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ASQ-3 is the most accurate, cost-effective, and parent-friendly way to identify children from birth to 5 years with developmental delays. This title includes 21 photocopiable questionnaires with scoring sheets (in English), and a CD-ROM with printable PDFs, in a handy carrying case.
Examines the relationship-promoting approach to child care. This book uses the metaphor of the dance to explain the give and take interactions between caregivers and children that help promote emotional, physical, cognitive, and language development.
Postsecondary Education Options for Students with Intellectual Disabilities
Uncovers the big picture of postsecondary options and reveals how to support students with disabilities before, during, and after a successful transition to college. This book features vignettes and first-person narratives from students and families that underscore the benefits and challenges of PSE.
With ASQ®-3 questionnaires in English and the Users Guide, this Starter Kit provides a low-cost, reliable way to screen infants and young children for developmental delays or concerns in the first 5 years of life.
Improving Outcomes for Babies in the Child Welfare System
Explores the needs of children in the child welfare system and offers ways to get them back on track. This book includes topics such as the history of child welfare advocacy, research and laws, legal advocacy, health care advocacy, early intervention advocacy, early childhood education advocacy, and future directions.
Suitable for assessment developers, researchers, policy makers, special education directors, and students in graduate-level courses in both special education and assessment, this book offers an investigation of the challenges, successes, and key components of assessing alternate achievement standards.
Intends to help students develop a greater awareness of the relationships among phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics, and pragmatics. Primarily for classroom teachers of students grades 3 through 8, this book features activities, jokes, and riddles to increase students' metaphonological and phonological awareness.
Through a historical presentation of the relation of English phonics to spelling, writing, and reading, this book brings to teachers and reading researchers insights into the importance of phonics in education over several centuries.
A guide for professionals working with children with special needs in early childhood and ECSE settings who exhibit challenging behavior. It discusses behavior in terms of culturally-based practices and how to use Skilled Dialogue to implement positive intervention and behavior support from both a developmental and cultural viewpoint.
