A Dyspraxic Guide to Breaking Free Updated Edition
Victoria Biggs is sixteen years old and has just passed her AS levels. Her writing skills have earned her a place in the National Academy for Gifted and Talented Youth.
IThis book offers unique and flexible guidelines that can be used by practitioners to ease the process of breaking bad news to people with intellectual disabilities. The guidelines, which are adaptable to individual communication ability and level of understanding, address the many complex needs of people with intellectual disabilities who can ......
Establishing Communication with People on the Autistic Spectrum or Those with Profound Learning Disabilities and Sometimes Distressed Behaviour
This handbook collects together three of Phoebe Caldwell's groundbreaking books on Intensive Interaction and other innovative techniques for communicating with people with autistic spectrum disorder (ASD) and/or profound learning disabilities.
If a child is not meeting expected milestones it can be a source of great anxiety for parents and teachers. This forthright guide offers practical advice on how to recognize the signs of developmental delay, address difficulties effectively, and help the child to flourish.Mary Mountstephen presents a practical approach to dealing with ......
A start-to-finish framework for health promotion, this book shows administrators and service providers how to increase supports for health education, exercise and nutrition by implementing their own successful program.
Helps rehabilitation students and professionals successfully navigate the intricacies of case and caseload management in collaborative settings Brimming with valuable information, this is the only comprehensive text to spotlight the managerial aspects of case and caseload management in rehabilitation counseling. Anchored in real-world practice, ......
Featuring contributed chapters from experts within the discipline, Fundamentals of Clinical Rehabilitation Counseling provides readers with a vast range of knowledge and skills to help them work effectively with individuals with disabilities. The text familiarizes readers with chief concepts and prepares them to move into expanded explorations of ......
A Story of Struggle, Empowerment, and Disability Pride
A memoir by a disability rights activist Such a Pretty Girl is Nadina LaSpina's story-from her early years in her native Sicily, where still a baby she contracts polio, a fact that makes her the object of well-meaning pity and the target of messages of hopelessness; to her adolescence and youth in America, spent almost entirely in hospitals, ......
A history of design that is often overlooked-until we need it Have you ever hit the big blue button to activate automatic doors? Have you ever used an ergonomic kitchen tool? Have you ever used curb cuts to roll a stroller across an intersection? If you have, then you've benefited from accessible design-design for people with physical, sensory, ......
