How to Prepare for Every Stage of Your Child's Life
Written with compassion and expertise, this book provides families with a guide to planning for the lifetime needs of a child with disabilities. It presents the 'Five Factors' readers need to consider - family and support, emotional, financial, legal, and government benefits - and how to plan for these factors at every stage of a child's life.
Dr Mal Leicester is the Emeritus Professor of Adult Learning and Teaching in the School of Education at the University of Nottingham. She was previously Senior Lecturer in Continuing Education at the University of Warwick. She has been a secondary school teacher and has worked as Avon's Advisor for Multicultural Education. Mal has personal ......
Examines the experience of disability in relation to theories of human growth and development. The book provides a foundational and comprehensive examination of disability that encompasses the intellectual, psychiatric, physical, and social arenas.
How to Make Behaving Positively Possible for People with Autism and Other Developmental Disabilities
Bo Hejlskov Elv+¬n is a Clinical Psychologist based in Sweden. He is an independent consultant and lecturer on autism and challenging behaviour, and an accredited Studio III trainer. In 2009, he was awarded the Puzzle Piece of the Year prize by the Swedish Autism Society for his lecturing and counselling on challenging behaviour.
Teaching Everyday Skills to Children with Special Needs
This work gives parents of children from age three through young adulthood proven strategies for teaching children the life skills they'll need to live as independently as possible. It covers getting ready, self-help, toilet training, play, self-care, home care, and information gathering skills.
The Moss-PAS-(Diag ID) has been designed to meet the particular problems of assessment in people with intellectual disabilities, but is equally valid for use with the general population.
Understanding the Experience of Pain and Suffering and the Role of Healing
A reconsideration of our treatment and understanding of pain and suffering in all its forms, and approaches to its relief and management. Keynote speakers from the British Pain Society explore innovative approaches to pain management, recentring the importance of healing within the biomedicine-dominated field of pain medicine.
An important resource for supporting people with learning disabilities (intellectual disabilities) as they grow older, it addresses a significant gap in knowledge and practice, by helping staff and others to recognise individual changes and address the challenges of living and dying well.
