Helen Joy

At present, we live in a world dominated by left brain tendencies. And yet we also receive constant messages that we should be more creative. How can we achieve balance between left and rightbetween our analytical, logical, practical sides and our imaginative, intuitive, and visual sides? Coffee Stains for Balanced Brains provides you with an opportunity to use your imagination, thereby stimulating your right brain and employing your creativity. Author Helen Joy presents a series of images and associated exercises designed to help you access part of your mind that may be less active in your day-to-day routine. With practice, youll be able to tap into a resource you werent aware you had and perhaps bring about positive changes and benefits throughout your life. Great things can happen in our world when more people embrace their creativity. This guide presents a series of activities designed to help you give your creative side a workout, unleashing your imagination and improving your mental health and balance.

Learning to communicate with other people is perhaps the most important learning children do. Children with social communication problems may have trouble picking up the crucial skills of interacting and communicating with their peers, which can have more serious implications later on in life. This resource will help teachers, teaching assistants and therapists to develop and improve the social skills of their younger pupils; provides sets of easily accessible, verbal and non-verbal games and activities to encourage social interaction; provides a clear rationale to the games to help the teacher or teaching assistant really get to grips with how and why these activities can help; provides a structured approach to pupils' social development for pupils in their early and primary years which has been tried, tested and proved to be effective; and includes assessment forms and monthly and daily planning sheets

Learning to communicate with other people is perhaps the most important learning children do. Children with social communication problems may have trouble picking up the crucial skills of interacting and communicating with their peers, which can have more serious implications later on in life. This resource will help teachers, teaching assistants and therapists to develop and improve the social skills of their younger pupils; provides sets of easily accessible, verbal and non-verbal games and activities to encourage social interaction; provides a clear rationale to the games to help the teacher or teaching assistant really get to grips with how and why these activities can help; provides a structured approach to pupils' social development for pupils in their early and primary years which has been tried, tested and proved to be effective; and includes assessment forms and monthly and daily planning sheets