Targeting the Positive with Behaviours that Challenge
How This Book Was Born: The Story Behind Targeting the Positive I didn’t set out to write a book. I set out to understand people.…
Category: children
Why is a neuroaffirmative approach important when you’re diagnosing autistic children?
This is an extract from The Neurodiversity Affirmative Child Autism Assessment Handbook – The first handbook on neuro-affirmative child autism assessment, written by a group…
The Autistic Teen Girl’s School Survival Guide
The Must-Have Manual for Autistic Girls Gracie Barlow has lots of super helpful advice for autistic girls on learning, communicating, and making friends in her…
Building Blocks of Emotion: Helping Children Understand Big Feelings Through Play
Help children to understand feelings like anger using play! This World Children’s Day, the author of the Creative Ways books Fiona Zandt shares an engaging method for helping children understand and regulate their emotions, using a playful activity with interconnecting blocks.
The ‘double-empathy’ problem – or why I wrote Under the Radar
Under the Radar by Dr Emilia Misheva introduces you to the differing presentations of autism that are common in girls, but also explores why referring…
Young, Autistic and ADHD – author Q&A with Sarah Boon
After the recent release of her book Young, Autistic and ADHD, we got a chance to ask Sarah Boon a few questions about writing the…
12 ways to get your children to talk to you about things that are important to them
By Katy Elphinstone, author of How to Raise Happy Neurofabulous Children. Katy Elphinstone, besides her current main work as a parent, is active in the…
Ten Reasons Why Rewards & Punishments Go a Bit Wrong with Autistics
By Katy Elphinstone. As a parent of two (one being an autistic child), and an autistic person herself, Katy Elphinstone is well equipped to know…
Parenting children with neurodiverse needs: with or without a diagnosis
By Eve Bent, a neurodivergent mother of four, with two autistic children and over fifteen years working with children of all abilities, including working in…
Book Extract – The Awesome Autistic Guide to Being Proud
The Awesome Autistic Guide to Being Proud is one of three brand new books in the ever-growing range of Awesome Autistic Guide books from Yenn…