Understanding the emotions of yourself and others creates a path to friendship. Understanding emotions - their own and others' - poses a major challenge for children with autism spectrum and other social cognitive challenges, causing frustration and misunderstanding and often behavioural outbursts. Let's Talk Emotions Helping Children with Social Cognitive Deficits, Including AS, HFA, and NVLD, Learn to Understand and Express Empathy and Emotions, a collection of easy-to-use activities for child...
Seb is a loner. Brilliant with numbers but hopeless with people, he prefers the company of computers and his only friend, Guzzle. Things change for the better when he makes friends with Kristie, Madeline and Jen, and a new computer teacher - Miss Adonia - arrives. However, Seb is soon caught up in a web of computer fraud and lies and turns to Madeline's mysterious cyber friend for help.Weaving the facts of Asperger Syndrome into the story, this fast-paced book is acclaimed author Kathy Hoopmann'...
The Making of the UK Special Needs Support Materials (Discovering the Past for GCSE)
by Ann More and Colin Shephard
This material is based on the "real history" approach of the Schools History Project series "Discovering the Past". These special needs support materials for "The Making of the UK" are intended to support history teaching with low-attaining or special needs pupil. "The Making of the UK" is Study Unit 2 in the Key Stage 3 National Curriculum. All pupils in Y8 study this unit. The materials provide: a 224-page teacher's photocopiable resource book; a picture pack (16 cards) with teaching notes; an...
Charities at Work is an introduction to the work of charities in the world today. Each book concentrates on a different area of need. Each book starts with a simple explanation of what a charity is, then goes on to present a particular problem and shows how one or more charities work to solve that problem. The main text, illustrated with photographs, is aimed squarely at Key Stage 1, while boxed text offers further information for more able readers. The books address both UK-based issues and int...
Vikings (Invasion!, #1)
Schools (Victorian Times, #6)
A searing debut YA poetry and essay collection about a Black cancer patient who faces medical racism after being diagnosed with leukemia in their early twenties, for fans of Audre Lorde's The Cancer Journals and Laurie Halse Anderson's Shout. When Walela is diagnosed at twenty-three with advanced stage blood cancer, they're suddenly thrust into the unsympathetic world of tubes and pills, doctors who don’t use their correct pronouns, and hordes of "well-meaning" but patronizing people offering u...
The Thought That Counts (Adolescent Mental Health Initiative)
by Jared Douglas Kant, Martin Franklin, and Linda Wasmer Andrews
In this book for young people who have been diagnosed with obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD), Jared Kant discusses his own experiences with the illness, and the disruption and distress that it brought to his life as an adolescent. Combining this personal story with a candid and easy-to-understand description of the science behind OCD, Kant (now an adult who healthily and successfully manages his illness) also provides the facts that young people diagnosed with OCD need, such as how to find pro...
Understanding Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (Mental Health Guides)
by Celina McManus
Understanding Panic Attacks (Mental Health Guides)
by Alexis Burling
Brother: A Story of Autism (Zuiker Teen Topics)
by Carlton Hudgens and Bridget Hudgens
Bridget and Carlton are as close as any sister and brother. But their relationship is particularly special. Carlton has autism and is almost completely nonverbal. He's smart, funny, creative, and loving. He has immense challenges in speaking full sentences. Bridget's fierce loyalty to and compassion for her brother led to an unbreakable bond that has helped the siblings cope with divorce and homelessness. Carlton's devotion to his family is loud and clear, even in his silence. Carlton Hudgens...
At the beginning of eighth grade, learning disabled Max and his new friend Freak, whose birth defect has affected his body but not his brilliant mind, find that when they combine forces they make a powerful team. Now in paperback, this is the widely acclaimed novel about two boys--a slow learner too large for his age and a tiny, crippled genius--who pair up to create one formidable human force known as "Freak the Mighty". Includes comprehensive teaching guide. Young Adult. (This is a school dis...
Bipolar Disorder (Compact Research: Diseases & Disorders)
by Peggy J Parks
Steps in RE
Dyslexia often causes children to feel a lack of confidence and lack of self esteem that holds them back in both learning and social situations. Why not let your 11-16 year old dyslexic (or Dyspraxic) child try this gentle & relaxing, twin track self help hypnotherapy recording? It helps them believe in themselves and feel more calm and confident about their abilities. In Track 1 they imagine a mental room with negative opinions and self doubt which they scrub off the walls. Then they paint pow...
A Fly's Wings for Anxo (Galician Wave, #30)
by Fina Casalderrey
Collateral Damage: The Mental Health Effects of the Pandemic
by Carla Mooney
Multiple Sclerosis (Dealing with Disorders and Disease)
by Sarah Eason
As featured in the Oscar-nominated documentary Crip Camp, and for readers of I Am Malala, one of the most influential disability rights activists in US history tells her story of fighting to belong. “If I didn’t fight, who would?” Judy Heumann was only 5 years old when she was first denied her right to attend school. Paralyzed from polio and raised by her Holocaust-surviving parents in New York City, Judy had a drive for equality that was instilled early in life. In this young readers’ editio...
Dealing with Self-Injury Disorder (Dealing with Mental Disorders)
by Tammy Gagne
Coping When a Parent Has a Disability (Coping)
by Mary P Donahue Ph D