The below article has been excerpted from the forthcoming book, Having Your Baby Through Egg Donation 2nd edition by Ellen Sarasohn Glazer and Evelina Weidman Sterling (June 2013), published by Jessica Kingsley Publishers. Egg donation—how did it all begin? There are published records from as early as the late 1800s of experiments conducted on women…

Tips and Advice for Grandparents from JKP author Charlotte E. Thompson. Grandparents who have a grandchild with severe allergies tell me they live in fear of having the child eat something to which their grandchild is very allergic. Even when grandparents carefully check the labels on everything a grandchild eats, there can always be an…

Our brand new Special Educators catalog is now available for our readers in the United States. With hundreds of titles on working with students with special needs, ranging from early childhood through high school, our Special Educators catalog is an outstanding resource for  teachers, administrators, counselors, school staff and anyone who works with special kids…

Best-selling JKP author Liane Holliday Willey (Pretending to be Normal, Safety Skills for Asperger Women, and others) is credited with coining the term ‘Aspie’ to describe individuals with Asperger’s Syndrome. Here, Dr. Holliday Willey weighs in on the semantics debate within the autism community over the term. I am a psycholinguistics professor. I like to…

Specialized Academic Instruction Teacher (SAI) Elle Olivia Johnson shares some tips for parents from her NEW book, The Parent’s Guide to In-Home ABA Programs: Frequently Asked Questions about Applied Behavior Analysis for your Child with Autism, on navigating the confusing language of Applied Behavior Analysis (ABA). ABA.  DTT.  Maintenance.  Reinforcers.  Data.  Prompting.  A-B-C Data.  Whoa. …

ForeWord Reviews is a quarterly print journal dedicated to reviewing independently published books to provide booksellers, librarians, agents, and publishing professionals with reviews of the best titles from small, alternative, and academic presses. ForeWord’s Book of the Year Awards program was created to highlight the year’s most distinguished books from independent publishers. Finalists were selected…

While they shouldn’t be, doctors’ offices can be intimidating to a lot of people. And to those of us who live with and love Asperkids, it can be very hard to—on cue—be able to articulate why our obviously brilliant children are NOT just “anxious and highly gifted.” Do NOT allow your instincts to be dismissed—highly…

Career coach and author Barbara Bissonnette shares helpful advice from her forthcoming book, Asperger’s Syndrome Workplace Survival Guide: A Neurotypical’s Secrets for Success, on how to succeed in the workplace. Why You Need a Work Buddy Many years ago, I read that someone had figured out 200 different ways to wash dishes. This underscored that…

JKP author Linda Ciotola, M.Ed., TEP, co-author with Karen Carnabucci of Healing Eating Disorders With Psychodrama and Other Action Methods – Beyond the Silence and the Fury, discusses American culture and its impact on eating disorders in women. “Anorexia is both the result of a protest against the cultural rule that your women must be…

JKP author Cara Koscinski MOT, OTR/L, The Pocket Occupational Therapist for Families of Children With Special Needs, explains how play can benefit your special needs child. Occupational Therapy, Developing Skills Through Play Occupational therapists are fortunate enough to be a critical part of the treatment team for children with special needs.   Any difficulties children may…