Travis Breeding has 4 audiobooks on Listento.it, narrated by 4 narrators. The most-rated is Making Sense of My Feelings as a Teen with Autism Going Through Puberty.
Autism Aggression at Puberty
Summary
Puberty is a confusing time for autistic people, leaving those who love and support them baffled by their actions. This book explains some of the reasons for aggressive behaviors during puberty and talks about how to sooth and comfort the autistic teen as their body is changes, along with their emotions. This book gives you the social tools needed to help your loved one breeze through puberty with grace and dignity. If you have ever wondered what it feels like to be confused by the world around you, then imagine yourself in the shoes of an autistic 12-year-old going from elementary school to middle school. All of a sudden you are experiencing puberty. Your body and emotions are changing but so are the social rules at school. Socializing is no longer playing tag with each other on the playground. It is now about having small talk and connecting with conversation. It is now a game of popularity, and you are unsure how to play the game. Listen to this book to hear how an autistic man coped with the ever changing environment in middle school, along with his changing body and emotions. The author shares tips for how to prepare autistic teens in advance for puberty and the best ways to help them understand their ever changing feelings and mood swings. It will also touch on aggression and explain why the autistic teen is more on edge during puberty. If you have a loved on on the spectrum going through puberty or you support an autistic teen in your career, this book is for you. It will guide you in guiding the autistic teen through the challenges they face in making it through puberty.
©2019 Travis Breeding (P)2019 Travis Breeding
ABA Therapy Guide for Autism
Summary
Applied behavior analysis is the top therapy for children with autism. Travis makes the case that ABA therapy is also beneficial to adults with autism. Travis shares his mind as an adult with autism on how ABA therapy helps him learn new and improved social skills and behaviors. Travis explains ABA and how it works from the autistic perspective. While many adults think ABA is bad, Travis loves it. Travis talks advanced ABA with contingencies and generalizations and shows examples of how complex teaching social skills and behaviors becomes the higher functioning the skill or behavior you are trying to teach is. Travis shares how he tries to train himself about different contingencies that can get in the way of his new behaviors and how he works hard to understand ways for him to generalize his new skill or behavior across different social contexts and environments. Travis shares how he feels his mental illness is compounded by the fact that there are not social interventions in his treatment plan like ABA therapy. Travis feels he hears voices that ask him to punish himself and hurt himself at times because he has poor social skills. ABA therapy can be used to help Travis and thousands of others like him on the spectrum advance their social skills and improve their social behaviors. ABA has also been known to help with mental illness and lessen the vocal sensations a person hears while experiencing psychosis and hearing voices. Travis will teach parents and behavior analysts how to approach ABA therapy with your child or client in this amazing audiobook that gives a first-of-its-kind perspective from an adult on the autism spectrum who believes ABA is not just life-changing but life-saving. Travis says ABA therapy or behavior analysis is for anything that is breathing. If it breathes, then it is a behavior that can be worked on. Travis hopes to one day start a nonprofit organization that brings ABA therapy to the forefront of the mental health world just like it is in the autism world. This audiobook is full of tips and ideas on how to implement behavior strategies into a child or client's treatment plan that will immediately help them with autism.
©2017 Travis E. Breeding (P)2018 Travis E. Breeding
A Super Anxious Aspie
Summary
Travis talks about being autistic and having extreme anxiety. He shares how trying to mask his autism for so many years created anxiety and paranoia that left everlasting mental health impacts on him. Travis gives the listener examples of how he copes and overcomes anxiety while providing tips and strategies for managing your anxiety. This is a great tool for autistic people to have in their lives. Masking who he was and hiding his autism from others was a coping skill Travis learned by accident. Now he is on a mission to unmask his autism and show everyone his authentic autistic self. He shares how he spent years doing things he didn't enjoy to please others. He also did those things because he had convinced himself that was the only way to happiness and true friendship. This is a book of self-realization on behalf of someone with Asperger's Syndrome. Travis sees the real value of who he is and his autism. He no longer avoids bringing autism to the table when meeting anyone; it is one of the first things they hear about. Listen along as Travis builds his self-esteem and encourages other autistic people to do the same along with him.
©2018 Travis Breeding (P)2019 Travis Breeding
Making Sense of My Feelings as a Teen with Autism Going Through Puberty
Summary
In this book I express my feelings I had during my teenage years as a teen with autism. Watching other kids go through puberty and begin interacting with the opposite sex in different ways than I knew or understood was very frustrating. It is my goal that this book helps you prepare other children for the teenagers years and puberty. Puberty is tough to deal with for anyone. Throwing Autism into the mix only made things more confusing for me. I needed more clarity on what was going on with my body. I sought out answers on my own because no one talked to me about it in ways I understood. This is an important issue I feel needs addressed with more intensity in the Autism community. I hope this book can be a helpful tool in helping us do just that.
©2012 Travis Breeding (P)2018 Travis Breeding