A Very Capable Life
The Autobiography of Zarah Petri
- Copyright year: 2009
My Child Has Autism, Now What?
10 Steps to Get You Started
This concise, no-nonsense book will enable parents to regain control of the situation and take the first practical steps towards a calm and happy life with their newly-diagnosed child.
- Copyright year: 2011
A Life in Balance?
Reopening the Family-Work Debate
This volume brings together feminist scholars from multiple disciplines to challenge the notion that work and family are two distinct areas of life in need of balance.
- Copyright year: 2011
Art in Action
Expressive Arts Therapy and Social Change
The field of expressive arts is closely tied to the work of therapeutic change. As well as being beneficial for the individual or small group, expressive arts therapy has the potential for a much wider impact, to inspire social action and bring about social change.
- Copyright year: 2011
Transforming Law's Family
The Legal Recognition of Planned Lesbian Motherhood
Drawing on the rarely heard voices of Canada’s lesbian mothers, Transforming Law’s Family explores the legal dimensions of planned lesbian parenthood and proposes avenues for legal change.
- Copyright year: 2011
Age, Gender, and Work
Small Information Technology Firms in the New Economy
A unique examination of how age and gender inform the workplace and its culture in the new knowledge-based economy.
- Copyright year: 2011
Child and Youth Care
Critical Perspectives on Pedagogy, Practice, and Policy
This book reconceptualizes child and youth care by bringing critical and postmodern perspectives to bear on practices, programs, and policies.
- Copyright year: 2011
Autism All-Stars
How We Use Our Autism and Asperger Traits to Shine in Life
Writers from around the world - including Temple Grandin, Donna Williams, Deborah Lipsky, and Wendy Lawson -- share their experiences of creating a successful life on the autism spectrum.
- Copyright year: 2011
Nurturing Adoptions
Creating Resilience after Neglect and Trauma
Provides professionals with the knowledge they need on neglect and trauma and how to help adoptive families.
- Copyright year: 2012
Gardening for Children with Autism Spectrum Disorders and Special Educational Needs
Engaging with Nature to Combat Anxiety, Promote Sensory Integration and Build Social Skills
A practical introduction to using gardening with children with Autism Spectrum Disorders and special needs to teach valuable social, emotional and sensory skills.
- Copyright year: 2012
Starving the Anger Gremlin
A Cognitive Behavioural Therapy Workbook on Anger Management for Young People
This imaginative workbook shows young people how to starve their anger gremlin and control their anger effectively.
- Copyright year: 2012
Reimagining Intervention in Young Lives
Work, Social Assistance, and Marginalization
Documents the experience of poverty, unemployment, homelessness, and intervention, and their effects on young people’s lives and social networks.
- Copyright year: 2012
Academic Careers and the Gender Gap
An analysis of the institutional, academic, family, and personal contributors to the academic gender gap in liberal-state universities.
- Copyright year: 2012
Father Involvement in Canada
Diversity, Renewal, and Transformation
Exploring the diverse roles fathers play in their children’s lives, Father Involvement in Canada provides a timely synopsis of current knowledge while challenging many long-held assumptions about fatherhood.
- Copyright year: 2012
Inside Asperger's Looking Out
From the best-selling author of All Cats Have Asperger Syndrome and All Dogs Have ADHD, this is the perfect introduction to how Aspies see and experience the world, told from their own perspective, for the people in their lives.
- Copyright year: 2012
Polygamy’s Rights and Wrongs
Perspectives on Harm, Family, and Law
Eleven diverse scholars interrogate the belief that polygamy is inherently harmful, questioning the ways in which society assigns value to family and intimacy, and its right to do so.
- Copyright year: 2014
Acquired Tastes
Why Families Eat the Way They Do
Interviews with Canadian families reveal that our daily food choices reflect individual tastes and preferences but also our economic, social, and geographical place in the world.
- Copyright year: 2014
What to Feed an Asperger?
How to go from three foods to three hundred with love, patience and a little sleight of hand
- Copyright year: 2015
What Color is Monday?
How Autism Changed One Family for the Better
Carrie's son Jack sees days of the week as colors, has an astounding memory for birthdays, and is terrified of dogs - he also has autism. In this moving memoir, Carrie shows the realities of daily life parenting a family of five and supporting her son's special needs giving us a fascinating view into Jack's unique mind and a family built on love.
- Copyright year: 2015
What's Happening to Ellie?
A Book About Puberty for Girls and Young Women with Autism and Related Conditions
This simple picture book follows Ellie as she begins puberty. Designed to be read with girls with autism or other special needs, it provides the perfect starting point for parents and carers to discuss changes including new hair growth and menstruation.
- Copyright year: 2015