Special Needs Resources

Special Needs Resources
Developmental Disabilities, End of Life Issues, Grief


	1001 Delicious Recipes for People With Diabetes A winning combination of the most recent nutritional recommendations and contemporary culinary tastes, this book is the one book all those with diabetes should have in their kitchen library. This huge cookbook contains 16 chapters of delicious recipes that are suitable for a diabetic diet, and since they taste as good as they are good for you, this book makes it easy to prepare satisfying and delicious meals that the whole family will enjoy. Cook once, and for all!

	A Parents Guide to Middle Ear Infection Answering questions about ear infections in understandable terms. Anatomy, physiology, and coping at home and socially.

	A Survival Guide for Child Care Providers: Tips From the Trenches This purposeful book of tips, reflections, and quotes is based upon anecdotal observations of educators with years of resourceful experiences to share with others in the teaching profession. Serving as a focus for the book are Seven Guiding Principles that are oriented toward early childhood education.

	A+ Guide to Transitions from High School to College for Special Education: A Guide for Parents & Students; A Tool for Educators Play is more than just fun; it’s a powerful teaching tool that helps young children learn. With this practical, activity-filled guide, you’ll have ready-to-use strategies for weaving individual learning goals into play throughout the school day. Created for use with children ages 2 to 5 who have special needs — but equally effective for typically developing children.

	Achieving Learning Goals Through Play: Teaching Young Children with Special Needs: Second Edition Play is more than just fun; it’s a powerful teaching tool that helps young children learn. With this practical, activity-filled guide, you’ll have ready-to-use strategies for weaving individual learning goals into play throughout the school day. Created for use with children ages 2 to 5 who have special needs — but equally effective for typically developing children.

	Adults with Down Syndrome People with Down syndrome are living longer, fuller lives than ever before — and now for the first time ever, there’s a comprehensive, reader-friendly book on the social, clinical, legal, and personal issues they’ll navigate in adulthood. Internationally recognized authority Siegfried Pueschel blends contributions from respected experts with first-person essays by adults with Down syndrome themselves. Together, they answer readers' critical questions about what adults experience and how to support their goals, dreams, choices, and overall well-being.


	Ages and Stages: Revised Edition Many people enjoy young children; a gifted few really understand and respect them. Karen Miller has gleaned her insights through years of work with programs serving young children and families, and has had an impact on the care of children all over the world. Readers reap the benefits in this informative, insightful, practical introduction to physical and intellectual development.

	An Introduction to Mental Retardation & Developmental Disabilities: High Tide Disability Series This handbook will fill a void in the education of anyone working with people who have mental retardation or developmental disabilities. A much needed survey of the field, this handbook provides the background from which to understand these disabilities, definitions of the many terms and disabilities associated with MR & DD, their causes, histories, and treatments. This book will provide the foundation you need in learning about this fascination and complex field of study. For professionals working in the field, as well as parents, guardians, and family members, this handbook is and ideal resource.

	Babies With Down Syndrome: A New Parents' Guide - 2nd Edition A newly revised complete and compassionate guide, written by doctors, nurses, educators, lawyers, and parents.


	Best And Promising Practices In Developmental Disabilities An excellent reference guide for implementing practices in settings that serve students with developmental disabilities.

	C.O.A.C.H. Choosing Outcomes And Accommodations For Children: A Guide To Educational Planning For Students With Disabilities This user friendly popular planning tool provides detailed explanations, explicit instructions, "helpful hints" for each step, and tabs for pinpointing information. It contains established, practical, and field tested methods for both special and general educators, relayed service providers, school administrators, and parents who work toward creating a meaningful IEP for each students.

	Challenging Behaviors in Early Childhood Settings: Creating a Place For all Children Created for teachers, child care providers, and other professionals in early childhood settings this strategy-filled resource helps address a wide range of challenging behaviors in students with or without disabilities. This book helps early childhood teams assess the classroom environment and link effective behavioral interventions to developmentally appropriate curricula and teaching practices.

	Children and Grief: When A Parent Dies This book offers a richly textured portrait of the mourning process in children. The volume presents major findings from the Harvard Child Bereavement Study and places them in the context of previous research, shedding new light on both the wide range of normal variation in children's grief and the factors that put bereaved children at risk. Included is an exploration of the clinical implications of the findings and includes a review of intervention models and activities as well as a screening instrument designed to help identify high-risk bereaved children.

	Children With Down Syndrome: A Guide For Teachers And Learning Support Assistants In Mainstream Primary And Secondary Schools This practical handbook offers advice on strategies for meeting the special educational needs of children with Down syndrome in mainstream schools. The aim is to increase the confidence of support assistants and others in providing a quality education for their pupils.

	Classroom Language Skills For Children With Down Syndrome: A Guide For Parents And Teachers This practical guide offers teachers and parents proven ways to help kids with down syndrome master the language of curriculum and instruction, the language of classroom routines, testing, and social interaction. Applicable for students from kindergarten through middle school, it contains dozens of exercises and worksheets offer adaptations that can be used immediately in the classroom and home.

	Conducting Effective Conferences With Parents Of Children With Disabilities A superb source of knowledge and skills necessary to conduct effective conferences with parents of children with disabilities. It shows a solid understanding of the challenges families face as a consequence of childhood disability, and the issues that are likely to rise in meetings with school professionals.

	Count Us In: Growing Up With Down Syndrome Mitchell Levitz and Jason Kingsley share their innermost thoughts, feelings, hopes and dreams, their lifelong friendship and their experience of growing wp with Down syndrome.

	Dictionary of Developmental Disabilities Terminology: Second Edition The second edition is an invaluable tool for anyone who cares for or works with individuals who have developmental disabilities. In this updated and expanded edition, readers will find: Clear, concise, and jargon free definitions of more than 3,500 disorders, theories, medications, interventions, diagnoses, organizations, assessments, public laws, and more.; More Terminology used in the field; Illustrations, tables, and charts that clarify and supplement the definitions; and Synonyms and cross-references that increase readers' knowledge of terms and make the book easy to use. Written by a diverse group of professionals for a multidisciplinary audience, this comprehensive reference helps parents, students, and professionals deepen their understanding of developmental disabilities, enhance their communication with each other, and find fast, reliable answers to crucial questions.

	DO-WATCH-LISTEN-SAY: Social and Communication Intervention for Children with Autism Backed by research-based methodology, this comprehensive assessment and intervention guide features a state-of-the-art assessment tool along with hundreds of creative ideas to promote social and communication skills. Practical background information on autism and guidelines for designing and implementing intervention plans round out this very informative guide.

	Down Syndrome: Birth To Adulthood: Giving Families The Edge

	Down Syndrome: Living and Learning in the Community This book will prove an invaluable tool for parents and health care professionals, enabling people with Down syndrome to cope with the problems they face and participate to the fullest in community life.

	Down Syndrome: The First 18 Months This VHS provides an excellent blend of professional expertise and advice and support from parents. It's visually engaging and the information is invaluable. It talks about the health concerns, even therapies and new expectations parents can look forward to for their child. There's nothing else like it available.

	Dyslexia, Fluency, And The Brain Consider the time it takes for the brain to process written language. What impact does the brain's processing time have on reading, development? What are the relationships among processing time, reading fluency, and dyslexia? Can time and fluency related problems be changed? How should intervention be designed to address the issue. This monumental resource presents evidence indicating that many dyslexic children have a second core deficit in rate of processing linguistic differences in multiple areas. This book has been constructed to bring several levels of evidence and types of research to bear on these questions.

	Dyslexia: A Parents’ And Teachers’ Guide This book is a handy practical guide to the educational difficulties encountered by children with dyslexia. It examines methods to help them improve their reading skills, and relays the message in plain English with no technical jargon.

	Dystonia Dystonia is the third most common movement disorder after Parkinson's disease and Tremor. It is a neurologic disorder characterized by involuntary, sustained, patterned and often repetitive muscle contractions of opposing muscles that force parts of the body into abnormal and sometimes painful postures. Dystonia can affect any part of the body and while not fatal, it is a chronic and debilitating disorder. Managing dystonic conditions can be difficult in developing countries where there are limited diagnostic and therapeutic resources. The use of botulinum toxin, considered the treatment of choice for many focal or segmental dystonias, is discussed in regard to its cost effectiveness in the setting of limited resources.

	Early Communication Skills For Children With Down Syndrome: A Guide For Parents And Professionals New updated and expanded second edition of the popular "Communication Skills In Children with Down Syndrome". An excellent early childhood resource designed to provide professional expertise in understandable terms. Parents and teachers learn how infants and toddlers with Down syndrome develop communication skills; how their skills are evaluated by professionals and what activities they can practice with a child immediately to excourage a child's communication skill development. The basic age range covered is birth to about kindergarten but does include a look at what to expect when a child enters elementary school.

	Early Intervention/ Early Childhood Special Education: Recommended Practices This 15 chapter 448 page book is the culmination of the effort of DEC ( Division of Early Childhood) Recommended Practices Task Force to bring to the forefront validated practices in this arena. Included are Establishment of Practices; Assessment; Family Participation; General Curriculum and Intervention Strategies plus much more. Includes extensive charts, graphs and reference.

	Early Intervention: Practices Around the World This book spotlights effective practices at work in 13 countries. Readers will learn about innovations in four areas: service delivery models, family support, professional development, and organizational support. IN this book it looks at early intervention in one country discussing the social, political and economic contexts, describing the challenges and successes in implementing early intervention practices, and providing recommendations on how others can apply the lessons learned. With this broad international look at early intervention, early childhood professionals will expand their knowledge of the issues other cultures face and get the creative strategies they need to improve their own practice.

	Educating Children with Autism Compiled by the Committee on Educational Interventions for Children with Autism, of the National Research Council, this report explores what makes education effective for the child with autism and identifies the characteristics of programs that work. Specific recommendations are offered for choosing educational content and strategies, introducing interaction with other children, and other key topics.

	Educating Young Children with Special Needs This is a great guide to help comprehend working with children that have special needs. This nook outlines how to recognize when young children have atypical needs, individualize relevant programs for them, and make sure that they can participate socially with other children in the group. it highlights the importance of teachers' and caregivers' responsiveness both to the children and their parents. Individual chapters explain how to identify and meet the special needs of children with vision or hearing impairments and those with difficulties acquiring motor, daily living communication or intellectual skills. The emphasis is on assisting those with mild to moderate difficulties in any of these domains. This is and invaluable professional reference and student text for child care workers and pre-school teachers.

	Effective School Interventions: Strategies for Enhancing Academic Achievement and Social Competence This practical sourcebook presents more than 70 interventions that have been empirically demonstrated to improve the classroom learning environment, bolster academic achievement, and enhance student behavior and social competence. This book includes guidelines for designing, implementing, and evaluating school-based interventions, as well as case examples illustrating how several interventions can be combined to create a comprehensive program for individual students or entire classes.

	Even Little Kids Get Diabetes A cute story that shows just how much children can do, even when they have diabetes. From food to fun activities, this story shows it all.

	Fine Motor Skills In Children With Down Syndrome Written for parents, health professionals, and teachers, for use as a practical and accessible guide to developing and understanding fine motor skills in children with Down syndrome from infancy to early adolescence. Includes activities and instructions.

	Freeing Your Child From Anxiety: Powerful, Practical Solutions to Overcome your Child’s Fears In this book a childhood anxiety disorder specialist examines all manifestations of childhood fears, including social anxiety, Tourette's syndrome, hair pulling, and obsessive-compulsive disorder, and guides you through a proven program to help your child back to emotional safety. By following the simple solutions mentioned in this book, parents can prevent their children from needlessly suffering today and tomorrow.

	Functional Curriculum For Elementary, Middle, And Secondary Age Students With Special Needs: Second Edition A much needed new and revised resource on developing, implementing, and maintaining functional curricula for children and youth. A necessary tool for every educator. The 402 pages include 13 chapters beginning with the Principles of Curriculum Design; Instructional Program Design; Self Determination; Accessing the General Curriculum Within a Functional Curriculum Framework; Socialization; Peer Relationships, and Self-Esteem and much more . Useful for either preservice or inservice utilization.

	Gentle Willow: A Story For Children About Dying This is a book for children who may not survive their illness. This comforting story about a tender spirited tree and her friends in the forest will also help all children with the death of friends, family members or even pets. A healing metaphor, it addresses our feelings of sadness, love, disbelief, and anger, and provides children with a transformational way of viewing death and dying. This new Second Edition contains additional guidance to parents by children's author and psychologist.

	Grief Dancers: A Journey Into The Depths Of The Soul A mother's story of achieving unconditional love and acceptance of her handicapped child for who she is and not what she can or cannot accomplish. Exceptional Parent Reviewed in 9/98 Issue.

	Gross Motor Skills In Children With Down Syndrome: A Guide For Parents And Professionals A how to guide for meeting the challenges Down syndrome presents for gross motor development - coordination of large muscle groups and the sequencing of movements in young children. This book provides guidance for children ages birth through 6 years.

	Guiding Your Child Through Grief This caring and compassionate guide offers expert advise during the difficult days to help a child grieve the death of a parent or sibling. This book helps readers understand the many secret ways children grieve and offers more insights information, and advice that can help a child heal.

	How Children Learn Language This textbook provides students in education and special education with a complete understanding of the nature, processes, and dynamics of child language acquisition for both those with language disorders and those with normal language development, from birth to 3 years of age. Written in a narrative style that facilitates effective instruction and increased learning.

	How Do We Tell The Children? : A Step-By-Step Guide For Helping Children Two To Teen Cope When Someone Dies: Third Edition Drawing on more than three decades of experience helping families in crises the author provides valuable information for adults to help them understand what children are capable of understanding about the loss of a loved one and how they can help them cope.

	How To Help Your Child Succeed In School: Strategies And Guidance For Parents Of Children With ADHD The focus is on the key for success - a strong partnership in education between home and school. View real parents and their children cover topics that include: reading, writing, and math skill development; building of organization and study skills.

	I Can, Can You? This is a perfect book for parents and children to enjoy together. As your child sits on your lap and you read to him, he'll see other children with Down syndrome modeling some things he can do and some which he will soon do. Reinforce your child's abilities ("Look at the boy going down the slide. You can do that!") and encourage the possibilities ("Do you see the girl drawing a picture?"). What's more, as you read to your child and as he plays with the book and turns the pages, he will gain important pre-reading skills.

	Implementing Recreation and Leisure Opportunities for Infants and Toddlers with Disabilities The purpose of this book is to enhance and expand both the perception of recreation and leisure opportunities for young children. For the young child with a disability, the options for leisure activities exist in everyday life, at home, in day care, and within the community. These young children with developmental disabilities benefit from learning how to utilize leisure activities and experiences as a prelude to maximizing their non-school hours. This is a great book for parents and teachers who want outdoor recreation and sports programs in the community to begin to recognize the existence of young children with disabilities and their families.

	In Time And With Love: Caring For Infants And Toddlers With Special Needs This new completely revised and updated Second Edition is written in jargon free, parent friendly style and illustrated with 100 photographs. Filled with advice on feeding, dressing, disciplining, teaching, and assist.

	Including Youth with Disabilities in Outdoor Programs: Best Practices, Outcomes, and Resources Since little has been done to specifically study the inclusive practices and outcomes or benefits to all youth to help adapt programs to meet the needs of children with disabilities; the author has helped verify the benefits of including youth with disabilities in traditional outdoor programs, and give us practical information on best practices and ways to evaluate outcomes for all participants in inclusive outdoor programs.

	Inclusive Programming for Middle School Students with Autism/Asperser's Syndrome Teachers, parents and students alike will benefit from the insights and information outlining both theories and applications of inclusive programming for middle school students. Ms. Wagner's engaging and readable style, coupled with her extensive knowledge and classroom practice, makes this book indispensable for both professionals and nonprofessionals.

	Incorporating Social Goals in the Classroom: A Guide for Teachers and Parents of Children with High-Functioning Autism and Asperger Syndrome This book provides practical, hands-on strategies and lessons to teach social skills to children with high-functioning autism and Asperger Syndrome. Parents will find this an excellent training tool to help develop social education curricula for their children, and teachers will find it helpful as an easy-to-read manual containing many "nuts and bolts" strategies to use in the classroom.

	Incredible Edible Gluten Free Food For Kids: 150 Family Tested Recipes This incredible book is an invaluable resource for parents of young children with gluten sensitivities. It provides everything you need to know to cook easy and nutritious meals as well as sources for quality gluten-free products.

	Kids with Celiac Disease: A Family Guide to Raising Happy, Healthy, Gluten-Free Children The first practical survival guide for families of children and teenagers with this life-long digestive disorder. This guide covers everything from medical issues to shopping, food preparation, menu and snack ideas, and from eating outside the home to behavior management. An extensive resource section offers useful contacts for products and services. The information provided will save parents hours of unnecessary anguish and frustration and will help them deal with their challenges in a positive, constructive manner.

	Managed Care And Developmental Disabilities: Reconciling The Realities Of Managed Care With The Individual Needs Of Persons With Disabilities Often times the objective of managed care seem to be at odds with the individualized habilitation goals of persons with disabilities. This excellent informative book traces the advent of managed care in the U.S. from both the acute and long term care perspective, analyzes the forces at work in government and the healthcare industry, points to the likely future outcomes, and suggests several ways to make the most out of the significant changes to come for the field of developmental disabilities.

	Meeting With Success: Tips For A Successful IEP: Setting The Standard For Excellence A useful tool to help prepare both professionals and parents for the IEP process. It focuses on preperation, teamwork, and collaboration in the process.

	Music Therapy and Leisure for Persons with Disabilities Since the dawn of civilization, music has been used to heal and enhance wellness. Today's music therapy is both a science and an art, offering individuals with disabilities opportunities for greater health, well being and quality of life. The ten (10) chapters include an Overview; Populations Served; Music Therapy as a Primary Treatment Modality in Special Education; Models of Music Therapy Assessment and Treatment Planning in School Settings; Activities for Meeting IEP Goals and Objectives; Organizing Music Therapy Program; Resources, Readings and Supplies plus much more.

	Natural Harmony: Jade's Story This book is about the memoir of and endearing little girl named Jade, who was born with Down Syndrome and a congenital heart defect. Placed in foster care at birth, she eventually reunited with her mother, who struggled against all odds to get the best of her child. Despite the formidable obstacles she faced at times, this child was able to elicit genuine, deep emotion from everyone who came into contact with her. Any parent of a child with Down syndrome will be able to relate to Gail and Jade's heartwarming story- and it is a blueprint for how we should all fight for out children's rights.

	Neuroimaging: A Window to the Neurological Foundations of Learning and Behavior in Children Explores the application of anatomical and functional neuroimaging techniques and procedures to the understanding of specific medical conditions and developmental disabilities in children. Includes two chapters covering the basic biological and methodological concepts needed to understand neuroimaging procedures.

	Nonverbal Learning Disabilities at School Educating Students with NLD, Asperger Syndrome and Related Conditions This book, written by the mother of a child with NLD, not only explains NLD but also addresses environmental issues that will affect the child at school; suggests possible teaching strategies; and discusses social and emotional functioning. Each chapter concludes with a summary of the points emphasized for quick future reference. Also included is a glossary of terms, annotated bibliography, internet resources and helpful organizations.

	Nursing Students with Disabilities: Change the Course Nursing Students with Disabilities charts the course of eight nursing students who have disabilities as they complete arduous nursing training. The students’ stories, by themselves, are inspirational and educational. By describing their own challenges of deafness, Crohn’s Disease, physical disabilities, etc., the students show us that where there is a will there is a way.

	Overcoming Dyslexia: A New and Complete Science-Bases Program for Reading Problems at Any Level In this book Dr. Shaywitz instructs parents in what they can do year-by-year, grade-by-grade , step-by-step for a dyslexic child. She lays out a home program for enhanced reading; guides parents in choosing the best school for their child and in working with teacher. She also suggests ways of raising and preserving the child's self-esteem. This book provides exercises, teaching aids, information on computer programs, and many other invaluable resources. This is a cutting-edge research translated into an easy-to-follow plan of action offering help and hope to all who have reading problems, and their families.

	Overcoming Dyslexia in Children, Adolescents, and Adults: Third Edition This new revised third edition provides a thorough description of what science knows today about what causes the forms of dyslexia that are related to left brain language processing. A graphic illustration of how dyslexia impacts classroom learning, emotions, social behavior, job performance, and personal development.

	Parenting a Struggling Reader: A Guide to Diagnosing and Finding Help for Your Child's Reading Difficulties This is the first completely comprehensive, totally up to date, practical guide for recognizing, diagnosing, and overcoming any childhood reading difficulty. Acknowledging that parents often lose valuable years by waiting for their school systems to test for a child's reading disability the authors offer a detailed and realistic program for making parents activley involved in their children's reading development.

	Plan Your Day: Scheduling Skills For People With Special Needs Enliven your curriculum with video! Mary, a young woman with developmental disabilities, teaches her brother Carl and his friend Jason how to set and stick to schedules. After missing a big bowling league game, Carl and Jason are beside themselves. Getting somewhere on time is not one of their strong points. Yet to function independently, it's necessary to be able to make and keep appointments. Mary helps them learn how to set schedules and get there on time. Closed Captioned

	Remembering With Love: Messages Of Hope For The First Year Of Grieving And Beyond An affirming gift for those grieving the loss of a loved one, offering compassion, comfort and guidance with over three hundred short pieces written by those who have been there.


		Roadblocks to Learning: Understanding the Obstacles that can Sabotage Your Child’s Academic Success This general resource for parents aims to explain and define counterproductive behaviors and learning disorders that block a child’s academic progress. The book lists common symptoms of each difficulty, defines important terminology and suggests testing protocol and remediation strategies, when appropriate. Resources provide include a bibliography and 2 appendices.

		Sarah and Puffle: A Story for Children about Diabetes A young child deals with some of her feelings and frustrations about having diabetes. Offers comfort and validation to children with diabetes who have similar experiences. Also provides basis information about the condition is introduced. Ages 4 to 8

		Shorty: One simple wish. One extraordinary man Shorty is an inspirational documentary film about Walter "Shorty" Simms, a 55year old man with Down syndrome, and the Hampden-Sydney Tiger football team's #1 fan. This season in particular is very special to Shorty. Not only is his beloved Tiger football squad poised to make the playoffs for the first time in 26 years, but he is also being inducted into the Hampden-Sydney College Athletic Hall of Fame. Most important to Shorty however, is the fact that his 56th birthday falls on the day of the final game of the regular season against the Randolph-Macon Yellow Jackets - a 108 year rivalry known simply as "The Game."

		Small Steps Forward: Using Games and Activities to Help Your Pre-School child with Special Needs When young children are diagnosed with conditions such as Down syndrome, Autism or other forms of Developmental delay, there is much that parents can do to help. This book provides parents and caregivers with the information they require and a host of ideas to encourage their child's development. The games and activities suggested in the book use toys and materials which most children already have, and involve no special preparation. They are also fun to play. The book is divided into six areas--cognitive, linguistic, physical, sensory, social and emotional - for convenient reference. General issues, such as behavior management, toilet-training and sleep management, which may be encountered by parents with children with any form of disability-physical, learning or sensory. An outline of child development is provided so that parents can place their child's progress in context.

		Smart Baby, Clever Child: Brain-Building Games, Activities, and Ideas to Stimulate Your Baby’s Mind This book is filled with simple activities to help boost your baby's brainpower through fun, educational play. The games and activities in this book are specially tailored to fit into your baby's daily schedule, allowing flexibility and variety in your routine. Packed with useful advice this book has all you need to lay the foundation for a lifetime of learning and build cherish memories along the way.

		Something's Not Right: One Family's Struggle With Learning Disabilities From the perspective of a mother with dyslexia, this compelling story tells how she ensured that all her children received a good education, despite three of her four children having learning disabilities.
		Special Diets for Special Kids Two: Understanding and Implementing Special Diets to Aid in the Treatment of Autism and Related Developmental Disorders Within the pages of this new book, in an easy and readable manner, is a complex yet intriguing intervention strategy for helping children and adults with autism. Drawing from the authors own experience with removing gluten and casein from her son's diet, she answers the many questions parents and professionals might have about choosing a dietary intervention. Plus more that 150 good tasting recipes are included to start you off. These are broken down by Chapter and include Drinks; Breakfast; Lunch; Main Dishes; Holiday Fare; Snacks and much more. This is in a binder format for ease of use.

		Student Directed Learning: Teachers' Guides to Inclusive Practices Student directed learning has the power to promote student independence and competence in inclusive classrooms. Here you will find step by step instructions for helping students with mild, moderate, or severe disabilities learn self-monitoring, self-evaluation, self-instructions, problem solving, goal setting, and other student directed learning strategies. Teachers will benefit from: specific activities for plating each strategy to work in the classroom K-12; practical teaching tips; photocopiable worksheets and much more.
		Succeeding with Interventions… : A Guide to Communication and Socialisation in Interaction Therapy Focusing on the development of interaction skills through teaching social competence, the authors explain how to design an effective social skills intervention program whose primary objective is successful peer interaction. They describe the methodology, philosophy and science underpinning their approach and include a template for a sample course currently administered over six months. Guidance is given on what resources to choose from the wide range of available intervention programs, and many case study examples are also provided. The authors outline session formats, possible problems and solutions, and emphasize the significance of the therapist's attitude and the role of parents in building social confidence.

		Successful Kindergarten Transition: Your Guide to Connecting Children, Families & Schools A smooth transition to kindergarten is an essential part of a child's early academic experience. This guide has the field tested methods schools need to make this happen. This book outlines a model that has been adopted in diverse schools and communities and helps professionals step by step how to : Develop a solid transition plan for their school; Implement the Plan; Stay motivated and inspired.

		Successfully Parenting Your Baby With Special Needs: Early Intervention For Ages Birth To Three Discovering your baby has a special need can be a very traumatic experience. This video is designed to give parents hope and support through enlightening them to the wonderful benefits of Early Intervention. It describes a process designed for young children ages birth to three with unique needs. Includes Individualized Family Service Plan and much more.

		Sugar Was My Best Food Nine year old Adair tells of how diabetes brought big changes to his life. Little by little, he and his family learned to manage his illness, and after awhile life got better. This true story will help other kids in their struggle with diabetes. Age 8-13

		Teaching Conversation to Children with Autism Scripts and Script Fading Teaching Conversation to Children with Autism’ describes scripts that parents and teachers can use to help children learn to initiate conversation, thereby improving communication. Drs. McClannahan and Krantz authors of Activity Schedules for Children with Autism have successfully used scripts and script-fading techniques based on their clinical observations and research, and founded on applied behavior analysis principles. This book demonstrates that scripts are a valuable tool to improve interaction for children and even adolescents and adults.

		Teaching Math to People with Down Syndrome and Other Hands-On Learners: Basic Survival Skills This is about mastering math skills and concepts that are essential to surviving in a community. The focus is on teaching essential math-addition and subtraction--and concepts about time, money, counting, measuring, and the development of basic number sense which along with understanding sequences and place value, written numbers and the like as well as the ability to do simple computations will successfully nurture independence.

		Teaching Reading And Spelling To Dyslexic Children: Getting To Grips With Words A friendly book that helps both educators and parents teach dyslexic children to read and spell. It focuses on two original charts which present the main spelling patterns and rules of English.

		Teaching Reading To Children With Down Syndrome: A Guide For Parents And Teachers The only book on this subject, it describes a nationally known reading program that ensures success by presenting lessons which are imaginative and functional.

		Teaching The Infant With Down Syndrome: A Guide For Parents And Professionals The latest information on teaching activities for infants, resources for parents, medical facts about Down syndrome, and tips for parents on how best to help and enjoy their babies.

		The Alphabet War: A Story About Dyslexia How many times have parents and teachers thought that if children would just try harder, they could succeed! In this case Adam is a bright young boy who has dyslexia; he is just one of the many children with learning disabilities in schools today. This is a great book for parents and teachers to help them understand that there are ways to help a child with dyslexia learn even if it take a little bit more time then it would for any other "normal" student or child. Adam in this book struggled with reading and writing, but having a great support system behind him, gave him the confidence to start reading books on his own and not to give up on learning.

		The Dancing Dialogue: Using the Communicative Power of Movement with Young Children This eagerly anticipated volume brings to book format the popular program Dr. Tortora has presented to thousands of professionals. This book is a one-of-a-kind resource that combines insights from diverse disciplines, including psychology, neurobiology, occupational therapy, physical therapy, dance movement therapy, and early childhood development. No dance background is needed—the ideas and techniques are accessible for professionals from any field. Strategies are brought to life by the author’s vibrant, encouraging voice and the fascinating stories of children and adults engaging in the communicative dance.
		The Fable Of Mable With The Ladle At The Table: A Phonemic Awareness Tale This book is the second book in a series of early childhood books written by a speech-language pathologist and devoted specifically to phonemic awareness and language skills for early childhood through early elementary children. These stories are written with the intention of entertaining children while also teaching the concepts of phonemic awareness and language concepts for successful reading. It is excellent for parents as well as Head start teachers and speech/language pathologist.

		The GF Kid: A Celiac Disease Survival Guide “I’m no different than any other kid. I’m just a GF kid,” says Paris, matter-of-factly. She’s the spunky eleven-year-old narrator of this story for kids with celiac disease who must eat gluten-free (GF) foods. With equal parts humor and directness, Paris* gets right down to business explaining what it’s like to have celiac disease. (*Paris’s mom wrote the story, full of her daughter’s wisecracking comments, and her dad drew the funny, cartoony illustrations.)

		The Grief Club: The Secret to Getting Through All Kinds of Change After author Melody Beattie's son died, she found herself welcomed into new "club," a circle of people who had lived through the tragic loss of a child. This was not the first club in which she unwittingly found herself. Years earlier she found herself in Twelve Step groups, first balking, then later embracing the healing principles that she now credits with saving her life. But life, Ms. Beattie writes, is all about change. Not only do loved ones die, but once successful careers can careen out of control and debilitating diseases can rob you of future plans. Smaller losses can take a toll as well. She writes, "There's a secret to get through loss, pain and grief. If we're alone we can't see who we are. When we join the club, other people become the mirror. Through them, we see ourselves and gain an understanding of what we're going through. Then slowly, real slowly, we learn to accept who we see in the mirror. Then you become the mirror for them; by being honest about who you are, you'll help them learn to love and accept themselves."

		The Ketogenic Diet: A Treatment For Epilepsy: 3rd Edition Devoted exclusively to explaining a unique doctor approved approach to minimizing seizures, this book is a must have for all families affected by epilepsy and seizures. The diet presented within is high in fat and low in carbohydrates and protean, helping to control seizures and allow children to lead normal seizure and drug free lives.

		The Parent's Guide To Food Allergies: Clear And Complete Advice From The Experts On Raising Your Food-Allergic Child Whether you are the parent, relative, caregiver, or teacher of a food-allergic child, you know how challenging it is to keep that child safe, healthy, happy, and well fed. The team of authors behind this invaluable book-the mother of a food-allergic child, a board-certified allergist, and a psychologist-will take you through every step of life with a food allergic child. Included issues are: allergy testing-what you need to know; diagnosing and treating anaphylaxix; in depth discussion of top eight most common food allergies; recipes that are easy, delicious and kid friendly plus much more.

		The Power of Social Skills in Character Development: Helping Diverse Learners Succeed This essential teaching tool gives you the guidance and knowledge you need to put your students on the path to being mature, socially responsible adults. The 80 lesson plans and reproducible activity handouts are classroom tested for effectiveness and have proved their worth in helping young people develop healthy social relationships.

		The Secret Language Of Eating Disorders: How You Can Understand And Work To Cure Anorexia And Bulimia The engaging and inspirational true story of Peggy Claude Pierre and her successful battle against her daughter's and other children's eating disorders. She explains how the most powerful weapon against such conditions is unconditional love.

		The Secret Life of the Dyslexic Child: What She Thinks, What He Feels: How They Can Succeed This is a practical guide for parents and educators to appreciate the emotional struggles the dyslexic child faces and to understand the best ways to coach the child to higher self-esteem and achievement. For the first time ever, parents can learn what goes on inside dyslexic children: their fears, their frustrations, and their dreams.

		The Worst Loss: How Families Heal From The Death Of A Child How do families survive the worst loss? What helps people heal? What barriers are there to healing, and what will break down those barriers? Rosof, a child psychotherapist who has worked for many years with families who have lost children, offers a clear, sympathetic, no-nonsense guide to surviving "a loss like no other."

		Transdisciplinary Play Based Intervention: Guidelines For Developing A Meaningful Curriculum For Young Children With the skillfully organized TPBI Planner, teams members can choose from a wealth of fun activities to design meaningful IEPs/IFSPs. As IEPs and IFSPs are developed, corresponding intervention strategies and ideas are recorded on TIP Sheets for use at home and at school. The strategies and ideas can easily be modified based on families' needs and preferences.

		Transdisciplinary Play-Based Assessment: A Functional Approach To Working With Young People During a trandisciplinary play-based assessment, children's developmental level, learning styles, interaction patterns, and other behaviors are assessed in each of the four domains: cognitive, social-emotional, communication and language, and sensorimotor. The manual provides guidelines and worksheets for observing play, sample timetables, and specific suggestions for ensuring children's optimal performance.

		Transition to Adulthood: A Resource for Assisting Young People with Emotional or Behavioral Difficulties From the premier researchers, educators and practitioners in the field, this handbook delivers practical methods to help young people with emotional or behavioral difficulties pursue their interests and goals as they move into greater career oriented education, work, independence, and responsibility.

		Trick-Or-Treat For Diabetes This fun story helps children with diabetes realize there is more to Halloween than candy. It shows how they too can participate in the magic of Halloween just like all their friends.

		Understanding Ear Infections Designed as a clinical and educational aid to help educate patients about their ear problems. The artwork and diagrams have been simplified considerably to provide and easy to read and indexed format to take the mystery out of "Otitis Media".

		We're People First: A Celebration Of Diversity A collection of songs that celebrate diversity with joyful enthusiasm and also provokes thought about issues of human unity with ballads that touch the heart. Volume I designed to be used with elementary school age children. Volume II is teenager level.

		What Children Need When They Grieve - The Four Essentials: Routine, Love, Honesty, and Security This is a book that is with compassion and the knowledge that comes from the experience of loss, designed not to overwhelm with too much information, and with and introduction by an expert in childhood bereavement. after Julia lost her husband, her three children lost their father. Within hours, it became sharply clear that each child would grieve the loss in a radically different way. This book offers strategies, support and comfort for grieving families.

		What On Earth Do You Do When Someone Dies? A down to earth explanation for children about death; It offers many ways for children to cope with and understand what is happening.

		What Should I Eat? : A Complete Guide to the New Food Pyramid For the first time in more than a decade, the U.S. Department of Agriculture has revised the Food Pyramid–the government’s official recommendations concerning the nutrients our bodies require and the proportion of each we need to stay healthy. The new guidelines, called My Pyramid, have been significantly adjusted to reflect the latest scientific research on nutrition. They are also very confusing! What Should I Eat? helps clarify My Pyramid’s vast and complicated information and tells you exactly what you need to know in order to benefit from the new nutritional guidelines. Moreover, this essential manual will show you how to tailor My Pyramid for your specific health and fitness needs.

		What's Going On In There? How The Brain And Mind Develop In The First Five Years Of Life This thought provoking exploration of the questions critical to every prospective parent is a must read for every parent to be. Brilliantly blending cutting edge science with a mother's own insight and wisdom, this book shows parents and caregivers the innumerable ways which they can actually help their children grow better brains.

		When Children Grieve: For Adults to Help Children Deal with Death To watch a child grieve and not know what to do is one of the most difficult experiences for parents, teacher, and caregivers. And yet, there are guidelines for helping children develop a lifelong, healthy response to loss. In this 288 page book the authors have created a cutting-edge volume that will help free children from the false idea that they "shouldn't feel bad" and will empower them with positive, effective methods of dealing with loss.

		Your Child: Emotional, Behavioral, And Cognitive Development From Birth Through Preadolescence A step by step guide through the developmental milestones of childhood, discussing specific questions and concerns while also examining more troublesome problems that may arise. This book offers information on what is normal, what isn't, when to seek help, and how to find it whether the issue is promoting self esteem, or discerning what behaviors call for professional help.

		Your Child's Growing Mind: Brain Development and Learning From Birth to Adolescence: Third Edition This third edition book was first published in 1987. It is a must read for parents and teachers who want to understand the vital relationship between brain development and learning and behavior. In clear, easy-to-understand language, the author explains what the latest brain research tells us about how children develop language and memory, evolve emotionally, and learn skills necessary for reading, writing, and arithmetic. Along the way she gives practical suggestions for supporting children's thinking at different ages and stages of brain development, and for coping with different learning styles at every age. This book equips parents and educators with the information they need to make wise, confident decisions about how best to develop each child's unique pattern of abilities.