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For families of an infant leaving the NICU, nothing's more exciting - and challenging - than the critical transition to home life with their baby. Support the NICU-to-home transition with this accessible book, the complete guide to helping parents meet their baby's special needs and promote optimal development in the first year after homecoming.

Enhance the grown and development of infants and young children with more than 400 fun, fast, and easy-to-use learning activities developed especially to complement Ages and Stages Questionnaires (TM), Third Edition (ASQ-3 (TM)).

Addresses how faith communities, service providers, and families can work together to support the full participation of individuals with disabilities in the faith community of their choice. This book incorporates practical strategies, vignettes, case examples, resource lists, and photocopiable forms, checklists, and interview guides.

Using case stories and recommendations based on the authors' research, this book helps teachers to think differently about the so-called ""unusual, repetitive, or severely limited activities and interests"" of children with autism.

Analyzes a spectrum of phonologic and articulatory intervention approaches that are used in the treatment of speech sound disorders in children. This book and DVD set includes 23 treatment approaches used with young children with functional or motor-based speech disorders from early childhood through the early elementary period.

Presents a guidebook for organizing and conducting workshops for siblings of children with a variety of special needs. These workshops provide children and young adults with social and emotional support from their peers in a recreational and fun atmosphere. This edition includes a chapter on Sibshops Standards of Practice.

Provides a practical, highly readable guide to enhancing attention and impulse control, time management and organization skills for all students, with and without learning disabilities. Memorable metaphors, classroom examples, and crystal-clear explanations of brain functioning, will help teachers grasp what executive function is and how it affects their students' learning and behaviour.

This two-volume set provides a multidisciplinary approach to enhancing communication and socioemotional abilities of young children with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) and related disorders. The approach is a practical model that is systematic and semi-structured but is flexible to respond to the individual differences of children and families.

Helps administrators, supervisors, and program directors gather the crucial data schools need to strengthen classroom quality and build better literacy programs, both by improving teacher development and comparing their practices with others.

Anxiety is one of the biggest challenges faced by children with high-functioning autism spectrum disorders and Asperger syndrome. Help them conquer their fears - and participate more fully in home, school, and community life - with this innovative group therapy program for children 8-14 years old and their parents.

Give young children a strong foundation of preliteracy skills and a head start in other academic areas with this proven program supplement. Explicitly teach phonological awareness and vocabulary skills through lessons that introduce key social studies and

Thousands of educators have turned to "You're Going to Love This Kid!" for fresh ways to welcome and teach students with autism-and now the book teachers trust is fully revised and more practical than ever! This second edition is targeted to the specific needs of today's primary- and secondary-school educators.

A practical guidebook, packed with teaching plans and plain-English guidance on using applied behavior analysis (ABA) to improve outcomes for students with autism and behaviour challenges. It includes 50 sample teaching plans that demonstrate how to use ABA to support students across social, communication, behavioural, academic, and independent functioning domains.

The second edition of this bestselling textbook arms pre-K to middle-school teachers with the most recent developments in reading research--and shows them how to apply their knowledge in the classroom to help all students learn.;

A definitive guide to routines-based intervention where the author gives professionals a detailed framework for early intervention that addresses families' individual needs and helps children participate in daily routines. With the step-by-step guidance o

How can early childhood professionals make informed decisions while selecting assessment materials that meet recommended practices? Use the new edition of this essential reference, the only book with professional ratings and reviews of 80 authentic, widely used assessment tools for children aged birth to 8.

As early childhood programs and schools become more culturally and linguistically diverse, professionals need to create settings that welcome ""new voices"" and help all children succeed. This comprehensive professional development course gives them the in-depth practical guidance they need.

To ensure they're meeting state early learning guidelines for science, preschool educators need research-based ways to teach young children about scientific concepts. This title helps children ages 3-5 investigate their everyday world and develop the basics of scientific thinking - skills they apply across subject areas when they enter school.

An assessment and intervention approach for children birth to age six. While the child engages in natural play, professionals use the guidelines and developmental information to assess 4 domains - sensorimotor, emotional and social, communication and language, and cognition - and gather qualitative information about what the child can do.

For more than 15 years, thousands of young adults have benefited from Project SEARCH: the business-led internship programme that prepares students with disabilities for competitive, integrated employment. This is the only book that distils the programme's secrets to success, giving counsellors, educators, transition coordinators, and other professionals practical guidance.

The absence of consensual, cross-disciplinary theories, definitions, and methodologies has hampered the study of attention, memory, and executive function. Incorporating varied theoretical perspectives, this exceptional volume helps establish some common understanding of these three central processes. With an eye toward directions for future study, this book reveals how the authors' findings from their research in psychology, neuropsychology, special education, and medicine can help clinicians assess and remediate reading and attention disorders.

Peer supports really work: they're a great, efficient way to help all students learn, make the most of teacher/ paraprofessional time, and increase the achievement level of challenging students. This practical guide includes cooperative learning and peer tutoring - to benefit students with moderate to severe disabilities and their peers.

These scoring sheets are part of The Capute Scales, a norm-referenced, 100-item screening and assessment tool that helps experienced practitioners identify developmental delays in children from 1-36 months of age.

Written with compassion and expertise, this book provides families with a guide to planning for the lifetime needs of a child with disabilities. It presents the 'Five Factors' readers need to consider - family and support, emotional, financial, legal, and government benefits - and how to plan for these factors at every stage of a child's life.