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How to Teach Life Skills to Kids with Autism or Asperger's

the real world, people on the autism spectrum need the same kinds of day-to-day skills everyone else needs to be functional! It's true. No matter how high-functioning children with autism or Asperger's may be or may become, they function better as adults if they’ve had the chance to learn basic skills, from being on time to good personal hygiene. But many reach adulthood without those skills. Enter Jennifer McIlwee Myers, Aspie at Large. Coauthor of the groundbreaking book Asperger's and Girls, Jennifer's personal experience with Asperger's Syndrome and having a brother with autism makes her perspective doubly insightful.

Jennifer can show you how to:
Create opportunities for children to learn in natural settings and situations
Teach vital skills such as everyday domestic tasks, choosing appropriate attire, and being polite
Help individuals on the spectrum develop good habits that will help them be more fit and healthy
Improve time management skills such as punctuality and task-switching
And much more!

Jennifer's straightforward and humorous delivery will keep you eagerly turning the page for her next creative solution!

Asperger's in Pink

Julie Clark

Congratulations! It's a girl with Asperger’s! Join author and mom Julie Clark as she guides you through her family’s adventures raising a young child with Asperger’s Syndrome, a mild form of autism. Whether you have a boy or a girl with Asperger’s in your life, you’ll nod and smile as you turn each invaluable page of real-life challenges and solutions.</div><div> </div><div>On the way, you’ll be delighted and intrigued by candid commentary from her daughter Kristina, whose spirit and perseverance outweigh any obstacle she may face. Teeming with wisdom and wit, this book has much to offer parents as well as educators and professionals.</div><div> </div><div>Together, you'll explore:</div><div> </div> <ul type="«disc»" style="«margin-top: 0in;»"> <li>The Road to Diagnosis</li> <li>The Teacher Who “Gets It”</li> <li>Occupational Therapy and “Group”</li> <li>Tuning in to Social Signals</li> <li>Winning the Daily Battles</li> <li>Hope for the Future</li> <li>And more!</li> </ul>

Asperger's on the Job

Rudy Simone

Up to 85% of the Asperger's population are without full-time employment, though many have above-average intelligence. Rudy Simone, an adult with Asperger's Syndrome and an accomplished author, consultant, and musician, created this insightful resource to help employers, educators, and therapists accommodate this growing population, and to help people with Asperger’s find and keep gainful employment. Rudy's candid advice is based on her personal experiences and the experiences of over 50 adults with Asperger's from all over the world, in addition to their employers and numerous experts in the field. Detailed lists of what the employee can do and employers and advocates provide balanced guidelines for success, while Rudy's Interview Tips and Personal Job Map tools will help Aspergians, young or old, find their employment niche. There is more to a job than what the tasks are. From social blunders, to sensory issues, to bullying by coworkers, Simone presents solutions to difficult challenges. Readers will be enriched, enlightened, and ready to work together!

1001 Great Ideas for Teaching and Raising Children with Autism Spectrum Disorders

Ellen Notbohm

In a snappy, can-do format, 1001 Great Ideas for Teaching and Raising Children with Autism Spectrum Disorders offers page after page of try-it-now solutions that have worked for thousands of children grappling with social, sensory, behavioral, and self-care issues, plus many more.

The New Social Story Book, Revised and Expanded 10th Anniversary Edition

Carol Gray

Since the early 90s, Carol Gray's world-famous Social Stories have helped thousands of children with autism spectrum disorders. This 10th Anniversary edition of her best-selling book offers the ready-to-use stories that parents and educators have depended on for years, but now features over 25 additional Social Stories, groundbreaking new strategies for creating custom stories, and a modern design complete with full-color photos. Developed through years of experience, these strategically written stories explain social situations in a way children with autism understand, while teaching the social skills children need to be successful at home, at school, and in the community.

Asperger's and Girls

Temple Grandin

Winner of the Gold Award in the 2006 ForeWord Book of the Year competition, this groundbreaking book describes the unique challenges of women and girls with Asperger’s Syndrome. In it you’ll read candid stories written by the indomitable women who have lived them. You’ll also hear from experts who discuss whether Aspie girls are slipping under the radar, undiagnosed; why many AS women feel like a minority within a minority (outnumbered by men 4:1); practical solutions school systems can implement for girls; social tips for teenage girls, navigating puberty, the transition to work or university, and the importance of careers.

Helpful chapters include:
The Pattern of Abilities and Development of Girls with Asperger’s Syndrome
Asperger’s Syndrome in Women: A Different Set of Challenges?
Educating the Female Student with Asperger’s
Girl to Girl: Advice on Friendship, Bullying, and Fitting In
Preparing for Puberty and Beyond
The Launch: Negotiating the Transition from High School to the Great Beyond
Aspie Do’s and Don’ts: Dating, Relationships, and Marriage
Maternal Instincts in Asperger’ Syndrome
For Me, a Good Career Gave Life Meaning

Mental Health Ontologies

Janna Hastings

Mental health presents one of the defining public health challenges of our time. Proponents of different conceptions of what mental illness is wage war for the hearts and minds of patients, practitioners, policy-makers, and the public. Debate and fragmentation around the nature of the entities that feature in the mental health domain divide resources and reduce progress. The way mental health is publicly discussed in the media has tangible effects, in terms of stigma, access to healthcare and resources, and private expectations of recovery. This book explores in detail the sorts of statements that are made about mental health in the media and public reporting of scientific research, grounding them in the wider context of the theoretical frameworks, assumptions and metaphors that they draw from. The author shows how a holistic understanding of the way that different aspects of mental illness are interrelated can be developed from evidence-based interpretation of the latest research findings. She offers some ideas about corrective, integrative approaches to discussing mental health-related matters publicly that may reduce the opposition between conceptualisations while still aiming to reduce stigma, shame and blame. In particular, she emphasises that discourse in the media needs to be anchored to an overview of all the research results across the field and argues that this could be achieved using new technological infrastructures. The author provides an integrative account of what mental health is, together with an improved understanding of the factors driving the persistence of oppositional accounts in the public discourse. The book will be of benefit to researchers, practitioners and students in the domain of mental health.

Tracking Resources for Primary Health Care

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The global health community is broadly in agreement that achievement of the health-related Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) hinges upon both an escalation of the financial resources dedicated to primary health care (PHC) and a more effective use of those resources: more money, better spent. This book introduces and explicates the end-to-end resource tracking and management (RTM) framework, which includes five components that determine effective and efficient financing for PHC: resource mobilization, allocation, utilization, productivity, and targeting.In addition, this book compiles detailed results from the most recent RTM-based resource tracking efforts for PHC in selected countries. This is to demonstrate how the RTM framework can be used to bring a set of separate resource tracking efforts at different stages of flow of funds into a comprehensive process with an end-to-end 'storyline'. In order to build a functional PHC system that addresses access, quality, and equity issues, this book highlights the key (public) financing issues that researchers, technical advisors, and policy makers would need to address in addition to more resources.Contents: <ul><li>Introduction:<ul><li>From Resources to Beneficiaries: Introducing an End-to-End Resource Tracking and Management Framework and its Application for Primary Health Care Development in LMICs (Hong Wang, Daniel H Kress and Peter Berman)</li><li>Five Decades of Health Resource Tracking and Beyond (Nirmala Ravishankar, Ravi Rannan-Eliya, Hong Wang and Peter Berman)</li></ul></li><li>Resource Mobilization:<ul><li>Estimating Financing Needs Using Examples from LMICs (David Collins and Jean Kagubare)</li><li>Resource Mobilization for Health in Devolved Context: The Ethiopian Experience (Abebe Alebachew, Carlyn Mann, Workie Mitiku and Peter Berman)</li><li>How Much Do Countries Spend on Primary Care in the Americas? (Camilo Cid Pedraza, Claudia Pescetto, James Fitzgerald and Amalia del Riego)</li></ul></li><li>Resource Allocation:<ul><li>Resource Allocation in Ethiopia, Nigeria and India (David Collins, Peter Berman, Karima Saleh and Hong Wang)</li></ul></li><li>Resource Utilization:<ul><li> Resource Tracking for Primary Health Care in Selected States in Nigeria: Findings from a Prospective Public Expenditure Tracking Survey (Karima Saleh, Bernard Gauthier and Obert Pimhidzai)</li><li>Underutilization in the National Health Mission: A Story of Misaligned Public Financing and Health Financing Objectives in India (Rajesh Jha and Manjiri Bhawalkar)</li></ul></li><li>Resource Productivity:<ul><li>Measuring Technical Efficiency of Primary Health Care Providers: An Analysis from Ethiopia (Carlyn Mann and Peter Berman)</li><li>Productivity of Health Workers in Primary Healthcare Facilities in Nigeria: Why is the Average Caseload Estimated to be Low? (Yanfang Su, Daniel H Kress and Hong Wang)</li><li>Linkage Between Human and Financial Resources for Primary Health Care and the Activity Levels of Health Services: An Exploratory Study from Uttar Pradesh, India (Manjiri Bhawalkar, Rajesh Jha and Diana Bowser)</li><li>Productivity Analysis Using Actual and Normative Cost Data (David Collins and Jean Kagubare)</li></ul></li><li>Resource Targeting:<ul><li>Are Health Resources Targeting the Poor Effectively in a Low-Income Context? Evidence from Ethiopia (Girmaye D Dinsa, Peter Berman and Carlyn Mann)</li></ul></li><li>Conclusion:<ul><li>An Application of the RTM Framework to Understand Primary Health Care in Nigeria (Daniel H Kress, Hong Wang and Yanfang Su)</li><li>Using Resource Tracking and Management Framework for Health to Strengthen Health Financing Capacity: Experience from India (Rajesh Jha and Manjiri Bhawalkar)</li><li>Applying the Resource Tracking and Management Framework to Improve Ethiopia's Primary Health Care System (Carlyn Mann, Peter Berman, Abebe Alebachew and Girmaye Dinsa)</li></ul></li></ul> Readership: Health economists as well as students and researchers who want to work in this area for their career development and to improve the performance of primary health care worldwide.Health Financing;Public Financial Management;Resource Tracking;Health Economics;Health Policy0Key Features:<ul><li>Introduce a comprehensive end-to-end resource tracking and management (RTM) framework</li><li>Bring both quantitative and qualitative RTM information to guide evidence-based policy development and implementation</li><li>Focus on primary health care, the cornerstone of health care system and pathways to universal health coverage (UHC)</li></ul>

Your Spine, Your Yoga

Bernie Clark

Your Spine, Your Yoga is arguably the first book that looks at the spine from both the Western anatomical/biomechanical point of view and the modern yoga perspective. It is filled with detail, discussion, illustrations, and practical advice for spines of all types. This emphasis on variety is welcome and necessary: no two spines are exactly alike, and no two people have the same biology and biography. What your spine is able to do may be vastly different from what other yoga students’ or teachers’ spines can do. The human spine is unique in its structure and function. Primarily, it provides stability through the core of our body, allowing forces to be transmitted from the upper body (arms and shoulders) to the lower body (pelvis and legs) and vice versa. Secondarily, the spine allows tremendous range of movement. Unfortunately, in modern yoga practice we find the primacy of these two functions reversed, with flexibility prized over stability. This focus on spinal mobility comes at a grave cost to many students. Stability is lost, and when that happens, dysfunction and pain often follow. Just as all tissues and areas of the body need a healthy amount of stress to regain and maintain optimal health, so too our spine needs the appropriate levels of stress to remain functional throughout our lives. How we choose to exercise the spine makes a difference, though. Knowing the way the spine is built, specifically, how your spine is built, will allow you to tailor your exercises wisely to match your goals. Your Spine, Your Yoga is the second book in the Your Body, Your Yoga series and focuses on the axial body―the core, from the sacral complex, which includes the pelvis, sacrum, and sacroiliac joint, through the lumbar and thoracic segments of the spine, to the cervical complex, which includes the neck and head. The structural components of each segment are examined: from the bones, to the joints, ligaments, fascia, tendons, muscles, and even the neurological and blood systems. The range and implications of human variations are presented, as well as the ways these variations may affect individual yoga practices. The sources of restrictions to movement are investigated through answering the question “What Stops Me?” The answers presented run through a spectrum, beginning with various types of tensile resistance to three kinds of compressive resistance. Whether the reader is a novice to yoga, anatomy, or both, or a seasoned practitioner with an in-depth knowledge in these fields, this book will be valuable. For the novice, there are easily understood illustrations and photographs, as well as sidebars highlighting the most important topics. For the anatomy geek, other sidebars focus on the complexity of the topic, with hundreds of references provided for further investigation. For the yoga teacher, sidebars suggest how to bring this knowledge into the classroom. Your Spine, Your Yoga can be used as a resource when specific questions arise, as a textbook to be studied in detail, or as a fascinating coffee-table book to be browsed at leisure for topics of current interest.

Ultimate Intimacy

Carolyn DeLucia, MD FACOG

For women who want the medical knowledge of Masters and Johnson and the passion of 50 Shades of Grey, Ultimate Intimacy helps them take back control of their sex life. As a board certified OBGYN and medical director of VSPOT Medispa and ViVa Rejuvenation Center, Carolyn DeLucia, MD FACOG has been working tirelessly to spread the word about the new treatments available to patients and other doctors worldwide. She wants to help women have the best intimate relationships possible, bringing the magic back to their sex life. In Ultimate Intimacy , women will: Learn about what is normal and what is not to give them better insight into their body. Understand the simple and complex procedures that can address a wide range of intimate health issues. Know how to choose the right treatment for themselves, so they can bring the best options to their doctor. Become more empowered, confident, and able to enjoy their inner goddess!