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Offers play therapists practical ways of handling a pervasive issue with intense and aggressive play by their clients. With an understanding of aggressive play based on brain function and neuroscience, this book provides therapists with a framework to work authentically with aggressive play, while making it an integrative and therapeutic experience for the child.

The Thinking Moms’ Revolution (TMR) is a group of 23 moms (and one awesome dad) from Montana to Malaysia who all have children with developmental disabilities. Initially collaborating online about therapies, biomedical intervention, alternative medicine, special diets, and doctors on the cutting edge of treatment approaches to an array of chronic and developmental disabilities, such as autism, sensory processing disorders, food allergies, ADHD, asthma, and seizures, they've come together into something far more substantial.

Barb Cook and 14 other autistic women describe life from a female autistic perspective, and present empowering, helpful and supportive insights from their personal experience for fellow autistic women. Michelle Garnett's comments validate and expand the experiences described from a clinician's perspective, and provide extensive recommendations. Autistic advocates including Liane Holliday Willey, Anita Lesko, Jeanette Purkis, Artemisia and Samantha Craft offer their personal guidance on significant issues that particularly affect women, as well as those that are more general to autism.

This groundbreaking audiobook describes the unique challenges of women and girls with autism spectrum disorder. This second edition provides practical solutions schools can implement and social tips for teenage girls navigating puberty, the transition to work or university, and highlights the importance of and strategies for careers.

Unlock the mysteries of autism, understand what it means for your child, and discover how to help them unleash their potential starting today. Are you struggling to understand your child’s autism diagnosis and don’t know how to help them? Are you worried about their development, communication, and social skills? Perhaps you are not sure how to best support them in developing their reasoning and emotional skills.

Winner of the Gold Award in the 2006 ForeWord Book of the Year competition, this groundbreaking book describes the unique challenges of women and girls with Asperger's Syndrome. In it you'll hear candid stories written by the indomitable women who have lived them. You'll also hear from experts who discuss whether Aspie girls are slipping under the radar, undiagnosed.

Imagine a future where your child not only manages their ADHD but thrives, both in personal and social settings. This book empowers you with proven strategies to make life considerably easier from day one. Let your family’s journey with ADHD become one of understanding, growth, and connection.

Renowned child-development expert Dr. Karyn Purvis gives you practical advice and powerful tools you can use to encourage secure attachment in your family. You will benefit from Karyn’s decades of clinical research and real-world experience. Coauthor Lisa Qualls demonstrates how you can successfully implement these strategies in your home, just as she did in hers. You will learn how to simplify your approach using scripts, nurture your child, combat chronic fear, teach respect, and develop other valuable tools to facilitate a healing connection with your child.

The vital skills children need to achieve their full potential! Being organized. Staying focused. Controlling impulses and emotions. These are some of the basic executive functioning (EF) skills children need to function and succeed as they grow. But what can you do if your child is struggling with one or all of these skills? With this hands-on guide, you'll learn what EF difficulties look like and how you can help your child overcome these challenges. Psychologist Rebecca Branstetter teaches you how to help improve the executive functions

This audiobook looks at what it feels like to be an autistic parent, offering valuable insights, knowledge and wisdom on parenting autistic and non-autistic children. Three mothers reflect on their experiences of growing up as undiagnosed autistics, venturing into and embracing motherhood, and connecting with their children in a unique and powerful way. Full of wit and warm advice, this audiobook empowers autistic parents and reassures them that autism is a strength in raising their children with love, knowledge and experience.

How to Live with ADHD is an informative guide for people living with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder. It provides insights into the condition, as well as proven strategies to improve focus and reduce anxiety. Focusing on an holistic approach to managing your symptoms, it will provide a pathway to help you develop healthy new habits of body and mind.

How can I best support the needs of my neurodivergent clients in therapy? With so much information, and so many different perspectives, it can be difficult to know where to start. Further, the mental health field has only recently begun moving away from "treating autism" to working with autistic and neurodivergent individuals in a more affirming way. That's why Dr. Amy Marschall created A Clinician's Guide to Supporting Autistic Clients. As an expert psychologist and a member of the autism community herself, she recognized the need to move away from treatments that pathologize differences.

Lisa Gungor thought she knew her own story: small-town girl meets boy in college and they blissfully walk down the aisle into happily ever after. Their Christian faith was their lens and foundation for everything - their marriage, their music, their dreams for the future. But as their dreams began to come true, she began to wonder if her religion was really representative of the "good news" she had been taught.

Is your child anxious daily? Does your child’s anxiety leave them feeling isolated or even depressed? As a parent, witnessing our children overcome the hurdles our lives present us with is already a challenge. Having a child or teen with a possible anxiety disorder can be even more challenging, and that is where is audiobook can help.

Fifteen million children in the United States have been diagnosed with dyslexia. This learning disability is a major challenge not only for the kids, but also for their parents, families, teachers, tutors, and therapists. And yet, dyslexia doesn't have to be a disadvantage for kids - if the right tools are available. Parenting Dyslexia fills this critical need, providing prescriptive advice and concrete tips to drive educational and personal growth without any associated stigma.

"Ich habe Probleme mit Blickkontakt. Ich kann weder Mimik deuten noch zwischen den Zeilen lesen. Da ist eine permanente Angst und lähmende Müdigkeit." Clara Törnvall wusste schon immer, dass etwas mit ihr nicht stimmt, doch erst mit 42 Jahren erhält sie die Diagnose. Sie ist Autistin? Sind das nicht eher sozial inkompatible Männer mit Inselbegabung? In "Die Autistinnen" erkundet sie, warum es insbesondere bei Frauen oft zu Fehldiagnosen kommt und wer wirklich hinter der mythisch aufgeladenen Figur der Autistin steht. Dabei stößt sie unverhofft auf eigene Idole wie Beatrix Potter, Greta Thunberg und Virginia Woolf.

An educational resource for new and expecting parents. New expecting parents tend to focus all their time preparing for labour but no one tells us the importance of educating ourselves on what to expect the fourth trimester and how to prepare for the months after your new baby has arrived. Learn about normal infant sleep, tips on helping them turn their days and nights around, circadian rhythm, infant sleep cycles, and building your modern day village.

As a parent you want to ensure that your bright child with Autism Spectrum Disorder will have a bright future! And you are not alone. According to an Easter Seals survey, parents of children who have ASD were most worried about their children having independence in adulthood. Quality of life, fitting into society, and employment were also top concerns. Your knowledge of your child, your devotion, and your many varied experiences with you child, make you the ideal coach. This book was written to help you, the parent, to raise your child with the foundational skills he or she will need for the future.

International authors and parents Jim and Lisa Valavanis share their inspirational story of what they went through and how they coped and survived when a family crisis struck down their son Sam. Sam was diagnosed with retinoblastoma at just 12 weeks of age and his parents thought his life was over before it had even begun. They didn't know what it meant to him for now, let alone in the future. How would he, and they as a family, get through this ordeal, and what kind of life would he have?

Waiting for the Light Bulb is a true story that follows the life of a little girl over the course of 10 years. Told from a mother’s perspective, it begins with a pregnancy, high hopes and dreams for the future but as diagnoses are made the fear of the unknown is tangible. Follow a determined, gritty mother as she navigates the world with a daughter who has an incredibly unique subset of autism. Listen as she learns how to maneuver her way through medical mediocrity, broken public school systems, past stigmas and preconceived notions of what a special needs child is like.