Teaching Students with Significant Disabilities to Read and Write
Grounded in the belief that all students can learn to read and write print, this book is a thorough yet practical guide for teaching students with significant disabilities. It explains how to provide comprehensive literacy instruction addressing these students' needs.
A Guide for Parents, Teachers and Other Professionals
Pathological Demand Avoidance Syndrome (PDA) is adevelopmental disorder that is being increasingly recognised aspart of the autism spectrum. The main characteristic is acontinued resistance to the ordinary demands of life throughstrategies of social manipulation, which originates from ananxiety-driven need to be in control.This straightforward ......
Simple Stuff to Help Children Regulate their Emotions and Senses
Packed with simple ideas to regulate the emotions and senses, this book will help children tackle difficult feelings head-on and feel awesome and in control!
From breathing exercises, pressure holds and finger pulls, to fidgets, noise-reducing headphones and gum, the book is brimming with fun stuff to help kids feel cool, calm and collected.
A simple, accessible guide to neurodiversity, unpacking the four main diagnoses of autism, ADHD, dyslexia and dyspraxia. The book also explains some common co-occurring conditions, strengths and difficulties, and concepts such as spiky profiles, executive functioning and working memory.
The Secret Life of Rose covers a range of topics that are central to the autistic experience. While Rose writes peer-to-peer, her mum Jodie adds the perspective of an adult who is also a professional in the field. The end result is a book that opens up the autistic experience in a way that is both fresh and accessible.
Practical Exercises to Help Understand and Minimise the Effects of Autistic Camouflaging
Combining lived experience with scientific research and practical advice, this book is the essential guide to understanding why you mask and how to feel confident without one. With expert advice on how to feel secure taking off your mask, this guide will give you all the tools you need to re-connect with yourself and the things you love.
From Anxiety to Avoidance and Masking to Meltdowns
"To think of PDA as merely involving demand avoidance is to me akin to thinking of tigers as merely having stripes."
This book is a unique window into adult Pathological Demand Avoidance (PDA), exploring the diversity of distinct PDA traits through the voices of over 70 people living with and affected by ......
How to Raise a Happy Autistic Child in a Very Neurotypical World
Packed with lived-experience insight and easy-to-follow advice this transformative guide will change how you view the behaviour of your autistic child and challenge you to rewire your thinking to see the world through the autistic lens, giving you all the tools you need to not only parent your autistic child, but also to understand them
An interactive workbook to support autistic teens, and the adults in their lives, with restricted or avoidant eating, written by a clinical psychologist with 20 years experience in the field.
