Jessica Kingsley Publishers imprint: 1689 books
Dyslexia Advocate!
How to Advocate for a Child with Dyslexia within the Public Education System
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2016
This straightforward guide provides the essential information for parents and advocates to understand US law and get the right educational entitlements for a child with dyslexia.
Using case studies and examples, this book demonstrates clearly how to apply the Individuals with Disabilities Education...
How to start, carry on and end conversations
Scripts for social situations for people on the autism spectrum
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2017
Do you find it hard to make friends? Do you struggle to know what to say to start a conversation?
In this book, Paul Jordan, who is on the autism spectrum, explains how to make sense of everyday social situations you might encounter at school, university or in other group settings. He reveals...
Talking with Your Child about Their Autism Diagnosis
A Guide for Parents
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2017
Telling your child about their autism diagnosis can be daunting. Will they be better off for knowing? What's the right way to tell them? Should you inform anyone else too?
As a mother of two children on the spectrum, with over ten years' experience as a psychologist specialising in childhood...
Caught in the Web of the Criminal Justice System
Autism, Developmental Disabilities, and Sex Offenses
Language: English
Release Date: June 21, 2017
Increasing numbers of people with autism and other developmental disabilities are being convicted of sex offences, resulting in draconian and public punishment. Yet even when evidence shows that people with these conditions often pose little threat to society, or lack a core understanding as to why...
Quality of Life and Disability
An Approach for Community Practitioners
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2003
A refreshing book that can hold the reader's interest throughout. Quality of Life and Disability should be a compulsory text for all students in the disability field and would make a useful one for experienced practitioners including social workers.'
- Australian Social Work
'Among the...
by Howard Cooper, Anthony Bash, Reza Shah-Kazemi
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2018
This collection reveals what forgiveness looks like in practice from the standpoint of those working in the helping professions. Written from many different perspectives, this eclectic volume challenges the reader to reconsider their assumptions about forgiveness, and illuminates everyday impact of forgiveness.
Teaching University Students with Autism Spectrum Disorder
A Guide to Developing Academic Capacity and Proficiency
Language: English
Release Date: June 21, 2016
Based on the findings of a five year longitudinal study into the experiences of students with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD), this book provides tertiary educators and support staff with practical support for addressing the challenges associated with ASD as they manifest in college and university...
School Readiness and the Characteristics of Effective Learning
The Essential Guide for Early Years Practitioners
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2018
This guide to understanding school readiness in young children is essential reading for early years practitioners. It explores the concept of school readiness by unpicking what the term means for children and how we can define it in the context of the characteristics of effective learning. This includes...
We Need to Talk about Religious Education
Manifestos for the Future of RE
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2017
Although Religious Education (RE) is a legal requirement in UK schools, it is an oft-neglected and misunderstood subject. It is important to seriously re-think this key subject at this time of low religious literacy and rising extremism, to protect communities from the consequences of hatred and misunderstanding....
Comparative Psychology for Clinical Psychologists and Therapists
What Animal Behavior Can Tell Us about Human Psychology
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2016
Featuring animal research, from pigeons to primates, this book explains how comparative psychology can enrich our insights into human psychological processes.
Each chapter covers a different clinical disorder or problem commonly encountered by clinical psychologists and therapists, including...
Freaks, Geeks and Asperger Syndrome
A User Guide to Adolescence
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2002
Have you ever been called a freak or a geek? Have you ever felt like one? Luke Jackson is 13 years old and has Asperger Syndrome. Over the years Luke has learned to laugh at such names but there are other aspects of life which are more difficult. Adolescence and the teenage years are a minefield of...
Asperkids
An Insider's Guide to Loving, Understanding and Teaching Children with Asperger Syndrome
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2012
As a parent, a teacher and an Aspie herself, Jennifer O'Toole provides the definitive insider's view of Asperger syndrome. She shows how to help children on the spectrum by understanding how they think and by exploiting their special interests to promote learning. Her strategies work because she thinks...
Community Care Practice and the Law
Fourth Edition
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2008
This fourth edition of Community Care Practice and the Law has been fully updated to reflect the rapid and continuing legal, policy and practice changes affecting community care.
It provides comprehensive and jargon-free explanations of community care legislation, as well as other areas of...
The Comprehensive Guide to Special Education Law
Over 400 Frequently Asked Questions and Answers Every Educator Needs to Know about the Legal Rights of Exceptional Children and their Parents
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2012
It is vital for all professionals in the field of education to have a practical understanding of the laws that are in place to protect the children with whom they work. The Comprehensive Guide to Special Education Law is a detailed yet accessible introduction to federal law as it applies to the rights...