Ten things to consider when feeding a child with Aspergers
Sarah Patten, author of What to Feed an Asperger: How to go from 3 foods to 300 with love, patience and a little sleight of hand, offers…
Category: Autism
Call for Comic and Graphic novel submissions
Jessica Kingsley Publishers and Singing Dragon (an imprint of JKP) have recently started developing an exciting new line of comics and graphics novels and we…
All Things Poop
JKP author Kate Wilde, Director of The Son-Rise Program®, shares advice on a key problem area for parents raising a child on the autism spectrum.…
Put the Fun Back into Tooth Brushing
JKP author Kate Wilde, Director of The Son-Rise Program®, shares tips from her forthcoming book, Autistic Logistics, on helping your spectrum child enjoy brushing his or…
Top 5 tips for entrepreneurs on the autistic spectrum
By Rosalind A. Bergemann author of An Asperger’s Guide to Entrepreneurship For many of us on the autistic spectrum, employment can or has been a challenge.…
Try out some exercises from the Autism Fitness Handbook
The Autism Fitness Handbook is designed to address specific areas of difficulty for children, teens and young adults with autism spectrum disorder (ASD). Physical fitness –…
Helping a Child with Autism Handle Halloween
Walking around the shops in October it is impossible to escape the ghoulish Halloween theme. The supermarkets are full of masks, deathly hands and creepy…
Why some disabled people might deserve MORE than the minimum wage
Well done Welfare Minister, Lord Freud, for apologising for his recent “foolish and offensive” remarks where he suggested that people with disabilities could potentially be paid…
Praise from a reader— An insight into how ‘The Asperkid’s Launch Pad’ changed one mother’s life
Rebecca in England shares how reading The Asperkid’s Launch Pad by Jennifer Cook O’Toole changed the way she thinks about autism: Just dropping by to…
Cynthia Kim discusses the labels present in her book’s title—Nerdy, Shy, and Socially Inappropriate
In this extract from Nerdy, Shy and Socially Inappropriate: A User Guide to an Asperger Life (forthcoming October 2014), author Cynthia Kim talks about the…