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Top Tips for Asperger Students
How to Get the Most Out of University and College
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2011
Leaving home and moving to college or university can be a daunting experience. In this easy-to-use book, Rosemary Martin provides guidelines and invaluable advice for every student on the Autism Spectrum as he or she thinks about, and plans for, entry into student life.
Packed with tried and...
Getting to Grips with Asperger Syndrome
Understanding Adults on the Autism Spectrum
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2009
Getting to Grips with Asperger Syndrome is a practical, problem-solving guide for those caring for or supporting an adult with Asperger Syndrome (AS). It will help them understand the condition and the difficulties it may cause, so that they can offer support in the most beneficial way.
The...
Active Support
Enabling and Empowering People with Intellectual Disabilities
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2012
Active Support is a proven model of care that enables and empowers people with intellectual disabilities to participate fully in all aspects of their lives. This evidence-based approach is particularly effective for working with people with more severe disabilities, and is of growing interest to those...
by Malcolm Johnson
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2004
This insider account provides much-needed information about a subject of increasing interest: people with Asperger Syndrome (AS) working in management positions. Johnson draws on his personal experiences to explain how elements such as the working environment, managing staff, group dynamics and office...
Attachment and Interaction
From Bowlby to Current Clinical Theory and Practice Second Edition
Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2014
Attachment and Interaction is an accessible introduction to the history and evolution of attachment theory, which traces the early roots of attachment theory from the work of its creator John Bowlby through to the most recent theoretical developments and their clinical applications.
Mario Marrone...
Asperger's Syndrome
A Guide for Parents and Professionals
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 1997
Tony Attwood's guide will assist parents and professionals with the identification, treatment and care of both children and adults with Asperger's Syndrome. The book provides a description and analysis of the unusual characteristics of the syndrome and practical strategies to reduce those that are...
Sensory Perceptual Issues in Autism and Asperger Syndrome, Second Edition
Different Sensory Experiences - Different Perceptual Worlds
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2016
Completely revised and updated, this book focuses on sensory perceptual problems as identified by individuals on the autism spectrum.
Despite frequently being identified by individuals with autism as one of the main problems they face, sensory perceptual issues are still often overlooked by...
The Passionate Mind
How People with Autism Learn
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2011
In her new book, Wendy Lawson examines traditional theories about the autism spectrum (AS) and reveals their gaps and shortcomings. Showing that a completely different way of thinking about AS is needed, she sets forward the theory of Single Attention and Associated Cognition in Autism (SAACA), an...
I’ll Write Your Name on Every Beach
A Mother’s Quest for Comfort, Courage and Clarity After Suicide Loss
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2017
Written by a mother who lost her 21 year old son to suicide, this book deals with the themes of suicide loss through the lens of the author's personal grief. Addressing the process of post-traumatic growth, this memoir provides the bereaved with therapy exercises and creative activities to help them...
A Guide to Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy
Information and Advice for Teachers and Parents
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2017
The prognosis for individuals with Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy (DMD) is improving, with some men with DMD living into their 30s and 40s. More vital than ever, this book helps teachers and parents to support children and young people with DMD with their education and transition into adulthood.
Leading...
Alphabet Kids - From ADD to Zellweger Syndrome
A Guide to Developmental, Neurobiological and Psychological Disorders for Parents and Professionals
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2008
From ASD (Autism Spectrum Disorder) to ZS (Zellweger Syndrome)-there seems to be an alphabet disorder for almost every behavior, from those caused by serious, rare genetic diseases to more common learning disabilities that hinder children's academic and social progress. Alphabet Kids have disorders...
Authentic Movement
Essays by Mary Starks Whitehouse, Janet Adler and Joan Chodorow
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 1999
Patrizia Pallaro's second volume of essays on Authentic Movement, eight years after her first, is a tour de force. It is indeed "an extraordinary array of papers", as Pallaro puts it, and an immensely rich, moving and highly readable sweep through the landscapes of Authentic Movement, "this...
by Debbie Michaels, Simon Bell, Iris Von Sass Hyde
Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2015
By creating a therapeutic outlet for self-expression and processing trauma, art therapy can play a powerful role in assisting people with a brain injury or neurological condition to adjust to living with altered abilities and ways of thinking.
Bringing together a wealth of expertise from specialists...
Children and Adolescents in Trauma
Creative Therapeutic Approaches
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2010
Children and Adolescents in Trauma presents a variety of creative approaches to working with young people in residential children's homes, secure or psychiatric units, and special schools.
The contributors describe a wide range of approaches, including art therapy and literature, and how creative...