A straightforward and accessible guide for individuals with dyslexia, dyspraxia and other specific learning difficulties to improve their observational drawing skills. The book sets out an eight-step plan used in workshops at the Royal College of Art, and enables students to harness their strengths and grow in confidence.
training and learning from an autism companion dog
A four-stage programme for parents and families looking to introduce a dog into theirhome for the therapeutic and practical benefits that can be brought to a child with autism,including development of communication skills and toilet training. Based on first-handknowledge, the programme was created through the successful experience the author ......
Nicola Harvey is an experienced and qualified Special Needs Educator, Therapist, and Children's Yoga Mindfulness Practitioner. She has written articles for SEN Magazine, Twinkl Education Publishing and Ambitious About Autism.
Daily meltdowns and tantrums are one of the biggest challenges of life with autism and related disorders - they have a devastating impact on children with autism and their whole families. This book helps understand meltdowns, stop them before they start, and improve quality of life for entire families.
Defining the role of a job coach, this book sets out EU-wide training standards for helpingpeople with disabilities gain and maintain meaningful employment.The book includes the perspectives of both people with disabilities and their job coaches,offering first-hand experience of the specific issues faced by those who want to enter thecompetitive ......
This will help people with chronic illness, physical disability, temporary or permanent, and age-related limitations make their homes safer and more accessible without costly remodelling or structural changes. Shelly Peterman Schwarz shares her unique blend of motivation, inspiration, and practical tips, techniques, and shortcuts.
Vacation Strategies for Parents of the Anxious, the Inflexible, and the
This book combines advice from certified autism travel professionals, parents, and advocates to restructure every aspect of vacations for those with autism/ASD or mood/distraction disorders, though the tips can be used to soothe any child's travel anxieties.
"This book centers on story as a means of making disability available for noticing. The framework of signs of disability forwarded in this book is drawn from the author's lived experience of disability and deafness as well as rhetoric, feminist materialist scholarship, and critical disability studies"--
An Irreverent Guide to Understanding Injury Prevention and Rehabilitatio
Mark Salamon integrates current scientific literature with his own twenty-five years of experience as a physical therapist to produce this humorous "owners manual" for the human body. Far from a dry guide, this entertaining read teaches readers how to maintain and restore good health, and can be referenced again and again when injuries arise.
