VARIOUS
Able, Gifted and Talented
Janet Bates and Sarah Munday
Provides practical strategies for teaching able, gifted and talented children in mainstream classroom settings. Considers why it is so important to create challenge in the classroom for these pupils and offers advice on how this can be best achieved. Includes pointers on developing a whole-school policy and suggestions on how to get parents more involved.
The SEN Series
Published by Continuum ISBN 0-8264-7837-9
Adolescent Coping: Advances in Theory, Research and Practice
Erica Frydenberg
Young people need to cope in a variety of settings, including school, home, peer groups and the workplace, and with a range of life problems such as divorce and examinations. This thoroughly revised and updated new edition of "Adolescent Coping" presents the latest research and applications in the field of coping. It highlights the ways in which coping can be measured and, in particular, details a widely used adolescent coping instrument. The topics include the different ways in which girls and boys cope, coping in the family, how culture and context determine how young people cope, decisional coping, problem solving and social coping, with a particular emphasis on practice.Each topic is considered in light of past and recent research findings and each chapter includes quotations from young people. While topics such as depression, eating disorders, self-harm and grief and loss are addressed, there is a substantial focus on the positive aspects of coping, including an emphasis on resilience and the achievement of happiness.
In addition to the wide-ranging research findings that are reported, many of the chapters consider implications and applications of the relevant findings with suggestions for the development of coping skills and coping skills training.
Published by Routledge, UK ISBN: 978-0-415-40572-0 (paperback) 978-0-415-40571-3 (hardback)
A Practical Guide to Support Children with Epilepsy
Meeting Special Needs Series
Rachel Baker
This is a practical, informative guide on how to care for young children with epilepsy. It is aimed at professionals working in child-care, but may also be of use to parents and anyone else wishing to know more about epilepsy. The booklet includes a description of the condition, its causes and treatments, a guide to seizures, activities that may need to be avoided and what to do in the event of an emergency. This booklet is an invaluable tool for child carers and provides pages to copy and use such as a guide to seizures, a seizure chart and a quick reference for what to do in an emergency.
Published by Step Forward Publishing Ltd (Oct 2007) ISBN-10: 1904575110 ISBN-13: 978-1904575115
Bullying: A Complete Guide to the Support Group Method
Barbara Maines and George Robinson
Previously referred to as the No Blame Approach, the pioneering work of George and Barbara has been popular amongst practitioners seeking an alternative method to punishment for dealing with bullying in their setting. This publication incorporates an updated edition of their best selling 'Crying for Help' and provides a clear practical guide and an explanation of the theory and values underpinning the work.
For those who are interested in understanding, using and evaluating the method this book:
• Explains how the Support Group Method began
• Charts the recent controversy over the approach
• Gives step by step guidance on using the SGM
• -Includes real life accounts from a practitioner using the method
• Answers frequently asked questions.
Published by Sage Publications Ltd ISBN: 9781412935364
Cognitive Behaviour Therapy
A Practical Guide To Helping People Take Control
Danny C. K. Lam
Cognitive Behaviour Therapy: A Practical Guide to Helping People Take Control explores the premise that negative beliefs play an important role in the development and continuation of mental health problems. The book offers a new integrative model of causality for instigating change, based on giving clients control and choice over these beliefs, and therefore over their mood and behaviour.
This practical guide also focuses on the stigmas often attached to people with 'mental illness'. Danny C. K. Lam suggests that by providing both the client and the general public with a more accurate understanding of the nature and causes of mental health problems it is possible to de-stigmatise the 'mental illness' label. This will help the client improve self-esteem and the ability to manage personal and interpersonal difficulties and take control of their problems and responsibility for recovery.
Published by: Routledge ISBN: 978-0-415-39812-1
Cognitive Development
The Learning Brain
Usha Goswami
Cognitive Development: The Learning Brain is a thoroughly revised and updated edition of the bestselling "Cognition in Children." This full-colour textbook has been re-written from the perspective of brain science and shows how new discoveries in cognitive neuroscience force us to reconsider traditional theories of cognitive development. Goswami considers the established base of cognitive developmental psychology and demonstrates how new data from brain science require a new theoretical framework based on learning. This book presents a new paradigm for teaching cognitive development, going beyond Piaget to learning and the brain. Conceptualizing cognitive development around three core domains of human knowledge - naive physics, naive biology and naive psychology - the book considers the learning mechanisms available to the infant brain. Each chapter explores how these mechanisms affect different aspects of cognitive development. Starting with the development of these foundational domains in infancy, Goswami goes on to consider social cognition, language acquisition, causal learning and explanation-based reasoning, and theory of mind.
Later chapters explore memory, reasoning, metacognition, executive functions, reading and numbers. The final chapter analyzes the contribution of more traditional theoretical perspectives (Piaget and Vygotsky), linking these to connectionism and neuroconstructivism. The intimate links between language acquisition and symbolic systems, cognitive development and social/cultural learning form the core of the book.
Published by: Psychology Press ISBN: 978-1-84169-531-0
Extreme Parenting
Parenting Your Child with a Chronic Illness
Sharon Dempsey
Parents of children with chronic illnesses experience 'extreme parenting'. Parenting under extreme circumstances, like an extreme sport, challenges us to find our true strengths, to push ourselves physically and emotionally.
This book is a guide and a source of support for parents of children with long-term illnesses. Sharon Dempsey argues that by helping parents to cope with their child's condition we are ultimately helping the child, and that parents are better able to live a full, enjoyable life if they have an awareness of strategies and knowledge to cope with the difficulties of dealing with their child with a chronic illness.
The guide is packed with practical advice, models of exploration and lists of action points, and will empower parents to be good advocates for their children. It will also provide health professionals with invaluable insights into the demands of living with chronic illness.
Published by Jessica Kingsley Publishers ISBN-10: 1843106191 ISBN-13: 978-1843106197
Gut and Psychological Syndrome
Dr Natasha Campbell McBride
Natural treatment for Autism,ADD/ADHD,Dyslexia,Dyspraxia,Depression,Schizophrenia
"Gut and Psychology Syndrome" reveals the true connection between nutrition and brain function. Written by a neurologist and practising nutritionist it is a "no holds barred" investigation into the real facts behind why today's generation of children have the highest incidence of learning disabilities and behavioural disorders ever. Reviewers have praised it for it's wealth of information and advice. Presented in a style that will benefit both parents and practitioners, this book is definitely one to read and keep for reference".
Medinform Publishing
ISBN 0954852001
Helping Children to Build Self-esteem
A Photocopiable Activities Book
Deborah Plummer and Alice Harper
Helping Children To Build Self Esteem is a great resource to use as a complete programme or to 'dip into' in order to focus on specific areas. The fun way in which the resource is presented and the way in which the children are encouraged to use their imagination has inspired children who have been otherwise reluctant to participate and engage effectively in group activities. As a Teaching Assistant I have found this book to be a very valuable, user-friendly and adaptable resource which I have enjoyed using and would not hesitate to recommend' - Amazon Review
`This book Helping Children to Build self-Esteem is a really valuable resource. It provides the means, in a natural, fun and stimulating way, to support children to grow and develop healthily. Simultaneouly, the children are being trained to make use of the imagination, which is the most powerful untapped resource, and as a result, will be available to them for their whole lifetime. Great for anyone involved in education or child care work.' - Amazon
Published by Jessica Kingsley ISBN. : 9781843104889 ISBN 10. : 1843104881
Just Take a Bite
Ernsperger and Stegen-Hausen
Easy, effective answers to food aversion and eating challenges.
Published by Future Horizons ISBN 1-932565-12-4
Kinship Care Fostering Effective Family and Friends Placements
Elaine Farmer and Sue Moyers
Children are frequently cared for by relatives and friends when parents, for whatever reason, are unable to care for their children themselves. Yet there has been very little information about how well children do when placed with kin or how safe they are in these placements.This book compares formal kinship care to traditional foster placements in order to ascertain which children are placed with kin, in what circumstances, how well such children progress, and how often these placements disrupt. The authors explore whether children placed with family and friends fare better or worse than other foster children, what services are provided and needed, and how kin care is experienced by carers, children and social workers.This book will be essential reading for social workers, policy makers, students and all those working with looked-after children, and will enable local authorities to make informed decisions about where best to place children and the support needed by family and friend carers.
Published by Jessica Kingsley Publishers ISBN 10 1843106310 ISBN 13 9781843106319
Language and Communication Difficulties
Dimitra Hartas
Although often termed the ' invisible disability' , up to 10% of school children experience some degree of difficulty with their language and communication skills. This book provides teachers with practical strategies for supporting such children in the classroom. Topics covered include scaffolding communication and how language and communication difficulties relate to other special educational needs.
The SEN Series
Published by Continuum ISBN 0-8264-7614-7
Let's All Listen
Songs for Group Work in Settings that Include Students with Learning Difficulties and Autism
Pat Lloyd
Enjoyable and easy to use, this is an ideal resource for specialist and non-specialist music instructors working to improve the communication and social skills of students with learning difficulties, including those with additional autism.
Available from Jessica Kingsley Publishers ISBN 9781843105831
Listening to Children
A Practitioner's Guide
Alison McLeod
Listening to children' is one of those feel-good phrases that always features in childcare literature as if it were self-evidently a good thing. Often, however, there is a lack of critical attention to what it really means: How does one listen? How can one evidence that listening has taken place?
Starting with an introduction to the policy and practice of listening to children and young people, both individually and in groups, this practitioner's guide provides a range of practical techniques for effective listening, encompassing observation and communication, seeing things from the child's point of view, explaining difficult concepts, helping young people to talk about their experiences and express their feelings, promoting participation and eliciting their wishes and views. The book is peppered throughout with good practice checklists, good practice examples, reflective exercises and quotations from children, as well as case studies showing real situations where effective communication has been established with a child.
Published by Jessica Kingsley Publishers ISBN: 9781843105497
Pre-Referral Intervention Manual ( PRIM )
McCarney, Wunderlich, Bauer
A useful guide to the most common learning and behaviour problems encountered in the educational environment and pre-referral educational and behavioural interventions which can be employed.
Profound and Multiple Learning Difficulties
Corinna Cartwright and Sarah Wind-Cowie
Engaging and informative, the authors provide advice on areas such as the daily management of pupils with PMLD , learning environments, dealing with problem behaviour and getting families involved.
The SEN Series
Published by Continuum ISBN 0-8264-7836-0
Promoting Social Interaction for Individuals with Communicative Impairments:
Making Contact
Edited by M. Suzanne Zeedyk
All humans have an innate need and ability to communicate with others, and this book presents successful approaches to nurturing communicative abilities in people who have some type of communication impairment.
The contributors look at a wide range of approaches, including intensive interaction, co-creative communication, sensory integration and music therapy, for a variety of impairments, including autism, profound learning disabilities, deafblindness, severe early neglect and dementia. This wide perspective provides insight into what it feels like to struggle with a communicative impairment, and how those who work with and care about such individuals can and should think more creatively about how to make contact with them.
Covering both the theory and practical implementation of different interventions, this book will be invaluable for health and social work professionals, psychologists, psychotherapists, counsellors, speech and language therapists, as well as researchers, teachers and students in these fields.
Published by Jessica Kingsley Publishers ISBN: 978-1-84310-539-8
Raising a Sensory Smart Child
Lindsey Biel and Nancy Peske
The definitive handbook for helping the child with sensory integration issues. Co-authored by a paediatric OT and a parent of a child with sensory integration issues, this book is as warm and accessible as it is authoritative and detailed.
Published by Penguin ISBN 0-14-303488-x
Raising a Self-disciplined Child
Robert Brooks PhD and Sam Goldstein PhD.
Raising a Self-Disciplined Child is the groundbreaking book parents have been waiting for--a remarkably positive approach to a style of discipline that builds children up-from the acclaimed authors of Raising Resilient Children. Filled with realistic, practical strategies and sample scenarios, it shows you how to teach your child, ages 6 through 16, the value of self-control, self-reliance, and self-assurance: the all-important skills that will last him a lifetime.
Publisher McGraw-Hill ISBN 0071411968 / 9780071411967
www.samgoldstein.com
Raising Resilient Children
Robert Brooks PhD and Sam Goldstein PhD.
This book presents a parenting model based upon the research proven framework of fostering resilience and hope in children. In their work, Drs. Brooks and Goldstein draw upon over fifty years of experience and the publication of fifteen texts, numerous scientific articles and their contact with thousands upon thousands of parents in clinical practice and workshops.
www.samgoldstein.com
Self-esteem Games for Children
Deborah M Plummer
In this practical handbook, self-esteem expert Deborah Plummer offers a wealth of familiar and easy-to-learn games carefully chosen to build and maintain self-esteem in children aged 5-11. The selection of games reflects the seven key elements of healthy self-esteem - self-knowledge, self and others, self-acceptance, self-reliance, self-expression, self-confidence and self-awareness - and includes opportunities for thinking and discussion. The book combines physically active and passive games, verbal and non-verbal games and games for pairs or groups, which makes them equally accessible for children with speech/language difficulties or those with physical disabilities. Deborah Plummer shows that the games can be easily adapted and she encourages readers to be creative in inventing their own alternative versions. This is an ideal resource for teachers, parents, carers and all those working to nurture self-esteem in children.
Published by Kessica Kingsley Publishers ISBN 13: 9781843104247 ISBN 10: 1843104245
Sleep Better
Mark Durand
A guide to improving sleep for children with special needs.
'It's about time parents had some help with one of the most troublesome challenges of raising a special needs child. The book is easy to read, comprehensive and offers some real hope.'
Published by Brookes ISBN 1-55766-315-7
Small Steps Forward
Sarah Newman
Learning games and activities to help the pre-school child with special needs.
Published by Jessica Kingsley Publishers ISBN 1-85302-643-3
The fantastic 19+ exercise book
Christine Fiedorczuk Illustrated by Lee Shakespeare
A practical, fun guide to getting fit and supple, written and illustrated by staff and clients at Cambridge House and Talbot 19+ service for adults with learning disabilities.
Published by 19+ Cambridge House and Talbot, 2005
The Myth of Laziness
Mel Levine
A professor of paediatrics at the University of North Carolina Medical School, Mel Levine received acclaim for his previous book, A Mind at a Time, which argued that children’s different learning capabilities demand diverse teaching strategies. In The Myth of Laziness, Levine isolates another group of kids--so-called "lazy" children who aren’t working up to their potential in school--and explores the causes of their low performance. Levine scoffs at the perception that any child is lazy, stating that "everybody yearns to be productive." These children, according to Levine, are simply experiencing "output failure" due to different neuro-developmental weaknesses.
Levine offers theories on why it's so hard for some teenagers-even bright ones-to succeed in school. "Often these individuals absorb and process information well; they learn but they don't produce," he says, adding, "people say glibly that they are not `living up to their potential.' " Levine prefers the term "output failure" over "laziness." In a series of case studies, he discusses the biological, neurological and psychological factors that may be responsible for "output failure." He focuses on kids challenged by oral and written communication; he believes parents and educators must pay attention to different learning styles rather than simply label a child as lazy.
Publisher: Simon & Schuster ISBN-10: 074321367X ISBN-13: 978-0743213677
Understanding Controversial Therapies for Children with Autism, Attention
Deficit Disorder, and Other Learning Disabilities: A Guide to Complementary
and Alternative Medicine
Lisa A. KurtzOffering a balanced overview of complementary and alternative therapies, this book will be useful for parents of children with autism, ADD or other learning disabilities. The book covers a wide variety of mind-bodyinterventions and manipulative techniques, as well as energy therapies, biologically based methods, and alternative medical systems. For each approach, the author provides a detailed description of what the treatment involves, which professionals will be working with the child, and an explanation of the rationale behind the therapy. She also offers advice on who to approach for treatment, and includes a list of recommended resources and useful contacts for further information.
Published by Jessica Kingsley Publishers ISBN: 978-1-84310-864-1
Visual Needs
Olga Miller and Adam Ockelford
This accessible and engaging guide equips teachers with a wide range of strategies for teaching children with varying degrees of visual need.
The SEN Series
Published by Continuum ISBN 0-8264-7838-7