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January 2022Autism, Second Edition
by Heather Barnett Veague, Ph.D. and Christine Adamec
Autism is a developmental disorder characterized by impaired social interaction, difficulty with communication, repetitive behaviors, and narrow, obsessive interests. Autism is considered a spectrum disorder because it can manifest in various ways and its severity can range from mild to disabling. Autism, Second Edition examines the nature of the disorder, its symptoms, the various types, related disorders, and treatments that may help those affected. Readers will gain an understanding of what scientists believe may cause these spectrum disorders and where the latest research is leading. This informative book also examines the controversy over childhood vaccines that some believe may contribute to autism spectrum disorders. Chapters include: What Is Autism? Identifying Autism What Causes Autism? Treatment of Autism: Intervention and Education Asperger Syndrome The Debate: Is There an Epidemic?
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FictionThe Boy From Aleppo Who Painted The War
by Sumia Sukkar
Sumia Sukkar's The Boy From Aleppo Who Painted The War is about a 14-year-old boy with Asperger Syndrome who attempts to understand the Syrian conflict and its effect on his life by painting his feelings. Yasmine, his beautiful older sister, devotes herself to him, but has to cope with her own traumas when she is taken by soldiers. Their three brothers also struggle – on whether or not to take sides and the consequences of their eventual choices. The book has recently been dramatised by BBC Radio 4.
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Children's & YAFebruary 2020Chameleon
Here come the Aspie girls!
by Christine Deroin,Gilles Martinez
Alice is a teenager everyone has always described as high-potential without recognizing the depth of her discomfort. Moving and changing middle schools throws her for a loop, bringing out these aspects of her personality. Her admiration for Fanny, star of the class, and her desire to be like her just to be loved, will endanger her and send her world spinning. Asperger syndrome is rarely diagnosed in children, but doing so earlier would not only help teenage girls who have it thrive, but also those around them learn to accept it.
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Biography & True StoriesMay 2018Comics and Columbine
An outcast look at comics, bigatory and school shootings
by Tom Campbell
A book for every teacher, every parent, every teenager Written from the perspective of the classroom avenger, this book explores distorted thinking and reveals the ‘socially acceptable’ evils that provoke such a lethal response. The book is the story of one man, a step by step chronicle of the development of the school shooter’s thinking. It is also the story of everyone who has ever watched, with horror, the terrible aftermath of a school shooting and asked themselves, why? Extensively illustrated with images that reflect the horror of increasing mental isolation, the book offers, not only understanding, but also provides hope for those slipping through society’s cracks.
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MedicineOctober 2016Adults with Asperger Syndrome
Late in Life Diagnosis
by Trevor Powell
Written by a clinical neuropsychologist, this book is an accessible guide to everything you need to know about Asperger Syndrome, offering information and guidance, self-help and coping strategies and illustrated throughout with over 150 personal quotes, vignettes and anecdotes from clients with AS with whom the author has worked with clinically over the last 10 years. The book is deliberately aimed at a broad audience of people: those who have just received a diagnosis and want to know more, those who are considering seeking a diagnosis, family members, relatives, friends and clinicians including mental health workers, psychologists, support workers and all those who work with people with AS.
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PsychologyOctober 2020The Neurodiversity Reader
Exploring Concepts, Lived Experience and Implications for Practice
by Damian Milton
Despite its wide impact on a range of disciplines, the concept of neurodiversity is often poorly understood. This can lead to uninformed debate and tensions regarding service provision. This edited reader brings together work from pioneering figures within and beyond the neurodiversity movement to critically explore its history, the concepts that have shaped it, lived experiences, and how a more informed understanding might translate into better practice and service provision.
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MedicineApril 2015Adventure Tales
A Framework for Therapeutic Story Creation by and for Children
by Barr Kazer
Almost all troubled children thrive in storytelling. However experience has shown that children with Aspergers’ or autistic tendencies neither enjoy nor benefit from storytelling, they need a different approach; also children in crisis are better helped in one to one counselling. The Adventure Tales Resource is a practical guide to providing a weekly therapeutic storytelling group for troubled children aged 7-12 years, through one school term. The guide provides a succinct, step by step method of setting up, organising and running a storytelling group. It facilitates the production of the finished story for the group. It offers ways of how to be therapeutically, with the group. It includes practical administration support with photocopiable proforma such as letters to parents and evaluation sheets. This practical resource will help:• develop inter and intra relationships • enhance emotional literacy • resolve emotional issues • improve ability to think round own problems • improve tolerance of difference • increase trust in others • stimulate the imagination • increase self esteem • increase the ability to express views clearly and calmly • increase confidence in literacy skills, especially reading.
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Poetry by individual poetsMay 2011The Spaces Between Birds
Mother/Daughter Poems, 1967–1995
by Sandra McPherson
In 1967, Sandra McPherson’s daughter Phoebe was born with Asperger’s Syndrome, a form of autism. Representing 28 years of work, these poems descripe the voyage on which mother and daughter embarked. Interspersed are poems by Phoebe.
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Health & Personal DevelopmentAugust 2014Cry for Health, Volume 1
Health: The Casualty of Modern Times
by Jesse Sleeman
Cry for Health is the first volume of a brilliant treatise that explores vitally important issues for everyone working in healthcare, ecology, sociology, environmental and biological sciences. In fact, for anyone concerned about our survival. In essence, it unravels the hidden story behind the moderrn pandemic, death by doctoring, the failure of medical science to fully understand heatth, and the health impact of man-made chemicals, electropollution, and modern farming and food processing practices. Author Jesse Sleeman has over 30 years' experience in the practice and teaching of natural and traditional therapies and medical philosophies.
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Teaching of students with emotional & behavioural difficultiesApril 2012Challenging Behaviours - What to know and what to do
The professional development file for all staff
by Andrew Chadwick
If you deal with challenging behaviours this book includes strategies covering a range of special needs including autistic spectrum, aspergers, dyspraxia, dyslexia, depression, tourettes, obsessive compulsive disorder, oppositional defiant disorder, attention deficit hyperactivity disorder and specific learning difficulties. It addresses problems such as: Truanting Swearing and verbal abuse Theft Bullying Attention seeking Drug abuse Low self-esteem Vandalism. Includes case histories to provide some insight into the difficult situations teachers may encounter in the classroom.
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Teaching of students with emotional & behavioural difficultiesNovember 2016Social Stories for Kids in Conflict Second Edition
by John Ling
'Social Stories for Kids in Conflict' is a practical guide to help young people improve their behaviour. Designed to help all those who work and/or live with young people who have difficulties with their behaviours and relationships with others, this book is a practical guide to help young people become more aware of their behaviour and its effect on other people. Focusing on mediation (including communication, the unblocking of channels, the breaking down of barriers, the righting of wrongs, making amends, and restorative justice), the book includes: · Dialogues used by a neutral person to highlight difficulties and possible changes in behaviour. · Cartoons and other visual techniques that can be used to present alternative ways to discuss problems. · Examples of social stories covering personal stuff, daily routines, home life, social skills, homework, work and playtime, PE and games, as well as a guide to writing your own social stories. · Powerpoint presentation for staff, parents and carers. Developed from work with children and young people with Autism, Asperger Syndrome, and related conditions, as well as troubled young people with no named condition, the ideas and techniques, can be used and modified to help all young people to become more aware of their behaviour and its effect on other people. This 2nd edition has been revised and updated and now includes an expanded section of social stories.
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April 2012The Behavior Code
A Practical Guide to Understanding and Teaching the Most Challenging Students
by Jessica A. Minahan, Nancy Rappaport, MD
The Behavior Code unlocks a wealth of proven practices to help teachers, counselors, and parents identify the messages underlying challenging student behaviors and respond in supportive ways.The authors—a behavioral analyst with expertise in special education and a child psychiatrist—guide readers through their FAIR Behavior Intervention Plan, a systematic approach to decoding the causes and patterns of difficult behaviors and developing effective measures to address them in schools. They demonstrate how the FAIR Plan can bring about positive change, even with students who exhibit anxious, withdrawn, oppositional, or inappropriately sexualized behaviors.Drawing on developments in cognitive science and educational psychology, the authors begin with a simple premise: all behavior is communication. Crucially, the first step of their FAIR plan is to discover the function (F) of a student's behavior. They encourage the use of nonjudgmental curiosity aided by standard data collection methods such as antecedent, behavior, and consequence (ABC) studies. The authors then give readers the tools to look beyond behaviors to implement targeted accommodations (A), interaction strategies (I), and appropriate response strategies (R). As they guide readers through their framework, they offer ample case studies, accessible worksheets, and focused thought exercises that allow readers to fully understand and implement suggested strategies.This thoughtful and empathetic approach can shift the balance from reactive to proactive classroom management, fostering meaningful teacher-student relationships and reducing the need for school discipline. Taken together, FAIR practices equip educators to support students in building the skills they need to access their higher-order brain functions more consistently and maintain a ready-to-learn mindset.
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FictionJune 2020A Trip to Asylum
by Pam Pam LIU
“Many things had gone that day, including my healthy mind.”In an asylum strangely with no medical staffs,the hero of this story started experiencing different trippy hallucinations. After many chaotic situations caused by other patients, He started to see the root of his trauma step by step…A trip to asylum" is a fictional story based on Pam Pam's life experiences. Instead of tell the story realistically, Pam Pam choose to drew it with imagination, she hope the readers think and understand more about those uncontrollable symptoms, and also hope they understand that: normal people are not really NORMAL. *In the process of drama series adaptation.*Winner of Taipei International Book Exhibition in Novel SectionVIDEO
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FictionWakefield Press
by Books From Australia
Wakefield Press is a leading independent publishing company based in South Australia. We love good stories and publish beautiful books. We publish on a diverse range of topics, including fiction, history, biography, art, food, and the environment. We also have a dedicated young adult list.
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PoetryJuly 2019Hubo fiestas
by Álvaro Luquín
Salir a buscar la fiesta es salir a buscar ciertos olores, ciertos tipos de cicatrices. Las fiestas son el terreno de lo impredecible, ese lugar al que vas con la esperanza de que pase algo: un trago, un beso, un toque, una línea, una pelea. Entrar es un acto de fe, un salto al vacío, hacer fila para electrocutarse. Una fiesta encierra la posibilidad de mitificar al mundo, de crear nuevos códigos, inestables y volátiles, sí, pero válidos durante el periodo histórico en que la fiesta ocurre. Cuando todo termina, lo que se queda contigo es el sonido vacío de los envases de cerveza, el olor a vómito, el dolor de cabeza, la aplastante sensación de que el espectáculo debe continuar. Ánuar Zúñiga Naime
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Children's & YAFebruary 2020(Dis)connections
Help, I’m a screen addict!
by Christine Deroin,Alain Dervaux
Meet Manon, champing at the bit to become a game designer. Enzo, addicted to network games and puzzle games, whose social discomfort causes him to identify with his avatars. And Clement, whose childhood dog has just died, prompting him to seek sympathy on social networks. Three very different teenagers whose different experiences illustrate the complexity and diversity of what is commonly known as screen addiction.
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DiabetesJune 2015
Dr Dawn's Guide to Weight and Diabetes
by Dawn Harper
A comprehensive guide to help you understand why we put on weight! Dr Dawn explains our dietary needs at different stages of life, how metabolism differs, and the implications for our general health and wellbeing. There is a sensible look at the role of diet and exercise. Dr Dawn describes how even modest weight loss can affect your risk of developing other illnesses such as heart disease, and even how long you can expect to live. There is a comprehensive chapter on diabetes, including the types of diabetes and what we mean by terms like insulin resistance and metabolic syndrome.
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Coping with illnessNovember 2014
The Fibromyalgia Healing Diet NE
by Christine Craggs-Hinton
Treatment for fibromyalgia has progressed in leaps and bounds over the past 10 years as recognition of the condition increases. FM is now the second or third most common diagnosis made by British rheumatologists, and was listed as one of the three most common diagnoses in a survey of Canadian rheumatologists. It is probably more common than these figures suggest. It's now recognised that symptoms can be greatly improved by proper management. This book is packed with information about the best medications and self-help therapies available, with a strong focus on improving symptoms, including pain and aching muscles, fatigue and poor sleep, IBS, joint stiffness, headaches and migraine, urinary frequency, dizziness, sensitivity and cognitive problems. Other topics include: neurological dysfunctions in fibromyalgia how to reduce stiffness and fatigue coping with other problems such as addressing anxiety, depression and stress how exercise can help pacing and relaxation a healthy diet, including intolerances, allergies and supplements natural remedies
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MemoryJuly 2015
Living with the Challenges of Dementia
A guide for family and friends
by Patrick McCurry
More than 800,000 people in the UK are currently affected by dementia, a figure set to increase as the population ages. This book, addressed to carers and loved ones, explores how to handle the difficult emotions involved in looking after a loved one with dementia, such as denial, shame, anger, guilt and grief. It examines the harrowing process of effectively losing a person on a day-to-day basis, and suggests the best ways to maintain psychological health and well-being. Topics include: Understanding the changes in memory, personality and behaviour; Developing an understanding of personal challenge; Overcoming loneliness and isolation; How family dynamics may affect the caring experience; The long goodbye - coping with progressive decline; Severe dementia and end of life care; Finding meaning in the experience is there a positive side of looking after someone with dementia?
