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In plain language, the author addresses: diagnosis; basic symptoms and its effect on school, work, home and relationships; indicators to predict the future; as well as treatment, including counseling, school interventions, social skills training, behaviour management and medication. Of interest t…
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With sensitivity and insight, this series offers suggestions for healing activities that can help survivors learn to express their grief and mourn naturally. Acknowledging that death is a painful, ongoing part of life, they explain how people need to slow down, turn inward, embrace their feelings o…
Begins with what the child will see at the funeral home. Talks about the casket, what death is, and what the body will look like. Includes information about cremation and what the cemetery is like. "Later a monument or stone or plaque may be placed at the grave. It will tell the person's name and d…
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This book explains burial and cremation to children. Begins with the funeral or memorial service, talks about what death is and the different ways people care for their loved ones bodies. Talks about how the funeral director takes care of dead bodies, the burial and cremation. Gentle and honest exp…
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Use these picture-supported story lessons to teach your students important social skills related to attending secondary school. The instructional lessons teach what to say or do in social situations that are sometimes overwhelming to the student with autism and PDD. The behavioral lessons target sp…
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Use these picture-supported story lessons to teach your students important social skills related to health and hygiene. The instructional lessons teach what to say or do in social situations that are sometimes overwhelming to the student with autism and PDD. The behavioral lessons target specific s…
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This book deals with childhood guilt in a positive way. It looks at feelings when there is a family fight, a divorce, illness, injury or death. The book gives kids support and understanding during a crisis and helps them understand that thoughts do not make bad things happen.
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Depicts, step by step, children demonstrating various social skills. Each skill is formatted sequentially, similar to a cartoon strip, with digital pictures of actual children combined with text and cartoon bubbles to denote what the children are saying - and sometimes thinking - as they engage in …
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With sensitivity and insight, this series offers suggestions for healing activities that can help survivors learn to express their grief and mourn naturally. Acknowledging that death is a painful, ongoing part of life, they explain how people need to slow down, turn inward, embrace their feelings o…
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With sensitivity and insight, this series offers suggestions for healing activities that can help survivors learn to express their grief and mourn naturally. Acknowledging that death is a painful, ongoing part of life, it explains how people need to slow down, turn inward, embrace their feelings of…
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Provides the inside scoop on what it's really like to raise a toddler—the good, the bad, and the ugly. Includes proven strategies for coping with whining, biting, dawdling, temper tantrums, and other hazards of toddlerhood; sensible advice on making toilet-training as stress-free as possible for yo…
Written specifically for youth, this manual explains the nature and basis for anxiety, the different types of anxiety, and includes information on medication. It also includes specific coping strategies for youth. This is part of the TWD Series.
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Saying please and thank you are fun and easy to remember with this simple and repetitive story told with the help of flaps that little fingers can easily lift.
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In addition to food recipes, this book has tips for cooking substitution, entertaining, a list of resources, as well as a detailed trouble-shooting chart for the gluten-free baker. The author also offers advice on how to deal with situations outside the home that may compromise a child’s diet, such…
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Casey and his father find a special way to share their love when his father has to go away on business. Includes a note to parents.
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A story which addresses the complex problem of eating disorders in a language that children from ages 5-12 can understand. It is a beautifully illustrated book telling the story of two mice who use food in an effort to cope with the stress in their lives. "Mouse stress" involves an ever-present cat…
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A set of affirmation cards designed specifically to nurture a child's self-esteem. Each affirmation card carries a powerful message that when repeated, helps children think positively.
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This practical guide offers an introduction to the basic principles, tools and techniques that comprise the Integrated Play Groups model, designed to support children of diverse ages and abilities on the autism spectrum (novice players) in mutually enjoyed play experiences with typical peers and si…
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This activity book was written by a former Art Therapist with the Patient and Family Counselling Program and an Oncology Nursing Practice Leader with the BC Cancer Agency. It is designed for children, ages 6 to 12, to help them learn, creative ways of coping when a family member is living with can…
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This manual offers practical approaches to families struggling to help their children solve the many puzzles of daily living. The strategies and selected examples and vignettes provide parents with a foundation for building more precise and effective teaching methods.
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Co-developed by the Society of Pediatric Nurses and the American Nurses Association, this practice-focused handbook is built around family-centered care. This FCC model and standard of pediatric healthcare practice focuses on the child within the context of the child's family as a unit, not on the …
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Shows how to teach kids to protect themselves when parents aren't there to take care of them. Includes age-appropriate methods for overcoming fear, reducing vulnerability, and building self-protection instincts; courage coaching as a way to create a "family" defense system; life-saving skills, such…
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Especially designed for children with autism spectrum disorders, "foreign language backgrounds, or language-learning impairments that make it difficult for them to comprehend figurative language," this book presents idioms and their definitions. The sayings are broken down into sections by category…
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A guide to overcoming food aversions and eating challenges, particularly common among children on the autism spectrum. Topics include: 1. Who Are Resistant Eaters? 2. Oral-Motor Development. 3. Environmental and Behavioural Factors. Contributing to Problems with Eating. 4. Sensory-Based and Motor-B…
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Adolescence is tricky at the best of times, let alone for an individual with Developmental Co-ordination Disorder (DCD), also known as dyspraxia. Amanda Kirby, Medical Director of the Dyscovery Centre and the mother of a DCD child herself, addresses the main difficulties encountered by adolescents …
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When babies are born prematurely it can be a scary experience for siblings. Experience the "preemie" world as your baby host helps your child to better understand why their brother or sister is in the hospital after a premature birth.
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This guide, intended for children aged five through twelve years, has been developed using children’s ideas, artwork and play. It shares children’s worries and feelings about living in violent homes.
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Information on how to keep your child safe while s/he is having a seizure including: generalized tonic-clonic seizures; complex-partial seizures; simple partial seizures; absence seizures. Also discusses seizure safety in the water, in the bathroom, during sports or activities, while driving.
Activities to enccourage speech development for children aged birth to 2, 2 to 4 years and 4 to 6 years.
This illustrated book guides children and parents through the cognitive-behavioral techniques most often used in the treatment of anxiety. Concepts and strategies are introduced through metaphors and illustrations, which made them easy to understand.
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This book provides information on the issues surrounding the diagnosis and treatment of growth disorders, including: The role of genetics, nutrition and hormones in normal growth; When parents should and should not be concerned about their child's growth pattern; Information on treatments, includin…
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Directed toward children who have met a child with autism, the author explains how the person with autism is looking for the same understanding and acceptance as others. The book encourages interactive awareness to help increase understanding and awareness.
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A collection of writing from a dozen parents and those dually diagnosed with developmental and mental health problems. Covers autism, obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD), as well as developmental disabilities.
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This information guide is for parents and caregivers of young children who have difficulty socializing and interacting with others. TalkAbility offers simple approaches to parents in helping their children develop better social skills for engaging in conversations and making friends. The ideas in t…
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This book includes tools for children to cope with stress in various areas of their lives:; On the playground with the school bully; At home with siblings; In the classroom with difficult tasks; After school with peer pressures; Easily adaptable to multiple scenarios, scripts and activities lead na…
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A case study of a twelve-year-old boy who developed anorexia nervosa. Contains information intended to be helpful for parents, teachers and sports coaching staff.
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This book is designed for parents, therapists, and other caregivers to help young children with gross motor delays learn and practice motor skills outside of therapy sessions. Written by an experienced physical therapist who is also the mother of a child with cerebral palsy, this comprehensive guid…
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This book gives all classroom teachers, special educators, and administrators a collection of ready-to-use strategies, lessons, and activities. It is a comprehensive resource that helps teachers reach students with varied learning styles, ability levels, skills, and behaviors. The authors offer a t…
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Anatomical illustrations guide children through the mysteries of the body with revealing lift the flap pages.
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This picture book appeals to the visual strengths of students on the autism spectrum, with color photos of students demonstrating various social skills in the correct (and sometimes incorrect) way. The skills depicted are meant to be read, role-played, corrected when necessary, role-played some mor…
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The ABC?s of Anger leads children to discovery! It contains easy-to-read stories involving some aspect of the theme ?anger.? It provides children with an awareness of differing degrees of anger and helps them explore choices for responding when they are anger.; [...]; Each story begins with a lette…
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This book, laid out in an A-to-Z format, celebrates the extraordinary gifts and unique perspectives that ASD children possess. Each page of this playful alphabet book presents one of the children's many talents and abilities. The kid-friendly illustrations and clever text create a positive portraya…
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This illustrated book guides children and their parents through the cognitive-behavioral techniques used to treat negative thinking. Lively metaphors and illustrations help kids see life's hurdles in a new way, while drawing and writing activities help them master skills to get over those hurdles.
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This illustrated guide discusses educational support aids and strategies for children with autism. It builds on the need for visual support and visual structure, covering such areas as hygiene, dressing routines, preparation for school and meatimes, and establishing daily and weekly schedules.
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Kids learn ways to manage and relieve the pain of common headaches and stomachaches, as well as pain related to injuries and illness. Self-care skills include belly breathing, positive self-talk, aromatherapy, and acupressure.
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This book guides the parent/educator through the special difficulties encountered when toilet training a child with autism.
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A biographical account of a young man's battle and triumph over the eating disorder anorexia nervosa.
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Eddy is a happy-go-lucky kid who doesn't see his affliction with ADHD as a problem, but rather as something that makes him special. The authors say they wrote the book to help educate young people, teachers and even parents, that the diagnosis of a mental (or neurological) health disorder is not ne…
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This illustrated book guides children and their parents through the cognitive-behavioral techniques used to treat obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD). Using examples, activities, and step-by-step instructions, this interactive self-help book helps kids develop the skills needed to recognize and mor…
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This is a two-part book written for caregivers and professionals who work with children with feeding problems. It presents behavioral interventions and approaches on solving a child's resistance to eating. * Part One was specifically written for teachers, parents, and caregivers with no prior profe…
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