Autism Awareness and Crime explores Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) and the ‘school to prison pipeline’.This book takes the reader through a journey from understanding autism, how it manifests and how it is diagnosed. The author looks at how circumstances in schools including isolation, misunderstanding meltdowns, lack of autism awareness and training have criminalised autism, leading to suspensions, exclusions, and the use of restraint and seclusion. He draws on survey data to ascertain whether there is a link between a lack of autism awareness and provision in education settings for young people, and an increased likelihood of criminal behaviour later in life. The book looks at the type of offences that young people with autism are commonly arrested for, and the contributing autistic traits that are related to them which can be termed ‘risk factors’. Criminal offences including stalking, arson and cyber-dependent crimes are examined in detail and the book also considers how individuals with ASD are treated by the criminal justice system.This volume is ideal for students, researchers and practitioners in the fields of forensic psychology, criminology, special educational needs and social work.
Autism Awareness and Crime explores Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) and the ‘school to prison pipeline’.This book takes the reader through a journey from understanding autism, how it manifests and how it is diagnosed. The author looks at how circumstances in schools including isolation, misunderstanding meltdowns, lack of autism awareness and training have criminalised autism, leading to suspensions, exclusions, and the use of restraint and seclusion. He draws on survey data to ascertain whether there is a link between a lack of autism awareness and provision in education settings for young people, and an increased likelihood of criminal behaviour later in life. The book looks at the type of offences that young people with autism are commonly arrested for, and the contributing autistic traits that are related to them which can be termed ‘risk factors’. Criminal offences including stalking, arson and cyber-dependent crimes are examined in detail and the book also considers how individuals with ASD are treated by the criminal justice system.This volume is ideal for students, researchers and practitioners in the fields of forensic psychology, criminology, special educational needs and social work.
Surviving School as a Dyslexic Teenager is an easy to read book looking at the coping/defence strategies used by teenagers both in and outside school.Understanding where these coping/defence strategies have come from (home influences, primary school, peer relationships, parent's own diagnosed/undiagnosed dyslexia) and giving help, common sense, tips, and career/college/university advice.This book is aimed at parents, educators, and dyslexic teenagers themselves.
For the last 20 years commentators have begun to question the validity of the "Social Model of Disability", and there is now space to develop a new model for those with hidden/invisible disabilities, who in fact out number those with visible disabilities. This book develops the "Bi-ability Model" (Valeras, 2010) to better understand it's viability to challenge the "Social Model of disability" (1972), as an outdated concept describing all those with disabilities. It is argued that the Social Model is too focussed on physical impairments/physical environmental barriers, and does not truly describe the barriers faced by those with hidden/invisible impairments in modern society (at school, at university, in the workplace, and socially). The author has interviewed many very successful individuals with a range of hidden/invisible disabilities (e.g. dyslexia, Type 1 diabetes, Autism, ADHD, Epilepsy, Profoundly deaf, ME, bipolar depression and fibromyalgia), some having more than two disabilities, to develop greater understanding of their lives, and their keys for success. This book will look at the "Bi-ability Model' and how it offers a better way to understand their ability to develop highly successful careers through a range of strategies (e.g. passing) whilst rejecting a disability identity.
This book, penned by the acclaimed author Neil Alexander-Passe, is a welcomed addition to the arsenal of literature that focuses the reader on the importance of the change in thinking that is required. What separates this work from others is the blend between academic rigor and readability. Many literature works are either 'too American (for a UK audience) or 'far too hard to read' for the intended audience. Neil's recent book satisfied neither of these observations and provides the requisite information in a readable, digestible yet informed manner. For this, he is to be congratulated.Dr Phillip Anderton is a former senior police officer and renowned expert on the links between ADHD and crime. After an illustrious and fulfilling 27-year police career he retired and after significant research he formed ADHD 360 which is Europe's largest and most effective ADHD clinic. This subject matter desperately needs to be read by anybody working with children and teenagers who have ADHD. Perhaps most importantly, parents of fostered and adopted children, residential care workers and social workers. The ratio of ADHD in these children is much higher so it is critical to know what the first signs are of the condition and how to steer these children on the right path. Everybody working in the criminal justice system will also benefit from understanding more about the connection between ADHD and offending. This subject matter desperately needs to be read by anybody working with children and teenagers who have ADHD. Everybody working in the criminal justice system will also benefit from understanding more about the connection between ADHD and offending.Sarah Templeton is a fully qualified and Accredited Psychotherapist. She runs the biggest team of ADHD diagnosed counsellors in the UK Headstuff ADHD Therapy Ltd. She is CEO of the charity ADHD LIBERTY and the author of three successful books on parenting and teaching ADHD children and teenagers. Her fourth book 'The Prison Counsellor' is due for release Spring 2025.
Dyslexia is a complex condition that affects not only learning but every part of life. Experience or fear of social stigma can lead people with dyslexia to camouflage the difficulties they face, to withdraw and to adopt negative coping strategies, particularly if they lack adequate support, identification and intervention. This can have lasting impact on their emotional health. Neil Alexander-Passe is an experienced researcher and a special needs teacher in secondary mainstream education. He also has dyslexia. Neil uses his personal and professional experience to shed light on the complexities surrounding dyslexia and examines psychological theories such as ego-defence mechanisms and learned helplessness that reveal how people deal with its emotional impact. He offers guidelines and advice, illustrated with real life examples, about how to help people with dyslexia avoid harmful coping strategies and learn to deal with stress, anxiety and low self-esteem in more effective and psychologically positive ways. This book will help educational and clinical psychologists, teachers, mental health specialists, counsellors and therapists understand the emotional complexities of dyslexia.
'An evocative, endearing, entertaining and thoroughly delicious character portrait and a terrific first novel' - Donal MacIntyre, TV presenter'A tender, thought-provoking and totally gripping novel from a wonderful storyteller...deserves to be a huge hit!' - Matt Cain, author of The Secret Life of Albert EntwistleMeet Margaret Small: 75, plain spoken, Whitstable native and a Cilla Black super fan. Shortly after the death of her idol, Margaret begins receiving sums of money in the post, signed simply 'C'.She is convinced it must be Cilla, but how can it be? To solve the mystery of her benefactor Margaret must go back in her memories almost 70 years, to the time when she was 'vanished' to a long-stay institution for children with learning disabilities.An absorbing and page-turning mystery with a dual timeline, The Vanishing of Margaret Small takes readers into a fascinating past, and introduces an unforgettable literary heroine.Perfect for fans of Libby Page and Gail Honeyman.Praise for The Vanishing of Margaret Small:'A captivating and charming story' - Imogen Clark'Funny, sad and uplifting all at once' - Frances Quinn'A beautiful story of human spirit and its power to thrive against the odds' - Anstey Harris'A fantastic, feel-good story . . . rich in nostalgia and a joy to read' - Matson Taylor'Beautifully observed and poignant. An outstanding debut.' Alex Brown'Compelling and authentic . . . Margaret's story is quiet but her voice is mighty' - Julietta Henderson
The past has never left Billy. It's just been waiting for him to come and find it...It's been over thirty years since Billy last called Northern Ireland home. Back then, his secret love for schoolfriend Conor was the only shining light that kept him going during troubled times. That is, until their romance was tragically cut short when Conor disappeared without a trace.Now a phone call draws Billy back home when his mother falls into a coma. While sorting through old belongings, he stumbles upon an envelope bearing his name. Inside, he finds a mysterious note and a mixtape left by Conor - dated the very day he disappeared in 1989.But who sent it? Why did his mother keep it hidden? And what really happened to Conor?As Billy sets off to find the answers to a mystery that's followed him for years, he soon realises that uncovering the truth about his lost past may come at a high cost. But laying the ghosts of that past to rest might be the only way to finally set himself free...From the author of The Vanishing of Margaret Small comes a compelling and deeply nostalgic coming-of-age tale that promises to touch your heart and stay with you long after the last page. Packed with humour and tenderness, it's perfect for fans of The Last List of Mabel Beaumont, The Keeper of Stories and A Tidy Ending.
A title in the Recovering Languages and Literacies of the Americas initiative, supported by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.A Grammar of Southern Pomo is the first comprehensive description of the Southern Pomo language, which lost its last fluent speaker in 2014. Southern Pomo is one of seven Pomoan languages once spoken in the vicinity of Clear Lake and the Russian River drainage of California. Prior to European contact, a third of all Pomoan peoples spoke Southern Pomo, and descendants of these speakers are scattered across several present-day reservations. These descendants have recently initiated efforts to revitalize the language. The unique culture of Southern Pomo speakers is embedded in the language in several ways. There are separate words for the many different species of oak trees and their different acorns, which were the people’s staple cuisine. The kinship system is unusually rich both semantically and morphologically, with terms marked for possession, generation, number, and case. Verbs similarly encode the ancient interactions of speakers with their land in more than a dozen directional suffixes indicating specific paths of movement.A Grammar of Southern Pomo sheds new light on a relatively unknown Indigenous California speech community. In many instances Neil Alexander Walker discusses phenomena that are rare or entirely unattested outside the language and challenges long-standing ideas about what human speech communities can create and pass on to children as well as the degree to which culture and place are inextricably woven into language.
A title in the Recovering Languages and Literacies of the Americas initiative, supported by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.A Grammar of Southern Pomo is the first comprehensive description of the Southern Pomo language, which lost its last fluent speaker in 2014. Southern Pomo is one of seven Pomoan languages once spoken in the vicinity of Clear Lake and the Russian River drainage of California. Prior to European contact, a third of all Pomoan peoples spoke Southern Pomo, and descendants of these speakers are scattered across several present-day reservations. These descendants have recently initiated efforts to revitalize the language. The unique culture of Southern Pomo speakers is embedded in the language in several ways. There are separate words for the many different species of oak trees and their different acorns, which were the people’s staple cuisine. The kinship system is unusually rich both semantically and morphologically, with terms marked for possession, generation, number, and case. Verbs similarly encode the ancient interactions of speakers with their land in more than a dozen directional suffixes indicating specific paths of movement.A Grammar of Southern Pomo sheds new light on a relatively unknown Indigenous California speech community. In many instances Neil Alexander Walker discusses phenomena that are rare or entirely unattested outside the language and challenges long-standing ideas about what human speech communities can create and pass on to children as well as the degree to which culture and place are inextricably woven into language.
This is the memoir of the hero we would hope to meet in the trenches where hope too often fails.A British Army veteran, Barry Alexander is a former Nursing Officer who led a unit of medics in Afghanistan. The chaos of combat, the necessity for skill, for tenderness in the face of horror and loss, for ingenuity in a place where heroes fear to tread power his story. He notes, "If this were a Hollywood movie, I would be able to get some forceps up into the wound and clamp off the artery"-but this is no fairy tale despite its cinematic detail. Barry Alexander's candour, straightforward telling and eloquence never revolve into sentimentality. His is a moving memoir that reminds us what it means to be human and humane in the face of war. He never writes as if he is a hero but it is the sense of his heroism through the vivid, and, yes, often wry telling of what he's seen and done, how he's healed others while trying to maintain his own well-being, both physical and mental, that define why you should read Alexander. The memoir closes with poems written by Alexander that will break your heart and make it soar; published in the 2011 anthology Heroes: 100 Poems from the New Generation of War Poets (Ebury Press). -Mary Tabor
The first-ever book to cover the history of the renegade Outlaw country music movement from its beginnings in the 1970s to its resurgence today, "Outlaws Still At Large " draws from the author's interviews with current artists to reveal a rich, vibrant music scene beneath the mainstream Nashville gloss, while it shows the trials and adventures of life on the road. Hamilton traveled more than 20,000 miles with the Outlaws to get his story, and in the end, the music changed his life. One of the Outlaws, Shooter Jennings, who is the son of 1970s Outlaws Waylon Jennings and Jessi Colter, says about Hamilton and this book: "Besides his insanely neurotic attention to detail, or his relentless obsession with perfection, Neil is someone who cares very deeply for music and art. He cares so deeply that he's willing to spend as much time as he finds necessary to do this right, to do it true, and do justice to the thing he loves and protects with such grace and dignity. He is, like us, a warrior." Hamilton begins with a historical background to the rise of country music and the Outlaw movement, before offering five chapter profiles on prominent Outlaws from the 1970s: Waylon, Willie Nelson, Billy Joe Shaver, Johnny Paycheck, and David Allan Coe. He then shows how the 1970s Outlaw movement faded, how Nashville pop regained its crown, and how the current Outlaw movement has emerged. From there he presents chapter profiles on 15 current artists, including Shooter, Blackberry Smoke, Elizabeth Cook, Dallas Moore, Jackson Taylor, Jason Boland, Lydia Loveless, Whitey Morgan, Wayne Mills, Joey Allcorn, and Hellbound Glory. The book concludes with a look at the promoters behind the Outlaw scene and the emergence of Outlaw music on SiriusXM radio. Hamilton found that there's really no one Outlaw musical form. Some of the artists are most heavily influenced by Hank Williams, others by Elvis Presley, or by the 1970s Outlaws, or by Southern rock, or even punk rock. Yet, beneath this diversity and creativity, there remains a central attachment to country's roots and to the belief that music should be created primarily for the heart and not the wallet-even if it means many a hungry night in a low-pay honky tonk. If readers bathed in music history get a feeling that Hamilton formatted the book in word similar to the way that Willie Nelson formatted his path breaking album "Red Headed Stanger" in music, they will be right on the mark. That structure is meant to convey the continuing link between country roots past and present and the continuing belief that country music based on sincerity still has something to say in a society awash with shallow forms and fleeting moments.
Celebrating Liturgical Time continues the standard of scholarship set by Patrick Malloy’s Celebrating the Eucharist. It is ideal for students, clergy, and church members who seek to strengthen their knowledge—and parochial practice—of liturgical timekeeping and the Daily Office.
