Laughter and Tears Learning Disabilities Using puppets and creating narratives

Using puppets and creating narratives about them encourages patients to build communities and to release themselves from the hold of the trauma of their pasts

New reflections appear on concepts such as physical literacy and whether or not incidence of dyspraxia has increased

The book includes tips and advice from Jan

for a variety of clinical issues and age ranges

honest and laugh-out-loud tale of bringing up Bobby

Laughter and Tears Learning Disabilities Using puppets and creating narrativesHad we had just one wish to be granted in the past in coping with Mark's autism, what would we have asked for? We would have asked for the gift of wisdom. The wisdom that comes with knowledge.' Ann Hewetson, Chapter 19 Laughter and Tears is a first hand account of parenting Mark, a young man with autism, and also of a mother's struggle to understand and appreciate her son's condition. Ann Hewetson's moving and thoughtful account describes Mark's