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Price £14.95
Format 235 x 180mm, 144 pages, paperback
H S A Press
Celebrating Families is a new book that shares stories of how families have used person centred thinking. This book is a practical guide for parents. It’s all about appreciating each individual in your family and discovering how they prefer to negotiate a path through life. It’s all about ensuring that what is important to all members of your family (including you, the parent) are met as fully as possible.
For more information or to order directly, please visit www.celebratingfamilies.co.uk
Price £14.95
Format 205x145mm, 94pp, paperback
H S A Press
Older people want real choices and the responsibility to choose the best possible lifestyle for them. CSCI's (Commission for Social Care Inspection) report Making Choices, Taking Risks looked at the experiences of older people and carers who need support to live their daily lives. A key message was the need for help to adjust to the life changes (and societal attitudes) associated with ageing - not just to arrange care services. Practicalities and possibilities, and the development programme that will operate alongside it in 2007-08, offers practical guidance as well as a conceptual framework for enabling this to happen so that real improvements are seen and felt by older people in all aspects of their lives.
Powerful stories and examples shared in this book, will influence the way you think and act, whether you are a professional, an older person, family member or policy maker.
Price £14.95
Format 300x210mm, 134pp, wirebound
H S A Press
This resource has come about in response to the learning of schools that have been involved in the person centred transition review programme. As these schools extend the delivery of person centred reviews, they find they are making changes to all aspects of school life. For example, alterations to lesson plans allow for preparation for reviews to take place and cross curricular teaching methods enable a creative approach. The resource outlines many examples of such changes.
In addition to the specifics of reviews, enabling all students participate in their review has highlighted the necessity of taking an individual approach to teaching and learning. We address some of the challenging questions practitioners are asking and bring together some of the innovative practice we have seen over the past few years. We aim to support those people facilitating change in mainstream and special schools.
The examples we show have been developed as the result of the learning needs of particular children. They will work for other children, but they will not be appropriate for all children. We invite you to think about how you could make appropriate resources to meet the needs of individuals and groups you work with.
Price £3.50
Format 190 x 210mm, 32pp, paperback
H S A Press
Total Communication is a communication philosophy - not a communication method and not at all a teaching method. Total Communication is an approach to create successful and equal communication between human beings with different language perception and/or production. To use Total Communication amounts to a willingness to use all available means in order to understand and be understood.
Also available as a free download by clicking on the Total communication. Person centred thinking, planning and practice link
by Michael W Smull and Helen Sanderson with Charlotte Sweeney, Louise Skelhorn, Amanda George, Mary Lou Bourne and Michael Steinbruck
Price £19.00 (bulk order 10+ Price £14.95)
295x210mm,166pp, paperback
This is the second edition of the facilitator's handbook, which is a resource manual for those people who develop essential lifestyle plans. Since first developing essential lifestyle planning in the late 1980s - early 1990s the authors have continued to learn how to better develop plans that helped people who use disability services get the lives that they wanted. This edition of the handbook moves from a focus on plans with people with disabilities, to plans for everyone who wants one. Essential lifestyle planning is now used with children and families, with people who have mental health issues, with older people and with people who have drug and alcohol issues.
What we teach and how we teach changes as we learn more about what needs to be present in order to develop good plans that make a difference. Much of our latest learning is reflected in this workbook. Our cautionary note is that we continue to learn. This is a snapshot of a moving target. If you have the first edition, look for the new material in this edition. If you find this edition useful, look for updates. If you are using this workbook and it is more than two years after the publication date, look for a new edition. And if you would like to contribute to the learning please contact us.
Following the introduction, the 8 chapters in this book are: person centred thinking; essential lifestyle planning; think before you plan; gathering information; developing the first plan; the planning meeting; putting the plan into practice and ongoing learning; going from first plans to great plans.
by Julie Lunt and Jonathon Bassett
Price: £4.50
Also available as a free download by clicking on The Best of Both Voices link
In this book Julie and Jonathon have used examples from
their own lives to demonstrate the eight person centred
tools, in four areas, in a clear and easy to use format. It will
enable advocates to:
• Find out about their partner
• Tell others about their partner
• Make sure that things happen for their partner
Advocates will find it useful to use them in their own lives to
understand how they work with their advocacy partners.
by Jo Kennedy, Helen Sanderson, Helen Wilson
Price £18.00
Format 280x210mm, 180pp, paperback
There is a growing nostalgia for the ‘good old days' when people looked out for the other folk in their neighbourhood. This book is not harking back to such a past, mythical or otherwise. Instead it is seeking to find ways of making the communities that we do have more inclusive. Most of the stories found here focus on people with disabilities but the approaches described could benefit anyone who feels excluded, particularly those with mental health problems or physical disabilities.
Our publications are available from Inclusion Distribution. Click the link to buy.
The minibooks are available as PDF files (Portable Document Format). Users will require the Adobe Acrobat Reader software to view and print these documents. Click the link to download or go to the PDF Help File page to find out about Adobe Acrobat Reader.
