Proven Strategies to Succeed at Work, at Home, and in Relationships
Many tens of thousands of readers have found needed information and support in this authoritative guide, now in a revised and updated second edition. Preeminent expert Russell A. Barkley explains what ADHD looks like in adults, how to get an accurate evaluation, and how sufferers can manage symptoms and build the life they want. Readers get ......
Practical Exercises to Help Understand and Minimise the Effects ofAutistic Camouflaging
Combining lived experience with scientific research and practical advice, this book is the essential guide to understanding why you mask and how to feel confident without one. With expert advice on how to feel secure taking off your mask, this guide will give you all the tools you need to re-connect with yourself and the things you love.
Tales from the Table is a practitioner's account of the successes and limitations of using Lovaas home education with five young boys on the autistic spectrum. The abilities and skills of these 7-to-11-year-olds before, during and after intervention are documented with a focus on the realities of undertaking Lovaas home education: the impact of a ......
m Spectrum or with Speech and Language Impairments
Heather Jones's son, Jamie, has Asperger Syndrome and severe speech and language impairments. When Jamie was 10, Heather stumbled across a way of getting through to him. Over the years she developed this methodology in more detail, calling it conversational therapy, and has never looked back. Jamie is now 19 and can hold a conversation, which has ......
Sexuality Education for Learners with Disabilities
This book will address sexual development of people with autism spectrum disorders as well as other intellectual, developmental, and physical disabilities. It also considers special considerations for group homes and recreational facilities, and concepts of ethics and models of consent (medical, legal, social, and educational.)
Sexuality Education for Learners with Disabilities
This book will address sexual development of people with autism spectrum disorders as well as other intellectual, developmental, and physical disabilities. It also considers special considerations for group homes and recreational facilities, and concepts of ethics and models of consent (medical, legal, social, and educational.)
Ann Boushéy's teenage son Jon was diagnosed with high-functioning autism in kindergarten. Having mastered the day-to-day challenges that parenting a young child with autism or Asperger's Syndrome pose, Talking Teenagers considers questions surrounding parenting across the spectrum during the teenage years.Written out of her own experience, this ......
Telling your child about their autism diagnosis can be daunting. Will they be better off for knowing? Whats the right way to tell them? Should you inform anyone else too?
nication Skills in Children on the Autism Spectrum
Linda Hodgdon, M.Ed., CCC-SLP is a Speech-Language Pathologist who is internationally known as a pioneer in developing the use of visual strategies to support communication for students with the communication, behavior or social skill challenges that are common in Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD). Linda is the author of the international ......