Learning & the Brain Pocketbook

Eleanor Dommett, Ian Devonshire & Richard churches

Science is regularly providing new and interesting insights into the brain. While some of the latest neuroscientific research on how the brain learns supports what we already know about...

effective teaching and learning, new knowledge about learning, memory and the classroom environment can help teachers to become even more confident and effective in their work with children and learners. In Learning & the Brain Pocketbook, two neuroscientists and a leading education writer unpack material that will enable teachers to help students learn better. Using cartoons, diagrams, bullets, and other visual devices to make the content accessible and memorable, the book begins by identifying and exploding a few ‘neuro-myths’.

Learning & the Brain Pocketbook

LEGO-Based Therapy

Daniel B. LeGoff,Gina de la Cuesta, GW Krauss & Simon Baron-Cohen

This complete guide to LEGO-Based Therapy contains everything you need to know in order to set up and run a LEGO-Based Club for children with autism spectrum disorders...

or related social communication difficulties and anxiety conditions.

LEGO-Based Therapy

Let It Go

Rebekah Lipp & Craig Phillips

Emotions are energy in motion.

Let It Go encourages children to explore what emotions feel like in their body and find a unique way to release them.  Join Aroha and her friends as they navigate their way through four emotions: sadness, anger, shame and fear.

Let It Go

Let’s Fight It Together

Australian Communications & Media Authority (ACMA)

Developed by Childnet International and the Department for Children, Schools and Families in the UK, this is a short film based on real events addressing the issues related to cyberbullying.

It depicts the story of a teenager who becomes the target of bullying via the internet and his mobile phone. The film shows a number of ways in which cyberbullying can occur, who it involves, and how it can affect different people in the school community. The film has been adapted for Australian audiences and the supporting resources include Australian video footage and an Australian user guide. Provides teachers with practical advice to use in the classroom to address the issue of cyberbullying. It is a comprehensive resource that packages together a video, supporting teaching materials and links to online activities.

Let’s Fight It Together

Let’s Go Potty

Moira Butterfield

Fun lift-a-flaps and pull tabs inside.

Sam gets a very special present – his own potty!  After a few missteps and some funny moments, he soon gets to be an expert.  This story will help fill our child with confidence.  It’s fun lift-a-flaps and moving parts are a great way to add positive run to an important first learning experience.

Let’s Go Potty

Let’s Talk About Body Boundaries, Consent & Respect

Jayneen Sanders

A book to teach children about body ownership, respectful relationships, feelings and emotions, choices and recognising bullying behaviours.

Let’s Talk About Body Boundaries, Consent & Respect

Let’s Talk About Sex

Robbie Harris

This is an updated, 15th anniversary edition of the definitive book on kids' sexual health brings this trusted resource into the twenty-first century.

Now with a brand-new chapter focusing on safe internet use – one of parents’ key concerns – this universally acclaimed classic by Robie H. Harris and Michael Emberley is a cutting-edge resource for kids, parents, teachers, librarians, and anyone else who cares about the well-being of tweens and teens. Providing accurate and up-to-date answers to nearly every imaginable question, from conception and puberty to birth control and AIDS, it offers young people the information they need – now more than ever – to make responsible decisions and stay healthy. It includes an all-new chapter on internet safety. It is completely updated and thoroughly vetted by experts. It is the definitive book on kids’ sexual health.

Let’s Talk About Sex

Let’s Talk About Where Babies Come Fr

Robie H Harris & Michael Emberley

“An amazingly upbeat and caring book, it answer the many questions most children have about babies, bodies, love, sex, reproduction and families.  It is totally child-friendly and the perfect read-together book.  Try it for the best-ever depiction of the real meaning of ‘family'” – Penelope Leach, Ph. D.

Let’s Talk About Where Babies Come Fr

Living With Autism

Southern Moon Productions

Autism Spectrum Disorders affects one child in 100 and the number of children diagnosed in New Zealand is on the rise.

In this documentary, families in Southland and Otago tell their own stories about dealing with the diagnosis and treatment of autism. They talk about how they’ve coped, the impact on the family, and what they’ve learnt from their experiences. Early intervention, intensive therapy and parent involvement are promoted as keys to some of the successes.

Living With Autism

Living With Max

Chloe Maxwell

'It feels terrible for your son to want to hurt you so bad that you bleed, and to look into his beautiful eyes and see nothing but hatred. What mother could deal with that?

Not me, that’s for sure. I loved my son, but I was no longer sure whether I was the right mother for this job.’ Chloe Maxwell seemed to be living the dream: discovered at sixteen as a model, she went on to become a household name as a TV personality. Then she met rugby star Mat Rogers and a great romance was born. Inside, though, Chloe was fighting her own demons: her parents’ separation in her teens had led to a deep sense of insecurity. Then Mat’s father, football legend Steve Rogers, died after taking prescription drugs and alcohol. Chloe treated her wounds with an ‘alcohol Band-aid’ until the birth of Mat and Chloe’s son, Max, heralded a new beginning. But it soon became clear that Max was not like other boys: the few words he learned faded away, his rages transcended any regular toddler tantrums, and he seemed to exist in a bubble, cut off from everyone. Heartbreakingly honest and moving, LIVING WITH MAX is the story of how Chloe and her family learned to face the challenges of autism and release the little boy locked within.

Living With Max

Look Me In The Eye

John Elder Robison

Look Me In The Eye is the moving, darkly funny story of growing up with Asperger's at a time when the diagnosis simply didn't exist (John was diagnosed at the age of 40.)

A born storyteller, Robison takes you inside the head of a boy whom teachers and others regarded as ‘defective’, who could not avail himself of KISS’s endless supply of groupies, and who still has a peculiar aversion to using people’s given names (he calls his Wife ‘Unit Two’). He also provides a fascinating reverse angle on the younger brother he left at the mercy of their nutty parents – the boy who would later change his name to Augustin Burroughs and write the bestselling memoir .

Look Me In The Eye

Loud Hands

Julia Bascom

Loud Hands: Autistic People, Speaking is a collection of essays written by and for Autistic people.

Spanning from the dawn of the Neurodiversity movement to the blog posts of today, Loud Hands: Autistic People, Speaking catalogues the experiences and ethos of the Autistic community and preserves both diverse personal experiences and the community’s foundational documents together side by side.

Loud Hands