Josh Muggleton’s Top Tips for Raising Kids with Asperger Syndrome: Tip #1 – Bullying
Before Christmas, JKP author Josh Muggleton came to our offices and recorded a series of top tips for parents, professionals and people with Asperger syndrome,…
Tag: educational psychology
Turning homework negatives into positives for students with AD/HD – An Interview with Harriet Hope Green
“The activities in the book capitalize on AD/HD traits because I use the traits as the vehicles to complete the task. AD/HD students like to move, so activities include jumping answers, and singing facts, and activities that are interesting enough to promote focus. The child is empowered to make tents, read on the floor, discuss emotions, and pop bubble paper.”
Helping adopted children develop secure attachment using Family Attachment Narrative Therapy (FANT) – An Interview with Denise Lacher
“Our journey [into Family Attachment Narrative Therapy (FANT)] really started when an adoptive parent commented, “I wish I could rewind the tape on this kid and start his life all over again.” That statement led to a story about what it could have been like and should have been like for that child – re-doing the narrative of his life.”
An Interview with Josh Muggleton, author of ‘Raising Martians’
“There is lots of information in the book, and I really hope that people take that on board, but to me, what is more important is that they gain an understanding of, and an insight into life with Asperger Syndrome. If you understand someone with Asperger Syndrome, then knowing that it is named after Hans Asperger is redundant. While that sort of information might be interesting, it is far more useful to know how the person with Asperger Syndrome thinks: what he or she might find hard and why, what things might set them off, and what things will calm them down, what things they will be really good at, and what things they might struggle at.”
Fostering independent learning, participation and inclusion in education and beyond
By Dr Dorothy Howie, author of Teaching Students Thinking Skills and Strategies: A Framework for Cognitive Education in Inclusive Settings. The teaching of thinking has…
60 Social Situations and Discussion Starters to Help Teens on the Autism Spectrum Deal with Friendships, Feelings, Conflict and More
“I think parents are a key component to teens understanding the social puzzle. No one knows a child better than their parent and every family has its own set of values. If parents work together with their teens it will not only bring guidance to the teen but also insight to the parent on how their teen thinks. Parents can guide their teen to responses that are acceptable within their own family values.”
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…
What Teachers Need to Know about Asperger Syndrome – An Interview with Matt Winter and Clare Lawrence
“…I just could not believe how much information I had to read through to gain useful approaches for working with children in the education setting. I just knew that during my time as a classroom teacher I would never have had the luxury of completing this much reading for just one of my students and I became determined to distil down what I had learnt into a quick access guide for teachers.”
VIDEO: Red Balloon authors share passages from their new book, ‘Rising Above Bullying’
In these videos, authors Dr Carrie Herbert and Rosemary Hayes read from their new book, Rising Above Bullying: From Despair to Recovery, which tells the stories…
Dr Yvonne Yates on using Human Givens Therapy with Adolescents
“I’ve found Human Givens to be especially useful with children and adolescents because they generally crave interactions with others who give them their full attention, and are interested in what they have to say. They take well to setting their own goals, and identifying their personal resources, which helps them to address their areas of difficulty. They also enjoy working creatively to build up their skills, and meet their needs, which the approach allows for.”