Misdiagnosis in Neuromuscular Disorders – What Grandparents Need to Know
By Charlotte E. Thompson, MD, author of Grandparenting a Child with Special Needs. Over the years, many grandparents have contacted me about how to be…
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“One should never underestimate the capabilities of children with special needs or their creativity.” – An Interview with Johanne Hanko
“…one of my favorite games [in the book] is ‘Contemporary Music or Drawing Music’ (activity #80, page 103) because I was told not to use this game with children with differentiated capacities or in mainstream classes because it would lead to failure: ‘Children in special education and elementary school children cannot compose,’ I was told. Well I can tell you this is not true. I was amazed to see the creativity of some of the children, while all came up with something different and interesting; some compositions were quite beautiful. One should never underestimate the capabilities of children with special needs and their creativity.”
Dramatherapy Approaches for People with Profound or Severe Multiple Disabilities – An Interview with Mary Booker
“I have so many memorable experiences of using Developmental Drama: Someone’s face full of laughter and sheer joy when their name is ‘drummed’ to a climax in the warm-up…The sudden, unexpected and totally right response to a new event in the story…A whole group of children with multi-sensory impairment huddled together, looking upwards in wonder at a new and bright ‘hole in the sky!’ It goes on and on. I am a very lucky person.”
JKP Books Honoured in ForeWord Magazine’s 2010 Book of the Year Awards!
We are thrilled to announce that several JKP books have been honoured in ForeWord Magazine’ Book of the Year Awards, which were established to bring increased…
“I am not a statistic or a category…By God’s grace, I am.” – Craig Romkema, Graduating Class of 2011
HUGE congratulations to poet and JKP author Craig Romkema who, after ten years of hard work and dedication, has graduated with a Bachelor of Arts degree…
JKP author Mary Mountstephen meets with educators and students in Kuala Lumpur
This Spring, JKP author Mary Mountstephen was invited to Singapore and Malaysia to give a presentation based on her book, How to Detect Developmental Delay…
JKP Wins Gold at the 2011 Independent Publisher Book Awards
We are thrilled to announce that JKP has won several medals in the 2011 Independent Publisher Book Awards, including two Gold medals! Darold A. Treffert’s Islands…
Geoff Platt, PhD on Beating Dyspraxia with a Hop, Skip and a Jump
Geoff Platt, PhD, has worked as a lecturer in Sport Science for ten years, most recently working as a senior lecturer and course director in…
Video: Michael Mandelstam, author of ‘How We Treat the Sick: Neglect and Abuse in our Health Services’
In this video series, Michael Mandelstam talks about his new book, How We Treat the Sick, which shows beyond question that neglectful care is a systemic blight,…
“I realized that I could help others find their voice” – An Interview with America X. Gonzalez, co-author of Speech in Action
“Speech in Action works well with children on the autism spectrum is because it is fun…If the student is bored out of his or her mind they won’t pay enough attention to learn anything. On the other hand, if they are actively engaged in a lesson they will pay enough attention to allow the information to enter their brains. They might need some repetition to completely learn the concept but since the activities are fun the kids beg us to do them all the time.”