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Parenting any child is filled with its own wonders and challenges. This is an invaluable resource to gain insight and advice into raising autistic children, from a fellow parent. Easy to follow, supportive and refreshingly direct, this guide empowers you to explore what works best for you and your child.

The Anxiety Recovery Journal is for anybody struggling to stay motivated while managing the feelings and impacts of anxiety. With journaling prompts and creative activities to help overcome your anxiety and be kind to yourself in the process, this journal is yours to be as free and imaginative with as you wish.

This pioneering resource takes an Afrocentric approach to yoga whilst exploring and dismantling barriers that hinder access in Black communities. By contextualising core aspects of yoga teacher training into Black cultural norms and historical healing modalities, this practical book helps facilitate equitable yoga classes for Black people.

This is a yoga book with a difference. In this guide, the authors embark on a ground-breaking exploration of the multifaceted challenges faced by yoga teachers in today's complex world. Drawing upon their experience in training yoga teachers, Theo Wildcroft and Harriet McAtee have compiled a collection of wisdom from some of the best-known and respected yoga teachers worldwide, including Peter Blackaby, Donna Farhi, Jivana Heyman, and Jules Mitchell. Through this collaboration, these experts address six key themes that resonate deeply within the yoga teaching community: critical thinking, honouring our sources, scientific enquiries, trauma, race and equity, and money and power. This book will teach yoga teachers what they need to know about honouring yoga's sources and surviving and thriving in the modern yoga industry.

A business and leadership guide for neurodivergent leaders, and leaders of the future, with insight into finding your own leadership style, the unwritten rules of management, well being and self care, and holding open the door for others.

A handbook for parents of children with additional educational needs answering all of your most pertinent questions about supporting your child at home and at school, how to access additional support, and have your child's needs met effectively.

The stereotype of Autistic people as unempathetic obsessive loners is pernicious. Dispelling this myth, long-time autistic activist Jorik Mol discovers how empathy and sensing the emotions of others both reinforce and challenge those stereotypes, exploring the profound depths of the autistic heart.

Anger isn't all bad. It can spark creativity, motivate us toward change, and help resolve our past. This practical guide shows you how to use art therapy theory and techniques to help clients contain and reshape their anger into something positive and enriching.

Grounded in the author's 25 years as a child psychologist and 15 years working with ACT, this book explains how to use child-friendly ACT techniques to form an effective therapist-client bond and address presentations including anxiety, depression, neurodiversity, OCD, school difficulties, communication problems, and executive dysfunction.

Providing practical strategies and case studies, this book takes a person-centred approach to understanding the behaviours, characteristics, and recommended treatments for individuals affected by Hoarding Disorder.

Bisexual advice guide written by podcaster and journalist Lewis Oakley, with advice on sex, dating, relationships, parenting, dealing with bisexual erasure, and finding your bisexual niche in queer spaces.

This invaluable guide explores the impact of race and ethnicity on occupational therapists across the United States through research, case studies, and interviews. Each chapter approaches difficult topics with clarity and nuance and encourages the reader to engage in meaningful dialogue and self-reflection in order to enrich their practice.

This practical and evidence-based book provides step by step guidance on how yoga therapists and bodyworkers can help empower clients struggling with chronic musculoskeletal pain. It provides yoga sequences including adaptations for people of various abilities and uses an integrated approach by addressing the emotional impact of physical pain.

This pioneering action model provides detailed guidance on how integrative, holistic yoga therapy can foster compassionate social change during times of unprecedented global unrest. It offers a robust framework made up of four vital pillars: implementing self-study, building relationships, amplifying resiliency, and fostering compassionate action.

A guide for parents to raising children who have been diagnosed as 'different' - written by a parent and expert in educational psychology, with guidance on how to understand your child's strengths and difficulties, set realistic and ambitious expectations and support and challenge them when needed.

The ultimate guide to rediscovering your identity and finding joy in life as a chronically ill person. Full of practical tips and personal stories from award-winning disabled advocate Pippa Stacey.

The ultimate guide to becoming a trauma-informed restorative practitioner. Whether or not you're familiar with the ideas behind trauma-informed education, this book will help you put into action all of the principles of restorative practice with easy-to-implement guidance, and reflective exercises.

In this honest and open account of life with her PDA daughter, Sasha, Steph Curtis reveals the everyday struggles and explores the milestones of raising a child diagnosed with Pathological Demand Avoidance. This book guides you through the Curtis family's 'lightbulb moment' of recognising Sasha's PDA profile following her autism diagnosis at the age of two, their experiences of various education settings and attempts to access support, everyday life at home and relationships with family and friends. Bursting with practical takeaways and advice from creating personal profiles for your child to help them transition through schools and other settings to the reasonable adjustments you can actually ask for to help make life easier for your PDA child.With unique insights from Sasha's father, sister, and Sasha herself, this book offers insider knowledge, understanding and advice from one family to another. It would also be helpful for those in education, healthcare or other settings to gain a better understanding of Pathological Demand Avoidance.

Kala Allen Omeiza explores what it means to be Black and autistic in this insightful and vitally important book. With contributions from across the world, this book dives deep into topics from BLM to anti-Black racism and mental health negligence.

Lizzie is an autistic girl, which means that her brain works differently to her friends, and even to autistic boys!In this book, Lizzie explains what it's like to be an autistic girl, including how she has a special talent for blending in with her friends, how she can get really tired after being at school all day, how she worries about making mistakes, and how she finds it hard to understand how she is feeling. By simply, clearly and positively explaining the social differences associated with young autistic girls, this book will help autistic girls aged 5-11 to understand their diagnosis, recognise their unique strengths and celebrate their differences, and find ways of coping with difficulties. This positive, and celebratory book also contains helpful discussion points for parents and professionals to explore further with the girls in their care.

Balanced Ligamentous Tension has been welcomed by osteopaths worldwide who seek to work precisely but with patient comfort and safety. As well as giving technical guidance and acting as a reference, this book seeks to nurture understanding of the reciprocal relationship between structural integrity and healthy function in the body.

A decolonial guide to yoga from an expert in Indian moral philosophy, with exploration and advice on unlearning colonialism, appropriation of Samskara traditions, activism, and yoga Sutra and how to bring authenticity into your practice.

This easy-to-read handbook shows you how to use polyvagal theory to understand the in-built emotional reactions behind your child's behaviour, and become a positive, engaged place of safety to help them find their balance and build emotional regulation skills.

Using 35 years of on-the-job experience, Diana Hudson has updated the essential guide to supporting children with SpLD's. Embracing the change in thoughts and language surrounding neurodiversity, this new edition will help professionals and parents alike to learn and engage with the discussion around how to best help students with SpLD's.

ACS counselling expert Eva Mendes takes us on a journey through 20 neurodiverse relationships and the unique strengths that drive them. Offering best practice advice and strategies on how to thrive in your relationship, Eva works to identify common themes amongst autistic relationships and irons out the widespread myths surrounding them.

What do autistics want you to know, and how can you support them best? This frank and easy-to-read guide sets out the basics in a no-nonsense way. If you want to make the lives of your autistic friends and family happier and easier, this is the book you need.

A research-informed look at the unique challenges of girls and women with ADHD, from an international ADHD expert, drawing on the lived experiences of ADHD women and girls to provide tips and strategies for stronger emotional regulation and self-understanding.

A parent's guide to understanding how to best support your child with literacy difficulties, written by a leading psychologist. Contains practical tips on how to identify your child's reading and writing challenges, what you can do to help support them and practical advice on communicating with teachers.

The teacher's guide to children with literacy difficulties. Contains practical tips on how to identify children with reading and writing challenges, working with parents and SpLd teachers how to approach the co-occurrence of literacy difficulties with other problems, and exemplar teaching strategies for struggling children.