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Forest School and Encouraging Positive Behaviour: Outdoor Education Skills for Pupils with Additional or Complex Needs
by Dave RylanceThis innovative approach to managing Forest School, with a focus on children with additional or complex needs, helps children to explore, increase their confidence, take measured risks, improve their self-esteem and become more resilient.Offering a behavioural toolbox and techniques you can put in place immediately within your own practice, this hands-on guide supports positive behaviour with a full range of learners. The book provides you with the tips, suggestions and philosophy to utilise outdoor skills and activities that children can benefit from, regardless of many additional needs they may have.
Forest School and Autism: A Practical Guide
by Michael JamesForest School's innovative outdoor approach offers specific benefits to learners with autism, including increased social skills, raised self-esteem and improved sensory function. This guide raises autism awareness amongst practitioners by providing practical and easy-to-follow advice for adapting Forest School activities for those with autism. For those coming from a mainstream Forest School background, the author offers an introduction to autism and shows what Forest School can offer people with autism - both children and adults - with first-person accounts that highlight its success with this group. The guide gives advice on the social and sensory benefits, offers practical advice on safety and on how to set up a Forest School and finally presents specific activities to be incorporated into practitioners' routines.
Forensic Mental Health: Framing Integrated Solutions
by Michele P. BratinaForensic Mental Health: Framing Integrated Solutions describes a criminal justice–mental health nexus that touches every population—juvenile and adult male and female offenders, probationers and parolees, the aging adult prison population, and victims of crime. In the United States today, the criminal justice system functions as a mental health provider, but at great cost to society. The author summarizes the historical roots of this crisis and provides an overview of mental illness and symptoms, using graphics to illustrate the most prevalent disorders encountered by police and other first responders. Bratina demonstrates in detail how the Sequential Intercept Model (SIM) supports integration of the U.S. healthcare and justice systems to offer more positive outcomes for offenders with mental illness. This book takes a multidisciplinary approach, addressing social work, psychology, counseling, and special education, and covers developments such as case-law related to the right to treatment and trauma-informed care. Designed for advanced undergraduates, this text also serves as a training resource for practitioners working with the many affected justice-involved individuals with mental illness, including juveniles, veterans, and substance abusers.
Forensic Issues in Adolescents with Developmental Disabilities
by Ernest GraltonAdolescents with developmental disabilities are a complex population who require specialised treatment and care. This interdisciplinary text examines the processes involved in working with this client group in forensic settings, and explores the ways in which their needs differ from those of other young people who engage in high risk behaviour or offending. The book covers assessment, intervention and treatment options for adolescents with a wide range of developmental disabilities, including autism spectrum disorders, acquired brain injury, developmental traumatology, and complex comorbidities. It describes the obstacles, challenges and opportunities to consider when working with this population, and the role played by various professionals, including forensic psychiatry and psychology, occupational therapy, physiotherapy, education, art psychotherapy and social work. The book also outlines the issues to consider when working in secure and community settings as well as the legal aspects of working with this client group, and the complex issues surrounding risk assessment. The first comprehensive account of forensic issues in adolescents with developmental disabilities, this book will be an indispensible primary resource for a wide range of professionals, including child and adolescent psychiatrists, community psychiatric nurses, developmental paediatricians, social workers and youth workers, lawyers and advocates.
Forbidden Signs: American Culture And The Campaign Against Sign Language
by Douglas C. BayntonForbidden Signs explores American culture from the mid-nineteenth century to 1920 through the lens of one striking episode: the campaign led by Alexander Graham Bell and other prominent Americans to suppress the use of sign language among deaf people.<P><P> The ensuing debate over sign language invoked such fundamental questions as what distinguished Americans from non-Americans, civilized people from "savages," humans from animals, men from women, the natural from the unnatural, and the normal from the abnormal. An advocate of the return to sign language, Baynton found that although the grounds of the debate have shifted, educators still base decisions on many of the same metaphors and images that led to the misguided efforts to eradicate sign language.
For the Love of Aimee: A Memoir
by Julie Riera MatsushimaA story of a grandmother's sacrifice and devotion to a beautiful baby girl who was diagnosed with massive irreparable brain damage. Aimee was one of the twin grandchildren born to author Julie Riera Matsushima. The author inspires the reader by demonstrating that supportive and involved grandparents can and do make a difference and invites the reader to share in the disappointments, challenges and amazing accomplishments Julie and Aimee experience together during Aimee's first ten years.
For the Benefit of Those Who See: Dispatches from the World of the Blind
by Rosemary Mahoney<P>"In this intelligent and humane book, Rosemary Mahoney writes of people who are blind....She reports on their courage and gives voice, time and again, to their miraculous dignity."--Andrew Solomon, author of Far From the Tree <P>In the tradition of Oliver Sacks's The Island of the Colorblind, Rosemary Mahoney tells the story of Braille Without Borders, the first school for the blind in Tibet, and of Sabriye Tenberken, the remarkable blind woman who founded the school. Fascinated and impressed by what she learned from the blind children of Tibet, Mahoney was moved to investigate further the cultural history of blindness. <P>As part of her research, she spent three months teaching at Tenberken's international training center for blind adults in Kerala, India, an experience that reveals both the shocking oppression endured by the world's blind, as well as their great resilience, integrity, ingenuity, and strength. <P>By living among the blind, Rosemary Mahoney enables us to see them in fascinating close up, revealing their particular "quality of ease that seems to broadcast a fundamental connection to the world." Having read FOR THE BENEFIT OF THOSE WHO SEE, you will never see the world in quite the same way again.
For the Benefit of Those Who See: Dispatches from The World of the Blind
by Rosemary Mahoney"In this intelligent and humane book, Rosemary Mahoney writes of people who are blind .... She reports on their courage and gives voice, time and again, to their miraculous dignity. " --Andrew Solomon, author of Far From the Tree *** In the tradition of Oliver Sacks's The Island of the Colorblind, Rosemary Mahoney tells the story of Braille Without Borders, the first school for the blind in Tibet, and of Sabriye Tenberken, the remarkable blind woman who founded the school. Fascinated and impressed by what she learned from the blind children of Tibet, Mahoney was moved to investigate further the cultural history of blindness. As part of her research, she spent three months teaching at Tenberken's international training center for blind adults in Kerala, India, an experience that reveals both the shocking oppression endured by the world's blind, as well as their great resilience, integrity, ingenuity, and strength. By living among the blind, Rosemary Mahoney enables us to see them in fascinating close up, revealing their particular "quality of ease that seems to broadcast a fundamental connection to the world. " Having read FOR THE BENEFIT OF THOSE WHO SEE, you will never see the world in quite the same way again.
For a Pragmatics of the Useless (Thought in the Act)
by Erin ManningWhat has a use in the future, unforeseeably, is radically useless now. What has an effect now is not necessarily useful if it falls through the gaps. In For a Pragmatics of the Useless Erin Manning examines what falls outside the purview of already-known functions and established standards of value, not for want of potential but for carrying an excess of it. The figures are various: the infrathin, the artful, proprioceptive tactility, neurodiversity, black life. It is around the latter two that a central refrain echoes: "All black life is neurodiverse life." This is not an equation, but an "approximation of proximity." Manning shows how neurotypicality and whiteness combine to form a normative baseline for existence. Blackness and neurodiversity "schizz" around the baseline, uselessly, pragmatically, figuring a more-than of life living. Manning, in dialogue with Félix Guattari and drawing on the black radical tradition's accounts of black life and the aesthetics of black sociality, proposes a "schizoanalysis" of the more-than, charting a panoply of techniques for other ways of living and learning.
For Hearing People Only: Answers to Some of the Most Commonly Asked Questions about the Deaf Community, Its Culture, and the "Deaf Reality" (Third Edition)
by Matthew S. Moore Linda LevitanHere, in a handy question-and-answer format, are answers to some of the most commonly asked questions about deaf people, their community, and their language. Concise, easy-to-read, designed for those with no prior background, For Hearing People Only makes a formidably complex subject accessible. Each chapter can be read as an independent unit. This is the first book of its kind-written especially for laymen who are curious about deaf people.
For Hearing People Only: Answers to Some of the Most Commonly Asked Questions About the Deaf Community, Its Culture, and the "Deaf Reality" (newly revised and expanded)
by Matthew S. Moore Linda LevitanA question and answer book to those questions that the general public wants to know about Deafness, the Deaf culture, and what it is like to be Deaf in America.
For Hearing People Only (4th Edition): Vol. 1
by Matthew S. Moore Linda Levitan<p>In a handy question-and-answer format, <i>For Hearing People Only</i> addresses some of the most commonly asked questions about deaf people, their community and their language. The 4th edition has been expanded into two volumes—containing more content than ever! The <i>For Hearing People Only</i> 4th Edition is almost double the size as the previous edition! That means more questions, more answers and more content. It has been expanded into two volumes, and reflects changes in technology and telecommunications. <p>Concise, easy-to-read and designed for those with no prior background, <i>For Hearing People Only</i> makes a formidably complex subject accessible. Each chapter can be read as an independent unit. This is the first book of its kind—written especially for laypeople who are curious about deaf people, and would like to separate truth from stereotype, fact from misconception, reality from myth. <i>For Hearing People Only</i> makes a good introductory or supplemental text for Deaf studies or signing and interpreter students.
For Hearing People Only
by Matthew S. Moore Linda LevitanThis best-seller answers some of the most common questions about Deaf culture, the Deaf community, and how Deaf people communicate and live. The simple and entertaining question-and-answer format makes this book a good introduction to Deafness and Deaf studies and would make a great gift for hearing friends and associates. Expanded edition.
Footprints of Hope: VCFS (Velo-Cardio-Facial Syndrome)
by Raymond G. TannerThis book is a compilation of stories from Australia, France, Israel, New Zealand, South Africa, the UK and the USA. Along with other information about VCFS, it also tells Raymond Tanner's life story with VCFS (he was diagnosed with VCFS at age 43 and is now 54), the death of his son James 18 years ago from VCFS, his second son who is 16, and his trials and tribulations in growing up with the Syndrome.
Food Allergy Advocacy: Parenting and the Politics of Care
by Danya GlabauA detailed exploration of parents&’ fight for a safe environment for their kids, interrogating how race, class, and gender shape health advocacy The success of food allergy activism in highlighting the dangers of foodborne allergens shows how illness communities can effectively advocate for the needs of their members. In Food Allergy Advocacy, Danya Glabau follows parents and activists as they fight for allergen-free environments, accurate labeling, the fair application of disability law, and access to life-saving medications for food-allergic children in the United States. At the same time, she shows how this activism also reproduces the culturally dominant politics of personhood and responsibility, based on an idealized version of the American family, centered around white, middle-class, and heteronormative motherhood.By holding up the threat of food allergens to the white nuclear family to galvanize political and scientific action, Glabau shows, the movement excludes many, including Black women and disabled adults, whose families and health have too often been marginalized from public health and social safety net programs. Further, its strategies are founded on the assumption that market-based solutions will address issues of social exclusion and equal access to healthcare. Sharing the personal experiences of a wide spectrum of people, including parents, support group leaders, physicians, entrepreneurs, and scientists, Food Allergy Advocacy raises important questions about who controls illness activism. Using critical, intersectional feminism to interrogate how race, class, and gender shape activist priorities and platforms, it shows the way to new, justice-focused models of advocacy.
Following Ezra: What One Father Learned about Gumby, Otters, Autism, and Love from His Extraordinary Son
by Tom Fields-MeyerA very insightful book on Autism that brings alive a beautiful relationship between a father and son and also emphasizes that children need most is parents who love and appreciate them no matter what challenges they may face.
Following Ezra
by Tom Fields-MeyerA heartwarming, intimate and amusing memoir of a father's experience raising his autistic son. When Tom Fields-Meyer's son Ezra was three and showing early signs of autism, a therapist suggested that the father needed to grieve. "For what?" he asked. The answer: "For the child he didn't turn out to be. "That moment helped strengthen the author's resolve to do just the opposite: to love the child Ezra was, a quirky boy with a fascinating and complex mind. Full of tender moments and unexpected humor, Following Ezra is the story of a father and son on a ten-year journey from Ezra's diagnosis to the dawn of his adolescence. It celebrates his growth from a remote toddler to an extraordinary young man, connected in his own remarkable ways to the world around him. .
Follow Your Dog: A Story of Love and Trust
by Ann ChiappettaWhat, exactly, does it mean to share one’s life with a guide dog? While there is practical merit to the human-canine bond, which developed over a period of 70,000 years, it’s not akin to any other human-animal relationship. It is unique. The person and guide dog are interdependent, and the bond of mutual trust is what makes the partnership successful and fulfilling for both. Ask yourself how many people you would trust with your life, and after answering, ask yourself if you would trust an animal with your life. Unless you are bonded to and live with a working dog, you might hesitate in answering the second question. To be sure, guide dogs have performed many heroic tasks and have saved handlers from innumerable dangers. However, there are smaller and subtler things that can mean so very much: the feel of your dog’s head on a foot while riding the bus, the whimpers and doggie dreaming, the way you and the dog move in sync when walking down the street, and countless other tokens of trust and affection. With this book, I hope to take the reader on a journey of understanding: learning what it’s like to overcome the darker side of disability by walking the path of independence with a canine partner. Ann Chiappetta Ann Chiappetta, M.S., lives in New Rochelle, NY with her husband, daughter, and assorted pets. She works as a readjustment counseling therapist for the Department of Veterans Affairs. Her poems, articles, and short fiction have appeared in numerous online and print publications. Her first book was Upwelling: Poems © 2016. Book website: http://www.dldbooks.com/annchiappetta/ Personal website: http://www.annchiappetta.com/ Blog: www.thought-wheel.com
Follow My Leader
by James B. GarfieldAfter Jimmy is blinded in an accident, he is given a guide dog to train.
Focused: ADHD and ADD Parenting Strategies for Children with Attention Deficit Disorder
by Blythe GrossbergADHD expert Blythe Grossberg, Psy. D draws on her 15+ years of experience in treating childhood and adult ADHD with a compassionate and practical guide for stressed parents to support children with ADHD. Written in an easy-to-read format, this accessible manual offers a solid starting point for grasping the essentials of ADHD. As a learning specialist with more than 15 years of experience, Blythe Grossberg understands the value of providing proper support for children with ADHD. In Focused, she illuminates practical principles and effective ways for parents to create a safe home and school environment for children with ADHD. Ideal for parents or caretakers of recently diagnosed children, Focused features a thoughtful and eye-opening overview of ADHD by dispelling many misconceptions about the condition, as well as highlighting common coexisting conditions like obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) and learning and mood disorders. You'll learn to uncover your child's considerable strengths, and work around their obstacles with concrete, actionable activities that improve executive functioning, support emotional development, and promote positive behavior. Become your child's best advocate, with: Over 40 targeted strategies to help your child manage ADHD from preschool through adulthood A straightforward overview of ADHD in children Modification tips for adapting strategies to your child's unique needs Helpful tools, including a quiz and worksheets, to supplement your ADHD treatment plan A quick start guide detailing 5 essential tips for parents
Focused: ADHD & ADD Parenting Strategies for Children with Attention Deficit Disorder
by Blythe Grossberg PsyDADHD expert Blythe Grossberg, Psy.D draws on her 15+ years of experience in treating childhood and adult ADHD with a compassionate and practical guide for stressed parents to support children with ADHD. Written in an easy-to-read format, this accessible manual offers a solid starting point for grasping the essentials of ADHD. As a learning specialist with more than 15 years of experience, Blythe Grossberg understands the value of providing proper support for children with ADHD. In Focused, she illuminates practical principles and effective ways for parents to create a safe home and school environment for children with ADHD. Ideal for parents or caretakers of recently diagnosed children, Focused features a thoughtful and eye-opening overview of ADHD by dispelling many misconceptions about the condition, as well as highlighting common coexisting conditions like obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) and learning and mood disorders. You'll learn to uncover your child's considerable strengths, and work around their obstacles with concrete, actionable activities that improve executive functioning, support emotional development, and promote positive behavior. Become your child's best advocate, with: Over 40 targeted strategies to help your child manage ADHD from preschool through adulthood A straightforward overview of ADHD in children Modification tips for adapting strategies to your child's unique needs Helpful tools, including a quiz and worksheets, to supplement your ADHD treatment plan A quick start guide detailing 5 essential tips for parents
Foam Roller Workbook: A Step-by-Step Guide to Stretching, Strengthening and Rehabilitative Techniques
by Dr. Karl KnopfMaster the incredible versatility of the foam roller with this full-color, step-by-step guide to end pain, regain range of motion, and prevent injury.With this helpful full-color guide, you can learn how to use your foam roller to remediate muscle strain caused by everything from sitting long hours at your desk to overdoing it at the gym. In addition, special programs will enhance your sporting life, whether you hit the track, the court or the slopes.Designed to improve your posture, balance and muscle tone, each exercise is carefully explained and includes step-by-step color photos to guarantee you do it right and gain the maximum benefits, including:Increase FlexibilityRelease TensionAlleviate Chronic PainRehabilitate InjuryImprove Core StrengthBreak Up Knots
Flying Starts for Unique Children: Top Tips for Supporting Children with SEN or Autism When They Start School
by Adele DevineHelp children with SEN and autism to have a good first impression of your school and it can make all the difference to their entire school experience. Regular Teach Early Years contributor and SEN expert Adele Devine shares her top tips for making the school environment as welcoming and inclusive as possible for children with SEN and autism. This book covers essential topics such as working with parents, supporting transitions between home and school, helping children with sensory issues to cope in a stimulating classroom, teaching waiting and patience skills, using visual teaching methods, understanding behaviour, promoting independence and much more. Case studies and practical examples show you exactly how a truly inclusive classroom can be achieved, by demonstrating how a range of situations are experienced from the child's perspective. Designed to be perfect for dipping into and referring back to as problems arise, this book is a fantastic resource for busy educators.
Flora Stormer and the Mystic Pearl: Book 2 (Flora Stormer #2)
by Isabella HarcourtThe race to the North Pole is on! Bundle up and join Flora Stormer and her friends on a magical and self-affirming Arctic adventure.Flora Stormer and her friend Pavan are racing to the North Pole by dog sled, trying to find their friend's missing parents. When they hear about a magical pearl that can show the past and future, Flora realises it could help them solve the mystery. But their arch-enemy Lord Granville is determined to get his greedy hands on it first. Soon, the race to the Arctic becomes a race to the mystic pearl! With polar bears, fierce mermaids, and ferocious sea storms, the Arctic is a dangerous place - even without Lord Granville trying to eliminate the competition. Luckily, Flora has friendship - and magic - on her side!
Flora Stormer and the Mystic Pearl: Book 2 (Flora Stormer #2)
by Isabella HarcourtThe race to the North Pole is on! Bundle up and join Flora Stormer and her friends on a magical and self-affirming Arctic adventure.Flora Stormer and her friend Pavan are racing to the North Pole by dog sled, trying to find their friend's missing parents. When they hear about a magical pearl that can show the past and future, Flora realises it could help them solve the mystery. But their arch-enemy Lord Granville is determined to get his greedy hands on it first. Soon, the race to the Arctic becomes a race to the mystic pearl! With polar bears, fierce mermaids, and ferocious sea storms, the Arctic is a dangerous place - even without Lord Granville trying to eliminate the competition. Luckily, Flora has friendship - and magic - on her side!