Description
| Product ID: | 9781849055130 |
| Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
| Country of Manufacture: | GB |
| Series: | Can I tell you about...? |
| Title: | Can I tell you about Pathological Demand Avoidance syndrome? |
| Subtitle: | A guide for friends, family and professionals |
| Authors: | Author: Phil Christie, Jonathon Powell, Ruth Fidler |
| Page Count: | 56 |
| Subjects: | Coping with / advice about illness and specific health conditions, Coping with illness & specific conditions, Children’s / Teenage personal and social topics: Disability, impairments and special needs, Personal & social issues: disability & special needs (Children's / Teenage) |
| Description: | Select Guide Rating In this illustrated guide Issy invites readers to learn about PDA, a part of the autism spectrum, from her perspective, helping them to understand how it causes her to find simple, everyday demands very stressful. Issy tells readers (aged 7 upwards) about all the ways she can be helped and supported by those around her. Meet Issy – an 11-year-old girl with pathological demand avoidance syndrome (PDA), a condition on the autism spectrum. Issy invites readers to learn about PDA from her perspective, helping them to understand how simple, everyday demands can cause her great anxiety and stress. Issy tells readers about all the ways she can be helped and supported by those around her. |
| Imprint Name: | Jessica Kingsley Publishers |
| Publisher Name: | Jessica Kingsley Publishers |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2015-01-21 |
