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Our most popular resources on social skills, behaviour and mental health

Contact us to find out more about our full range of resources in this area and to book these resources for your event or training session.  Images reproduced with the permission of HealthEdco and Gasp.  
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​We've also listed some free, high quality online resources that complement our physical collection: please look for the orange icon.

  • Social skills (resources for children & young people)
  • Autism, Asperger's and Sensory Processing Disorders (resources for all ages)
  • Anger management (resources for all ages)
  • ​​​Bereavement (resources for all ages)
  • Depression and suicide (resources for adults)
  • Obsessions & compulsions (resources for all ages)
  • Self-esteem & resilience (resources for all ages)
  • Eating disorders (resources for all ages)
  • Stress & worry (resources for all ages)
  • ​Support for survivors of sexual abuse (resources for adults)

 

Bullying

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That's so gay!
A practical guide to making your school a safer place and creating an inclusive bully- free culture. It shows what homophobic bullying looks like, who experiences it, and explores the reasons why young people bully others homophobically. It also reveals why young people are often reluctant to report homophobic bullying, the increasing role played by the internet and the profound effects bullying can have well into adulthood.
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Stay strong!
An activity book for young people who are experiencing bullying

Social skills

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A therapeutic treasure deck of grounding, soothing, coping and regulating cards
A treasure trove of coping, regulating, grounding and soothing activities and techniques for working with children (aged 6+), teens and adults
This pack of 70 cards and explanatory guide offers a playful, non- threatening way to develop, practice and master effective coping and regulating strategies. The range of games, skills and activities are designed to work with both the brain and body, including all our senses. The cards address a wide range of common issues including anxiety, stress, low mood, sleep difficulties and emotional dysregulation.
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Well being toolkit for teens
Free online interactive toolkit that includes a collection of positive activities that will help remind young people how amazingly, brilliant they are. 

 

Anger management

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Hello Happy! Mindful Kids: An activity book for young people who sometimes feel sad or angry
Format: Book
Audience: Children aged 7+
Description: A mindful kids activity book for young people to colour and doodle their way to being happy, calm and confident. Use creativity to combat negative feelings, work out worries and put anger back in its place with the writing and doodling activities.
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How to take the Grrrr out of anger [book]
Audience: Children aged 8-13
Book for children and young people that explains how to manage anger and control temper
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Adolescent Volcanoes: helping adolescents and their parents to deal with anger
Format: Book
Description: Adolescent Volcanoes is a practical resource for adults working with adolescents and their parents to help them understand, express and manage their anger. Featuring interactive worksheets and handouts throughout, it explores the causes of anger, focusing not only on the adolescent, but also on styles of parenting and situations at home that can exacerbate these feelings, and suggests ways to tone down confrontations and improve relationships
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Overcoming anger and irritability
Format:
Book
Description: A self help guide using Cognitive behavioral techniques.
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Managing anger
Format: Book
Description: Simple Steps to Dealing with Frustration and Threat​

 

Bereavement

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​Suicide bereavement toolkit
Format: Online
Description: Children, young people and families who have been bereaved by suicide have developed a new toolkit to help families like themselves and the people who support them in the aftermath of their bereavement. The toolkit has information that's helpful for children, young people, and parents/carers themselves as well as practitioners and people working with the family. 
You can access the toolkit here.
Local South Yorkshire resource produced by: ChilyPep, Children and Young People’s, Empowerment Project, 11 Southey Hill, Sheffield, S5 8BB
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Water bugs & dragonflies [book]
Audience: Children
Short story book explaining death to young children

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When a friend dies
Author Marilyn Gootman has seen her own children suffer from the death of a friend, and she knows what teenagers go through when another teen dies. If you're a parent or teacher of a teen who has experienced a painful loss, this book is for you, too.
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Communicating with children when a parent is at the end of life
This accessible book demonstrates how to support children through effective and sensitive communication, covering types of communication, language, information sharing, and overcoming common barriers.
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Title: Supporting young people coping with grief, loss and death
Format: Book
Publisher: Sage publications
Audience: 11-18 years
Contents: Book and CD-Rom
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Title: Remembering- providing support for children aged 7 - 13 who have experienced loss and bereavement
Format: Book
Publisher: Sage publications
Audience: 7-13 years
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Title: Always and forever
Format: book
Publisher: Doubleday
Description: A moving story that explains death in a gentle way
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Title: Grief and trauma in children
Format: Book
Publisher: Routledge
Description: An evidence- based treatment manual
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Title: Living with loss- a book for the widowed
Format: Book
Description: Liz McNeill Taylor's husband died suddenly at just forty-three. Drawing mainly on her own experience of loss, she deals with the subject of bereavement with a unique honesty and clarity. She talks about money, sex and raising a family alone. She discusses her own progression from grief and despair to anger, and then to adjustment, and describes how, eventually, she learned to enjoy life again. This is an invaluable handbook.​
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Title: On grief and grieving
Format: Book
Description: With this book, Kübler-Ross and LIFE LESSONS co-author David Kessler revisit the five stages in order to create a deeply empathetic and accessible guide for those in grief. The authors deliver insights and advice designed to help readers normalise their lives and find the courage to continue. 

 

Childhood abuse

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​Title: Not my shame
Format: Book
Description: This powerful graphic novel draws the reader into the experience of trauma and dissociation caused by sexual violence. It reveals the intrusive traumatic memories and distress experienced by a victim of childhood sexual exploitation in her adulthood and follows the process of coming to terms with her past through therapy and art.
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​Helping vulnerable children and adolescents to stay safe: creative ideas and activities for building protective behaviours.
Format: 
Book
Description: 
Full of creative ideas and activities, this guide provides the tools to help children develop key skills. ​Topics include work around: building resilience and problem solving skills; identifying a 'safety network'; developing emotional literacy; awareness of grooming strategies and safe/unsafe touch; and cyber safety.
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Title: Breaking free
Format: Book
Description: ​This manual is designed to help survivors of child sexual abuse. It updates the first edition, and investigates all the effects of child sexual abuse, which often persist into adult life - guilt and shame, depression and anxiety, eating disorders, fear of relationships and sexual problems. It includes discussion of false memory syndrome and female abusers, and draws on accounts of survivors who want their voices to be heard, offering a positive and optimistic approach to help survivors break free from the past.
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Title: Beginning to heal
Format: Book
Description: A first guide for survivors of child sexual abuse
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Title: The courage to heal: a guide for women survivors of child sexual abuse
Format: Book
Description: Based on the experiences of hundreds of child abuse survivors, The Courage to Heal profiles victims who share the challenges and triumphs of their personal healing processes. Inspiring and comprehensive, it offers mental, emotional and physical support to all people who are in the process of rebuilding their lives.  

 

​Depression and suicide

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​Suicide bereavement toolkit
Format: Online
Description: Children, young people and families who have been bereaved by suicide have developed a new toolkit to help families like themselves and the people who support them in the aftermath of their bereavement. The toolkit has information that's helpful for children, young people, and parents/carers themselves as well as practitioners and people working with the family. 
You can access the toolkit here.
Local South Yorkshire resource produced by: ChilyPep, Children and Young People’s, Empowerment Project, 11 Southey Hill, Sheffield, S5 8BB
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Perry Panda: A Story about Parental Depression
Format
: Book
Audience: Young children
Description: Perry is worried about his mum. He speaks to his grandma, who explains how his mum is feeling and offers reassurance. She makes it clear that Perry is not to blame and talks about some of the things that might help his mum feel better.
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Hello Happy! Mindful Kids: An activity book for young people who sometimes feel sad or angry
Format: Book
Audience: Children aged 7+
Description: A mindful kids activity book for young people to colour and doodle their way to being happy, calm and confident. Use creativity to combat negative feelings, work out worries and put anger back in its place with the writing and doodling activities.
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Title: The princess and the fog
Format: Book
Description: A story for children with depression
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Be the one campaign- Working to reduce the number of lives lost to suicide in Rotherham. A dedicated website for the campaign is now live – www.be-the-one.co.uk
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Title: Mind over mood
Format: Book
Description: Developed by two master clinicians with extensive experience in cognitive therapy treatment and training, this popular workbook shows readers how to improve their lives using cognitive therapy. The book is designed to be used alone or in conjunction with professional treatment.
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Title: The feeling good handbook
Format: Book
Description: The author reveals powerful new techniques and provides practical exercises that will help you cope with problems and learn how to make life a happier, more exhilarating experience.
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Title: Beating the blues
Format: Book
Description: A self-help approach to overcoming depression

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Title: Understanding depression
Format: Book
Description: We all have low moods from time to time. Usually, the mood passes after a few days and we get back to our normal way of living. We may say that we have been 'depressed', 'down in the dumps', 'fed up' or have had the 'blues'. But low moods like this are not what doctors call depression. Instead, they use the term to describe a more severe illness which a person has had for at least a few weeks, affecting the body as well as the mind. There has been an increase in the rates of depression over the last 40 years which may be the result of the way we live our lives now. The good news is that no matter what the cause of depression it can be treated and treated effectively. Most people who are depressed and have treatment get better.
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Title: Caring for someone with depression
Format: Book

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Title: Overcoming depression and low mood
Format: Book
Description: Fully updated and based on extensive feedback, Overcoming Depression and Low Mood is a series of short self-help workbooks for use by people experiencing low mood and depression. Developed in liaison with a wide range of experts, the course provides access to the proven Cognitive Behaviour Therapy (CBT) approach.
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Title: Overcoming mood swings
Format: Book
Description: This book is a self-help manual for those who have experienced mood swings and gives background information on depression and mania. The author uses tried and tested practical techniques that will help people identify and manage their mood more effectively, and achieve a more stable emotional state. Contains a complete self-help programme and monitoring sheets.
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Title: The food and mood handbook
Format: Book
Description: This handbook will be invaluable to everyone who has suffered from mood swings, food cravings, any form of eating disorder, hypoglycaemia, or PMS.

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Title: Surviving post-natal depression- at home no one hears you scream
Format: Book
Description: ​Research indicates that at least one in ten new mothers experience post-natal depression, yet there is little help available to sufferers. Cara Aiken's book will help them, and the professionals who work with them, to understand this illness. The book tells the stories of ten women from very different backgrounds - including the author - who have suffered post-natal depression. 

Self harm

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Can I tell you about self- harm?  A Guide for Friends, Family and Professionals
Format: Book
Audience: Children aged 7+
Description: Asher tells all from their own experience in this illustrated guide for children aged 7+
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A short introduction to understanding and supporting children and young people who self- harm
Format:
Book
Description: An invaluable source of information and guidance for parents, teachers, youth workers, and others who care for a young person showing signs of self-harm or suicidal behaviour.
 

Obsessions and compulsions

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Title: Understanding obsessions and compulsions
Format: Book
Description: This book attempts to provide a comprehensive guide to self-help, explaining the principles of anxiety reduction, giving treatment instructions in easy-to-understand language. It covers compulsive checking, washing, hoarding, obsessional thoughts and worry, obsessional personality and depression.

 

Self esteem & resilience

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Title: Banish your self- esteem thief- a cognitive behavioural therapy workbook on building positive self- esteem for young children.
Format: Book
Description: Packed with activities and real- life stories, this fun and imaginative workbook uses cognitive behvioural and mindfulness principles and techniques to help you understand your self- esteem, change how you think and act in order to build positive self-esteem
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Title: Banish your body image thief- a cognitive behavioural therapy workbook on building positive body image for young people
Format: Book
Description: Using a host of activities and real- life stories, this imaginative workbook will look at what body image means, how it develops, the impact it can have and how all this applies to your own body image.
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Title: The simple guide to understanding shame in children: what it is, what helps and how to prevent further stress or trauma
Format: Book
Description: ​A simple guide to the essential knowledge adults need to support children affected by shame.
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Title: Self esteem-  Simple Steps to Develop Self-worth and Heal Emotional Wounds 
Format: Book
Description: In this new updated and fully revised edition of this bestselling title Lindenfield helps us to recover from a deep-seated hurt and cope with knocks to our pride.
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Title: Self-esteem for women
Format: Book
Description: ​In this original and thought-provoking guide, Lynda Field shows how to recognise and alter your negative self-beliefs. By using a mixture of visualization techniques, positive affirmations and her unique five-step Programme for Change
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Title: Overcoming low self-esteem
Format: Book
​Description: A self- help guide using cognitive behavioral techniques
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Title: The positive woman
Format: Book
Description: ​In ‘The Positive Woman’, Gael Lindenfield shows women how it is possible to transform their lives with a new and positive approach, which can affect everything from the state of their wardrobes to the state of their relationships.

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Helping children to build self-esteem [book]
Audience: Children & Young people
2 photocopiable workbooks designed to help children and young people build self-esteem.
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Developing emotional literacy with teenage girls
Format: Book
Publisher: Lucky Duck Books
Description: This resource creates an opportunity for teenage girls to be clearer and more positive about their developing identities as young women. The 10-session programme improves confidence, self-esteem and self-awareness, with the talk element encouraging students to develop their own problem-solving strategies.
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Title: Think good- feel good
Format: Book
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Description: A cognitive behaviour therapy workbook for children and young people
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Title: Working with young women
Format: Book
Publisher: Jessica Kingsley Pub
Description: Activities for exploring personal, social and emotional issues for young women to build self-esteem, confidence and assertiveness.
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Title: Let's talk: Resilience
Format: Card game
Description: A card game to build emotional strength
Audience: Children to adult
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Mental health [DVD]
Audience: Ages 14-19
Includes 3 programmes each running approx 25 mins. ‘Losing it’: designed to help young people understand what mental health is and distinguish it from mental illness; ‘Winning the Mind Game’ profiles 3 successful young people who have suffered and conquered mental illness. ‘Without You’ explores the experiences of young people whose lives have been affected by bereavement


 

Eating disorders

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Anorexia nervosa and irritability
Format: Book
Description: a survival guide for families, friends and sufferers​
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Treatment manual for Anorexia nervosa
Format:
Book
Description: a self help guide using cognitive behavioral techniques.
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Title: Bulimia nervosa and binge-eating
Format: Book
Description: A self-help guide using cognitive behavioral therapy
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Title: Getting better bit(e) by bit(e)
Format: Book
Description: a survival kit for sufferes of bulimia nervosa and binge eating disorders

 

Stress & worry

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The Huge bag of worries [book]
Audience: 3+
A funny and reassuring story designed to appeal to children who have occasional worries.



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Title: Coping with stress
Format: Book

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Title: Understanding stress
Format: Book
 
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Title: I'm too busy to be stressed
Format: Book
​Description: Britain's best-loved TV doctor Hilary Jones knows from experience how difficult it is to relax amidst busy schedules, tight deadlines and demanding children. In his definitive guide to coping with stress in all its forms.
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First lessons in coping with stress
Audience: 13-18 years
A Stress Reducing Programme for Older Secondary Pupils with Teacher Notes and CD Recording Booklet and CD. Recommended for use by teachers who are looking for plans for "first lessons in coping with stress." It provides a useful starting-off-point and photocopiable materials that are clear.
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Title: What's all this about stress?
Format: Book
​Description: This book analyses the cause and symptoms of stress, its effects on the mind and body and outlines a range of strategies for stress management. These practical techniques will be of interest to anybody who wishes to gain control of their life, improve its quality, and enhance their performance in the workplace.​
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Title: Managing stress
Format: Book
Description: ​Ursula Markham's positive and practical book will teach you how to control the stress in your life, and gain self-confidence. Filled with useful charts, exercises and examples, it will help you to: recognize the symptoms of stress overload; assess your stress factor; relieve tension through lifestyle changes, diet, physical and mental relaxation techniques; and utilize the positive power of stress.
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Title: Breaking point
Format: DVD
Description: Three short films on stress, depression and suicide for young people and adults
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Overcoming anxiety
Format:
Book
Description: A self help guide using cognitive behavioral techniques.
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Feel the fear and do it anyway
Format: Book
​Description: How to turn your fear and indecision into confidence and action​.
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Overcoming anxiety: a five areas approach
Format: Book
Description: Overcoming Anxiety is divided into workbooks that are designed to help those experiencing mild to moderate levels of anxiety and panic.​
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Title: Anxiety disorders in children and adolescents: epidemiology, risk factors and treatment 
Format: Book
Description: The aim of Anxiety Disorders in Children and Adolescents is to present a comprehensive summary of the most recent empirical findings in this area. Written by eminent researchers and clinicians from Europe and America, the book is divided into three broad sections. 
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Title: Overcoming social anxiety and shyness
Format: Book
Description: ​Overcoming Social Anxiety and Shyness is a self-help manual for this common problem, which explains why it happens and sets out practical methods of resolving it.
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Title: Overcoming traumatic stress
Format: Book
Description: A self- help guide using cognitive behavioral techniques
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Title: How to stop worrying
Format: Book
Description: ​A guide to making worry work for you, helping you to avoid stress and anxiety. The author sets out to teach how to understand fear and face the possiblities of life calmly.
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Title: Overcoming panic
Format: Book
Description: An indispensable guide for those affected by panic and/or associated agoraphobia, their friends and families, psychologists and those working in the medical profession. It explains the many forms and causes of panic and contains a complete self-help program and monitoring sheets, based on clinically proven techniques of cognitive behavior therapy.
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Title: No worries
Format: Book
Description: An activity book for young people who sometimes feel anxious or stressed
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Title: Be brave!
Format: Book
Description: An activity book for young people who sometimes feel scared or afraid

 

Autism, Asperger's and Sensory Processing Disorders

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The science of ADHD
Format: Book
Description: The Science of ADHD addresses the scientific status of Attention–Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder in an informed and accessible way, without recourse to emotional or biased viewpoints
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Title: Being me
Format: Resource pack including DVD and CD-ROM
Description: A self- development DVD and CD-Rom resource pack for people on the autism spectrum
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Title: The out-of-sync child has fun
Format: Book
Publisher: U.S Imports
Description: Activities for kids with sensory processing disorder.
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