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Children with Autism A Parents Guide Edited by Michael D Powers, Psy.D Forward by Temple Grandin From the new parent coping with a child’s recent diagnosis to one who is an experienced advocate, this book is a must-have reference. Now completely revised and updated, this publication covers a multitude of special concerns including daily and family life; early intervention, educational programs; legal rights; advocacy. This book includes the latest information on current diagnostic criteria, Applied Behavior Analysis, IDEA, autism advocacy via the Internet and more. WP-300 / $17.95 / 5 .5" x 8.5" / 456 pgs / softcover |
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Children with Cerebral Palsy A Parents' Guide Edited by Elaine Geralis This edition provides a complete spectrum of information and compassionate advice about cerebral palsy and its effect on development and education during a child's first six years. Covers diagnosis, medical issues, family life, therapies, treatment, special education and more. A must read for both parents and educators. WP-304 / $16.95 / 5.5" x 8.5" / 470 pgs/ sc |
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Children with Fragile X Syndrome Edited by Jayne Dixon Weber This book provides a complete, sensitive introduction to Fragile X Syndrome, an inherited, genetic condition. This publication covers: diagnosis; parental emotions; therapies & medications; early intervention; education; daily care; legal rights and advocacy. A starred review in the Library Journal states this publication is “Essential for all consumer health collections.” WP-307X / $17.95 / 5.5” x 8.5” / 472 pgs / sc |
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Children with Tourette Syndrome - A Parents' Guide Informative handbook for parents of children and teens. This book covers medical, educational, legal, family life, daily care, emotional issues and more. An excellent resource for parents and educators. WP-305 / $14.95 / 5.5" x 8.5" / 352 pgs / sc |
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Children with Visual Impairments A Parents Guide Edited by M Cay Holbrook, Ph.D. For families of children with visual impairments ranging from low vision to total blindness. This book offers authoritative information and empathy, parental insight on diagnosis and treatment, orientation and mobility, literacy, legal issues and more. An excellent resource for parents, educators and support staff. WP-303 / $16.95 / 5.5" x 8.5" / 395 pgs / sc |
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Complete Motor Skills Activities Program for Young Children The three books in this series provide one of the most comprehensive and flexible resources available to meet the developmental needs of every child, whether he/she has difficulties in selected motor skills or many areas of movement, or simply requires a sound introduction to the world of movement. The following practical series is designed to help early childhood teachers, PE Specialists, special educators, and therapists develop and improve motor skills abilities in all children who have coordination and movement difficulties ages 5 and up. Each book in the series contains hundreds of developmentally age appropriate activities to build young children's competence and confidence in specific skills in a positive, enjoyable learning environment. The primary focus is to provide quality teaching, assessment, and remediation to meet the specific needs of each individual child. For easy selection and use, the activities in each book follow a similar format: Motor Skill / Definition; Teachable Points; illustrated Skill Activity Progressions; Equipment (if any); Related Games; Common Faults; Activities to Correct Common Faults; and Assessment Procedures. Emphasis throughout is on the quality of the movement, not just on the outcome. |
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Book 1 - Ready-to-Use Fundamental Motor Skills & Movement Activities for
Young Children |
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Book 2 - Ready-to-Use Fine Motor Skills & Handwriting Activities for Young Children |
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Book 3 - Ready-to-Use Motor Skills & Movement Station Lessons Plans for Young Children |
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Do-Watch-Listen-Say Social and Communication Intervention for Children with Autism Kathleen Ann Quill This comprehensive intervention guide and accompanying activities are easily adapted to develop a curriculum for both children who are verbal and those who use augmentative and alternative communication, and it can be implemented at home or in the classroom. Excellent for educators from early childhood to elementary levels, this practical, user friendly resource give you the methods you need to build social and communication skills in children with autism. With this guide you will be able to: apply the new state-of-the art assessment tool to guide your curriculum for individual students; combine the best of behavioral and developmental intervention practices; find hundreds of suggested activities to build social play, group skills, and social communication; and chart you interventions with the easy-to-use data collection forms and guidelines. An excellent resouce for those who teach students with autism! B-206 / $59.95 / 540 pages / 2000 release |
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Hands-On Phonics Activities for Elementary Children Karen Meyers Stangl Classroom reading teachers and specialists will find hundreds of stimulating hands-on activities for developing children's knowledge of the alphabet and letter-sound relationships, plus scores of reproducible book and work lists that can be used to tailor almost any of the activities in the book to a specific phonics skill. This exceptional new book is organized into three sections: Phonics Activities for Pre-Readers (K-1), Activities for Emerging Readers (gr 1-2), Activities for Developing Readers (gr. 2-5), and lists for developing Hands-On Phonics Activities. This exciting new publication also includes reproducible game-boards, Alphabet Mini Flash Cards and a Phonics Assessment Profile that can be used to chart each child's progress. PH-301 / $28.50 / 368 pages |
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How the Special Needs Brain Learns David A Sousa Today's classrooms embrace students of all abilities and Sousa's latest work provides the most up-to date information and insight on how to work effectively with each students challenged by: learning disabilities in the area of speech, reading, writing, and math; ADHD/ADD; sleep disorders; Emotional and Behavioral disorders; Autism; and Asperger's Syndrome. Offering real strategies for real classrooms, this new publication is an indispensable tool for all educators - school administrators and teachers, staff developers and parents who want to better understand the way their children process and retain information. All Educators. CP-100 / 8 ˝" x 11" / 237 pgs / 2001 / $35.95 |
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Poems for Children about Feeling Special, Appreciating Others, and Getting Along Judy Lalli Photography by D. L. Mason-Fry This delightful collection of 26 rhyming poems - perfect for reading aloud. The themes: being kind, solving problems, learning from mistakes, telling the truth, and more are clear, understandable and relevant to the everyday lives of young children. Pick and choose themes for a day or a week. Each poem of offers many possibilities for thoughtprovoking discussion and learning. The companion Leader's Guide with reproducible includes activities questions, follow-ups and resources to enhance the poems' messages. FS-200 $8.95 8 x 7 64 pp. ages 3 - 8 - Book
Leader's Guide for "I Like Being Me" FS-201 $14.95 8" x 11" 88 pp. s/c Pre-K - grade 3 |
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I’m Like You,
You’re Like Me: Cindy Gainer Simple words and lush illustrations draw children into this gentle story of discovery, acceptance, and affirmation. This is diversity on their level! Important topics like talking, listening, feelings and cooperation are explored in the most basic terms so even young children can grasp them. The Leader’s Guide reinforces the messages of the child’s book and includes 20 lessons, activities, questions, and reproducible Home Handouts for parents. FS-221 / $10.95 / 11” x 9” / color illus. / sc / ages 3-8 - Children’s Book
Leader's Guide for "I’m Like You, You’re Like Me" FS-222 / $16.95 / 8 12” x 11” / Pre K to grade 3 |
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Inclusion: Strategies for Working with Young Children A Resource Guide for Teachers, Childcare Provider and Parents Lorraine O. Moore, Ph.D. The developmentally based strategies in this exceptional resource focus on children between the ages of three and seven. This outstanding publication will help younger students who need additional challenges and the older students who may be developmentally delayed.The book commences with a synopsis of inclusive education and the future of learning. Subsequent chapters present hundreds of developmentally based child-focused strategies at your fingertips! Communication, large and small motor development, social/emotional development, pre-reading, writing, and math are only a few of the extensive topics covered. The vast collection of reproducible activities help young children learn about feelings, empathy, resolving conflicts peacefully, and problem solving. Educators and parents will find useful forms to chart student behaviors, frequency of behaviors, modifications, child interviews and more! This comprehensive publication appeals to a large audience of adults: Early childhood and K-2 general and special education teachers, adults in preschool settings and child care providers. P-301 / $23.95 / 8 1/2" x 11" / s/c |
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Just Because I Am - A Child's Book of Affirmation Lauren Murphy Payne, M.S.W., illustrations Claudia Rohlin, M.S.W. "I am a person. I am special. I am important…just because I am." Warm, simple words and enchanting full-color illustrations strengthen and support children's self-esteem The thirteen lessons in the companion Leader's Guide (not shown) reinforce the concepts in book with activities, discussion questions, and Home Handouts. FS-205 / $8.95 / 8" x 9" / 32 pgs / softcover / ages 3-8
Just Because I Am - A Child's Book of Affirmation - Leader's Guide FS-206 / $13.95 / 8.5" x 11" / 56 pgs / $13.95 / PreK to gr. 3 |
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Laughing Lessons 149 1/3 Ways to Make Teaching and Learning Fun Ron Burgess This books is full of classroom-tested tips and techniques, for educators in grades K-5, to help you lighten up and add some fun to your classroom. This book includes: random acts of craziness; silly signs and wacky chalkboard sayings; ways to overcome your fear of looking foolish; not-so-serious science; math mirth; ways to blend humor with discipline; ways to use props, puppets, cartoons, games, costumes, music, magic and more. FS-228 / $21.95 / 8" x 10" / 200 pgs |
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Deborah Moss Illustrated by Carol Schwartz This story follows Lee from her first seizure, to the doctor's office, and then home with new medication to control her seizures. A very reassuring tale for young children who have epilepsy or have a sibling or friend with epilepsy. WP-102 / $14.95 / 24 pp. / Pre K - 2 hardcover |
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Phonemic Awareness Ready to use Lessons, Activities and GamesAn Educator's Guide Dr Victoria Groves Scott Proven, practical, easy-to-use techniques from an experienced teacher with more than 15 years experience! This exceptional, field tested guide is developed for elementary teachers who want to teach phonemic awareness as a prerequisite to reading and/or supplement the current reading curriculum. Special educators and speech clinicians will find this practical guide especially helpful as research indicates that deficits in phonemic awareness is often a major contributor to reading disabilities. In as little as 20 minutes a day, these easy-to-use lessons will benefit all students. P-600 / $27.95 / 8.5" x 11" / s/c 176 pp. ota bind micro-perf. pages |
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Ready-To-Use Activities & Materials for Improving Content Reading Skills Wilma H Miller, Ed.D This practical resource for grades 4-12 classroom teachers, reading specialists and special educators is packed with hundreds of tested strategies and activity sheets for evaluating and improving students' reading, writing, study and test taking skills in the content areas of languages, social studies, science and mathematics. This publication is divided into eight chapters for quick access and easy use. Chapters include Teaching Strategies and Activity sheets for the following areas: vocabulary & skills for effective reading and writing; assessing competencies and weaknesses; improving vocabulary in content areas; improving comprehension and critical reading; improving comprehension; improving writing skills; adapting literacy-study skills to specific content areas; test-taking skills; and teaching reading and writing to "at risk" students. Excellent resource to help all learners in the classroom setting. PH-317 / $29.95 / 500 pages |
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Teaching Young Gifted Children in the Regular Classroom Identifying, Nurturing, and Challenging Ages 4-9 Joan Franklin Smutty, MA, Sally Yahnke Walker,Ph.D and Elizabeth A. Meckstroth, M.Ed., M.S.W. Written for educators (and parents), this guide encourages and enables you to identify gifted children as early as age 4 and create a learning environment to support all students. This book covers a wealth of proven, practical strategies and techniques you can start using immediately to recognize and nurture giftedness and infuse your classroom with an atmosphere of wonder and an attitude of acceptance and understanding. Learn to teach to multiple intelligences and present the curriculum in creative and challenging ways. Discover how to assess and document students' development, communicate effectively and enlist the support of parents. Also included are frequently asked questions with common-sense answers, and dozens of reproducible handout masters for students, parents, and your own record keeping. References and resources point you toward books, organizations, publications, and Web sites to explore. A special Appendix lists and describes recommended children's book to share. FS-107 / $29.95 / 8 1/2" x 11" / 272 pp. |
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Friendship and Learning Across the Grades Ideas from DSC Buddies program is a perfect addition to your efforts to make school a friendlier, warmer place. That's My Buddy! offers step-by-step advice on creating partnerships, how and when to schedule Buddies, and specific activities to engage both younger an older children. The 21 detailed activities include: getting to know you, stepping out activities, along with special activities to celebrate the year. That's My Buddy places a strong emphasis on learning and building relationships. Help older students to feel caring, competent, and valued, and younger students feel worthy of special attention and kindness. DS-103 / $14.95 / 144 pp. s/c |
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The Early Intervention Dictionary This excellent publication defines hundreds of medical, therapeutic and educational terms commonly used in the early intervention field. This invaluable dictionary helps parents, early intervention professionals field successfully understand one another and collaborate more effectively. WP-306 / $17.95 / 5.5" x 8.5" / 412 pgs / softcover |
