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Teaching Age-Appropriate Purposeful Skills: The Curriculum)
by Rona Pogrund Debra Sewell Heidi Anderson Lisa Calaci Mary Faith Cowart Carolina M. Gonzalez Ruth Ann Marsh Burnsteen Roberson-SmithAn Orientation and Mobility curriculum for teachers and specialists to help visually challenged students realize a fundamental right to independent and fulfilling life : being able to travel whenever and wherever an individual wants to go.
Teaching Age-Appropriate Purposeful Skills Part 3 Appendices
by Rona Pogrund Debra Sewell Heidi Anderson Lisa Calaci [et al.]An Orientation & Mobility Curriculum for Students With Visual Impairments 3rd Edition
Hate Mail (Orca Currents)
by Monique PolakJordie's cousin Todd has moved back to Montreal and is attending Jordie's high school. Todd has autism and requires an aide. Todd has not been welcomed in the school. He's known as a freak, and even other parents seem to resent Todd's special needs. Jordie does everything he can to distance himself from his cousin, fearful of what his friends might think. When he learns that Todd's whole family is buckling under the pressure of a hateful letter, Jordie starts to question his own behavior. But Todd's resources are unique, and he soon finds a way to prove his worth to his peers and to the community at large. Inspired by real-life events, Hate Mail examines the transformative power of speaking out against prejudice.
Remarkable Caregiving: The Care of Family & Friends
by Nancy R. PolandRemarkable Caregiving gives readers a boost of hope for humanity. Remarkable Caregiving is a compilation of six true stories as told to the author, Nancy R Poland. Within, readers meet a law-abiding woman forced to kidnap a loved one, a man who served as the “relief pitcher” for his best friend, and parents of children born with disabilities who found innovate solutions. They also meet a black woman born into poverty, who made a life for herself and her children, only to be thrust into crisis care for her mother just as her kids were grown. Learn how a daughter put her beliefs into action by caring for her dad, whatever the cost. And, finally, meet the woman who found her purpose in life becoming not just a paid caregiver, but a full-time, live-in family member to two adults with Down syndrome. What made these caregivers resilient, inventive, and resourceful? What did they learn, and what can they teach others? These individual’s stories tell how they incorporated values of family, friendship, faith, and love while caring for another.
Day-to-Day Dyslexia in the Classroom
by Rody Politt Joy Pollock Elisabeth WallerDyslexia cuts across class, age and intelligence. All schools will have pupils with dyslexia and teachers of children of all ages need to be aware of the teaching methods and approaches which are most effective with these children. This fully revised and updated edition of a classic text offers invaluable advice to teachers on how they can recognize specific learning difficulties and give practical help to children in their classes. Written in clear, jargon-free language it provides guidelines on the way children with dyslexia learn language and achieve literacy and numeracy skills. It also includes chapters on handwriting, study skills and classroom management, whilst bearing in mind numerous demands made on classroom teachers. This new edition includes: * the National Literacy Strategy* how to make effective use of Teaching Assistants* an exploration of physical development* commentary on teaching children with diagnosed dyspraxia and Attention Deficit Disorder.
The Exceptional Teacher's Handbook: The First-Year Special Education Teacher?s Guide to Success
by Alice B. Pollingue Carla F. SheltonThe first year in the career of a special education teacher is filled with expectation and promise. Addressing the most common needs of beginning special education teachers, The Exceptional Teacher's Handbook helps new educators move confidently from preplanning to post-planning for the entire school year.The authors present a step-by-step management approach complete with planning checklists and other ready-to-use forms within the context of IDEA 2004 and NCLB. Written from the perspective of a classroom teacher, this popular reference offers updates on:* Recognized disabilities* Best instructional practices for getting the most out of your students* Successful parent conferences* Effective plans for professional learning* Alternate assessments, emergencies in the school setting, education terminology, and moreActively address challenges and concerns with this one-stop handbook that will help smooth the transition from student teacher to professional educator.
This Story Is a Lie
by Tom Pollock<p>A YA thriller described as The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time meets John le Carré, about a teen math prodigy with an extreme anxiety disorder who finds himself caught in a web of lies and conspiracies after an assassination attempt on his mother. <p>Seventeen-year-old Peter Blankman is a math genius. He also suffers from devastating panic attacks. Pete gets through each day with the help of his mother—a famous scientist—and his beloved twin sister, Bel. <p>But when his mom is nearly assassinated in front of his eyes and Bel disappears, Pete finds himself on the run. Dragged into a world where state and family secrets intertwine, Pete must use his extraordinary analytical skills to find his missing sister and track down the people who attacked his mother. But his greatest battle will be with the enemy inside: the constant terror that threatens to overwhelm him. <p>Weaving between Pete’s past and present, This Story Is a Lie is a testimony from a protagonist who is brilliant, broken and trying to be brave.</p>
Language Instruction for Students with Disabilities (3rd edition)
by Edward A. Polloway Lynda Miller Tom E. C. SmithLanguage development and language competence are recognized as critical emphases in the education of all children, and certainly those who experience disabilities. The substantial amount of research and programming in the diverse fields within the language domain reflects this emphasis.
Strategies For Teaching Learners With Special Needs
by Edward A. Polloway James R. Patton Loretta Serna Jenevie W. BaileyThis widely popular text combines the work of authoritative experts to present the most comprehensive exploration of how to teach students with mild/high incidence disabilities, including learning disabilities, mild intellectual disabilities, emotional and behavioral disorders, and students experiencing learning problems in the general education classroom. With a focus on effective instructional practices that can be used in diverse, inclusive educational environments, and balanced coverage of elementary and secondary strategies, it presents the latest changes in the field and ensures currency and applicability to contemporary education for preservice and in-service teachers. <p><p> In addition to two chapters on general curriculum and instruction information (one new to this edition), the book also includes chapters on classroom and behavioral management, oral language instruction, reading, writing, mathematics, social studies, science, study skills, social and self-determination skills, applied academics, and career and transition considerations. The Enhanced Pearson eText features embedded videos, check your understanding quizzes, and interactive learning modules.
Listening to Able Underachievers: Creating Opportunities for Change
by Michael Pomerantz Kathryn Ann PomerantzThis book provides a new contribution to raising attainment in secondary schools, with specific reference to able underachievers who are currently achieving C grades or less when they could be getting As. Standards are depressed each time a single able underachiever demonstrates a competence that is below his or her real potential. It lowers morale in that the progress of the whole school is reduced proportionately in line with the able pupils who aren't achieving their real potential, and resources are wasted every time these pupils start misbehaving or creating problems in school. This is a new and innovative approach, which is based on discussions with the pupils themselves and incorporates not just the usual basic subjects but also the creative areas of the curriculum and the wider community as a whole. Head teachers, senior managers, teachers and students, indeed all who are interested in raising standards and ensuring that pupils achieve their full potential will find this book to be an excellent resource.
Foundations of Rehabilitation: Teaching with Persons Who Are Blind or Visually Impaired
by Paul E. Ponchillia Susan V. PonchilliaThe first comprehensive textbook on rehabilitation teaching with people who are blind or visually impaired, this book provides practical information and specific instructional strategies as well as an overview of the profession, its history and development, and management of a rehabilitation teaching caseload. Written by two experienced teachers and prominent educators, this volume includes chapters on low vision skills, communication skills, and daily living skills, including food preparation, personal management, home management, and leisure and recreation, presenting proven techniques and detailed, step-by-step lesson plans for specific skills in each area. Information is offered on the needs of adult learners and individuals with adventitious or congenital visual impairments, along with valuable sample forms for assessing and planning the needs and course of instruction for new clients.
Born Twice
by Giuseppe PontiggiaWhen a breach birth leaves Paulo severely disabled, his father, the articulate, unsentimental Professor Frigerio, struggles to come to terms with his son's condition. Face to face with his own limitations, Frigerio confronts the strange way society around him handles Paolo's handicaps and observes his surprising gifts. In spare, deeply affecting episodes, the professor of language explores the nuanced boundaries between "normal" and "disabled" worlds. A remarkable memoir of fathering, winner of the 2001 Strega Prize, Italy's most prestigious literary honor ,Born Twice is noted Italian author Guiseppe Pontiggia's American debut. Sometimes meditative, often humorous, and always probing, Pontiggia's haunting characters linger and resound long after the book is done. From the Trade Paperback edition.
Disability in Twentieth-Century German Culture
by Carol PooreDisability in Twentieth-Century German Culture covers the entire scope of Germany's most tragic and tumultuous century---from the Weimar Republic to the current administration---revealing how central the notion of disability is to modern German cultural history. By examining a wide range of literary and visual depictions of disability, Carol Poore explores the contradictions of a nation renowned for its social services programs yet notorious for its history of compulsory sterilization and eugenic dogma. This comprehensive volume focuses particular attention on the horrors of the Nazi era, when those with disabilities were considered "unworthy of life," but also investigates other previously overlooked topics including the exile community's response to disability, socialism and disability in East Germany, current bioethical debates, and the rise and gains of Germany's disability rights movement. Richly illustrated, wide-ranging, and accessible, Disability in Twentieth-Century German Culture gives all those interested in disability studies, German studies, visual culture, Nazi history, and bioethics the opportunity to explore controversial questions of individuality, normalcy, citizenship, and morality. The book concludes with a memoir of the author's experiences in Germany as a person with a disability.
The Protected: Book 1 of the Spirian Series
by Rowena PortchThis is book one of three in the Spirian series. It tells the story of Skye Taylor, a blind massage therapist who soon learns that she is a Spirian (a gifted soul) who has the ability to heal people's injuries. She meets, Khalen, a Spirian man, whose gifts are both intriguing and deadly. Together, they redefine the future of their race and threaten the existence of their evil rivals, the Shadows.
Befriending Life: Encounters with Henri Nouwen
by Beth PorterA beautiful collection of reminiscences celebrating the life and works of the bestselling author of The Wounded Healer,The Return of the Prodigal Son, and The Inner Voice of Love. Henri Nouwen (1932-96)was a Catholic priest who taught at several theological institutions and universities in his home country of the Netherlands and in the United States. He spent the final years of his life teaching and ministering at the L'Arche Daybreak Community in Toronto, Canada. His writings have touched millions of readers around the world, and since his death, recognition of their enduring value has continued to grow. Oprah Winfrey, one of Nouwen's many admirers, ran an extensive excerpt from The Return of the Prodigal Son in her magazine, O, with Hillary Clinton contributing an introduction revealing the profound effect Nouwen had on her own life. Nouwen's influence was not limited to the printed page. His one-on-one encounters as a lecturer, teacher, and spiritual guide, and as a leader at the L'Arche Daybreak Community, a home for people with mental and physical disabilities, enriched the lives of a wide variety of people. Now,Befriending Life brings together thoughtful, heartfelt remembrances of Nouwen by those who knew him best, from members of the L'Arche community to such prominent figures as Joseph Cardinal Bernard in of Chicago and Hillary Clinton. Their personal reflections on his life both on and off the page magnificently capture his spirit, compassion, and wisdom. With a wealth of quotations from Nouwen throughout,Befriending Life, like Nouwen's own great books, will inspire readers in all walks of life.
Recreational Therapy and The International Classification of Functioning, Disability, and Health
by Heather R. PorterThis book includes all of the codes in the 2016 version of the ICF. There is an overview of each of the ICF's four sections, Body Functions, Body Structure, Activities and Participation, and Environmental Factors, plus a description of Personal Factors. The purpose and scoring of each section are described with recreational therapy examples. Each chapter in the four sections is covered in more detail with a description of the code set, more detailed scoring examples, an assessment overview, and treatment directions. An evidence review demonstrates the efficacy of treating each set of codes.
Educating Young Children with Additional Needs
by Louise PorterIn scope and spread this book deserves to become a standard text for policy-makers, practitioners, those in training and their tutors. I welcome this book for its coverage of typical and a-typical development in young children and its emphasis upon an ethical and principled approach to working with young children and their families.Professor Sheila Wolfendale, Director of the Doctorate in Educational Psychology programme at the University of East London.Most young children with additional educational needs are enrolled in their local childcare centre or pre-school. Whether they have delayed or advanced skills, many will need extra support from teachers and child care workers so that they can participate fully in these settings.Educating Young Children with Additional Needs is a comprehensive guide to working with these children. It outlines how to recognise when young children have atypical needs, individualise relevant programs for them, and make sure that they can participate socially with other children in the group. It highlights the importance of teachers' and caregivers' responsiveness both to the children and their parents. Individual chapters explain how to identify and meet the additional needs of children with vision or hearing impairments and those with difficulties acquiring motor, daily living, communication or intellectual skills. The emphasis is on assisting those with mild to moderate difficulties in any of these domains. The particular needs of gifted children are also explored. Educating Young Children with Additional Needs is a valuable professional reference and student text for child care workers and pre-school teachers.
Braillables: A Manual for Parents and Teachers - Techniques for Teaching Drawing with Braille
by Marie PorterFrom the book: Braillables are pictures that are brailled by people who are able to braille them. They are outlines, sketches, sculptures, drawings, artwork. They are a creative expression that uses a necessary skill of blind people. They are fun to do, easily shared by sighted people, and they give an added dimension of freedom in using what can be a very rigid mode of communication. Blind people can draw in a medium over which they have complete control. Drawing with braille builds skill in reading, in interpreting charts, maps, diagrams, math and science figures. For those who pursue it, drawing with braille encourages imagination, creativity, a feeling for abstraction, perspective and proportion--all elements necessary for good concepts of objects, spatial relationships, and, ultimately, skill in orientation and mobility. Braille has an aura of mystery about it which isolates the reader. It can be austere, unpenetrable, a symbol of struggle and pain both for the blind person and for the family and friends. There is a coming together, a sharing, a breaking down of barriers when two heads bend over a picture of a dog and both the blind person and the sighted person see it as a dog. That is the fun of it.
The Crazy Man
by Pamela PorterA poem about Emaline, a small girl who has to cope with a permanent disability and a broken family, since her father suffers from a mental illness.
Kids First Diabetes Second: Tips for Parenting a Child with Type 1 Diabetes
by Robin Porter Leighann Calentine<P> Raising a child is a difficult job. Raising a child with a chronic illness such as diabetes can be a difficult job with a side order of special challenges. <P> Leighann Calentine's D-Mom Blog is an invaluable resource for parents and caregivers of children with diabetes. Leighann shares her family's experiences with her daughter's type 1 diabetes in a forum that is intimate, informative, and inspirational. <P> In a style both practical and affirming, Kids First, Diabetes Second presents Leighann's advice to help parents and caregivers enable children with diabetes to thrive. Learn how to automate tasks, navigate challenges, celebrate achievements, establish a support group, relieve stress, and avoid being consumed by management of the condition, while focusing on what's most important: raising a happy, healthy child. <P> <b> 2013 ERIC HOFFER BOOK AWARD WINNER </b>
Forked Tongue: The Politics of Bilingual Education
by Rosalie PorterToday children who are not fluent in English—legal and illegal immigrants, refugees, and native born—are the fastest growing portion of our population, accounting for more than half the children in classrooms in many city schools. Bilingual education programs established by federal and state laws have required that such students be taught basic subjects in their native languages rather than in English. Judged by most applicable measures—such as achievement scores and dropout rates—these programs have not been successful.This edition includes new material on recent efforts to reform bilingual education, on the growing trend across the country toward English language programs, on the latest national research studies, and on the movement to make English the official language of the United States. Forked Tongue is a devastating inside account of how the twenty-eight-year experiment in bilingual education has failed our language-minority children—and why. Rosalie Porter draws on local, state, and international experience to provide us with the first authoritative account of which policies, programs, and practices actually succeed with the children they are intended to serve. Forked Tongue will be of interest to educators, sociologists, and scholars interested in second language acquisition.
Twice Burned
by Bruce PorterfieldBruce Porterfield spent three terms in Bolivia with the New Tribes Mission. Much of his time there was spent with other missionaries in seeking to make a friendly contact with primitive tribes in remote areas of the country. The story of this work is told in his book, Commandos for Christ. In his second book, ["jungle Fire," which is also available in this library] Porterfield uses the novel as a means of revealing much truth about missionary work, the needs, problems and opportunities faced. In his latest book, Twice Burned, he again turns to the novel as a means of clarifying the issues between ecumenical and mass-meeting evangelism compared to the New Testament pattern of Gospel preaching and church planting.
Straight Talk About Learning Disabilities
by Kay Marie PorterfieldStraight Talk About Learning Disabilities provides information and suggestions of ways to get help for those who think they may have a LD or know someone whom they think has a LD. The author includes a moving preface in which she discusses her own experiences, in school and after graduation, with LDs. A list of agencies to contact for help or additional information is included.
Dyslexia and Physical Education
by Madeleine PortwoodMuch research has focused on dyslexia and co-ordination. This book examines the literature and provides a framework to support pupils with dyslexia, not only during PE lessons but in less structured environments, for example during break time when pupils are likely to be involved in physical activities.
Julia (Sesame Street Friends)
by Andrea Posner-SanchezMeet your favorite Sesame Street friends in this adorable photographic board book starring Julia, a muppet with autism!Elmo's friend Julia is the star of this colorful, photographic board book. Babies and toddlers will love turning the sturdy pages to find out what Julia--a muppet with autism--likes to do with her family, her puppy, and her Sesame Street friends. Look for all the Sesame Street Friends books:ELMO ABBY BIG BIRD COOKIE GROVER OSCARTHE COUNT BERT & ERNIESesame Workshop, the nonprofit educational organization behind Sesame Street, aims to help kids grow smarter, stronger, and kinder through its many unique domestic and international initiatives. These projects cover a wide array of topics for families around the world.