Jessica: 2764 books
Autism Equality in the Workplace
Removing Barriers and Challenging Discrimination
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2016
Neurodiversity in the workplace can be a gift. Yet only 15% of adults with an autism spectrum condition (ASC) are in full-time employment. This book examines how the working environment can embrace autistic people in a positive way.
The author highlights common challenges in the workplace for...
Child Protection and Parents with a Learning Disability
Good Practice for Assessing and Working with Adults - including Autism Spectrum Disorders and Borderline Learning Disability
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2016
Child Protection and Parents with a Learning Disability provides the practical knowledge that professionals need in order to understand common intellectual disabilities and how they might affect parenting capability.
It presents clear guidance on how to carry out effective assessments and explains...
Can I tell you about having a Stroke?
A guide for friends, family and professionals
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2014
Meet Fred - a man who has had a stroke. Fred invites readers to learn about what it is like to have a stroke from his perspective, helping them to understand the challenges faced by someone who has had a stroke and the ways in which they might have to adapt their lifestyle. He also gives advice on...
Connecting through Music with People with Dementia
A Guide for Caregivers
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2009
For people with dementia, the world can become a lonely and isolated place. Music has long been a vital instrument in transcending cognitive issues; bringing people together, and allowing a person to live in the moment. Connecting through Music with People with Dementia explains how a caregiver can...
by Rebecca Moyes
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2014
Concise and accessible, this plain English guide will help parents and educators to understand and support children with executive function difficulties at home and in the classroom.
The author describes the cognitive processes that make up the executive functions, including attention, behavioral...
Guerrilla Mum
Surviving the Special Educational Needs Jungle
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2011
Getting the educational provision you need for your special needs child can feel like an uphill struggle. This book offers clear guidance on how authorities such as Local Education Authorities, schools, the National Health Service and the Government function, what the law entitles your child to, and...
101 Mindful Arts-Based Activities to Get Children and Adolescents Talking
Working with Severe Trauma, Abuse and Neglect Using Found and Everyday Objects
Language: English
Release Date: December 21, 2016
Many children who have experienced serious trauma are withdrawn and closed off, making it difficult to engage with them in therapy effectively. This book offers a compendium of therapeutic activities that will help children who have endured painful abuse to open up, so that they can learn to express...
by Christine Bryden
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2012
Christine Bryden was 46 years old when she was diagnosed with dementia, and in this book she describes her remarkable emotional, physical and spiritual journey in the three years immediately following. Offering rare first-hand insights into how it feels to gradually lose the ability to undertake tasks...
Learning to Live with Huntington's Disease
One Family's Story
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2007
Huntington's Disease (HD) is a hereditary illness passed on via a defective gene. There is a fifty per cent chance of inheriting it from a parent and there is yet no cure. Learning to Live with Huntington's Disease is one family's poignant story of coping with the symptoms, the diagnosis and the effects...
Outsider Art and Art Therapy
Shared Histories, Current Issues, and Future Identities
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2017
Outsider art, traditionally the work of psychiatric patients, offenders and minority groups, and art therapy have shared histories of art created in psychiatric care. As the two fields grow, this book reveals the current issues faced by both disciplines and traces their shared histories to help them...
Autism All-Stars
How We Use Our Autism and Asperger Traits to Shine in Life
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2011
Looking at the positive influences, great talents and unique thought processes of individuals with Autism Spectrum Disorders, this book is a celebration of those who have used their autism to shine in life. Writers from all over the world at different stages in their careers, and from very different...
It's Raining Cats and Dogs
An Autism Spectrum Guide to the Confusing World of Idioms, Metaphors and Everyday Expressions
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2011
The English language can be extremely confusing and illogical, especially for people with an autism spectrum disorder (ASD) who interpret meaning in a very literal way. Why should an announcement that cats and dogs are falling from the sky indicate heavy rain? And what have chickens got to do with...
Safety Skills for Asperger Women
How to Save a Perfectly Good Female Life
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2011
Life with Asperger's Syndrome can be a challenge at the best of times, and trials and tribulations that neurotypicals take in their stride can leave Aspies perplexed and unsure of how best to solve problems and keep themselves safe, both physically and emotionally. This book explores difficulties...
Succeeding in College with Asperger Syndrome
A student guide
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2003
College life is particularly stressful for students with Asperger Syndrome (AS) and the resources that colleges provide for such students are often inadequate. This much needed guide provides information to help these students prepare successfully for the rites and rituals of studying, interact with...