CATALOGUES - Health - Health & Psychology - Children with Special Needs

"Good Manners are Contagious" is an edgy and sophisticated approach - not a desk reference book, but real life instruction and strategies that teach manners + life skills + self-esteem = true life success for your child. The book instructs parents how to teach their children to respect themselves and, in turn, respect others. These new rules of etiquette are a must have for every family.

In this second volume, practitioners share their most effective techniques for helping clients express feelings, enhance social skills, learn coping, elevate self-esteem, and experience a positive termination from therapy. Both novice and experienced clinicians will appreciate the practical interventions.

Do you ever wonder if your child… Ø Will marry and have kids? Ø Can live on their own? Ø Will be gainfully employed? Ø Is going to be safe in your absence? Ø Has the right tools for his success? You will learn about: Ø Estate planning Ø Independent living Ø Nutrition Ø Fitness Ø Employment Ø Safety Ø Sexuality Ø Puberty Ø Dating Ø Bullying Ø Reading Ø Social skills Ø Communication

‘Finally, a comprehensive resource supporting your child’s transition into adulthood. This book is a must!’ - Dr Stephen Shore, author, Understanding Autism (the Dummies Series) ‘The go-to book for parents addressing the confusion attendant on an autism spectrum diagnosis.’ - Andrew Solomon, National Book Award Winner and Pulitzer Prize Finalist ‘I guarantee this book will grab you in the first few minutes, then inform, educate and move you to a new level of understanding autism.’ - Senator Mike Brubaker, Member, Autism Caucus & Child..read more

Fourteen types of special-needs students are discussed in this handbook on meeting the needs of a diverse student population within a mainstream classroom. Ranging from students with behavior disorders, ADHD, and mental retardation to the blind, terminally ill, and gifted and talented, each profile includes a clear definition, characteristic behaviors, and suggestions for working with that student's specific strengths and weaknesses. A section devoted to inclusion strategies helps educators set goals for special needs students, def... read more

This workbook includes forty activities to help children with Tourette syndrome and other tic disorders learn to manage their symptoms in a variety of situations, explain their tics to others, and make friends.

This revised edition about Alex, a child with learning disabilities, has been updated with completely new illustrations and reflects the use of the latest tactile techniques used in schools. In this story, Alex is inventing a cookie snatcher, but his lack of reading skills and impatience means that he needs extra help. There are new discussion starters for parents and professionals, and positive solutions are presented to help build a positive image for the learning-disabled child.

The book offers readers ways to evaluate their child's strengths and weaknesses in areas such as visual and spatial functioning, writing problems, information processing and organizational skills, social and emotional capabilities, language skills, and interactive abilities. It offers specific strategies for intervening and helping the child to cope with these obstacles, such as teaching the child how to socialize with humor and empathy, alternatives for learning to write, tips for organizing daily activities, multi-tasking, and more.

The authors of Helping Your Angry Child conducted a wide-ranging, ten-year clinical study in which parents participated with school staff and children in anger-management training. They learned that when children expressed their anger, parents took it personally, got caught in negative reactions, had difficulty staying in proper parental roles, and were bewildered by the anger. But the authors also discovered essential skills that put parents safely back in parental roles, and helped them and their children cope in healthy ways wit... read more

A comprehensive and practical guide to eating disorders arms parents with everything they need to combat bulimia and anorexia in their children, with helpful advice on how to identify a problem, how to find a good therapist, monitoring eating patterns, and more. Original.

This book offers parents effective techniques for dealing with normal separation anxiety issues, separation anxiety disorder (SAD), and school refusal. With their unique approach to the problem, the authors give parents the tools they need to make real progress with these issues.

Written by experts from America's leading autism research centre, this workbook teaches parents how to improve their children's functioning at home and increase their social function and independence while also emphasising the importance of taking care of the family as a whole. Parents learn how to assess their children's needs and create a personalised intervention plan compatible with the family's resources, goals, and priorities.

This title offers pareant personalised strategies they can use to help their child break free from OCD.

Three experts in treating selective mutism team up to provide parents with the first book to offer practical strategies for treating children with this potentially isolating anxiety disorder often referred to as "social phobia's cousin."

Pediatric Psychologist Martha Barnard, Ph.D., helps parents become fluent with their child's specific experience of depression and offers them the right diagnostic and treatment information to help create a tailor-made treatment program that can be reinforced in the home. In Parenting Your Depressed Child, parents are empowered with an understanding of the root causes of their child's depression, and are taught how to assess ongoing symptoms and behaviors. Once a child's initial or ongoing depression has been established, parents a... read more

In social situations, certain children are more likely to be subject than others to emotional and physical harm by other, more aggressive children. These socially vulnerable children tend to be be socially anxious, shy, and withdrawn, and they are the natural targets of bullies. Unless parents take an active role in helping these kids cope with these problems at an early age, the chances of them carrying a legacy of social anxiety and other problems into adulthood increases dramatically. This is the first book to offer resources to... read more

MORE creative interventions to engage children, youth, and families in counseling and help them address issues such as feelings identification, anger management, social skills, and self-esteem. Includes techniques to manage challenging client behavior. A practical resource for practitioners seeking innovative activities to add to their repertoire. Geared to 4-16 year-olds.

The stories in this collection provide parents of special needs kids with a dose of both laughter and reality. Featuring works by so-called alternative parents who have attempted to move away from mainstream thought, this anthology carefully considers the implications of raising children with disabilities. From professional writers to novice storytellers, including original essays by Robert Rummel-Hudson, Ayun Halliday, and Kerry Cohen, this assortment of authentic, shared experiences from parents in the know is a partial antidote ... read more

When a child or adolescent is diagnosed with bipolar disorder, it's hard for his or her parents to know exactly what to do. What constitutes an effective therapeutic approach to help their bipolar child navigate childhood and adolescence? In this book, a psychiatrist and a psychologist, both specialising in mood disorders, offer a comprehensive overview of the available treatment options and most effective parenting strategies for dealing with this serious condition. In addition to a thorough explanation of the often necessary medi... read more

The difficult, picky and apparently overly sensitive child in your life may be struggling with a little-known condition called sensory processing disorder (SPD). Kids with SPD may seem unduly sensitive to physical sensations, light and sound, and they may react strongly to sensory events that adults and other children take in stride or totally ignore. SPD can make it hard for kids to do well in school, participate in social events and live peaceably with other family members. Until now there have been only limited resources for par... read more

This book teaches the parents of children with articulation problems how speech sounds develop, how to recognise developing speech problems, and how to help children make the most out of speech therapy. It helps parents decide whether the sound errors their child is experiencing are developmental and within normal limits for their age. It also provides parents with activities to increase their child's language and articulation skills.