIONAL BOOKS
The Spectrum Girl’s Survival Toolkit The Workbook for Autistic Girls By Siena Castellon A companion to the bestseller The Spectrum Girl’s Survival Guide: How To Grow Up Awesome and Autistic, this essential toolkit workbook for teen autistic girls gives you the coping strategies needed to overcome the challenges that may be holding you back. Using clinically proven techniques like mindfulness, acceptance, and cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT), autistic teenager Siena Castellon shares her experiences, strategies, and tools to help you thrive at home, at school, and beyond. This friendly workbook is filled with autism-focused practical advice and interactive exercises on managing social anxiety, sensory overloads, making and maintaining friendships, and much more. In this fun and engaging workbook, you’ll find: • More than 100 different exercises and activities You’ll learn how to succeed in school, reframe negative thoughts, safeguard your mental health, and practice selfcare. • How to tap into the power of your character strengths to become the best version of yourself You’ll be encouraged to take charge of your life by building your confidence, recognizing your many strengths, thinking more positively, investing in your future, and much more! Throughout this relatable book, Siena shares her struggles and victories of being autistic to remind you that you are not alone and to help you embrace being awesome and autistic. “Siena Castellon is a role model for young girls who think differently. Her book provides lots of practical advice that I would find really helpful.”—Dr. Temple Grandin “The Spectrum Girl’s Survival Toolkit is full of amazing tips and strategies—all offered with Siena’s trademark reassurance, understand-
ing, and kindness. It’s an essential resource for autistic young people, their teachers, and parents, and will make such a difference to so many lives.”—Dr. Anna Remington, Director, Centre for Research in Autism and Education (CRAE), UCL Institute of Education, University College London
TO PURCHASE: https://www.amazon.com/Spectrum-Girls-Survival-Toolkit-Workbook/dp/B08W3KS56V Siena Castellon is an 18-year-old internationally recognized neurodiversity advocate, United Nations Young Leader for the SDGs, and author who is autistic, dyslexic, dyspraxic, and has ADHD. Her experience of being bullied for being different motivated her to create Neurodiversity Celebration Week, an international initiative that encourages schools to flip the narrative from focusing on the stereotypes, challenges, and drawbacks of being neurodivergent to focusing on its strengths and talents. Siena is the bestselling author of The Spectrum Girl’s Survival Guide: How to Grow Up Awesome and Autistic. She has won many awards for her advocacy, including being a finalist for the 2020 Children’s International Peace Prize and winning the regional 2021 Commonwealth Youth Awards. Websites: www.SienaCastellon.com, www.Neurodiversity-Celebration-Week.com Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/qlmentoring/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/QLMentoring, https://twitter.com/NCWeek
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