Socially Handicapped category: 295 books
Defining Critical Animal Studies
An Intersectional Social Justice Approach for Liberation
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2015
This is the first book to define the philosophical and practical parameters of critical animal studies (CAS). Rooted in anarchist perspectives that oppose all systems of domination and authoritarianism, CAS both challenges anthropocentrism and presents animal liberation as a social justice movement...
by Travis Breeding
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2017
Growing up Travis was always the last kid picked. He felt embarrassed that no one wanted him on their team. He tried very hard to impress his peers but it seemed like more he tried the worse his situation became. Travis did not want to go to school because the situation had gotten so bad. Desperate...
Beating Anger
The eight-point plan for coping with rage
Language: English
Release Date: May 27, 2009
We all feel angry at times. It can be an uncomfortable emotion, yet it is almost a taboo subject. We get very little guidance in our culture on how to deal with it, and the guilt or violence that may accompany it.
Here is the perfect book to help anyone from 16-75 years old to beat their anger...
by Breeding Publishing
Language: English
Release Date: July 14, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 14, 2017
As if autism was not enough of a roller coaster along comes puberty. Now everything is chaos and we are left trying to figure out our life. Along with the physical changes that occur to our bodies that we will need help processing we also have emotional changes in how we understand our own feelings,...
Loneliness and Solitude in Education
How to Value Individuality and Create an Enstatic School
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2014
Analysing loneliness and solitude in schools and exploring how to deal with them is a vital task. In recent research for the author’s Spirit of the School project, a number of pupils, teachers and headteachers described times when they felt lonely and times when they felt the need for healthy solitude....
The Revelations of Asher
Toward Supreme Love in Self (This Is an Endarkened, Feminist, New Literacies Event)
Language: English
Release Date: December 30, 2015
The Revelations of Asher: Toward Supreme Love in Self is an endarkened, feminist, new literacies event. It critically and creatively explores Black women’s terror in love. With poetry, prose, and analytic memos, Jeanine Staples shows how a group of Black women’s talk and writings about relationships...
The Hidden Curriculum
Practical Solutions for Understanding Unstated Rules in Social Situations
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2004
We are surrounded by unstated rules and customs that can make the world a confusing place for people on the autism spectrum. To help individuals with ASD understand and deal with this ever-elusive “hidden curriculum,” this book offers practical suggestions and advice for how teachers, parents and other professionals can teach these subtle social cues.
Practical Strategies for Supporting Emotional Regulation in Students with Autism
Enhancing Engagement and Learning in the Classroom
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2018
For professionals who work with students on the autism spectrum in inclusive classroom settings, supporting emotional regulation is key. This practical guide outlines cognitive and language strategies that support emotional regulation, which the authors have found successful with their students with...
by Alice Wexler
Language: English
Release Date: January 29, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: January 29, 2016
Autistic people are empirically and scientifically generalized as living in a fragmented, alternate reality, without a coherent continuous self. In Part I, this book presents recent neuropsychological research and its implications for existing theories of autism, selfhood, and identity, challenging...
I, Monster
Positive Ways of Working with Challenging Teens Through Understanding the Adolescent Within Us
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2017
I, Monster is a resource for all professionals in health and education who work with challenging young people. The book aims to explain the issues behind challenging behaviour, to enable empathy, and to facilitate a more productive therapeutic relationship between the health/education professional...
Positive Behaviour Management in Early Years Settings
An Essential Guide
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2016
Drawing on her extensive practical experience, Liz Williams provides a highly accessible and much-needed guide to promoting positive behaviour in early years settings.
In this book, she explains why children may act in the way that they do and how behaviour should be understood differently...
The One-Minute Temper Tantrum Solution
Strategies for Responding to Children's Challenging Behaviors
Language: English
Release Date: June 24, 2008
This resource examines developmental, situational, physical, and temperamental factors that can trigger tantrums and provides effective interventions to help teachers avoid long-term negative consequences for children.
The STAR Detective Facilitator Manual
A Cognitive Behavioral Group Intervention to Develop Skilled Thinking and Reasoning for Children with Cognitive, Behavioral, Emotional and Social Problems
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2017
The STAR Program is designed to teach children and those involved in their care psychological techniques to improve self-control and prosocial competence. The program employs cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT) principles and uses a child-centered approach to teach attention skills, emotional control,...
Playing for Change
Music Festivals as Community Learning and Development
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2016
Playing for Change – performing for money and for social justice – introduces a critical pedagogy of arts-based community learning and development (A-CLD), a new discipline wherein artists learn to become educators, social workers, and community economic development agents. Challenging the assumption...