Dyslexia, self-harm and attempted suicide
Research shows that at least 5% of schoolchildren are likely to have dyslexia. Children sometimes lack the maturity to ask for help and things can go sour…
Category: Education
The lifelong social and emotional effects of dyslexia
With the aim to assist both parents and educational practitioners to recognise the emotional turmoil that both young and older dyslexics face in life, Neil Alexander-Passe…
Browse our latest collection of Special Educational Needs and Pastoral Education books for 2015
For more information on any of the books inside, simply click the title or book cover to view the full book page. To receive…
Driving Change through Simple Acts of Kindness
Celebrating the 30th anniversary of the anti-bullying national charity Kidscape, 12 charities come together in How to Create Kind Schools to offer an insight on…
Read the first chapter of The Essential Manual for Asperger Syndrome (ASD) in the Classroom
Click here to read the opening chapter of Kathy Hoopmann’s incredible new teaching manual. “If every primary/elementary school teacher read this book, the lives of all young people who…
“It’s just a bit o’ banter, innit?” – Why “That’s so GAY!” still needs to be challenged
Jonathan Charlesworth is the Executive Director of the charity Educational Action Challenging Homophobia (EACH), UK, and author of That’s So Gay! – Challenging Homophobic Bullying. He has…
Supporting young people suffering with self-harm and eating disorders – three key lessons
Pooky Knightsmith is a specialist in student mental health and emotional well-being, and author of Self-Harm and Eating Disorders in Schools. Through her company In Our…
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…
‘Contact with Nature can be immensely healing.’
Caroline Jay founded and runs the Seeds of Hope Children’s Garden, a national charity which aims to promote the use of nature in helping children manage…
Learning about Sexuality and Safety with Tom
Learning about Sexuality and Safety with Tom The idea for storybooks about sexuality and safety came from being the single mother of a boy with…