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The Complete Guide to Creating a Special Needs Life Plan
A Comprehensive Approach Integrating Life, Resource, Financial, and Legal Planning to Ensure a Brighter Future for a Person with a Disability
This comprehensive guide explains how to create a life plan for an individual with special needs to ensure they have the best possible future. The author offers knowledgeable advice and practical information on creating circles of support, employment and residential options, government programs, financial and legal considerations, and much more. more »
July 2013, Paperback: £19.99/ $29.95ISBN: 978-1-84905-914-5, 246mm x 173mm / 10in x 7in, 360pp
Keywords: adolescence, adults, Asperger syndrome, autism, bipolar disorder, cerebral palsy, disability, disability law, divorce, Down's syndrome, education, employment, families, higher education, housing, intellectual disabilities, law, life skills, mental illness, parenting, person-centred, residential care, supported living, transitions
Succeeding as a Student in the STEM Fields with an Invisible Disability
A College Handbook for Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math Students with Autism, ADD, Affective Disorders, or Learning Difficulties and their Families
The STEM fields attract many students with autism and related disabilities who are highly intelligent, but who, upon entering higher education, may find that they struggle with independent living and a different way of learning. Full of practical advice, this is a useful handbook that students and parents can refer to throughout the college years. more »
2013, Paperback: £14.99/ $24.95ISBN: 978-1-84905-947-3, 234mm x 156mm / 9.25in x 6in, 160pp
Keywords: ADD, ADHD, adolescence, adults, Asperger syndrome, autism, careers, disability, education, employment, further education, gifted and talented, high functioning autism, higher education, life skills, nonverbal learning disabilities, parenting, teenagers, transitions
Autism, Discrimination and the Law
A Quick Guide for Parents, Educators and Employers
Autism, Discrimination and the Law outlines how the legal requirements of the Disability Discrimination Act 1995 might be met for students and employees with autism spectrum disorders (ASDs). The main part of the book is devoted to case studies from further education and employment demonstrating how reasonable adjustments can be made successfully. more »
2008, Paperback: £19.99/ $31.95ISBN: 978-1-84310-627-2, 234mm x 156mm / 9.25in x 6in, 144pp
Keywords: adults, advocacy, Asperger syndrome, autism, disability law, education, employment, higher education policy, occupational therapy, social work, special education
Families of Adults with Autism
Stories and Advice for the Next Generation
The book is a collection of real-life stories of people on the autism spectrum growing up, as told by their families. Accounts explore the challenges that families of people with autism have faced, and the techniques they have used to improve the quality of their children's lives, from vitamins and dietary changes to intensive interaction. more »
2008, Paperback: £15.99/ $24.95ISBN: 978-1-84310-885-6, 234mm x 156mm / 9.25in x 6in, 192pp
Keywords: adults, Asperger syndrome, autism, counselling, disability, employment, families, health care, memoirs, occupational therapy, parenting, supported living
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- ADD,
- ADHD,
- adolescence,
- adult protection,
- advocacy,
- alternative therapies,
- anger management,
- anxiety,
- arts therapies,
- Asperger syndrome,
- augmentative communication,
- autism,
- bereavement,
- bipolar disorder,
- bodywork,
- brain injury,
- bullying,
- cancer,
- careers,
- carers,
- cerebral palsy,
- challenging behaviour,
- chi kung,
- child development,
- child protection,
- child psychiatry,
- child psychology,
- children,
- children's rights,
- cognitive behavioural therapy,
- communication,
- community care,
- complementary therapies,
- constipation,
- counselling,
- creative therapies,
- creativity,
- dance,
- dance and movement therapy,
- dementia,
- depression,
- developmental coordination disorder,
- diet,
- disability,
- disability law,
- divorce,
- domicilary care,
- Down's syndrome,
- dramatherapy,
- dyslexia,
- dyspraxia,
- early intervention,
- education,
- educational psychology,
- elder abuse,
- emotions,
- energy work,
- epilepsy,
- expressive therapies,
- families,
- fiction,
- further education,
- gifted and talented,
- grief,
- health care,
- high functioning autism,
- higher education,
- higher education policy,
- homeschooling,
- housing,
- hyperlexia,
- inclusive classroom,
- infertility,
- intellectual disabilities,
- law,
- life skills,
- literacy,
- mainstream education,
- massage,
- memoirs,
- mental health,
- mental illness,
- meridians,
- messy play,
- movement,
- music therapy,
- nonverbal learning disabilities,
- nursing,
- nutrition,
- obsessive compulsive disorder,
- occupational therapy,
- offenders,
- older people,
- pain management,
- palliative care,
- parenting,
- Parkinson's disease,
- pastoral care,
- person-centred,
- personal hygiene,
- pervasive developmental disorder,
- play,
- practical theology,
- psychiatry,
- psychoanalysis,
- psychodrama,
- psychology,
- psychosis,
- psychotherapy,
- qigong,
- reference,
- relationships,
- residential care,
- resilience,
- risk assessment,
- safeguarding children,
- seizures,
- self esteem,
- self harm,
- sensory issues,
- sensory stimulation,
- sexual abuse,
- sexuality,
- social care,
- social policy,
- social skills,
- social work,
- social work law,
- special education,
- speech and language pathology,
- speech and language therapy,
- spirituality,
- storymaking,
- substance abuse,
- suicide,
- supported living,
- tai chi,
- taiji jian,
- taiji quan,
- teenagers,
- theology,
- tics,
- tourettes,
- transitions,
- trauma,
- violence,
- yoga
