teaching my child chess

Hi,

My autistic seven year old son is interested in learning chess, however, his attention span isn't great and I am looking for resources to help engage him. He knows how the pieces move and can set up the board himself. He even knew about fianchetto with the bishop, which surprised me last time we played.

I found a game called No Stress Chess online, which looks ideal, but it's £30 or so and I was looking for something a little cheaper. If anyone has any suggestions of ways to engage children which worked for them, or anything they bought, I would appreciate the suggestions.

Thanks,
Jamie.

There might be something helpful in a 2013 Silman article, Dinos to the Slav.
http://www.uschess.org/content/view/12291/719/
Books might help you to help your little brother. Winning Chess Strategy for Kids by Jeff Coakley
https://web.archive.org/web/20140708094112/http://www.chesscafe.com/text/review332.pdf
has often been suggested in the past around here. If the book is a success, one could also try Winning Chess Puzzles for Kids, Vol. 1 by Jeff Coakley,
https://web.archive.org/web/20140708110137/http://www.chesscafe.com/text/review570.pdf
Winning Chess Puzzles for Kids, Vol. 2 by Jeff Coakley, and Winning Chess Exercises for Kids by Jeff Coakley.
https://web.archive.org/web/20140708234342/http://www.chesscafe.com/text/review754.pdf
Other possibilities (if interest persists) include:
Simple Attacking Plans by Fred Wilson (2012)
https://web.archive.org/web/20140708090402/http://www.chesscafe.com/text/review874.pdf
https://www.newinchess.com/Shop/Images/Pdfs/7192.pdf
Logical Chess: Move by Move by Irving Chernev (1957)
https://web.archive.org/web/20140708104437/http://www.chesscafe.com/text/logichess.pdf
Winning Chess by Irving Chernev and Fred Reinfeld (1949)
https://web.archive.org/web/20140708093415/http://www.chesscafe.com/text/review919.pdf
Discovering Chess Openings by GM John Emms (2006)
https://web.archive.org/web/20140627114655/http://www.chesscafe.com/text/hansen91.pdf
Chess Endgames for Kids by Karsten Müller (2015)
https://chessbookreviews.wordpress.com/tag/chess-endgames-for-kids/
http://www.gambitbooks.com/pdfs/Chess_Endgames_for_Kids.pdf
A Guide to Chess Improvement by Dan Heisman (2010)
https://web.archive.org/web/20140708105628/http://www.chesscafe.com/text/review781.pdf
Journey to the Chess Kingdom by GM Yuri Averbakh and Mikhail Beilin
https://www.chess.com/blog/Natalia_Pogonina/book-review-quotjourney-to-the-chess-kingdomquot

 Thank you Kindaspongey, lots of info there!