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• The Gift of Dyslexia: Why Some of the Brightest People Can't Read and How They Can Learn

  Ronald D. Davis, Eldon M. Braun

  
  The author shares the startling discovery that enabled him to overcome his own dyslexia, reveals how dyslexia can be related to high levels of intelligence, and offers a plan that anyone with dyslexia can use to conquer the common disability. Tour.
  
   

• The Special Educator's Survival Guide (J-B Ed: Survival Guides)

  Roger Pierangelo Ph.D.

  
  Written for educators who work with special children and teens, this second edition of a best-selling classic offers a practical guide to every facet of the special education teacher’s job, from teaching in a self-contained classroom or resource room to serving on a multidisciplinary team. This easy-to-follow format takes you step by step through the various stages required to understand the referral process, parent intakes and conferences, evaluation, interpretation, diagnosis, remediation, placement, individual education plans, classroom management, medication, educational law, and more.

  This second edition of The Special Educator’s Survival Guide is filled with helpful illustrations and has been completely revised to reflect the most current laws and standards. The book’s essential tools have also been refreshed including reproducible forms, checklists, and sample letters. Here are just a few outstanding new topics featured this unique guide:

  • A wide range of assessment and evaluation measures
  • Information for understanding individual education plans
  • Suggestions for meeting the parents
  • Step-by-step classroom procedures
  • Ideas for curriculum considerations
  • Helpful guidelines for writing lesson plans
  • The most current information about assistive technology for children with disabilities

  The book is organized into eight convenient sections and printed in a big 8-1Ú2" by 11" format with binding that folds flat for easy photocopying of the many useful reproducibles it contains.

  This important book is your unrivaled reference for helping you survive the pressures and reap the rewards of working with exceptional children.

  
   

• The Story of My Life (Lake Illustrated Classics, Collection 2)

  Helen Keller

  
  
   

• Life Skills Activities for Secondary Students with Special Needs

  Darlene Mannix

  
  A comprehensive, step-by-step, guide to 109 of the most commonly used intellectual, achievement, perceptual, and language tests used in special education as well as rating and adaptive behavior scales. Includes descriptions for each test and subtest, scoring, strengths and weakness. Shows how to interpret test scores for student IEPs in order to plan appropriate remedial instruction.
  
   

• The Elephant in the Playroom: Ordinary Parents Write Intimately and Honestly About the Extraordinary Highs and Heartbreaking Lows of Raising Kids with Special Needs

  Denise Brodey

  
  Candid, passionate, personal, and heartbreakingly funny, a view from within the whirlwind of parenting a child with special needs

  Three years ago, magazine editor Denise Brodey’s precocious four-year-old son, Toby, was diagnosed with a combination of sensory integration dysfunction and childhood depression. As she struggled to make sense of her new, often chaotic, often lonely world, what she found comforted her most was talking with other harried, hopeful, and insightful parents of kids with special needs, learning how they coped with the feelings they encountered throughout the day.

  In The Elephant in the Playroom, moms and dads from across the country write intimately and honestly about the joyful highs and disordered lows of raising children who are "not quite normal." Laying bare the emotional, medical, and social challenges they face, their stories address issues ranging from if and when to medicate a child, to how to get a child who is overly sensitive to the texture of food to eat lunch. Eloquent and honest, the voices in this collection will provide solace and support for the millions of parents whose kids struggle with ADD, ADHD, sensory disorders, childhood depression, Asperger’s syndrome, and autism—as well as the many kids who fall between diagnoses.

  Offering readers comfort, community, and much-needed perspective, The Elephant in the Playroom is sure to become essential reading for parents of special needs kids.

  
   

• Physical Education and Health Study Guide: Practice and Review

  Educational Testing Service

  
  Complete with a targeted review of all the material on the selected Praxis exam in addition to a full-length practice test, these test preparation guides are written by the makers of the real tests. Thorough explanations of the answers are provided and helpful test-taking strategies are found throughout the guide. The three categories of assessments covered correspond to the three milestones in teacher development-academic skills assessment, subject assessment, and classroom performance assessment. Reflecting the rigorous and carefully validated nature of the exams, these guides provide beginning teachers the information needed to succeed.
  
   

• Teaching Motor Skills to Children With Cerebral Palsy And Similar Movement Disorders: A Guide for Parents And Professionals

  Sieglinde Martin

  
  (2007 Independent Publisher Award Bronze Medalist, Health/Medicine/Nutrition category)

  All children with cerebral palsy and other conditions that result in gross motor delays need help and reinforcement to learn basic motor skills, usually with assistance from a physical therapist. Because the degree of developmental delay varies greatly from child to child, a thorough motor evaluation is an important step before establishing a specific therapy plan.

  This new guide, written by an experienced physical therapist, provides parents with a complete understanding of how the physical characteristics of cerebral palsy and similar conditions--muscle tightness and weakness, increased or decreased flexibility, abnormal reflexes, impaired sensory perception--affect a child's ability to sit, crawl, stand, and walk.

  With that foundation established, the book offers dozens of practical, easy-to-follow exercises that address specific areas of motor delay and development, including:
  Head control;
  Muscle tone;
  Proper positioning;
  Involuntary movements;
  Stretching and flexibility;
  Balance and coordination;
  Strength training.

  The exercises are illustrated with photos, and many present one or two variations, which take into account a child s preferences and skill level. Additionally, every chapter includes profiles of children in therapy, and a set of frequently asked questions on the chapter topic.

  With Teaching Motor Skills, parents will be more knowledgeable about their child's unique set of strengths and weaknesses, and better able to contribute to his motor development. As the book emphasizes, learning new skills depends upon many factors, including the reinforcement of at-home therapy and good cooperation and communication between a child s physical therapist and parents.

  
   

• Steps to Independence: Teaching Everyday Skills to Children With Special Needs

  Bruce L. Baker, Alan J. Brightman

  
  Univ. of California, Los Angeles. Consumer text provides step-by-step guidance for parents in managing behavior challenges, strengthening partnerships with teachers, and using technology. Discusses how to help children develop skills in seven different areas of behavior. Previous edition: c1997. Softcover.
  
   

• Elementary Classroom Teachers as Movement Educators with Moving Into the Future and Powerweb/OLC Bind-in Passcard

  Susan K. Kovar, Cindy A. Combs, Kathy Campbell, Gloria Napper-Owen, Vicki J. Worrell, Susan Kovar, Cindy Combs, Vicki Worrell

  
  Elementary Classroom Teachers as Movement Educators is a practical guide written specifically for the nonspecialist. It is designed to inform future elementary classroom teachers about the discipline of physical education and the role they can play in producing physically active and healthy children. The text covers the variety of situations in which elementary classroom teachers may find themselves with respect to the physical education time of their students, from supporting a physical education specialist to managing a physical education program. It provides a strong introduction to fundamental physical education concepts as well as hundreds of sample activities and lessons.
  
   

• Classrooms That Work: They Can All Read and Write

  Patricia M. Cunningham, Richard L. Allington

  
  The Fifth Edition of Classrooms That Work emphasizes a core set of ideas across a variety of timely topics, providing a comprehensive, balanced treatment of instructional reading methods for struggling and culturally diverse students. Best-selling authors Pat Cunningham's and Dick Allington's clear and friendly writing style emphasizes the importance of promoting the integration of phonics and literature-based process writing and reading instruction to enhance ALL students' learning and reading skills. The book clarifies concepts, defines key terms, and offers just the right balance of research and practical coverage to make the content complete without being overwhelming. Chapter 4 addresses the topic of fostering fluency, providing teachers with a variety of ways to increase the amount of reading their students are doing and make sure that ALL students are learning to quickly and accurately read and spell the most common words. The authors also address how teachers can dramatically increase the amount of reading and writing their students do each day by incorporating literacy activities as teachers cover the content areas of math, science and social studies. Chapter 11 reflects the reality of the current student population in classrooms across America and suggests a variety of ways successful teachers differentiate their instruction to meet the needs of increasingly diverse classrooms.
  
   

• Children with Disabilities

  
  Children's Research Institute, Washington, D.C. Reference/text for students and professionals. Offers extensive coverage of developmental, clinical, educational, family, and intervention issues. Fully illustrated. Previous edition: c1997. DNLM: Disabled Children.
  
   

• Autism Spectrum Disorders: From Theory to Practice

  Laura J. Hall

  
  
   

• The Inclusive Early Childhood Classroom: Easy Ways to Adapt Learning Centers for All Children

  Patti Gould, Joyce Sullivan

  
  Easy, inexpensive ways to adapt your classroom to meet the needs of all children.
  
   

• Train Go Sorry: Inside a Deaf World

  Leah Hager Cohen

  
  This portrait of New York's Lafayette School for the Deaf is not just a work of journalism. It is also a memoir, since Leah Hager Cohen grew up on the school's campus and her father is its superintendent. As a hearing person raised among the deaf, Cohen appreciates both the intimate textures of that silent world and the gulf that separates it from our own.
  
   

• American Sign Language Green Books, A Teacher's Resource Text on Grammar and Culture (American Sign Language Series)

  Charlotte Baker-Shenk

  
  
   

• Instruction of Students with Severe Disabilities (6th Edition)

  Martha E. Snell, Fredda Brown

  
  This highly successful book addresses the full range of curriculum topics involved in educating individuals with severe disabilities. Instruction of Students with Severe Disabilities examines the principles behind teaching students with severe and multiple disabilities.  This edition includes more information on alternative assessment, a stronger focus on positive behavior interventions and supports, and additional strategies on peer relationships.
  
   

• Transition Planning for Secondary Students with Disabilities (3rd Edition)

  Robert W. Flexer, Robert M. Baer, Pamela Luft, Thomas J. Simmons

  

  A comprehensive, yet practical, text for diverse courses that contribute to the transition process, Transition Planning for Secondary Students with Disabilities, Third Edition, describes the varied transition needs of students with disabilities and the myriad options and career paths potentially available.  The authors' approach to transition is treated in a generalized way by cross-categorical, practical, and “real” transition examples. KEY TOPICS: Redesigned to focus more directly on supporting teachers and professionals in developing and implementing transition activities, the revision remains comprehensive and provides broad coverage of transition content, ranging from the legislative-policy base to specific transition activities. More so than in previous editions, the third edition content reflects transition issues confronted at the high school level, problem-solving strategies, and updated content that reflects the IDEA.  Readers of the text will find a framework for four essential elements of transition that presents themes to organize each chapter, connecting content across chapters and topics, derived from the IDEA legislation.  The resulting integration of policy and practice systematically builds the reader's understanding and provides guidelines for daily transition activities.  Outcomes of transition services, across various middle school, secondary, and postsecondary programs are viewed in the book from the perspective of post-school outcomes and quality of life. The combined process and outcome analysis will help the reader determine whether transition programs are doing things right, and if they are doing the right things.  

   

  
   

• You Don't Look Sick: Living Well With Invisible Chronic Illness

  Joy H. Selak, Steven S. Overman

  
  “Coming to terms with this reality was a lot like accepting the death of a loved one.”
  
  You Don’t LOOK Sick!: Living Well with Invisible Chronic Illness chronicles a patient’s true-life accounts and her physician’s compassionate commentary as they take a journey through the three stages of chronic illness—Getting Sick, Being Sick, and Living Well. This resource helps you focus on building a meaningful life that contains illness as opposed to a life of frustration and fear. Designed for patients in at all stages of the chronic illness journey, this book will also be illuminating for caregivers and loved ones.
  
  From the book:
  “I’ve learned that having a chronic illness is not a prison sentence. It does not mean I must spend the rest of my life feeling depressed and angry, locked away from the world inside my little sick box. It does not mean that I am useless and no longer have any gifts to share, but it may mean that I must develop some new ones.”
  
  You Don’t LOOK Sick! addresses practical aspects of chronic illness, such as:
  

  • hiring a doctor
    
  • managing chronic pain
    
  • coping with grief and the loss of function
    
  • winning battles with health and disability insurers
    
  • countering the social bias against the chronically ill
    
  • recognizing the limitations of chronics illness care and charting a path for change
    

  In You Don’t LOOK Sick!: Living Well with Invisible Chronic Illness, you will find stories, dialogue, humor, examples, and analogy of the three stages to illustrate a challenging but navigable journey. You will also find suggested reading materials for learning to live well, medical Internet resources, illness-specific Web sites, names and addresses of national associations, and a bibliography of medical books by topic. The short chapters and straightforward language of the book will be helpful for readers who are weary and dispirited.
  
  From the authors:
  “I've learned that having a chronic illness is not a prison sentence. It does not mean I must spend the rest of my life feeling depressed and angry, locked away from the world inside my little sick box. It does not mean that I am useless and no longer have any gifts to share, but it may mean that I must develop some new ones.”
  —Joy H. Selak
  
  “My goal is to work with patients so that, like world class athletes, they can perform at their peak capacity. My job is more than giving answers; I must educate, counsel and encourage patients to set goals and implement a personal care program as well as take appropriate medications.”
  —Dr. Steven Overman
  
  The authors are experienced public speakers. If you wish to inquire about their availability to speak to patients or health care professionals, please contact Joy Selak by email at JoyWrites@austin.rr.com.