JKP author Stephanie Azri, Healthy Mindsets for Super Kids, gives tips on how to help your child cope with bullying and what you can do to build your child’s resilience. The bullying of children at school has happened for a very long time and unfortunately is likely to continue. Generally speaking, the victims are often…

Nikki Giant and Rachel Beddoe, authors of new release Surviving Girlhood: Building Positive Relationships, Attitudes and Self-Esteem to Prevent Teenage Girl Bullying introduce Anti-Bullying Week 2012 and why encouraging young people to take a stand against bullying is as important as ever in today’s society. November 19th – 23rd 2012 marks anti-bullying week in the…

Kathy Hoopmann’s new book Inside Asperger’s Looking Out is already receiving rave reviews from fans and critics alike. Following on from the bestselling All Cats Have Asperger Syndrome and All Dogs Have ADHD, this book uses a wide range of animals to show how the person with Asperger’s Syndrome views the world. One fan was so thrilled…

Nikki Giant co-author of new book Surviving Girlhood: Building Positive Relationships, Attitudes and Self-Esteem to Prevent Teenage Girl Bullying explains how she and co-author Rachel Beddoe are #KeepingItReal! as they launch a campaign to encourage young people to keep it real and not give in to peer pressure in time for Anti-Bullying Week in November. Being a 21st…

An interesting and thought provoking article from JKP author, Vanessa Rogers on what it is to be a youth worker today. Vanessa is the author of a number of titles on working with young people including, Working with Young Women, Working with Young Men, Let’s Talk Relationships, 101 Things to Do on the Street, and…

By Veronica Smith and Stephanie Patterson, authors of Getting into the Game: Sports Programs for Kids with Autism. Research into the activity patterns of children with ASD indicate that many of these children are not participating in a sufficient level of physical activity to encourage healthy development. But parents have several very real fears and…

In this illuminating interview, Sheila Dorothy Smith – author of the new book, Sandtray Play and Storymaking – discusses sandtray play with a teacher colleague who is interested in using this innovative approach with her elementary school classes. Teacher: I see that you use play with students from Kindergarten to Grade Seven. I wonder, though, how I would justify it…

Our soon-to-be-released An Exceptional Children’s Guide to Touch: Teaching Social and Physical Boundaries to Kids written by Hunter Manasco and illustrated by Katharine Manasco is already garnering attention. On Monday, June 18, the book featured in an article by Sari Harrar in Philly.com’s Healthy Kids blog. In the article, Dr. Manasco offers some advice: “You want…

In their new book, Understanding Stammering or Stuttering, specialist Elaine Kelman and parent Alison Whyte use first-hand accounts of children who stammer or stutter to provide clarity on the condition, what it’s like to have it and what the child is likely to need in terms of support at home, school and in social situations.…

Kate Lambert is a drama teacher working with young people, many of whom have special needs. Her daughter Lille was diagnosed with epilepsy at the age of five. Here, she talks about some of the misconceptions about epilepsy and how her new book, Can I tell you about Epilepsy?, will help parents, teachers and others…