Children with Epilepsy: A Parent's Guide SD 11

Children with Facial Difference PD 03

When a child is born with facial difference, parents can be overwhelmed by their feelings and fears about their child's condition and appearance. Now, families can turn to this book for the information and support they need to understand and cope with the many challenges - medical, emotional, social, educational, legal, and financial - presented by facial difference. Written by a mother of a child with facial difference in collaboration with a distinguished professional advisory board, this book covers more commonly occurring conditions such as cleft lip and/or cleft palate, plus rarer and more severe forms of facial difference including hemifacial microsomia, and Apert, Crouzon, and Treacher Collins Syndromes.

Children with Tourette Syndrome: A Parents' Guide SPH 20

This handbook for parents of children and teenagers with Tourette syndrome offers up-to-date, concrete information and compassionate advice for dealing with what is perhaps one of the most misunderstood and misdiagnosed neurological disorders. Written by a team of professionals and parents, this book covers medical, educational, legal, family life, daily care, and emotional issues. The authors offer families a foundation for understanding this complex disorder and for developing strategies that can help their child become a productive, happy adult. Treatments, including those for related conditions like attention deficit disorder (ADD) and obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD), behavior management techniques, tips on handling the reactions of others, parent advocacy, coping with feelings of guilt and resentment, and getting help for a child at school, are just some of the topics discussed. Parent statements, appearing at the end of each chapter, are a special highlight; experienced parents share feelings and practical insights that can be especially helpful to new parents. Extensive organizations listings, a reading list, and a glossary make this a complete resource.

Choices--Comforty Media Concepts PEN

Choices: Opportunities for Life PS 06

Adults make choices, both important and ordinary, every day. Children make choice too. But children with disabilities make fewer choices for themselves than do their peers without disabilities. The information in this booklet can help parents think about the steps involved in encouraging decision-making skills in their children with disabilities. You will become more aware of opportunities for teaching decision-making skills and helping your children make more choices for themselves.

Choosing Options and Accommodations for Children: Planning Inclusive Education INC 03

With today's growing emphasis on inclusion in special education, professionals need a reference that can guide them in the development of quality programs that include students with disabilities in general education settings. This book is an essential resource that enables educational teams to move beyond the philosophy of inclusion and into a practical assessment and planning process. Carefully revised to reflect current exemplary practices in the field, this well-known, widely used guidebook can be tailored to meet the needs of students with a wide variety of characteristics and can provide invaluable assistance in developing a number of IEP components. Replete with clear, comprehensive instructions and easy-to-follow forms, this explicit manual will help special educators, administrators, parents, and service providers. Systematic, powerful, and highly effective, COACH provides the critical materials and advice needed to develop programs for students with disabilities to pursue valued life outcomes in inclusive educational, social, and community settings.

Circles of Friends: People with Disabilities and Their Friends MSC 22

In this warm, sensitive collection, Robert and Martha Perske offer true stories and issues to ponder, concerning CIRCLES OF FRIENDS - friendships between people with disabilities and so-called normals. They show how these circles cut across age groups, generations, and races, and how the hearts and worldviews of everyone can be enriched. The emphasis here is on pure and simple friendship.

Cognitive Coping, Families, & Disability F 02

Cognitive coping is a set of strategies that encourages individuals and families to successfully confront daily challenges of disability. Using this coping method helps families shape their thoughts and perceptions, which in turn enhances their senses of esteem, control, meaning, and well-being. This book provides insights into this powerful method of adjustment and its significance in the area of family research. Through a participatory research process, this book reveals empirical, theoretical, clinical, and consumer perspectives on disability and cognitive coping and provides professionals with a clear-cut research agenda.

Cognitive Counseling & Persons with Special Needs MH 22

"I came to see that labeling persons as 'retarded' lumps them together in a dishonest and pointless way. Those we call 'retarded' are as much alike as those we call 'color blind' or 'rich' are alike." From COGNITIVE COUNSELING & PERSONS WITH SPECIAL NEEDS. Far too often behavioral principles - sound enough in themselves - are applied without taking individual needs and tastes into account. Such programs either fail to change the behavior or they draw counselor and patient - teacher and student - parent and child into deeper conflict. This book describes the effective and humane use of behavioral methods to teach social and cognitive skills to the severely and profoundly mentally retarded. This introduction and guidebook outlines general principles and offers many case studies to illustrate the concepts under discussion.

Communication Skills in Children with Down Syndrome: A Guide for Parents DS 11

This book provides parents with a wealth of information about speech and language development in children with Down syndrome. Parents learn what to expect as communication skills progress from infancy through early adolescence, how Down syndrome can affect those skills, and what they can do to help maximize their child's potential in this crucial area of development.

Communication Unbound - Facilitated Communication AT 04

Filled with extraordinary and unforgettable stories, this book reveals the wonder of expression by people who had previously been trapped in silence and diminished by presumptions of their incompetence. A 14-year-old proclaims, I AMN NOT A UTISTIVC ON THE TYP ["I am not autistic on the typewriter"], and a kindergartner types, TELL  KIDS THAT I CAN TALK, I NOT RETARDED ["Tell the kids that I can talk. I am not retarded"]. Facilitated communication is the means by which these children-as well as thousands of other people who cannot speak or whose speech is highly disordered, and who were previously believed to be severely retarded, are revealing unexpected literacy abilities. We follow the author, other caregivers, and parents as they learn about facilitated communication, experience its successes and failures, and confront the controversies surrounding its use. How did so many people who were thought to be retarded learn to read? Why can thy not communicate independently? Why do some people communicate well with one facilitator and not at all with another? How is it that even young children-some only 3 years old- already show some literacy abilities?

Computer Software Guide DS 14

Home-based computer program for children with Down Syndrome.

Connecting Students: Thoughtful Friendship Facilitation for Educators & Families INC 04B

Increasingly, students with disabilities who have traditionally been served in special, segregated programs are becoming full members of regular classes in their neighborhood schools. These students live in the same neighborhood with other students in the school but have had few opportunities to get to know each other. In this new arrangement, students sometimes feel uneasy about reaching out to each other, and adults feel hesitant to intervene. This guide has been developed to promote reflection, dialogue, and action. It is a guide for people working to build classrooms and schools which ensure caring acceptance, and belonging for all students.

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