Preparing a child with ASD for a move to another country
Heather Jones is the author of Talk to Me: Conversation Strategies for Parents of Children on the Autism Spectrum or Speech and Language Impairments – in this…
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Why one growing up talk is not enough…
Davida Hartman is a Senior Educational Psychologist who has been working with children and adolescents with Autism Spectrum Disorder for fifteen years. Author of the two new…
Thoughts behind ‘The Music of Being’
In The Music of Being, Alison Levinge explains the approaches of key child development theorists and explores how they apply to and inform the practice…
“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…
The Feelings Tree – helping children talk about emotions
The holidays are often filled with an assortment of powerful emotions, for both children and adults. This can be related to loss or upheaval in…
Browse our latest collection of new and bestselling titles on Working with Children and Families
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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…