Practical Strategies for Guiding Individuals with Autism Spectrum Disord
This is a guidebook to support practitioners who prepare young adults with ASD for competitive employment. Anchored in best practices, this teacher-friendly resource provides detailed "how-to's" on supporting individuals with ASD from their initial employment exploration through navigating the challenges of the first job.
Practical Strategies for Guiding Individuals with Autism Spectrum Disord
This is a guidebook to support practitioners who prepare young adults with ASD for competitive employment. Anchored in best practices, this teacher-friendly resource provides detailed "how-to's" on supporting individuals with ASD from their initial employment exploration through navigating the challenges of the first job.
Chronicles one person's true-life story of illness and her physicians compassionate commentary as they journey through the four stages of chronic illness - Getting Sick, Being Sick, Grief and Acceptance and Living Well. Designed for people at all stages of the chronic illness journey, this book is also illuminating for caregivers and loved ones.
Peripheral neuropathy affects up to twenty million people in the United States. This book covers such topics as: what to ask at doctor appointments; making the house easier to navigate with neuropathy; where to find a support group; using vitamins and herbs for treatment; and, tips for traveling.
Approaching diabetes from a multidimensional perspective, Evan Soroka links the practices and philosophy of yoga with science and lived experience. In this book, she addresses the major challenges of type 1 and type 2 diabetes, providing descriptive practices including spinal movements, breathing techniques and meditation. By giving yoga ......
A Somatosensory Approach to Mental, Emotional and Physical Wellbeing
This is a comprehensive and inclusive guide that explores how yoga therapy can be practiced with children and teens with complex needs and conditions including autism and other neuro differences, trauma, depression, anxiety, and Down syndrome. It includes comprehensive theory on child development as well as practical tools and resources.
In this book, Lee Majewski and Ananda Bhavanani define yoga and yoga therapy as a whole person practice, demonstrating how it can help the individual to heal through their own mechanisms.
A Curated Set of Inspirational Stories of Transformational Yoga by Pioneers of the Field
Consisting of curated interviews with yoga pioneers including Gail Parker, Heather Mason and Neil Pearson, this book shows the transformational benefits of personal yoga practice and uncovers a collective deepening, resulting from accumulated practice and conscious application at scale. These interviews were collected with the 'presencing ......
Integrating Yoga and Ayurveda with Modern Recovery Tools for Addiction
Durga Leela presents an empowering, personal recovery program for yoga teachers and yoga therapists supporting clients through recovery from addiction. She integrates yoga philosophy and physical practices - such as hatha yoga, yoga nidra, restorative yoga, and pranayama - as well as the psychology of yoga and Ayurveda, for a program suitable for ......
Our respiratory and immune systems are intrinsically linked to how we relate to the world around us. Engaging with our vitality through the movement we were designed to express equips us with an invaluable ability to support the optimal functioning of our internal systems.
More than an exercise programme, this is a deeply soothing form of moving meditation and a physical activity and is a safe way to rebuild strength, stamina, and flexibility and to address the spinal curvature of scoliosis without surgery. It demonstrates how the practice of Iyengar yoga leads to a lessening of the degree curvature of the spine in ......
A practical how to guide to using yoga to manage stress, improve mental alertness, increase flexibility, correct posture and improve the quality-of-life of readers with Parkinson's. It shows how yoga ameliorates difficulties that accompany Parkinson's, including mobility, range of motion, balance, and guides towards leading a healthier life.
To the 20 million Americans who suffer from depression, the Hulmes offer a promise of hope and healing. Writing from his own battles with depression, William helps depressed people, their families, and caregivers understand depression, treatment and how people can cope. Woven into William's story are his wife's struggles with her husband's ......
Identifies the factors that making working particularly difficult for women with autoimmune disease, and offers suggestions to address them. This book looks issues such as the complex nature of autoimmune disease; and the correlation between disease, diagnosis, and career development.
Everything You Need to Know to Beat Seasonal Affective Disorder
"A 'landmark book.'"--The New York Times *When the dark days of winter approach, do you feel sluggish and slow? Is it a struggle to get out of bed each morning? *Do you have difficulty focusing at work or in relationships, feel down in the dumps, or, worse still, get really depressed? *Does it get harder than ever to stick to a healthy diet and ......
If you have seasonal affective disorder (SAD), take heart. A range of effective treatments and preventive measures can help you feel healthy and productive, even on the darkest days. Yet when depression kicks in, it's tough to mobilize yourself to find and use the information you need to feel better. That's where this skillfully crafted workbook ......
Presents a personal account of the seven-year struggle of the author and his wife who was the victim of a triple assault on her mind and body; Parkinson's disease, multi-infarct dementia (frequent small strokes), and Alzheimer's Disease, a combination without identifiable cause, explanation, or cure.
Those dealing with mental illness can be confused or frustrated by a disease that is unpredictable and detrimental. This volume is ideal for those affected by mental illness. Using practical suggestions for encouraging the reader to reconnect spiritually with God, this book helps sufferers resolve issues and find peace.
Accepting and living with a chronic illness is a process that has many facets, from emotional grappling and physical adjustments to spiritual reckoning and hopeful resolution. This volume helps readers in dealing with these issues, when they are facing a chronic illness.
Living with a terminal illness is a challenge. This brief book addresses issues that one faces in such a situation. From the time of diagnosis through the end of treatments, and life beyond treatments, it suggests ways readers can cope with the emotions, spiritual questions, and practical matters associated with such a diagnosis.
Most couples approach starting a family with excitement. But, not every couple will conceive as easily as they had hoped they would. This work guides readers through the often rocky terrain of infertility. It encourages them to recognize what they can and cannot control in their situations, and then suggests ways to live with these challenges.
How Parents, Teachers and Professionals Can Provide Calm and Compassionate Support
Supporting teens who self-harm can be stressful, with panic and anxiety muddying the waters and making it difficult to know how to respond. How do you help? What if you make it worse? This book guides you through the potential reasons for self-harming behaviour, helping you to respond with compassion and support. Quotes from young people who ......
Trauma survivors frequently struggle with unwanted memories, intense emotions, and problems with everyday functioning. Effective help is out there, but the needs of family members -- confused and scared about what has happened to the person they love -- are often overlooked. Will the person with posttraumatic stress ever get better? How can ......
Helps readers learn how to help their loved one come to terms with a bipolar diagnosis and find effective treatment - and how to work together to get control over the mood swings and live life to the fullest. This book shows spouses what they can do to providehelpful nurturance and support, while also taking care of themselves.
Professional Advice for Parents, Partners, and Siblings
Without sugar coating the facts, internationally renowned ADHD expert Dr. Russell Barkley explains in this book what ADHD is all about and how you can tell if your spouse, partner, friend, adult child, or sibling may have it. He shows how to guide your loved one toward the right treatment and, using examples from real life, answers questions.
Based on 20 years of experience with bipolar kids and their families, this book delivers strategies for reducing or eliminating problems with mania, depression, aggression, sleep disturbances, and other symptoms. It also emphasizes ways to maintain a positive atmosphere at home and to help these kids stay balanced, and focus on their achievements.
What have scientists learned about the causes of autism spectrum disorder? Why do different kids have such different symptoms, and what are the best ways to deal with them? Will there ever be a cure? From leading autism researchers, this accessible guide helps you put the latest advances to work for your unique child.
What have scientists learned about the causes of autism spectrum disorder? Why do different kids have such different symptoms, and what are the best ways to deal with them? Will there ever be a cure? From leading autism researchers, this accessible guide helps you put the latest advances to work for your unique child. Separating fact from fiction ......
Provides practical health information for people living with HIV and their significant others. This title gives information to help individuals with HIV navigate the healthcare system, offering coverage ranging from receiving an initial HIV test to becoming an engaged member of their healthcare team.
In 2008, the author was diagnosed with invasive ductal carcinoma and opted for bilateral mastectomy with Direct to Implant Reconstruction. Within three weeks of being diagnosed she had a mastectomy and was on the road to recovery. But after the surgery she had a lot of questions, the same that most women may have. This title answers the questions.
A Guide for People with Autism, Special Educational Needs and Disabiliti
This carefully illustrated book offers a frank explanation of sex for people with autism and special education needs and disabilities (SEND). The unambiguous text and illustrations demonstrate the physical processes of sex as well as highlighting issues of consent and safety, helping adults and young people to develop positive relationships.
This carefully written and illustrated book provides an explanation of pregnancy for people with autism and special education needs and disabilities (SEND). It helps readers to understand the physical process as well as important practical information such as how to care for a baby and antenatal care, pregnancy and childcare for autism/SEND ......
A Guide for People with Autism, Special Educational Needs and Disabiliti
This carefully written and illustrated book provides an explanation of menopause for people with autism, and special education needs and disabilities (SEND). It will help readers to understand the physical process and what to expect, and provide advice and support for this stage in life. What is Menopause? forms part of the Healthy Loving, Health ......
Although the public most often associates dementia with Alzheimer's disease, the medical profession now distinguishes various types of "other" dementias. This book is the first and only comprehensive guide dealing with frontotemporal degeneration (FTD), one of the largest groups of non-Alzheimer's dementias. The contributors are either specialists ......
