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Books > Health, Home & Family > Family & health > Coping with personal problems > Coping with disability
Playing the dating game is often tricky: all the more so for
individuals with Asperger's Syndrome. How do AS adolescents and
their families cope with sexual feelings and behaviour? What help
can be given if a man with AS oversteps the mark in expressing his
sexuality? How do people with AS deal with intimacy and
communication in sexual relationships? In this comprehensive and
unique guide, Isabelle Henault delivers practical information and
advice on issues ranging from puberty and sexual development,
gender identity disorders, couples' therapy to guidelines for sex
education programs and maintaining sexual boundaries. This book
will prove indispensable to parents, teachers, counsellors and
individuals with AS themselves.
Help children to master emotional self-regulation and improve
wellbeing with these activities. Based on traditional yoga breath
and mindfulness exercises, each activity is adaptable for a range
of abilities and they are also ideal for working with children with
autism and other special needs. The book explains how being
conscious of the breath is the key to unlocking calm during busy
moments, and shows how this can be taught in a child-friendly way.
Including activities such as lion breathing, bubble breathing, and
sensory yoga games, children will love to learn self-regulatory
techniques they can carry with them for life. Suitable for
one-on-one and group work with children aged 4+.
Home is as old as one's skin but as elusive as an object seen
through the wrong end of a telescope. It is this sense of a view,
skewed, intangible, which echoes throughout Karen Lazar's
Hemispheres. Waking in hospital after a post-operative stroke, she
finds one side of her body paralysed and her world knocked out of
kilter. Spatial, perceptual and subjective changes force her to
view her new life in facets. The fragmented view is made apparent
by means of a triptych of clusters which charts Karen's experience
from Metamorphosis, through rehabilitation and adaptation. Quietly
reflective, deeply lyrical, Hemispheres is concerned with returning
separated parts into a whole and coming home to the self.
Hemisphere will appeal to health care workers, like
physiotherapists, OTs, neurologists, social workers, psychologists
and others who deal with stroke patients and those who have had to
deal with debilitating and incapacitating illnesses and conditions
as well as anyone who has undergone a stroke, major surgery or any
life changing and debilitating event which has affected the way
they react to themselves and the world around them. It is a title
for family and friends of stroke patients, survivors of
debilitating physical changes.
Written for busy foster carers and adoptive parents, this book
provides a concise introduction to Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD),
and how to support a child with a diagnosis. It emphasises the
common strengths children with ASD have, as well as offering
strategies for any behavioural issues that are likely to arise,
highlighting how these can be exacerbated by the care system and
adoption process. The first part of the book looks at the different
aspects of autism and the challenges it can pose for children and
parents, providing strategies for managing difficulties at home and
at school, using social stories, and reducing sensory input in a
child's environment. The second part looks at issues that arise for
fostered or adopted children, including placement transitions,
contact, and explaining the past. It concludes with helping parents
to think about self-care.
Unblinded is the true story of New Yorker Kevin Coughlin, who
became blind at age thirty-six due to a rare genetic disorder known
as Leber's Hereditary Optic Neuropathy. Twenty years later, without
medical intervention, Kevin's sight miraculously started to return.
He is the only known person in the world who has experienced a
spontaneous, non-medically assisted, regeneration of the optic
nerve. Unblinded follows Kevin's descent into darkness, and his
unexplained reemergence to sight.
Addressing the often hidden, yet not uncommon, behaviour of faecal
smearing among children and adults with autism and developmental
and intellectual disabilities, this practical handbook shows how to
tackle this often embarrassing and difficult issue in a positive
way. Informing parents and caregivers of the many causes of
smearing, the author offers tried-and-tested, everyday approaches
for managing this behaviour. This supportive guidebook includes
down-to-earth advice, helpful picture narratives, examples of how
to prepare and use diary sheets for behaviour analysis, and
practical exercises that can be carried out at home. There is also
advice on what to do if a child ingests faeces, and dealing with
persistent or recurring smearing. With a focus on positive
low-arousal responses and featuring the voices of parents who have
experience of their child's smearing, families will feel supported
and confident in identifying the causes of smearing, and be able to
choose and carry out appropriate preventative approaches. This will
also be a useful resource for professionals who encounter smearing
behaviour, including social workers and SEN and teaching staff.
When he was a kid, Quentin Kenihan loved Superman. Ironic, really.
Quentin didn't need kryptonite to reveal his weakness - born with a
rare bone disorder, osteogenesis imperfecta, his bones broke all on
their own. When Quentin was seven, Mike Willesee made a documentary
about him. Australians fell in love with his wit, and never-say-die
attitude. Over the years he grew up before our eyes. But there was
a dark side to his life. The true story was never told ... until
now. A story of abandonment, drug addiction, dark days and thoughts
of suicide. Battling through it all, Quentin's resilience is
inspiring. Quentin is now determined to live life the best he can.
Just turned 41, he is a filmmaker, stand-up comedian, radio host,
actor and film critic; he's hung out with Angelina, accidentally
ripped Jennifer Lopez's dress, talked sex with Jean-Claude Van
Damme, appeared in MAD MAX and interviewed Julia Gillard, all the
while showing that living in a wheelchair doesn't mean staying
still. This is an unforgettable, brutally honest, at times
heartbreaking memoir. Quentin Kenihan is living proof that
superheroes don't need capes, just the right attitude! 'Quentin is
a hero of mine. Probably the toughest man I have ever met. Read
this book and reconsider how hard you think your life is. It is a
liberating experience to face life through his eyes.' - RUSSELL
CROWE
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