The young person's guide to MS - for 10 to 16 year olds (reprint)
Highly commended at the British Medical Association (BMA) Patient Information Awards
For a young person whose parent is diagnosed with MS, it can be a very frightening experience and difficult to understand. We have given away 11,000 copies of 'The young person's guide to MS' to children who needed to know about MS. Due to its popularity we will be revising and reprinting this book.
The guide, aimed at 10 to 16 year olds, was produced with the help of Kerry Mutch (MS Specialist Nurse) and lots of young people who know what it is like to have a parent with MS. The book shares their experiences, worries and emotions about living with MS in their family. In addition to answering some of the questions they may have about MS, it also enables them to explore their feelings about MS and how it affects them, as well as helping them to realise that they are not alone in the feelings they may be experiencing.
We plan to print 10,000 copies of this book. Each copy will cost us £1.50 to reprint, so a donation of just £15 would pay for ten copies.
Donate to this project
Please quote 'Young person's guide to MS' when making your donation.To donate over the phone or by post, please call 01462 476700. Thank you for your support.
Here is some of the feedback we have received...
This is the best book I have seen to date to help young people. My children were only 12, 9, and 4 years of age when I was finally diagnosed with MS. How I wish this little book had been available for them. I am now a grandmother and the look of joy on the face of my grandson, aged ten, was a delight when there in print was what I had tried to tell him. Thank you so much. Keep up the good work.
I have just received a copy of the Young Person's guide to MS and wanted to say thank you to the MS Trust and Kerry Mutch for writing and publishing it. There was definitely a gap in the market for a book like this and I have already been able to give it to a client's daughter who has found it very useful.
To all the people involved in producing "A Young Persons Guide to MS" What a brilliant book. Having being diagnosed with MS a year ago the hardest part has been dealing with my 11 year old daughter, who has not been able to handle the diagnosis as well as the rest of us. She missed a quarter of last year from school through illness caused by worrying about me, and I don't think the school took her or our concerns seriously. Although she has read all the literature that we had available to us nothing was right for her. In fact I had decided to write a booklet with her dealing with her worries / issues etc - but Kerry Mutch and friends have beaten me to it - thank goodness - and so much better than I would have done it too. Eleanor now knows that we are going through the same as many other families and she is not alone. Thank you.