Working with People with Learning Disabilities about Relationships and Sexuality: Good Practice Guidance for Staff
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Working with people with learning disabilities about relationships and sexuality will raise questions and sometimes dilemmas, as you seek to maintain an appropriate balance between securing people’s rights and protecting them from abuse and exploitation.
What you asked about your rights, relationships and sex?
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This leaflet provides information for people with learning disabilities about what support you can get and the rules staff must follow when helping you with these things.
Exploring Bullying with Adults with Autism and Asperger Syndrome: A Photocopiable Workbook
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Bullying is a serious and pervasive issue for people with autism and Asperger Syndrome. This photocopiable workbook encourages adults who have been involved with bullying - as either victims or perpetrators - to explore what bullying is, the effects it can have and how it can be tackled successfully.
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August 2010, 279.4mm x 216mm / 11in x 8.5in, 320pp
ISBN: 978-1-84905-035-7, BIC 2: JNHB JKSN2 JNS
Asperger Syndrome and Alcohol exposes the unexplored problem of people with Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASDs) using alcohol as a coping mechanism to deal with everyday life. Alcohol can relieve the anxiety of social situations and make those with ASDs feel as though they can fit in. Ultimately, however, reliance on alcohol can lead the user down a path of self-destruction and exacerbate existing problems.
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2008, 234mm x 156mm / 9.25in x 6in, 144pp
ISBN: 978-1-84310-609-8, BIC 2: VFJD JFFH (ISBN 978-1-84310-609-8)
Islands of Genius: The Bountiful Mind of the Autistic, Acquired, and Sudden Savant
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Savant syndrome is a rare condition in which individuals with developmental disorders, including autism spectrum disorders, have one or more areas of expertise, ability, or brilliance - "islands of genius" - that exist in contrast with their overall limitations. In this book, Dr. Darold Treffert looks at what we know about this remarkable condition, and at new discoveries that raise interesting questions about the hidden brain potential within us all.
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(ISBN ISBN: 978-1-84905-810-0, BIC 2: JM MMJ JMR )
I am Special: Introducing Children and Young People to their Autistic Spectrum Disorder
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I am Special is a workbook developed by Peter Vermeulen and already used extensively with young people with autism spectrum disorder. The workbook is designed for a child to work through with an adult - parent, teacher or other professional. Unlike other books, its content and layout are devised especially for children who read, think and process information differently.
Autism and Pervasive Developmental Disorders:2nd Ed
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Featuring contributions from leading authorities in the clinical and social sciences, this thoroughly revised and updated new edition reflects the most recent progress in the understanding of autism and related conditions, and offers an international perspective on the present state of the discipline. Chapters cover current approaches to definition and diagnosis; prevalence and planning for service delivery; cognitive, genetic, and neurobiological features; and pathophysiological mechanisms. There is a new chapter covering communication issues. Interventions reviewed include the pharmacological, behavioral, and educational, and a thoughtful final chapter addresses the nature of the fundamental social disturbance that characterizes autism.
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Volkmar, F. , and Lord, C. (1998). Diagnosis and definition of autism and other pervasive developmental disorders, in FR Volkmar (Ed) Autism and pervasive developmental disorders, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
(ISBN 13: 9780521549578)
Handbook of Autism and Pervasive Developmental Disorders Volume 2 Assessment, Interventions, and Policy 3rd Ed
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Since its first edition, this handbook has become the most influential reference work in the field of autism and related conditions. Now expanded to two volumes, this comprehensive work provides a thorough review of these disorders, drawing on findings and clinical experience from a number of related disciplines.
The Second Edition covers all current treatment models, and is updated to include new methods for screening and assessment, genetic components, and school-based interventions. All chapters have been thoroughly updated; two-thirds of chapters are entirely new to this edition. VolumeTwo includes the newest, most authoritative information available on assessment, interventions, and policy ramifications surrounding pervasive developmental disorders.
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Handbook of Autism and Pervasive Developmental Disorders, Two Volume Set, 3rd Edition
by Fred R. Volkmar (Editor), Rhea Paul (Editor), Ami Klin (Editor), Donald J. Cohen (Editor)
(ISBN 978-0-471-71697-6)
