Can I tell you about Asperger Syndrome?

Jude Welton

A guide for friends and family

Meet Adam – a young boy with Asperger Syndrome.  Adam invites young readers to learn about AS from his perspective.  He helps children understand the difficulties faced by a child with AS – he tells them what AS is, what it feels like to have AS and how they can help children with AS by understanding their differences and appreciating their many talents.  This illustrated book is ideally suited for children aged between 7 and 15 years of age and also serves as an excellent starting point for family and classroom discussions.

Can I tell you about Asperger Syndrome?

Can I Tell You About Autism?

Jude Welton

Meet Tom - a young boy with autism. Tom invites readers to learn about autism from his perspective, helping them to understand what it is...

and explaining the challenges he faces with issues such as social communication, sensory overload and changes in his routine. Tom tells readers about all the ways he can be helped and supported by those around him. This illustrated book is ideally suited for readers aged 7 and upwards, and will be an excellent way to increase understanding about autism, in the classroom or at home. It also includes clear, useful information for parents and professionals.

Can I Tell You About Autism?

Can I Tell You About Depression?

Christopher Dowrick and Susan martin

Can I Tell You About Series. Meet Julie - a woman who suffers from periods of depression.

Julie and her family help readers to understand what depression is, what it is like to feel depressed and how it can affect their family life. She explains how coping with depression can sometimes be difficult but support and help are available, and there are things she can do that can help relieve the feelings of depression.
This illustrated book is an ideal introduction to depression – a condition that can be particularly difficult for children to understand. It is suitable for readers aged 7 upwards and shows family, friends and anyone who knows someone affected by depression how they can offer support.

Can I Tell You About Depression?

Can I Tell You About Dyslexia?

Alan M. Hultiquist

Meet Zoe - a young girl with dyslexia. Zoe invites readers to learn about dyslexia from her perspective.

She helps readers to understand the challenges faced by a child with dyslexia, explaining what dyslexia is and how it affects her at home and at school. Zoe describes exactly why she finds reading, writing and words so difficult, and how other people can help her in these areas. This illustrated book is ideally suited for readers aged 7 and upwards, and will be an excellent way to start a discussion about dyslexia, in the classroom or at home. The “Can I tell you about . . . ” series offers simple introductions to a range of limiting conditions. Friendly characters invite readers to learn about their experiences of living with a particular condition and how they would like to be helped and supported. These books serve as excellent starting points for family and classroom discussions.

Can I Tell You About Dyslexia?

Can I Tell You About Dyspraxia?

Maureen Boon

Part of the Can I Tell You About Series. Meet Marco - a boy with dyspraxia, which is sometimes called Developmental Co-ordination Disorder (DCD).

Marco invites readers to learn about dyspraxia from his perspective, helping them to understand what it is and what it feels like when he sometimes struggles to control his movement and co-ordination. He talks about the challenges of having dyspraxia and lets readers know how he can be helped and supported. This illustrated book will be an ideal introduction for young people, aged 7 upwards, as well as parents, friends, teachers and professionals working with children with dyspraxia. It is also an excellent starting point for family and classroom discussions.

Can I Tell You About Dyspraxia?

Can I Tell You About Epilepsy?

Kate Lambert

Meet Ellie - a young girl with epilepsy. Ellie invites readers to learn about epilepsy from her perspective.

She introduces us to some friends who help present the varying forms of epilepsy. Ellie and her friends help children to understand the obstacles that they face by telling them what it feels like to have epilepsy, how it affects them physically and emotionally, how epilepsy can be treated and how the condition is often misunderstood by people who do not know the facts. This illustrated book is full of useful information and will be an ideal introduction for children from the age of 7. It will also help parents, friends, and professionals to make sense of the condition in its varying forms and will be an excellent starting point for family and classroom discussions.

Can I Tell You About Epilepsy?

Can I Tell You About OCD?

Amita Jassi

Katie invites readers to learn about OCD from her perspective, helping them to understand what it is and how her obsessions and compulsions affect her daily life.

This is an ideal, illustrated introduction to OCD for both young people and older readers. It shows family, friends and teachers how they can support someone with the condition.

Can I Tell You About OCD?

Can I tell you about Pathological Demand Avoidance syndrome?

Ruth Fidler & Phil Christie

A guide for friends, family and professionals.

Meet Issy – an 11-year-old girl with Pathological Demand Avoidance syndrome (PDA), a condition on the autism spectrum.  Issy invites readers to learn about PDA from her perspective, helping them to understand how simple, everyday demands can cause her great anxiety and stress.

This illustrated book is for readers aged 7 and upwards, and is an excellent way to increase understanding about PDA in the classroom or at home.  It also includes practical tips and recommended resources for parents and professionals.

 

Can I tell you about Pathological Demand Avoidance syndrome?

Can you see me?

Libby Scott and Rebecca Westcott

Tally is autistic, but she hides it as much as she can. She knows how uncomfortable people feel around her - they don't understand autism. They don't understand her.

By masking her autism, Tally is hiding her real self. But when your real self is fierce and wonderful, it can’t stay hidden for ever.
With moving diary entries written by 11 year old Libby Scott, based on her own experience of autism, can you see me? is an authentic, powerful and truly memorable collaboration with esteemed author Rebecca Westcott that will change the way you think about autism.

Can you see me?

Carers’ Stories of Hope & Recovery

Beyond Blue

For people who care for a friend or family member with depression, anxiety or a related disorder.

Carers’ Stories of Hope & Recovery

Carly’s Voice

Arthur Fleischmann

At the age of two, Carly Fleischmann was diagnosed with severe autism and an oral motor condition that prevented her from speaking.

Doctors predicted that she would never intellectually develop beyond the abilities of a small child. Carly remained largely unreachable through the years. Then, at the age of ten, she had a breakthrough. While working with her devoted therapists, Carly reached over to their laptop and typed “HELP TEETH HURT”, much to everyone’s astonishment. Although Carly still struggles with all the symptoms of autism, she now has regular, witty, and profound conversations on the computer with her family and her many thousands of supporters online. In “Carly’s Voice, “her father, Arthur Fleischmann, blends Carly’s own words with his story of getting to know his remarkable daughter. One of the first books to explore firsthand the challenges of living with autism, it brings readers inside a once-secret world and in the company of an inspiring young woman who has found her voice and her mission.

Carly’s Voice

CAT-Kit

Professor Tony Attwood, Dr Kirsten Callesen & Dr Annette Moller Neilson

The Cognitive Affective Training (CAT) kit is a program that consists of visual, interactive, and customizable communication elements for children and young adults.

It is designed to help students become aware of how their thoughts, feelings and actions all interact and, in the process of using the various visual components, they share their insights with others. It is an easy and effective way to work with neurotypical children and young adults as well as with people with developmental disabilities.

CAT-Kit