A First Look At: Disability: Don't Call Me Special - Softcover

Thomas, Pat

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1526317494 ISBN 13: 9781526317490

Publisher: Wayland, 2022

Synopsis

This updated edition of this 20-year-old bestselling title, with consultants from Mencap, enables parents to help their children explore questons about concerns about disability in a simple and reassuring way. It challenges the stereotypes that are often formed during childhood.

Notes for parents and teachers at the back of the book provide valuable advice for how to share this book with your child or class.

Written by a trained psychotherapist, journalist and parent, and illustrated by an experienced children's book artist, this title is part of an acclaimed and successful series of picture-book non-fiction for Early Years. Books in the series give advice and promote interaction between children, parents, and teachers on a wide variety of personal, social and emotional issues. They are excellent tools for teachers to use during classroom discussions.

About this title

About the Author

Pat Thomas is a trained psychotherapist, trainee Naturopath, journalist and mother. After working as a journalist and broadcaster in the USA, she now works in the field of women's health and child development and writes for publications such as The Guardian Company Magazine and Practical Parenting as well as contributing editor to Natural Parent Magazine. Her book 'MY Bees: My Family's Changing' was the winner of The English 4-11 Awards.

Edition details

• Publisher: Wayland
• Publication date: 2022
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1526317494
• ISBN 13: 9781526317490
• Binding: Paperback
• Illustrator: Harker Lesley
• Number of pages: 32