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  • Life on the Autism Spectrum

    Translating Myths and Misconceptions into Positive Futures

    Series series Behavioral Science and Psychology (R0)
    This book presents a unique exploration of common myths about autism by examining these myths through the perspectives of autistic individuals. Examining the history of attitudes and beliefs about autism and autistic people, this book highlights the ways that these beliefs are continuing to impact autistic individuals and their families, and offers insights as to how viewing these myths from an ... Read more

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  • Empowering Parents of Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder

    Critical Decision-making for Quality Outcomes

    Series series Education (R0)
    This book presents an international research-based framework that has empowered parents of children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) to become critical decision makers to actively guide their child’s learning and self-advocacy. Parents can use this framework to identify their child’s vision and dreams, and to work with educators and service providers to establish specific learning goals and to ... Read more

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    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
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  • Adoption

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    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    Combining advocacy and memoir with social and cultural history, this book offers a comparative, cross-cultural survey of the whole history of adoption that is grounded in the author's personal experience. ... Read more

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    Contemporary Issues and Debates

    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This book explores how children engage with sex and sexuality. Building on a conceptual and legal grounding in sexuality studies and the new sociology of childhood, the authors debate the age of consent, teenage pregnany, sexual diversity, sexualisation, sex education and sexual literacy, paedophilia, and sex in the digital age. Whilst Moore and Reynolds recognise the necessity of child protection ... Read more

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  • Psychoactive Drug Abuse in Hong Kong

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    This book challenges and revises existing ways of thinking about leaving care policy, practice and research at regional, national and international levels. Bringing together contributors from fifteen countries, it covers a range of topical policy and practice issues within national, international or comparative contexts. These include youth justice, disability, access to higher education, the role ... Read more

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  • Secrets, Lies and Children’s Fiction

    by K. Mallan ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    Many children learn from a young age to tell the truth. They also learn that some lies are necessary in order to survive in a world that paradoxically values truth-telling, but practises deception. This book examines this paradox by considering how deception is often a necessary means of survival for individuals, families, governments, and animals. ... Read more

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    This book explores the impact of globalisation and new technologies on youth cultures around the world, from the Birmingham School to the youthscapes of South Korea. In a timely reappraisal of youth cultures in contemporary times, this collection profiles the best of new research in youth studies written by leading scholars in the field. ... Read more

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  • Gender and Childhood Sexuality in Primary School

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    This book is an ethnography of teachers and children in grades 1 and 2, and presents arguments about why we should take gender and childhood sexuality seriously in the early years of South African primary schooling. Taking issue with dominant discourses which assumes children’s lack of agency, the book questions the epistemological foundations of childhood discourses that produce innocence. It ... Read more

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  • Childhood and Colonial Modernity in Egypt

    Series series History (R0)
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