A step-by-step guide to the strengths-based approach by teaching professional and autistic author and parent Claire O'Neill. Designed to focus on the unique strengths of autistic children to help support and develop their sense of self, wellbeing and ensure that they thrive in a deficit-driven world.
How to Prepare for Every Stage of Your Child's Life
Combines financial planning knowledge with a focus on families who have members with disabilities. This book also focuses on identifying and protecting government benefits as well as strategies to supplement government benefits.
Addressing frequently encountered emotional, behavioral, and academic difficulties, this essential guide shows how to help parents implement proven skills-building strategies with their kids (ages 5-17). The author draws on over 25 years of research and clinical practice to provide a flexible program for individual families or parent groups. The ......
An accessible guide to the medicines commonly prescribed to children with ADHD. This book will support parents in discussion with medical professionals and sheds light on the differences between medications, their effectiveness and the decisions that go into prescribing certain medicines.
In her influential and successful book The Anger Box, expert practitioner Phoebe Caldwell shifted attention away from the surface symptoms of autism and towards understanding sensory experiences and alleviating the distress associated with them.
A go-to guide for families, a highly accessible resource for professionals, and an ideal supplemental text for tomorrow's practitioners, this book will be a great developmental primer and guide needed to take first steps toward resolving a child'sdevelopmental challenges.
A guide for navigating life as an autistic trans and/or non-binary adult, presenting evidence-based, lived experience strategies for living well as your most authentic self. The authors provide background on the crossover between autism and gender identity and provide advice on topics including transitioning, mental health and self-advocacy.
Developing the Skills to Determine Your Own Future
This is the ultimate guide to self-advocacy for autistic people at all stages of life. Covering self-advocacy in specific scenarios, such as work, school and social media, it also explores the relationship between self-advocacy and personal growth, helping you to be heard, respected and empowered.
Enhancing Quality of Life Through Attitudes, Education and Behaviour
The Art of Caring for People with Intellectual Disabilities considers how the skills and attitudes of a carer can elevate the life of the person they care for.