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Workshops for Siblings of Children with Special Needs
Presents a guidebook for organizing and conducting workshops for siblings of children with a variety of special needs. These workshops provide children and young adults with social and emotional support from their peers in a recreational and fun atmosphere. This edition includes a chapter on Sibshops Standards of Practice.
Helps in-service and pre-service teachers understand how students with mild to significant autism can be perceived as literate and then supported to participate in literacy activities both in and out of school.
Helps pre- and inservice early childhood general and special educators: gain a foundation for understanding social competence; examine key influences on social development - family, culture, classroom, and friendships; and, pinpoint strategies for social interaction interventions specific to different populations.
Provides a comprehensive overview about how to evaluate whether a mother with a mental illness is able to safely care for her children. This book synthesizes the research about psychiatric disorders and parenting and outlines eight principles for sound assessment methodology. It provides a step-by-step description of a parenting evaluation.
Promoting Typical Lifestyles for Adults with Significant Disabilities
Includes an introduction that addresses the background and evolution of day services, national trends, and guiding principles for meaningful daytimes. This volume discusses: transition from school to meaningful lives, how individuals have used their own initiative to create work and work alternatives, lifelong learning/adult education, and more.
A Guide for Service Providers, Families and Congregations
Addresses how faith communities, service providers, and families can work together to support the full participation of individuals with disabilities in the faith community of their choice. This book incorporates practical strategies, vignettes, case examples, resource lists, and photocopiable forms, checklists, and interview guides.
Features a tool specifically designed to rate the early literacy environment in home-based child care settings. This title assesses environments that include children of various ages, from birth to 5 years.
Features a tool specifically designed to rate the early literacy environment in home-based child care settings. This title assesses environments that include children of various ages, from birth to 5 years.
When professionals and parents meet to discuss a child's goals, both sides will find that comfort, confidence, and equality are crucial to a successful planning partnership. This encouraging DVD shows the way. It gives viewers an inside look at an actual IEP meeting for Alejandro, a young boy with multiple disabilities.
