Pretending A Little Less- book extract
It’s Autism Awareness Month and each week we’ve shared a series of blog posts on books by, for, and about autistic adults. Pretending to be Normal: Living…
Tag: memoirs
Hearing Voices, Living Fully Launch Party
Claire Bien, Associate Director of Communications at The Connection, Inc. and trained facilitator at the Hearing Voices Network, shares her thoughts and a few fun…
Win a signed first edition of No Matter What!
This competition has now closed. Win a signed first edition of No Matter What! To celebrate our new reprint of this inspiring adoption memoir, we’re giving…
The realities of adoption – an extract from ‘No Matter What.’
In this extract from the inspirational adoption memoir, No Matter What, author Sally Donovan shares the reality of parenting children who have experienced abuse and…
What is “the Talk” and Why is it Important for Interracial Families?
What is “the Talk” and why is it important for interracial families? The authors of The Interracial Adoption Option explain, sharing their personal experiences as…
JKP authors Liane Holliday Willey and Jennifer Cook O’Toole win coveted GRASP award!
Congratulations to Liane Holliday Willey (pictured left) and Jennifer Cook O’Toole who have both been honoured by GRASP (the Global and Regional Asperger Syndrome Partnership)…
VIDEO: An insider’s perspective on what you can do to help a person with dementia – with JKP author Christine Bryden
“I think it’s really important to stay in communication with us, as human being to human being – because we are still human beings with a spirit. And it’s spirit to spirit that we can really stay in touch.”
Living with Dementia: A journey to the inner self – An Interview with Christine Bryden
“When I first started, there was no support for people with dementia, as it was assumed we lacked insight. Indeed the words of an Annual Report in 2000 of an Alzheimer’s Association spoke of us as being “mindless empty shells”. At first when I spoke up, people did not believe I had dementia because I could still speak. They said that even if I was showing the early signs, I was not a credible representative of people with dementia because of my level of function. Yet since then I have met so many others who have this diagnosis who are speaking out… We are receiving so much support and encouragement, and we are being listened to and respected. By treating us as experts in what it feels like to have a diagnosis of dementia, services and support are being much improved.”
JKP author Jan Greenman attends the Ambitious About Autism charity launch at the House of Lords, UK
By Jan Greenman, author of Life at the Edge and Beyond: Living with ADHD and Asperger Syndrome. Last year my son Luke spoke to author…
Interview: JKP author Georgina Derbyshire Stands Up for Autism
“Some things that our children say or do can be especially poignant in certain situations and, quite often, they can say things that are so truthful, we just wouldn’t dare say them ourselves! There shouldn’t be anything sad or embarrassing about situations like these. We should see the humour in it and not feel guilty to laugh out loud. I think it is important to embrace moments like these as we have enough of a hard time and laughing can help redress the balance. Laughter is very good for stress too, so there’s no excuse!”