Special Education category: 3739 books
Questions from Those Who Know
Sensory Processing Disorder
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2013
As a mother of a child with sensory processing disorder, I know you can have many unanswered questions about your child's or loved one's diagnosis. That is where the idea of "Questions From Those Who Know" came from. I teamed up with Jeanette Baker, founder of the popular Sensory Processing...
Prescription for Success
Supporting Children with Autism Spectrum Disorders in the Medical Environment
Language: English
Release Date: August 8, 2006
Because of the unique needs of children with ASD, it is important to pay special attention to the details of their experience in the medical environment. Designed to help make the medical experience easier for all involved, this book presents information on ASD, the varying developmental levels, interventions,...
Thinking Differently
An Inspiring Guide for Parents of Children with Learning Disabilities
Language: English
Release Date: August 26, 2014
An innovative, comprehensive guide—the first of its kind—to help parents understand and accept learning disabilities in their children, offering tips and strategies for successfully advocating on their behalf and helping them become their own best advocates.
In Thinking Differently, David...
Fully Alive
Discovering What Matters Most
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2014
On a quest for what matters most, Timothy Shriver discovers a radically different, inspiring way of life.
At a time when we are all more rudderless than ever, we look for the very best teachers and mentors to guide us. In Fully Alive, an unusual and gripping memoir, Timothy Shriver shows how...
Fighting for Taylor
A Mother and Child’S Journey of Inclusion
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2012
We must recognize that the suffering of one person or one nation is the suffering of humanity. That the happiness of one person or nation is the happiness of humanity.
Fighting for Taylor presents the autobiographical story of a single mother struggling against the odds to support her child...
Mobile Learning for All
Supporting Accessibility With the iPad
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2013
Make learning more accessible with your iPad!
All students—including those with special needs—can benefit from having options for how they access curricular information. The good news is that help is readily available on your iPad! With this engaging, all-in-one resource from an Apple Distinguished...
Social Skills Success for Students with Autism / Asperger's
Helping Adolescents on the Spectrum to Fit In
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2011
The only evidence-based program available for teaching social skills to adolescents with autism spectrum disorders
Two nationally known experts in friendship formation and anxiety management address the social challenges faced by adolescents with autism spectrum disorders (ASD). The book helps...
Raising a Left-Brain Child in a Right-Brain World
Strategies for Helping Bright, Quirky, Socially Awkward Children to Thrive at Ho me and at School
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2009
Does your child:
• Have impressive intellectual abilities but seem puzzled by ordinary interactions with other children?
• Have deep, all-absorbing interests or seemingly encyclopedic knowledge of certain subjects?
• Bring home mediocre report cards, or seem disengaged...
Teaching Students With High-Incidence Disabilities
Strategies for Diverse Classrooms
Language: English
Release Date: December 29, 2016
To ensure that all students receive quality instruction, Teaching Students with High-Incidence Disabilities prepares preservice teachers to teach students with learning disabilities, emotional behavioral disorders, intellectual disabilities, attention deficit hyperactivity, and high functioning autism. ...
by Simon Bishop
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2008
'[This] resource would have enormous value for all who are considering developing nurture provision within their school, as it provides a clear overview of the practical considerations involved and provides guidance on the tools that need to be devised. This well thought out resource will reduce the...
Train the Brain to Hear
Understanding and Treating Auditory Processing Disorder, Dyslexia, Dysgraphia, Dyspraxia, Short Term Memory, Executive Function, Comprehension, and ADD/ADHD (Second Edition)
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2017
Train the Brain to Hear was written by a parent and teacher for parents and teachers. The book provides explanations of the learning disabilities dysgraphia, dyslexia, dyscalculia, dyslexia and auditory processing disorder as well as the common areas that are affected by learning disabilities including...
Rhineheart’S Game
Level One—Understanding
Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2014
Rhinehearts Game, Level One Understanding is the first book about Nicolas James Farnsworthwho goes by NJ. He was born with Spina bifida to a large family in a big city where money is scarce. When the new school year started, all the students in the special needs class were issued a laptop computer...
Can I tell you about Sensory Processing Difficulties?
A guide for friends, family and professionals
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2015
Meet Harry - a young boy with sensory processing difficulties. Harry invites readers to learn about why he finds it hard to process sensory information effectively, and how even simple thing such as washing, dressing and coping with meal times can be challenging for him. He also talks about difficulties...
The Call of Stories
Teaching and the Moral Imagination
Language: English
Release Date: December 9, 2014
From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Children of Crisis, a profound examination of how listening to stories promotes learning and self-discovery.
As a professor emeritus at Harvard University, a renowned child psychiatrist, and the author of more than forty books, including The Moral Intelligence...