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The Girls' Guide to Growing Up: Choices and Changes in the Tween Years

by Terri Couwenhoven

A concrete guide to puberty and personal boundaries

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A concrete guide to puberty and personal boundaries

Terri Couwenhoven’s guide brings together puberty education and practical topics that can be difficult to explain, including periods, hygiene, privacy, private body parts, and safety. The updated edition uses concrete language, illustrations and photos, and interactive activities; its third-grade reading level is intended to support comprehension. The coverage connects physical changes with emotional changes and everyday questions about privacy and socially appropriate behavior. The book also presents material that adults can use to open conversations or adapt growth-and-development instruction for girls with autism or other intellectual and developmental disabilities.

Good fit for readers who enjoy

  • Girls with autism or other intellectual and developmental disabilities who are learning about puberty and personal safety.
  • Parents, educators, and healthcare professionals seeking concrete material to support conversations or instruction about growing up.
  • Readers who benefit from accessible language, illustrations, and interactive activities.

Themes

Puberty and bodily changesMenstruation and hygienePrivacy and personal safetyAccessible health education

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Book overview

This book is the updated edition of the popular 2011 puberty book which has quickly become the go-to resource for girls with autism and/or other intellectual and developmental disabilities (I/DD). Unlike traditional puberty resources, this book is written at a third-grade reading level, is filled with tasteful illustrations and photos, includes concrete language and interactive activities to improve comprehension and empower girls to feel confident about growing up. The Girls' Guide to Growing Up covers all of the physical and emotional changes (including periods) that happen during puberty, hygiene information as well as privacy concepts that can support socially appropriate behavior, a common concern around this time. Rules for private body parts and safety concepts are also included.

 

The Girls' Guide to Growing Upis a great book for parents, educators, and healthcare professionals. Educators can use the book to teach modified and adapted human growth and development. Parents can use the book to initiate conversations and get ideas for how to present information about growing up in understandable ways. And healthcare providers can use the book to support patient and family education.

 

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