Spring 03 Grief and Loss

1. Childhood Losses and Learning discusses loss and its relationship to learning, setting the stage to help children with ASD grow through their losses;
2. Children & Death provides a frame of reference for our discussion of loss and children with ASD - describing the responses of typical children to death and suggestions for adults;
3. Loss & Children with ASD explores how children with ASD experience day to day losses and death;
4. Appreciating the Differences explains why children with ASD sometimes have intense and/or unique responses to loss and the implications this holds for those who work on their behalf;
5. Guiding Children with ASD through Loss shares five guidelines and several ideas to assist children with ASD with losses ranging from a misplaced Lego™ block, to the loss of a friendship, to death; and
6. Appendixes, including: Related Resources (Appendix A), Social Stories and Loss (Appendix B), The Suitcase Curriculum and Other Ideas (Appendix C).