ets and Deep Pressure for Autism, Chronic Pain, and Other Conditions
Providing everything you need to know about the use of weighted blankets to help with sensory integration, improve sleep, ease chronic pain and more, this book includes:
· What a weighted blanket is and how it works
· An exploration of deep pressure and how weight on the body affects the mind
This volume explores the human capacity for resilience despite the experience of adversity in early life. The contributors focus on the factors which enable people to recover from early trauma and stress, and demonstrate how human development is an ongoing process through out the life course. They draw on theory and practice from fields as diverse ......
Drawing on one-to-one guided conversations with disabled children and follow-up interviews with their parents and siblings, this book takes an in-depth look at the effects of disability on disabled children. Approaching this subject through the disabled child's perspective, she considers children's understanding of disability and ways of ......
Presents state-of-the-art developments in multiple new technologies for older adult care. Grounded in a unique team-based geriatrics perspective, this book delivers a broad range of current, evidence-based knowledge about innovative technology that has the potential to advance the care and well being of older adults.
This fully-updated second edition of ''Helping Children with Dyspraxia'' has been revised to reflect current practice and developments, providing clear and positive answers to questions commonly asked by parents, teachers and other professionals about dyspraxia. Maureen Boon draws on her considerable experience of working with children with speech ......
Historically, interventions designed to impact the lives of disabled people were predicated upon deficits-based models of disability. This began to change with the introduction of World Health Organization (WHO) frameworks, particularly the International Classification of Function (ICF), that emphasized that disability could only be understood in ......
Permanent hearing loss in children is far more common than most people know, affecting thousands of newborns and older children each year. This book offers parents and caregivers a guide to what to expect when a child has a hearing loss, how to treat it, and how to support both the child and the whole family when faced with hearing loss.
