You Must Be My Best Friend . . . Because I Hate You!: Friendship and How to Survive It
This no-nonsense guide delves into the most trying difficulties faced in maintaining friendships - difficulties seldom discussed between friends in conflict or covered in relationship manuals. Combining revealing anecdotes with expert research, the guide addresses every friendship roadblock imaginable, including "third wheel" syndrome.
My Big Idea: 30 Successful Entrepreneurs Reveal How They Found Inspiration
In this book, 30 successful entrepreneurs explain how they turned their dreams into reality. They tell how they decided what to do, how they got started, how they found the money they needed, and how they went about it. But they also reveal how they had doubts, made mistakes, and encountered frustrations along the way. Importantly, they also explain how they overcame these difficulties and turned a dream into a commercially viable reality.
Developmental disorders and interventions, Volume 39
Volume 39 of the Advances in Child Development and Behavior series is concerned with Developmental Disorders and Interventions. This volume provides an overview of contemporary research into cognitive, neurodevelopmental and genetic disorders of learning. The social, emotional and cognitive functioning of children with William's syndrome, Down syndrome, Fragile X and autism, reading difficulties, mathematical difficulties and working memory problems are discussed by some of the leading researchers in the field.
What Is Friendship?: Games and Activities to Help Children to Understand Friendship
What are friends and why do we need them? How do we talk to our friends and how do we listen to what they have to say? What is peer pressure and how do we deal with it? Many children identify friendships as being a vital part of achieving emotional well-being, but some children experience difficulties both initiating and maintaining friendships. This fun and accessible programme contains detailed instructions and photocopiable handouts for teaching children about friendship. The book combines group activities, individual work, homework exercises and games, and will be especially useful for groups containing children with developmental and social difficulties, such as ADHD and autism.
This book outlines a unique and revolutionary program with a phenomenally high success rate in helping dyslexics learn to read and to overcome other difficulties associated with it.
