Jessica: 2764 books
Appreciating Asperger Syndrome
Looking at the Upside - with 300 Positive Points
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2009
People with Asperger Syndrome have many characteristics that are frequently seen in a negative light. Brenda Boyd shows that for every characteristic of AS that can be looked at negatively, there are several positive aspects that can be drawn on and developed. Discussing AS in general terms, she talks...
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...
by Jessica Lindsey
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2018
Turning your house into a vacation rental can seem overwhelming at first... but it really doesn't have to be. This is a process that you can really enjoy and have fun with! I have set up houses as vacation rentals dozens and dozens of times, for my client's properties, as well as my own houses. I...
by Christopher Slater-Walker, Gisela Slater-Walker
Language: English
Release Date: January 17, 2002
Language: English
Release Date: January 17, 2002
Chris and Gisela have been partners for twelve years. Four years ago Chris was diagnosed with Asperger syndrome. For Chris, this was an explanation of why he had always regarded himself as `socially handicapped'. For Gisela, it meant coming to terms with a marriage in which there would never be an...
Can't You Hear Them?
The Science and Significance of Hearing Voices
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2017
The experience of 'hearing voices', once associated with lofty prophetic communications, has fallen low. Today, the experience is typically portrayed as an unambiguous harbinger of madness caused by a broken brain, an unbalanced mind, biology gone wild. Yet an alternative account, forged predominantly...
by Jessica Erica Hahn
Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 2010
TRANSIENT WAYS is a modern day On the Road for today's dispossessed generation. This somersaults the reader into an unadulterated joy ride through squatter's streets and hobo highways. Desperate and daring characters are freight-hopping and dumpster-diving. A collection of thinly autobiographical vignettes and short stories.
Healing Child Trauma Through Restorative Parenting
A Model for Supporting Children and Young People
Language: English
Release Date: June 21, 2016
How can we help heal children who have been abused or neglected?
Healing Child Trauma Through Restorative Parenting details how children can be helped to recover with the use of Restorative Parenting, an innovative model informed by psychological and neurological understanding of trauma and...
A Community-Based Approach to the Reduction of Sexual Reoffending
Circles of Support and Accountability
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2011
A Circle of Support and Accountability is a group of trained volunteers who meet on a regular basis with a high risk sex offender living in their community. This innovative strategy, which helps the offender both to maintain accountability and reintegrate into the community, is proven to be effective...
Mindful Living with Asperger's Syndrome
Everyday Mindfulness Practices to Help You Tune in to the Present Moment
Language: English
Release Date: December 21, 2013
Based on his own life experiences, travels and meditations, Chris Mitchell reflects on how mindfulness practice can help people with Asperger's Syndrome (AS) with daily challenges including negative thought patterns, emotional and sensory issues, and navigating the social world.
This practical...
Asperger Syndrome in the Family
Redefining Normal
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2001
Liane Holliday Willey and one of her daughters both have Asperger Syndrome. In Asperger Syndrome in the Family she looks, with honesty, wisdom and humor, at the implications this has for her family, both the Aspie and the non-Aspie members. Through personal vignettes, frank discussions and practical...
When Young People with Intellectual Disabilities and Autism Hit Puberty
A Parents’ Q&A Guide to Health, Sexuality and Relationships
Language: English
Release Date: June 21, 2016
Puberty, personal hygiene and sex can be difficult topics to broach with your child, especially when they have an intellectual disability or autism. The authors of this guide provide honest answers to challenging questions and provide solutions to the dilemmas that many parents face on a daily basis....
Everyday Heaven
Journeys Beyond the Stereotypes of Autism
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2004
Everyday Heaven is the much-awaited fourth installment in Donna Williams' series of best-selling autobiographies about her life with autism. A humorous, riveting, roller-coaster of a book, Everyday Heaven covers the monumental nine years from the time Ian left their accidental, 'autistic marriage',...
Tic Disorders
A Guide for Parents and Professionals
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2016
This is the essential one-stop guide for parents of children and young people with tic disorders and the professionals who work with them.
Drawing on current research and their own clinical experience, the authors provide up-to-date information on tic disorders and review the psychological,...
Person-Centred Teams
A Practical Guide to Delivering Personalisation Through Effective Team-work
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2014
Person-Centred Teams provides much-needed guidance on person-centred working following the roll out of personalisation and personal budgets across health and social care.
In order to deliver personalisation you need to work with staff in person-centred ways. Straightforward and easy-to-read,...