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Educating Children with Acquired Brain Injury is an authoritative resource book on the effects of brain injury on young people and how educators can understand and support their needs. This new edition has been updated to reflect changes to legislation and practice relating to special educational needs and will enable you to maximise the learning opportunities for young people with acquired brain injury (ABI). Considering key areas in special educational needs such as communication, interaction, cognition, sensory and physical needs, the book provides information on the multifaceted needs of children and young people with ABI and how these needs can be met.

This book will help you to:

• Understand the difficulties that young people with ABI experience

• Support these students by using appropriate strategies to help their learning

• Understand and address the social and emotional difficulties experienced by these students

• Work in partnership with families and other professionals

• Understand information from other professionals by reference to a glossary of terms

• Access further useful information from relevant resources and organisations

Written for SENCOs, teachers, teaching assistants, educational psychologists and other education professionals across all settings, Educating Children with Acquired Brain Injury is full of useful information and advice for parents and other family members, clinical and behavioural psychologists, therapists and support workers involved with children and young people with ABI.

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All children need to feel secure in their relationships with the adults who look after them. Where children have not experienced the kind of sensitive parenting that promotes security and resilience, they will find it difficult to trust and will struggle with managing their feelings and behaviour. What strategies can be used to provide sensitive caregiving that develops secure close relationships? How can children be helped to recover from earlier harmful experiences and feel competent to face future challenges successfully and fulfil their potential? What can help children develop resilience, self-esteem and the capacity to reflect on their feelings and have a sense of hope for the future? Secure Base is a model of caregiving in fostering and adoption that is based on theories of attachment and resilience while also drawing on child placement research. It provides a valuable framework and a strengths-based approach for making sense of children s needs and behaviours and sets out the dimensions of caregiving that can support children to thrive and to fulfil their potential. This practical guide to the Secure Base is designed to support social workers and other professionals involved in all aspects of fostering and adoption practice, from recruitment, assessment and preparation to matching and long-term support for placements through to adulthood. It will enable workers to effectively promote attachment and resilience in foster care.

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If your teen wants to have a highly successful career when they grow up but have no idea where to get started this guide is for them! Keep reading if you want to know how your teen could benefit from this book as well!

???? The Perfect Gift for Teen Boys and Girls From Ages 12-19 Years Old ????

Is your teenager scared of making a bad career choice that they will deeply regret as an adult?

Is the constant worry about their future already giving them a headache?

Are you looking for a guide that would step-by-step walk your teen through finding the right career path so that they could sleep nights well knowing that they’ve made the right decision?

If so, then this book is for you.

Choosing the right career path is one of the biggest decisions teens will have to make early on in life. And you don’t want them to get that wrong, do you?

Even though they might currently feel lost, you see, making the right career choice doesn’t have to be difficult.

Even if you’ve already spent months and months trying to find the right one…

The truth is, it’s much simpler than you think.

With over 10 years of experience in the education and parenting fields, Emily Carter provides your teen with a step-by-step blueprint for finding their dream job and turning that into a highly successful and profitable career without having to spend endless nights just scratching their head and stressing over what they’re going to do with their life.

Here’s just a fraction of what you will discover in Career Planning for Teens:

• An incredibly effective self-assessment that will finally reveal your teen’s true self (And their hidden talents!) – Page 10
• A Simple step-by-step process to finding the profession that suits your teen the best – Page 24
• A 3-step process to developing your skillset to become the best candidate on the job market – Page 36
• How and where to get help when your teen needs it the most – Page 55
• Planning your teen’s education the RIGHT way so that you neither waste time nor money – Page 65
• How to gain highly-valued practical experience already as a teen even if they cannot get a job – Page 79
• Finally, land the dream job and turn that into a highly successful career – Page 123
• And much, much more…

And as a COMPLEMENTARY BONUS, you will receive THREE EBOOKS:

1. ”Unleashing Your Potential”: A Teenager’s Guide to Developing a Growth Mindset and Opening Your Path to Success
2. ”The Essential Summer Job Handbook”: The Teen’s Guide to a Fun and Profitable Summer
3. ”Raising Teens With Confidence”: 10 Exclusive Blog Posts on Parenting Teens

Just imagine how your teenager will feel once they get the burden of not knowing what to do with their life off their shoulders, and how much less stressed and overwhelmed they’ll become.

So even if your teen has already made the wrong decision regarding their career, you can still fix it, get on the right track and start directing them toward their dream life with the help of Career Planning for Teens.

If you want your teen to make the RIGHT career choice and turn that into a success, scroll up and click the “Add to Cart” button to order your copy now!

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Vous cherchez à aider votre enfant à améliorer ses capacités d’apprentissage ? Et si le corps était une clé ? L’approche Brain Gym est basée sur l’apprentissage par le mouvement et libère les tensions du corps. En effectuant certains mouvements, il est possible de stimuler nos compétences afin d’améliorer l’écoute, la lecture, l’écriture, la concentration, la logique des maths, l’organisation, la créativité et la confiance en soi. En faisant du Brain Gym, nous aidons nos neurones à travailler ! Un zoom sur le cerveau pour mieux comprendre son fonctionnement et accompagner votre enfant dans ses apprentissages. Des exercices ludiques et facilement réalisables afin de l’aider à atteindre ses objectifs. Des enchaînements de mouvements pour accroître les potentiels de votre enfant : l’écoute attentive, la créativité, la communication… Aidez votre enfant à se connaître, à prendre confiance en lui et à s’épanouir !

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Babies learn fastest when sign language is included in a variety of daily routine and fun activities. Illustrated with clear, brightly coloured photographs, these flash cards are the perfect tool for signing about the fun things that babies get excited about, such as toys, animals and everyday objects. The deck consists mostly of nouns, since these are the concepts conveyed most effectively by a flash card.

This refreshed edition of Monta Briant’s Baby Sign Language Basics Flash Cards – a perfect companion to her book of the same name, also recently repackaged with new visuals – gives parents and caregivers a fun, easy-to-use tool for making sign language enjoyable and easy to learn.

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There are over 55,000 posts about #MentalHealth on TikTok, viewed by more than 188 million users. This shows that mental health awareness is becoming a hot topic for many young people.

With all of this content flooding the internet, it is becoming easier for teens to find peers who are faced with similar psychological issues. But more often than not, they are still left confused about how to respond to these challenges in positive ways.
What seems to be lacking isn’t education about stress or anxiety, but rather effective cognitive, emotional, and behavioral skills to confront obstacles head on. Above and beyond the guidance offered by friends, parents, and schoolteachers, teens can also benefit from learning how to improve their reactions to stressful situations.
Beyond Coping Skills: The Ultimate Teens’ Workbook is an easy-to-use self-directed therapy workbook that can help teenagers aged 13–19 practice core CBT and DBT skills from the comfort of their own bedrooms.
Yes, that’s right! In this digital age, where there is an app for virtually everything, and information is available at the touch of a button, therapy has become more affordable and accessible online!
Several studies have proven the success of both CBT and DBT in managing stress, regulating strong emotions, and modifying behaviors—and the best part is that the same skills taught in a counseling room can be practiced at home too!
Over the course of 5 chapters, 28 journal prompts, and 50 exercises, teens can look forward to learning:

• The power of the pause when sensing triggers and managing impulsive urges.
• How to identify and detach from unwanted thoughts and emotions.
• Strategies on how to define, brainstorm, and implement solutions for everyday life problems.
• How to develop self-respect through boundary setting and positive conflict resolution.

The purpose of this workbook is to mentally prepare teens for unexpected and ongoing stressful situations they may face at home or at school. Through a powerful combination of CBT and DBT skills, they will be able to walk away with knowledge on how to reflect, reframe, and readjust their thoughts and emotions to achieve desired goals.
Show support for your child’s #MentalHealth by grabbing your copy of Beyond Coping Skills: The Ultimate Teens’ Workbook, today!

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On the surface, you see a highly sensitive and irritable teenager. But look closer, and you will notice a kid showing signs of emotional distress.

Research shows that modern teenagers—our beloved Gen Zers—experience similar stress levels as adults. However, unlike adults who have been exposed to various coping mechanisms, young people are often confused about ways to cope with stress.
Now more than ever, parents are stepping up and teaching their teens how to psychologically equip themselves for modern challenges. After all, we can’t leave it up to school teachers or social media influencers to prepare our children for the world!
But as much as teens need the support, they desire to work through their problems, at their own pace, in their own time.
The combination of psychotherapy and self-directed learning is an effective way for teenagers to learn about healthy coping strategies, in their own time, in the comfort of their bedrooms.
Without any external pressure, teens are able to study and practice various mind and body techniques and create their own toolkits of useful skills to manage stress and anxiety.
The Teens’ Workbook to Self-Regulate is a valuable resource that introduces modern teenagers to Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), a form of psychotherapy created to develop emotional regulation and behavioral modification skills.
The workbook is broken down into two parts: cognitive techniques and behavioral techniques, and provides teens with exercises that reinforce the following skills:

• Understanding the impact of negative thinking in shaping beliefs, motivations, and worldviews.
• Learning how to identify, describe, and manage strong emotions without hurting themselves or others.
• Finding healthy alternative strategies to cope with stress and anxiety without succumbing to urges.
• Knowing how and when to stop, breathe, and return to a normal state when feeling overwhelmed.

These skills—and many more—are taught over 42 age-appropriate exercises, which are designed to help teens between the ages of 13 and 19 reflect on their personal life experiences and examine their own thoughts and behaviors.
The workbook will not only serve as a companion for your child during stressful life events but will also help them prepare for future challenges that require mental and emotional resilience.
So, what are you still waiting for? Make an investment in your teen’s mental health, and get yourself a copy of The Teens’ Workbook to Self-Regulate, today!

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Challenges with emotional regulation and rejection sensitivity can disproportionately affect children and teens with ADHD, impacting on their development at school and their relationship with their peers.

Developed for children and young people who experience difficulties with emotional regulation, SEND specialist Sonia Ali, shares a mentoring Intervention programme to support a child or young person with this issue at school or at home. Covering concepts like the fight, flight or freeze response and the ‘Window of Tolerance’, managing anger outbursts and overwhelm or navigating conflict with peers, this easily digestible book will help educators and carers support children and teens to develop core emotional literacy skills in an enjoyable way!

This accessible, step-by-step guide is packed with activities, including role-play situations, discussion-based statements, quizzes and more. The programme can be followed sequentially or ‘dipped into’ to support a child with a particular issue when relevant.

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Capturing the warmth and fun of forming close relationships with children, this book offers simple advice to parents of children who find it difficult to attach and bond – whether following adoption, divorce or other difficult experiences. Attachment therapist Deborah D. Gray describes how to use the latest thinking on attachment in your daily parenting. She reveals sensory techniques which have proven to help children bond – straightforward activities like keeping close eye contact or stroking a child’s feet or cheeks – and explains why routines like mealtimes and play time are so important in helping children to attach. The book offers positive ideas for responding to immediate crises like difficult behaviour and meltdowns, but importantly also offers longer-term strategies to help children to develop the skills they need to cope as they grow up – the ability to plan, concentrate and be in control of their emotions. Offering fascinating insights into how children who struggle to attach can be helped, this book is full of easy-to-use ideas which will help you to enjoy the many pleasures of bonding and attaching with your child.

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Ours is a worried world. Children are growing up with anxiety, uncertainty and low self-esteem. Many parents feel helpless as their happy, easy-going children are overwhelmed by a tsunami of pressure and anxiety. How can we enable them to flourish in the infamously ‘unprecedented’ times? In A Mind of Their Own, Katharine Hill, UK Director of Care for the Family, throws us a lifeline. Backed by solid, up-to-the minute research and grounded in real life experience, she tackles everything from body confidence, dealing with disappointment to strong emotions, and gives steps to take when challenges come. Packed with encouragement and creative activities it will help families form good practices like listening well, setting consistent boundaries and establishing a growth mindset. Celebrating and affirming the family, A Mind of Their Own equips parents to build resilience and care well for their children’s mental wellbeing, from toddlerhood to teenage years.

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* Is your child halfway through first grade and still unable to read?
* Is your preschooler bored with coloring and ready for reading?
* Are you worried that your child will become lost in overcrowded classrooms?
* Did you know that early readers hold an advantage over their peers throughout school?
* Do you want to help your child read, but are afraid you’ll do something wrong?

SRAs DISTAR® is the most successful beginning reading program available to schools across the country. Research has proven that children taught by the DISTAR® method outperform their peers who receive instruction from other programs. Now for the first time, this program has been adapted for parent and child to use at home. Teach Your Child to Read in 100 Easy Lessons is a complete, step-by-step program that shows patents simply and clearly how to teach their children to read.

Twenty minutes a day is all you need, and within 100 teaching days your child will be reading on a solid second-grade reading level. It’s a sensible, easy-to-follow, and enjoyable way to help your child gain the essential skills of reading. Everything you need is here — no paste, no scissors, no flash cards, no complicated directions — just you and your child learning together. One hundred lessons, fully illustrated and color-coded for clarity, give your child the basic and more advanced skills needed to become a good reader.

Teach Your Child to Read in 100 Easy Lessons will bring you and your child closer together, while giving your child the reading skills needed now, for a better chance at tomorrow.

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