How it Feels to Live with a Physical Disability PD 02

In this powerful and heartwarming book, Jill Krementz portrays the indomitable spirit of children who live with physical disabilities. This is an inspiring gift of hope from twelve children whose physical disabilities include blindness, dwarfism, paralysis, birth anomalies, spasticity and cerebral palsy. Ranging in age from six to sixteen, these youngsters are examples of extraordinary courage as they face and conquer the emotional and physical challenges they are confronted with each day. Captured in text and photos, these children tell their own stories and speak with candor and courage about their lives, their accomplishments and disappointments, their hopes and fears, their goals and dreams.

How to Deal with Difficult People R A -01

Who's the difficult person in your life? The boss who get what he wants by screaming? The co-worker who never   delivers what she promises? The person who's never satisfied, no matter what you do? The office know-it-all? All of the above? Now you can do something about it, in this information-packed, four-tape audio program. Through stimulating presentation and entertaining role-plays you'll learn: How difficult people think, what they fear, why they do what they do; Specific strategies proven to get cooperation from all types of difficult people; How to be less of a target for negative behaviors; Communication techniques that bring out the best in everyone you deal with. Don't spend another moment fuming, speechless or tongue-tied. Learn how to handle difficult people once and for all. You'll feel better about them - and yourself as well.

How to Double Your Child's Grades in School ED 10

Offer your child the gift of good grades. Good grades will afford your child countless advantages in life, not the least of which are financial success, career opportunity, and robust self-esteem. The best student is not necessarily the most intelligent student, but more likely the one who has learned how to study effectively. This book will help you, the parent, to guide your child through the three areas of study most crucial to any pupil - reading, writing, and mathematics. Using simple techniques, presented in clear and well-organized lessons, the book shows parents how to: Organize your child's study time to accomplish twice as much in half the time; Give your child word power and the ability to understand new words without consulting a dictionary; Transform your child into a master reader in three easy steps; Show your child how to express facts clearly in writing; Simplify mathematics, even the most complicated problems, into fun and easy steps; Overcome some of the problems connected with attention deficit disorder. Why allow your child to take a haphazard approach to study that will result in last-minute memorization and quickly forgotten facts? Help double your child's grades! B's will become A's, C's will turn into B's while D students will experience even more startling results. And you will have given your child a gift to last a lifetime.

How to Find Help for a Troubled Kid: Parent's Guide to Programs & Services MH 24

What should you do if your child becomes a stranger to you? How do you determine the difference between a normal adolescent and a troubled child? Where do you go to seek help? This book shows you how to have your child's problem evaluated and then explores the services and support systems available to you. Among other vital pieces of  information, it explains what to expect both financially and emotionally as you pursue solutions that will benefit your child.

How to Get Services by Being Assertive MSC 06A

Many parents are not receiving the services they are entitled to by law for their child; and, many professionals have been unable to obtain services their parent/consumer clients are legally entitled to. This handbook is written in direct response to the many parents - and professionals - who have expressed to the Family Resource Center on Disabilities their feelings of frustration and impotence at their inability to get services.

How to Increase Reading Ability: Developmental and Remedial Methods MSC 19

This 7th edition of the leading textbook on reading diagnosis and remediation has been thoroughly revised and updated, chapter by chapter. New or expanded topics include: early detection and prevention of reading disabilities; diagnostic and prescriptive teaching; psychoneurological correlates of reading disability; behavioral management; linguistic contributions to reading; effect of social changes on children's reading interests.

How to Make a Rainbow G 06

The number one killer of children in America today is preventable injuries - not disease or drugs. Preventable injuries are the reason the young authors of the poems in this book are in the hospital. As chairman of the National SAFE KIDS Campaign and former Surgeon General of the United States, C. Everett Koop is trying to help prevent childhood injuries. Together with the staffs of children's hospitals and other pediatric facilities across the country, we can all work to make safety a way of life for all children and grown-ups. By taking action, we can reduce the number of  children who die or are disabled in car accidents, fires, drownings and poisonings. Safety is no accident.

How to Raise a Healthy Child . . . In Spite of Your Doctor SPH 23

Equipping parents to assume the major medical role in their child's life is the bottom line of this provocative, readable, nontechnical book which covers everything parents need to know about their child's growth and development. Dr. Mendelsohn maintains that parents, not doctors, are often best qualified to determine the seriousness of childhood illnesses, and can and should be involved in all major decisions involving the health of their child. In this book he provides parents with detailed information about the diagnosis and treatment of childhood ailments. Maintaining that 95 % of pediatric office visits are unnecessary and even dangerous, he carefully instructs parents on how to diagnose and treat their children without medical intervention, how to determine when a child is sick enough to need a doctor, and how to avoid unnecessary and potentially hazardous treatment when a doctor is consulted. Colds and flus, strep throat, illness, orthopedic problems, inoculations, vision, hearing, nutrition, allergies, skin ailments, and emotional problems - each of these topic is discussed in a separate chapter and summarized in a quick and easy reference guide.

How to Reach & Teach all Students in the Inclusive Classroom INC 17

For all classroom teachers, special educators, administrators, and parents, here is a remarkable new resource packed with ready-to-use strategies, lessons, and activities for helping students with diverse learning styles, ability levels, skills, and behaviors in today's inclusive classroom. Focusing on the "whole child" and a team approach that lets you guide a varied group of students toward academic as well as social and emotional success.

How to Teach Your Dyslexic Child to Read: for Parents and Teachers LD 29

Every dyslexic child can learn to read, write, and spell - thanks to this one-on-one, easy -to-use, instructional book. Since each dyslexic is different, the parent or teacher must carefully determine how to structure lessons in order to connect with the child. This book teaches the tutor: how to discover the child's learning pace; how to lengthen a youngster's short attention span; how much drill and review is necessary once a phonics concept has been introduced; how many vocabulary words a child should be asked to learn at one time; how many pages should be assigned to daily oral reading; how many words a child can learn to spell in a week, and remember how spell when writing sentences; and more. Reading opens new worlds for children. But for the dyslexic child those worlds go unexplored, and not knowing how to read can be frustrating and embarrassing. With this book, parents, teachers, and tutors can make a tremendous difference in a child's life.

I Am Your Child: The First Years Last Forever P V-02

The new research in brain development tells us of the vital importance of the relationship between caregiver and child in the critical first years of life. New parents have a wonderful opportunity to help their child reach their full potential. This video includes information on: Bonding and attachment; Communication; Health and nutrition; Self-esteem; Child care; Self-awareness; Discipline.

I Can't Decide--What Should I Do? P V-07

Through dramatizations, this video shows you a method for helping your youngster sort through problems and come up with well thought-out solutions. The process is easy to learn and gives youngsters a way of thinking about big and little decisions that could help them the rest of their lives. The video is accompanied by a viewer's guide that allows parents to study the ideas presented.

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