This audiobook provides support and advice to help you talk to children of any age, including teenagers, about cancer. It includes suggestions about how to tell a child or teenager you have cancer, understand their reactions, help them cope, explain cancer treatments and deal with changes to your family life.

Track 16 - Getting support

Track 15 - After treatment and spending time together

Track 14 - Explaining cancer treatment

Track 13 - Changes to family life

Track 12 - Your feelings

Track 11 - When teenagers need help

Track 10 - When children need help

Track 09 - Understanding children's and teenager's reactions

Track 08 - Who else needs to know about the cancer

Track 07 - Children with additional needs

Track 06 - Explaining cancer

Track 05 - How to talk to children and teenagers

Track 04 - Preparing to talk to children

Track 03 - Talking to children and teenagers

Track 02 - Introduction

Track 01 - Information about this audiobook and other support from Macmillan

Sound recording courtesy of Rowan Abrey
Photo courtesy of Frances Marshall

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On sale April 15th, 2025

A licensed psychologist and authority on dyslexia (who is also dyslexic herself) offers a practical guide to help parents and others support dyslexic learners throughout their school years.

Fifteen million children in the United States have been diagnosed with dyslexia. This learning disability is a major challenge not only for the kids, but also for their whole support network. Dyslexia doesn't have to be a disadvantage for kids, if the right tools are available. Parenting Dyslexia provides prescriptive advice and concrete tips to drive educational and personal growth without any associated stigma. An easy-to-use, comprehensive reference book for anyone caring for a dyslexic child to use at all stages of development, Parenting Dyslexia addresses the psychosocial and academic issues that dyslexic learners are likely to face at different stages, including:  
 
   ·Cultivating varied skills to balance out classic deficits.
   ·Developing effective self-esteem and academic habits to help overcome age-specific hurdles. 
   ·Establishing individual and family practices to prevent a child's feelings of isolation, anxiety, and depression.
   ·Survival tools to navigate the predictable challenges a dyslexic learner will likely encounter.
   ·Nurturing independence as well as a child’s ability to ask for help and become a strong self-advocate.

From her unique vantage point, Dr. Rappaport provides a relatable, sympathetic, and optimistic voice of personal experience to this sensitive topic. Grounded in science but written in non-technical language, Parenting Dyslexia offers a wealth of tried-and-true methods for supporting dyslexic learners of all ages.

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Parenting Dyslexia By Lisa Rappaport and Jody Lyons (Audiobook Excerpt)

Soundscapes is an electronic music course for adults with learning disabilities at The City Lit in London's Covent Garden. Students work on their own projects, composing music and sound that reflects the diversity of the learners. We have also worked together to create group compositions. 

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Whatever cancer throws your way, we’re right there with you to offer physical, financial and emotional support.

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