101 Language Arts Activities LD 20

This books is filled with games and activities created to fill the language arts needs of students. This book is unique in that the majority of the games can be used by a child who cannot decode words.

101 Math Activities LD 21

This book was written to expand early childhood activities curriculum and gives the teacher an opportunity to supplement and reinforce more completely the objectives in an early childhood curriculum with easy-to-make games. The basic math game forms are designed for children in kindergarten through second grade. The games in each category are sequenced from the easiest skills to the more difficult skills.

101 Things You Can Do For Our Children's Future MSC 14

This is a call to action to parents - as well as seniors, nonparents, employers, teachers, and all Americans - that shows how to create a better life for children now. With strategies ranging from the traditional to the revolutionary - from simple techniques to create more family time to ways to weave a 'super-extended family,' from how to create family-friendly workplaces to making libraries and parks safe places for children - this book offers practical steps each person can take to improve the environment for families. Richard Louv believes that the future of our children depends on a personal and political grass-roots movements; this book is a blueprint for this movement.

20 Teachable Virtues P 23

How can you be sure that you're teaching your children the lessons of virtue that were passed on to you? Today's parents often feel that they have too little time in their busy schedules to handle such an important task. They're not even sure where to begin. But this book demonstrates the simple ways that you can teach your children to care about others - and about themselves. By using everyday time together, however brief, you can pass on the lessons of virtue that are most important to your family - today and for generations to come.

97 Ways To Make A Baby Laugh PS 13

Nothing pleases new parents more than Baby's first laugh, and here to keep the chortles coming is a collection of infant-tested sight gags, skits, parlor tricks and practical jokes. They're a little nutty, require no training and few props. Grown-ups can't hold back, which means not only will you be tickling Baby's funny bone, but your own as well.

A Change For The Better--Teaching Correct Behavior P V-04

This video helps parents deal with the frustrating problem of children's and teens' misbehavior. This video goes a step further than just stopping children from acting the "wrong" way and shows how to teach them a better way to act. The video is accompanied by a booklet that allows parents to study the ideas presented.

A Child Called Noah AU 09

In 1969, Life published Josh Greenfeld's account of life with Noah, his brain-damaged son. Greenfeld's award-winning article evoked the largest single mail response in the magazine's history and inspired the first of his books chronicling, in journal form, his family's struggle with Noah's illness: A Child Called Noah. The joy and hope with which Greenfeld recorded Noah's birth in his journal were not to last. By the age of two and a half, Noah had stopped talking, had difficulty performing the simplest tasks, and could not communicate with his parents. No matter what the label - autistic or severely retarded - Noah was a child who would grow old but would never grow up, and for whom no cure is available. The doctors consulted by the Greenfelds were as baffled as Noah's beleaguered parents. Vacillating between hope and despair, and increasingly aware of the impact caring for a child like Noah would have on their lives, the anguished Greenfeld family journeyed from New York to Connecticut to California in search of help. A Child Called Noah is an honest, harrowing, and profoundly human story.

A Child of Eternity: An Extraordinary Young Girl's Message from the World Beyond AU 30

This is a book about mystery - the mystery of divine love, the mystery of human connection, and the mystery of a reality that exists beyond our five senses. In this book you will learn about a remarkable young girl who, against impossible odds, brings us a message from God, a message the world desperately needs to hear. On December 8, 1981, Kristi Jorde gave birth to her first child, a beautiful baby girl named Adriana. But as the months and years went by, Kristi began to wonder is something could be wrong with her daughter. Experts insisted Adri was normal. Not until she was four years old did an astute doctor diagnose Adri's problem. Adri is autistic. Kristi soon learned about Facilitated Communication. A keyboard technique that allows autistic people to communicate with others. Adri's first attempts at FC astonished her mother; clearly, Adri had long been aware of everything around her. Then something happed that was so startling, so breathtaking, that Kristi could barely believe it. Adri began to tell Kristi about her past lives, about Jesus, about the concept of spiritual masters - and about the guides that were available to help Kristi on her own path to enlightenment. Confused at first, Kristi was soon overcome by the authority and truth that emanated from Adri's writings. The body of knowledge that Adri possessed, and was now sharing with her mother, broke all the boundaries that Kristi had always held. Adri's determination to send forth a profound message of God's love to the world was a triumph. And now the story of her journey and the wisdom she reveals can be shared with all who will listen

A Client Called Noah AU 10

In A Client Called Noah, Josh Greenfeld continues his compelling chronicle of life with his severely brain-damaged son, Noah, as Noah approaches adolescence. Although the pressures of caring for Noah, who is completely dependent and increasingly unmanageable, are now nearly unbearable, the prospect of delegating his care to an institution where he will have little hope of finding the comfort or happiness of home is even worse. Noah is a difficult client, and few institutions are prepared to meet his special needs. Meanwhile, Noah's family goes through changes of its own; Karl, Noah's teenage brother, has troubles at school; Josh's own health problems put a strain on the Greenfelds' stormy marriage; Foumi, Noah's mother, embarks on a frustrating career as a writer. Yet amid the fury, Josh retains his wit, and the family remains bound by an intense love. As Josh remarks; "There's no way out of it, is there? It's not a matter of choice. It's a matter of fact. Noah has been the central experience of all our lives."

A Difference in the Family: Living with a Disabled Child F 04

In this wise, compassionate account, Helen Featherstone, educator and mother of a severely disabled child, traces the long, often heartbreaking road toward complete acceptance of disability. Drawing on interviews with parents and professionals, published accounts, and her own personal experience, she discusses how parents and siblings cope with their feelings of fear, anger, guilt, and loneliness. She also explains what kind of support and understanding can be provided by professionals - doctors, therapists, and teachers.

A Family Handbook on Future Planning FP 04

The future is a concern for all people. However, the future is especially important for parents of a son or daughter with mental retardation whose needs will require certain legal, financial and, possibly, services planning. Accomplishing this type of planning has traditionally been difficult for parents. This new handbook will help families make those important plans for their child.

A Guidebook for Parents of Children with Emotional or Behavioral Disorders MH 18

A 1981 study (Gould, et al.) estimated the prevalence rate of emotional problems in children and adolescents to be nearly twelve percent. The Gould figures, a compilation of a number of national studies, have been found to be perhaps a conservative estimate. The study suggests that: One child in eight (11.8 percent) has an emotional problem that limits his or her capacity to function; One child in twenty has a "severe emotional disorder;" 15 to 20 % of all children come from groups which are considered at higher risk of developing emotional disorders. Today, thanks in large measure to the advocacy efforts of parents and professionals, there are a number of state and federal initiatives to develop and coordinate services to children with serious emotional disorders. This guidebook provides parents with information on the kinds of programs, philosophies and professionals who work with children who have emotional or behavioral disorders

A Guidebook on Mental Illness MH 03

Diabetes can be a chronic disease that may be treated with medication, allowing the diabetic to live a somewhat normal life, providing he takes medication, and providing he observe certain rules. Mental illness can be a chronic disease that may be treated with medications, allowing the patient to live a somewhat normal life, providing he continues to take appropriate medication and providing he observes certain rules. Here the similarity ends. The diabetic is considered to have an acceptable disorder which is not blamed on lack of parental concern or care. The mentally ill person, even in 1991, often is scorned, degraded and avoided when possible. Parents are sometimes blamed for allowing or causing mental illness to happen. The fact that a relative is mentally ill is sometimes kept as quietly secret as possible. Often the diagnosis is not even shared with the patient himself. Our goal must be to demystify mental illness, to remove the shame and ignorance surround it, and to treat mental illness as practically and as honestly as we do the illness of diabetes.

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