This book was developed to target young children on the autism spectrum, but its sensitive story will delight all childen! It stars "Sophie" a small, round, fat, yellow Labrador puppy as she goes through an adventure where she discovers and reacts with her emotions and empathy. Sophie uses non-verbal communication to share the emotions of happy and sad with a shy boy. By sharing the emotions happy and sad as well as empathy from a dog's point of view, it encourages children to connect with their humaneness and empathy for other people and animals. Based on scientific research on autism, canine body language and the human/canine bond. The Early Readers edition makes the concepts of happy and sad available to children just beginning to read. The regular edition of Sophie Finds a Friend is available to teachers and parents and provides them with strategies and research behind the concepts of the human/canine bond and humane education.

This book stars "Sophie" a small, round, fat, yellow Labrador puppy as she goes through an adventure where she discovers and reacts with her emotions and empathy. Sophie shares her feelings with a shy boy. Children affected by autism often have difficulty understanding and showing emotion. By targeting young children on the autism spectrum, the book encourages all children to connect with people and animals. Early intervention techniques such as interacting one on one with parents and teachers helps children on the autism spectrum increase communication skills. Research currently being done with early intervention strategies are finding significant improvements for these young children. The book Sophie Finds a Friend was created to assist in these strategies.

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This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger Publishing's Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment to protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature. Kessinger Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of rare and hard-to-find books with something of interest for everyone