Do you support a child or adult with sensory perceptual issues or cognitive impairment? For people with challenging sensory & cognitive conditions everyday life can become so unpredictable & chaotic that over time lack of engagement can often lead to a state of learned helplessness. In this insightful text Paul Pagliano shows how learned helplessness can be transformed into learned optimism through multisensory stimulation & explains how a programme of support can be designed & modulated to match the persons needs interests & abilities. Full of practical easy to use multisensory assessment tools & intervention strategies this book will help: foster a feeling of ease with the environment the child or adult experience pleasure & happiness kick-start their desire to explore encourage enhanced learning social well-being & quality of life. The author offers an abundance of exciting multisensory stimulation ideas that can be applied to communication play leisure & recreation therapy & education. Practical resources also show how to monitor & review applications to ensure they are being used in the most effective & enjoyable ways possible. Informed by an astute up-to-date comprehensive overview of research & theory The Multisensory Handbook will appeal to primary professionals from a wide range of disciplines including education health & social care. ...

Elizabeth Burton Phillips is a teacher an ordinary middle-class mother who had always tried to do the best for her children; she never imagined that her identical twin sons who had been doing so well at school would become involved in drugs. She was shocked when they were suspended from school for smoking cannabis; but this was just the start of a terrible unimaginable journey
- culminating in the knock on the door in the early hours by the police. They gave her the devastating news that her son Nick had killed himself in despair at his heroin addiction. Since his death Elizabeth has campaigned tirelessly to make parents aware of the pain & suffering caused to families by drug addiction; & her surviving twin Simon now drug-free has contributed his own thoughts to this inspiring & moving book.
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This delicately decorated card has the message &8216; To Mum & Dad on Your Anniversary&8217; in gold lettering above an illustration of a bunch of hearts with ribbon embellishments. Greeting inside reads &8216; With love to you both on your special day&8217; & the card

Includes:: a gold envelope for posting. Approximate dimensions: 11.5 x 22.5cm Not suitable for children under 3 years contains small parts which may cause a choking hazard.

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A little boy tries to find a pot of parent glue to stick his mum & dad back together. His parents have come undone & he wants to mend their marriage stick their smiles back on & make them better. This story is brilliantly told with a powerful message that even though his parents may be broken their love for him is not. ...

This bright & colourful birthday card for your Mum has in large colourful pink orange & red text on the front ‘ Mum have a really great Birthday!! printed on a white background. Greeting inside reads ‘ Happy Birthday’. Comes complete with a pink envelope ready for posting. Approximate dimensions: 22.5 x 10.5cm ...

Laura Swan was dreading the school sports day Mums race
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The calendar that keeps the whole family running on time & on track Mums Family Calendar" is the perennial bestseller that mums (and dads) rely on season after season. Running a full 17 months it combines the organisational powers of a planner with Sandra Boyntons lovable colourful animal characters who frolic & cavort through each grid. The grids run vertically with five columns across the top (one for each family member) & the days of the month running down the left-hand side. Write in each persons activities for each day & at a glance its easy to see who is doing what where & when. It

Includes:: a drop-down storage pocket 500 stickers & a write-on wipe-off magnetic phone list to hang on the fridge. Its total family organisation Boynton style."

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Kiss boys two times after I have gone. Please teach the boys to say what they mean. Mummy loved orange Club biscuits jam & jelly & lemon curd. On her deathbed Kate Greenes only concern was for her two little boys Reef & Finn & her loving husband Singe. She knew shed be leaving them behind very soon. Over her last few days Kate created Mums List. The couple talked & cried together as she wrote her thoughts & wishes down trying to help the man she loved create the best life for their boys after she was gone. It wasnt the first time Singe & Kate had faced the spectre of death. Four years earlier doctors discovered a large lump in baby Reef s abdomen. Kate pregnant with Finn was so distressed that she gave birth dangerously early. Both boys pulled through but afterwards Kate received the diagnosis that every woman dreads.. . ...

Winifred Phillips was born in Ilford Essex in 1926 one of four children. Sent to a convent boarding school which she loathed she trained as a nursery nurse & met George Wheeler a 19-year-old RAF trainee wireless operator. The pair fell in love & spent a happy year together only to say goodbye in 1943 when he was sent on bombing missions to Germany. They kept in touch with regular letters but he went missing in 1944 & nobody knew what happened to him. Determined to see something of the world Winifred joined the Auxiliary Territorial Service in 1948 & enlisted in the Women's Royal Army Corps a year later. For the next two decades she travelled the globe & reached the rank of Warrant Officer Class 2. Her story offers a unique insight into the lives of female service personnel in the 1950s & '60s. She writes wittily & candidly about her time in the army how life was lived in the mess & the NAAFI & the scrapes she got into. But she never forgot George. & she never married. At the age of 70 she went on a journey to find out what happened to the only man who would ever win her heart & 50 years after he disappeared she was finally able to pay her respects. In 2009 after ten years of campaigning Win became the first ever female Chelsea Pensioner to be accepted at the Royal Hospital Chelsea where she lives today. ...

Angie & Ian were childhood sweethearts Angie adored kids & as one of eight children himself Ian was only too happy to have as many as they could. After their marriage they had three sons in quick succession. But then aged just thirty one Angie was diagnosed with breast cancer & the couple had to accept they might not be able to have any more. Five years on though with Angie well again they went on to have five more. But in 2007 Angie had a shadow on her lung & it was the return of the original breast cancer she thought she had beaten. It seemed the disease had returned to tear their world apart again. Though Ian searched tirelessly for cures Angie practised acceptance. She wouldn't live to see her children grow up. Raising eight children would be a big job for any couple; to raise them alone without their mother an almost Herculean feat. But this was exactly what Angie wanted Ian to be able to do. So in the last months of her life Angie compiled a list of 'rules' to guide Ian in the future & put him on an intensive training course so he could learn all the skills he would need. She taught him how to make her special chicken curry how to soothe away their hurts pack their lunchboxes with all their favourites & do all the little things she'd done for them so unthinkingly. & Ian knew he wasn't just doing this for the children. He was doing it so his beloved wife could be comforted by knowing that he had the tools to bring their children up her way. Finally inevitably came the hardest task of all. Angie the job done had to find the courage to let them go & Ian & the children the courage to carry on without her. ...