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Teaching Reading Comprehension to Students with Learning Difficulties, 2/E
This practitioner resource and course text has given thousands of K-12 teachers evidence-based tools for helping students--particularly those at risk for reading difficulties--understand and acquire new knowledge from text. The authors present a range of scientifically validated instructional techni... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2015 -
Critical Issues in Special Education, Third Edition
Critical Issues in Special Education is an analysis of important conceptual and practical issues that face special education professionals. Part One illustrates the background and status of special education through current analysis of fundamental guiding practices. Part Two focuses on key practices... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2000 -
Systematic Instruction of Functional Skills for Students and Adults with Disabilities
by Keith Storey • Craig MinerA text on vocational guidance of individuals with disabilities.... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2011 -
Missing Pieces: A Chronicle of Living With a Disability
he personal odyssey of a man with a disability, this passionate book tries to tell as well as analyze what it is like to have a disability in a world that values vigor and health. Zola writes, "Missing Pieces is an unraveling of a social problem in the manner of Black Like Me. Like its author, I, to... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 1982 -
Medical Myths That Can Kill You: And the 101 Truths That Will Save, Extend, and Improve Your Life
"Do you know what's really good for you?" In this age of countless miracle cures, it's vital to separate the myths that endanger your health from the medical truths you need. TRUTH: Unfiltered coffee can clog your arteries. TRUTH: Tossing and turning at night may shorten your life. TRUTH: Boring job... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2008 -
Foundations of Rehabilitation: Counseling with Persons Who Are Blind or Visually Impaired
Rehabilitation professionals have long recognized that the needs of people who are blind or visually impaired are unique and require a special knowledge and expertise for the provision and coordination of effective rehabilitation services. Contributions to this text from more than 25 experts provide... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 1997 -
Assessing Learners With Special Needs: An Applied Approach (Seventh Edition)
Assessing Learners with Special Needs: An Applied Approach, seventh edition, is a practical book designed to teach you about the complex procedures of the assessment process. Each chapter starts out with a chapter focus that contains CEC Knowledge and Skills Standards that show you what you are ... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2012 -
The New Disability History: American Perspectives
Disability has always been a preoccupation of American society and culture. From antebellum debates about qualification for citizenship to current controversies over access and reasonable accommodations, disability has been present, in penumbra if not in print, on virtually every page of American hi... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2001 -
Mobile Learning for All: Supporting Accessibility With the iPad
by Luis PérezThis book provides practical information for teachers and other educational professionals who want to learn how to use the iPad to meet the needs of all learners. ... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2013 -
Psychosocial Aspects of Disability (Fourth Edition)
This new edition of Psychosocial Aspects of Disability strikes a balance of past, present, and future views of individual, family, societal, and governmental interaction and reaction to persons with disabilities. The past is presented in Part 1, Psychosocial Aspects of Disabilities, in which a view ... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2011 -
Australian Sign Language (Auslan)
This is first comprehensive introduction to the linguistics of Auslan, the sign language of Australia. Assuming no prior background in language study, it explores each key aspect of the structure of Auslan, providing an accessible overview of its grammar (how sentences are structured), phonology (t... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2007 -
Arnie and His School Tools: Simple Sensory Solutions That Build Success
This text describes an exuberant little boy who had difficulty paying attention in class and doing his school work until he was equipped with the tools to accommodate his sensory needs. This book describes some of the sensory tools and strategies he uses at school and home to help him achieve an opt... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2008 -
ADHD and Me: What I Learned From Lighting Fires at the Dinner Table
From being tied down to a kitchen chair by a frustrated babysitter, to foiling bullies, and launching rockets into neighbors' swimming pools, the stories from Blake Taylor's life with attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) are at times hilarious, poignant, and instructive. This eminently re... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2007 -
The Making Of Blind Men
<P>The disability of blindness is a learned social role. The various attitudes and patterns of behavior that characterize people who are blind are not inherent in their condition but, rather, are acquired through ordinary processes of social learning. The Making of Blind Men is intended as a syste... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 1969 -
The Haunted History Of The Trans-Allegheny Lunatic Asylum
by Sherri BrakeIce-pick Lobotomies * Straight Jackets * Seclusion Cells * Ice Water Baths Sounds like scenes from a horror movie. Welcome to the 19th century asylum. It held the demented, the insane and the unfortunate. Come explore ghosts and haunted history with author Sherri Brake. Built in the 1860's to hou... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2014 -
Sign to Learn
Everyone is talking about signing with young children. As a form of early communication for infants and toddlers, or as a transitioning tool for children just beginning to speak, the benefits of signing with hearing children are endless.Sign to Learn is the first complete introduction to sign langua... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2005 -
Rain Reign
Winner of the Schneider Family 2015 Middle School Award<P><P> Rose Howard is obsessed with homonyms. She's thrilled that her own name is a homonym, and she purposely gave her dog Rain a name with two homonyms (Reign, Rein), which, according to Rose's rules of homonyms, is very special. Not everyo... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2014 -
Disability Bioethics: Moral Bodies, Moral Difference
Jackie Leach Scully argues that bioethics cannot avoid the task of considering the moral meaning of disability in humans--beyond simply regulating reproductive choices or new areas of biomedical research. By focusing on the experiential and empirical reality of impairment and drawing on recent work ... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2008 -
Raising the Shy Child
The fear of being judged by others in social activities is a common human experience, especially during childhood. But when the fear becomes all-consuming, it can disrupt daily functioning and the development of social competency. Raising the Shy Child: A Parent's Guide to Social Anxiety takes a fre... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2015 -
No Finish Line: My Life as I See It
Marla Runyan was nine years old when she was diagnosed with Stargardts disease, an irreversible form of macular degeneration. With the uneasy but unwavering support of her parents, she refused to let their diagnosis limit her dreams. Despite her severely impaired, ever-worsening vision, Marla rode ... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2001 -
A Disease Called Childhood
A surprising new look at the rise of ADHD in America, arguing for a better paradigm for diagnosing and treating our children In 1987, only 3 percent of American children were diagnosed with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder, also known as ADHD. By 2000, that number jumped to 7 percent, and in... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2015 -
Understanding Girls with ADHD
A ground-breaking book on the needs and issues of girls with attentional problems: why they are often undiagnosed, how they are different from boys, and what their special needs are in school, in their social world and at home. Age-related checklists from pre-school to high school help parents and p... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 1999 -
All I Can Handle: I'm No Mother Teresa
"Dr. Spock? Check. Penelope Ann Leach (remember her?)? Check. What to Expect When You're Expecting? Check. I had a seven hundred dollar Bellini crib for God's sake! I was perfect. And so was Mia when she was born . . ." ...and so begins Kim Stagliano's electrifying and hilarious memoir of her family... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2010 -
She Walked by Faith Not by Sight
Jenny Peterson's life changed when she had a rare condition that left her legally blind and aware of God. Over the next thirty-three years she grew in her faith and allowed God to take control. With that control God led Jenny to doctors who not only saved her life but restored her sight.... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2014 -
Copy This!: Lessons From A Hyperactive Dyslexic Who Turned A Bright Idea Into One Of America's Best Companies
by Paul Orfalea • Ann MarshBill Moyers said this about Paul Orfalea after reading Copy This!: "If I could live my life over again, I would sit at his feet and listen to everything he has to say. " And David Brancaccio, host of NOW on PBS, wrote: "As the host for a decade of a daily business program, I had to read what seemed ... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2005