JKP author Linda Ciotola, M.Ed., TEP, ACE Certified Health Coach, Personal Trainer, Fitness and Yoga Instructor shares her experience and expertise from a recent 90 minute workshop—Learn to Love Your Body Through Yoga. Linda is co-Author, with Karen Carnabucci, of Healing Eating Disorders with Psychodrama and Other Action Methods—Beyond the Silence and the Fury. In…

Our brand new US catalog of useful resources for parents who care for children on the autism spectrum will soon be available. To receive a free copy of the catalog, please sign up for our mailing list and we’ll get one out to you right away. Click here to sign up for a free copy.…

This week is Dementia Awareness Week in the UK, so we thought it would be the perfect time to share an extract from one of our classic books on using reminiscence to improve the quality of life for people with dementia. This excerpt has been taken from the book Remembering Yesterday, Caring Today  by Pam Schweitzer and…

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…

Jo Adkins and Sue Larkey authors of ‘Practical Mathematics for Children with an Autism Spectrum Disorder and Other Developmental Delays’ (2013)  explain their successful three step approach to making maths fun for young learners. It is a myth that all children with an Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) are good at mathematics. Mathematics is a skill that…

If you’re an adoptive/foster parent or prospective parent, we’ve put together this booklet of new and bestselling titles you might find interesting. Feel free to browse, share and email the booklet with anyone you think might be interested.    If you’d like to print off a copy of the booklet, simply click here to download…

Kay Al-Ghani explains how a fun resource based on her book The Red Beast can help children with Asperger Syndrome to control their anger. As part of my job, it is my privilege to work with many children with ASD who work hard to cope with life in a mainstream setting. Sometimes their best efforts…

We are delighted to announce that Kathy Hoopmann’s best selling book Inside Asperger’s Looking Out has been awarded a silver award by the Nautilus Book Awards 2013. Kathy’s book was recognised in the Children’s Picture Books category for Pre-School students. The  Nautilus Book Awards have a long 25 year history of recognising books that make a literary and heartfelt…

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…

Bring the benefits of yoga and yogic breathing techniques into the classroom and the home with this game from Frog’s Breathtaking Speech author Michael Chissick. Based on the book, the game is a fun way to help children to recognise negative emotions and lean how to turn these into positive ones. Simply download the game…