Click HERE to download these resources from the Aide Canada website.

Growing Friendships: A Comic for Autistic Children

Illustrated by Elsbeth Dodman. Written by Joel Shaul, Fakhri Shafai & Elsbeth Dodman

Here is a fine, free comic made available for download by Aide Canada. It is inspired by a free card activity on my website, Friendship Growing Cards. There are some great activity sheets to use in combination with the comic book.

Here are some excerpts.

Growing plants is a useful metaphor for “growing friendships.”

You can show the comic on a computer screen to one child or a small group. Its high-definition images and text can also be projected or shown on a smart board.

Although the comic is designed to be viewed on a screen, it is possible to print the individual pages.

The eight activity pages are very useful to explore the particular ways children are affected by the matter of friendship. The sheets are designed to allow both short answers in written format and simple drawings.

Friendship Growing Cards, which can be printed or else shown on computer screens, add a game-like element to this social skills learning activity and may be used in conjunction with the comic.

I hope you find this collaboration with Aide Canada helpful. And I thank Aide Canada for making this free resource available to you.

Joel Shaul