Collection: NADO Collection

The authors describe how to engage people with intellectual disabilities in meaningful activity as active participants, & look at the communication style needed to foster successful enabling relationships between carers & the people they are supporting.

Adaptive play refers to play that has been altered in form, complexity, or intent to serve the needs of children with disabilites. This is a textbook intended for professionals and parents of children with a variety of disabilites

This book is a reassuring, authoritative reference for you and your family, providing sound advice and immediate answers to your most pressing questions. Includes questionnaires and checklists to help you get the most out of your child's evaluation

This book explains ADHD in a compassionate way and explodes many of the myths surrounding the condition. Helpful hints are provided for classroom teachers. Includes real-life stories of teenagers with ADHD.

Featuring photographs of cats, this book aims to bring to life familiar characteristics such as sensitive hearing, scampering at first sign of being stroked, and particular eating habits. Evokes difficulties and joys of raising a child who is different.

Takes an inspiring, refreshing approach to understanding Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD), using images and ideas from the canine world to explore a variety of traits that will be instantly recognisable to those ffamiliar with ADHD.

Helps sort through all the interconnected childhood developmental, neurobiological and psychological disorders and serve as a roadmap to help start the families journey for correct diagnoses, effective treatment and better understanding.

Anger & aggression are prevalent problems among people with developmental disabilities, resulting in them being admitted to institutions & taking anti-psychotic medication. This text presents a manual-guided cognitive-behavioural anger treatment protocol

Offers a framework for understanding the strengths and challenges, passions and peeves of children with Asperger Syndrome. Examples and stories illustrate how suggestions can be implemented in the real world.

The Autism Puzzle is the first book to address the compelling evidence that it is the pairing of environmental exposures with genetic susceptibilities that may be driving the alarming rise in autism in recent years

This book provides a practical reference for carers & those with a syndrome or inherited disorder. It describes the disorders & problems of both children & adults, considers the day-to-day management of conditions & is written in non-technical language

Covering the best practices for raising and caring for children with Down syndrome through age five, this book is invaluable to new parents who have welcomed a baby with Down syndrome into their lives

Offers practical strategies to help children and teenagers deal with bullies, and to resolve conflict without tears

Taking examples from all media and genres, this comprehensive book, now available in paperback, explores this emotionally powerful and geographically pervasive style, tracing its development from Rome, centre of papal and princely power.

Depression has been described as the common cold of the psyche. At any time, one in five adults is feeling down; one in ten shows more significant signs of depression

Every parent is filled with dreams, fears, hopes, and questions when preparing a child for school--and when the child has a disability, this exciting time can seem over-whelming. This easy-to-read guidebook will be a trusted companion for parents