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Pediatric Traumatic Brain Injury
by Vicki Anderson Keith Owen YeatesTraumatic brain injury (TBI) is a leading cause of death and disability in children and adolescents Worldwide and represents a largely "silent" public health epidemic. Advances in acute medical care have resulted in better survival rates, but long-term quality of life remains of ongoing concern. The cognitive, emotional and behavioral consequences of TBI frequently pose life long problems for these children and their families leading to substantial economic and societal costs.
Handbook of Formative Assessment
by Heidi L. Andrade Gregory J. CizekFormative assessment has recently become a focus of renewed research as state and federal policy-makers realize that summative assessments have reached a point of diminishing returns as a tool for increasing student achievement. Consequently, supporters of large-scale testing programs are now beginning to consider the potential of formative assessments to improve student achievement. The mission of this handbook is to comprehensively profile this burgeoning field of study. Written by leading international scholars and practitioners, each chapter includes a discussion of key issues that dominate formative assessment policy and practice today, as well as those that are likely to affect research and practice in the coming years. Key features include: Comprehensive – nineteen chapters cover all aspects of formative assessment including classroom assessment, large-scale applications, technological applications, applications for special needs students, K-12 and post-secondary applications, psychometric considerations, case studies, and discussion of alternative assessment formats such as portfolios and performance assessments. Integrative – thoughtful attention is given to the integration of large-scale and classroom assessments. Practical – provides practical guidance on how to conduct formative assessments that generate credible information to guide instruction. Global – provides perspectives from leading international scholars and practitioners whose expertise spans diverse settings, student populations, and educational systems. Accessible Style – although grounded in the latest research, the book’s style and tone has been carefully crafted to make it accessible to both the textbook and professional markets. It will also be a critical reference book for researchers in teacher preparation, educational administration, and educational policy studies.
Active Citizenship and Disability
by Andrew Power Janet E. Lord Allison S. DeFranco Andrew Power Janet E. Lord Allison S. DefrancoThis book provides an international comparative study of the implementation of disability rights law and policy focused on the emerging principles of self-determination and personalisation. It explores how these principles have been enshrined in the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities and how different jurisdictions have implemented them to enable meaningful engagement and participation by persons with disabilities in society. The philosophy of 'active citizenship' underpinning the Convention - that all citizens should (be able to) actively participate in the community - provides the core focal point of this book, which grounds its analysis in exploring how this goal has been imagined and implemented across a range of countries. The case studies examine how different jurisdictions have reformed disability law and policy and reconfigured how support is administered and funded to ensure maximum choice and independence is accorded to people with disabilities.
Look Up, Move Forward
by Becky Andrews Amy HackworthWhen 18 year old Becky Andrews is diagnosed with the degenerative eye condition Retinitis Pigmentosa, she understands her childhood of softball strikeouts, notorious clumsiness, and why she's never been able to see the stars. This is Becky's remarkable story of living life to the fullest is a journey of courage and determination. Part memoir and part resilience manifestor, Look up, move forward will inspire readers to face their own lives with more creativity, grit, determination and joy.
Comeback Kids: Three Animals Who Overcame the Impossible (The Dodo)
by Aubre AndrusThese adorable little animals -- as seen in The Dodo's viral videos -- have the BIGGEST personalities!Angel the miniature zebu calf couldn't even stand months after she was born. Potato, an especially tiny Munchkin cat, was born with a body that was too small. And Bueller, a bulldog puppy, had weak legs that made it too hard for him to walk.What do these three animals have in common? They all overcame the impossible. Luckily, Angel, Potato, and Bueller all had the help of supportive humans to help them beat the odds -- from vets and foster parents to their very own forever homes!These three inspiring true stories show that with a little love and kindness -- and a lot of hard work -- we can get through anything together.Each short story in this collection is the perfect length for middle-grade readers. This book also includes a 16-page full-color insert, featuring photos of all three animals.Angel, Potato, and Bueller's stories have been featured on The Dodo, one of social media's most popular animal brands, with over 33 million followers! Their inspiring stories are the perfect example of just how far an animal can go when they have the love of a supportive human by their side.
When Blind Eyes Pierce the Darkness: A Mother's Insights
by Peter A. AngelesWith courage and determination, a young Greek girl journeyed to America to carve out a new life. Not long after her arrival, Kalliope married - only to have her dreams and aspirations ravaged by a disease that took her sight. Yet Kalliope faced life head-on and lived it to the fullest. Now eighty-four, Kalliope's thoughts, fears, hopes and dreams have been recorded by her son, Peter, in hopes that her keen insights will add to our understanding of life's choices and challenges.
The Pedagogy of Pathologization: Dis/abled Girls of Color in the School-prison Nexus
by Subini Ancy AnnammaWINNER OF THE 2018 NATIONAL WOMEN'S STUDIES ASSOCIATION ALISON PIEPMEIER BOOK PRIZE Linking powerful first-person narratives with structural analysis, The Pedagogy of Pathologization explores the construction of criminal identities in schools via the intersections of race, disability, and gender. amid the prevalence of targeted mass incarceration. Focusing uniquely on the pathologization of female students of color, whose voices are frequently engulfed by labels of deviance and disability, a distinct and underrepresented experience of the school-to-prison pipeline is detailed through original qualitative methods rooted in authentic narratives. The book’s DisCrit framework, grounded in interdisciplinary research, draws on scholarship from critical race theory, disability studies, education, women’s and girl’s studies, legal studies, and more.
Finding Wheels: Strategies to Build Independent Travel Skills for Those With Visual Impairments
by Anne Corn Ed.D. L. Penny RosenblumYoung adults with visual impairments, who are largely the focus of Finding Wheels, have much to figure out about how they will get from place to place as they seek greater independence and autonomy. In the book, the authors have identified and put into very practical terms the many strategies that nondrivers and low vision drivers can employ. Whether it is driving a car with low vision aids, using public transportation, or negotiating a ride with others in a mutually beneficial way, Finding Wheels informs and empowers travelers to take charge of their own transportation strategies. Families and professionals alike will find this update of Finding Wheels to be the definitive resource on helping youth and young adults maximize their independence in meeting their transportation needs.
Limbo: A Memoir
by A. Manette AnsayFrom childhood, acclaimed novelist A. Manette Ansay trained to become a concert pianist. But at nineteen, a mysterious muscle disorder forced her to give up the piano, and by twenty-one, she couldn't grip a pen or walk across a room. She entered a world of limbo, one in which no one could explain what was happening to her or predict what the future would hold. At twenty- three, beginning a whole new life in a motorized wheelchair, Ansay made a New Year's resolution to start writing fiction, rediscovering the sense of passion and purpose she thought she had lost for good. "Writing fiction began for me as a side effect of illness, a way to live beyond my body when it became clear that this new, altered body would be mine to keep. A way to fill the hours that had once been occupied by music. A way to achieve the kind of closure that, once, I'd found in prayer." Limbo takes its title from the Catholic belief in a place between heaven and hell that is neither, one that Ansay imagines as a gray room without walls, a gray floor, a gray bench .... You wouldn't know how long you'd been in that room, or how much longer you had to go." Thirteen years and five books later, still without a firm diagnosis or prognosis, Ansay reflects on the ways in which the unraveling of one life can plant the seeds of another, and considers how her own physical limbo has challenged--in ways not necessarily bad her most fundamental assumptions about life and faith.
The Rehabilitation of Speech
by Merle Ansberry Anna Carr Robert WestbrookA textbook of diagnostic and corrective procedures based upon a critical study of speech disorders.
Embodied Archive: Disability in Post-Revolutionary Mexican Cultural Production (Corporealities: Discourses Of Disability)
by Susan AntebiEmbodied Archive focuses on perceptions of disability and racial difference in Mexico’s early post-revolutionary period, from the 1920s to the 1940s. In this period, Mexican state-sponsored institutions charged with the education and health of the population sought to strengthen and improve the future of the nation, and to forge a more racially homogeneous sense of collective identity and history. Influenced by regional and global movements in eugenics and hygiene, Mexican educators, writers, physicians, and statesmen argued for the widespread physical and cognitive testing and categorization of schoolchildren, so as to produce an accurate and complete picture of “the Mexican child,” and to carefully monitor and control forms of unwanted difference, including disability and racialized characteristics. Differences were not generally marked for eradication—as would be the case in eugenics movements in the US, Canada, and parts of Europe—but instead represented possible influences from a historically distant or immediate reproductive past, or served as warnings of potential danger haunting individual or collective futures. Weaving between the historical context of Mexico’s post-revolutionary period and our present-day world, Embodied Archive approaches literary and archival documents that include anti-alcohol and hygiene campaigns; projects in school architecture and psychopedagogy; biotypological studies of urban schoolchildren and indigenous populations; and literary approaches to futuristic utopias or violent pasts. It focuses in particular on the way disability is represented indirectly through factors that may have caused it in the past or may cause it in the future, or through perceptions and measurements that cannot fully capture it. In engaging with these narratives, the book proposes an archival encounter, a witnessing of past injustices and their implications for the disability of our present and future.
The Caterpillar's Question
by Piers Anthony Philip FarmerTappy was thirteen, blind, crippled and mute. Jack was hired to drive her across the country to a place where they were supposed to help her, but Jack wondered. They said she could speak if she wanted to badly enough, that the condition was hysterical. As they drove, he found himself liking the young girl and becoming more and more intrigued with her behavior. Why did she want to stop and walk around in the middle of nowhere. Perhaps Jack would regret his wanting to know when they both disappeared somewhere ... else?
Achieving the Radical Reform of Special Education: Essays in Honor of James M. Kauffman
by AntonioAs a tribute to scholar and mentor James M. Kauffman and his prodigious influence on the education of children and youth with disabilities, Achieving the Radical Reform of Special Education highlights and examines issues central to the continued growth and maturation of the field of special education. This impressive collection features the issues Kauffman has raised pointedly and repeatedly in his writing over the past three decades. With contributions by prominent scholars, essays throughout the book provide a valuable synopsis of the status of special education and its progress toward the achievement of radical reform at the outset of the 21st century. The volume is divided into four sections, corresponding to the following themes:1) recognizing and responding to individual differences among special education students; 2) repairing and elaborating the historical, philosophical, and legal foundations of special education practice; 3) strengthening the field’s empirical base; and4) confronting problems of advocacy and reform in special education. Chapters within each section discuss the status of the field, its progress, pitfalls, and promising subsequent steps. Achieving the Radical Reform of Special Education is intended for scholars, policy makers, and graduate students in special education and associated disciplines who seek to improve schools and to improve the education of students whose behavior and exceptional learning needs prevent their academic and social development.
Teaching and Supporting Students with Disabilities During Times of Crisis: Culturally Responsive Best Practices from Around the World
by Pavan John Antony Stephen Mark ShoreThis volume offers international perspectives on the disproportionate impact COVID-19 has had on disabled students and their families, serving as a call to action for educational systems and education policy to become proactive, rather than reactive, for future disasters. Each chapter in the book is written by authors with lived experiences across diverse global regions, highlighting the daily life of people with disabilities and their families during the pandemic. Including case studies and practical suggestions, the book demonstrates that culturally responsive practices are essential to successfully support people around the world in their times of need. At the critical intersection of education and disability human rights, this book is important for pre-service teachers, researchers, professors, and graduate students to ensure all students are supported during times of crisis.
How to Handle the Hard-to-Handle Student, K-5
by Maryln S. AppelbaumThe author helps teachers promote students' ability to handle emotions, regulate their own behavior, and learn in ways that meet their needs and those of the class.
Mad, Bad and Sad: A History of Women and the Mind Doctors
by Lisa AppignanesiThis fascinating history of mind doctors and their patients probes the ways in which madness, badness, and sadness have been understood over the last two centuries. Lisa Appignanesi charts a story from the days when the mad were considered possessed to our own century when the official psychiatric manual lists some 350 mental disorders. Women play a key role here, both as patients "among them Virginia Woolf, Sylvia Plath, and Marilyn Monroe" and as therapists. Controversially, Appignanesi argues that women have significantly changed the nature of mind-doctoring, but in the process they have also inadvertently highlighted new patterns of illness.
Vision Assessment of Infants & Children with & without Special Needs
by Kathleen ApplebyThis book was written in two parts with the goals of sharing practical information and a reference for offering vision assessment and vision screening suggestions. It is not intended to be an in depth "training" guide. <p><p> PART 1 includes background information on assessment of infants and special needs children, an overview of the visual system, tips and procedure of assessment and recording and reporting forms. It was written for people who have some vision background, such as vision teachers and/or therapists. I kept PART 2 simple and to the point including step by step guidelines, suggested toys or tests to use and recording and feedback forms. Hopefully you will find this helpful in accomplishing your goals.
Ben Takes a Chance (Making Out, Book 11)
by Katherine ApplegateBen and Nina are going beyond making out as the day for Ben's eye surgery approaches. First they have to get through Christmas. The surgery could make Ben's blindness a problem of the past. The island kids are uncertain about their relationships. There's a lot on their minds besides Santa. Christopher is set up to leave for the Army. For Christmas he wants a yes to his marriage proposal from Aisha. Aisha loves Christopher but thinks the middle of her senior year is a little soon to be planning her wedding. Zoey is heart broken that Lucas is angry at her for making out with Aaron, but at the same time she's attracted to Aaron and he's encouraging her. Meanwhile Claire is sure Aaron is the man for her even though Aaron hasn't shown any interest beyond glancing at her legs. With Jake and Lara, sleeping together isn't about love. It's more about the alcohol and drugs that can ruin their lives. Once you've seen them through Christmas, find out what awaits them in the new year in Claire Can't Lose, Making Out #12. You can read More of the Making Out series books in Bookshare collection. They are: #1 Zoey Fools Around, #2 Jake Finds Out, #3 Nina Won't Tell, #4 Ben's In Love, #5 Claire Gets Caught, #6 What Zoey Saw, #7 Lucas Gets Hurt, #8 Aisha Goes Wild, #9 Zoey Plays Games, #10 Nina Shapes Up, #11 Ben Takes A Chance, #12 Claire Can't Lose, #13 Don't Tell Zoey, #14 Aaron Lets Go, #15 Who Loves Kate?, #16 Lara Gets Even, #17 Two Timing Aisha, #18 Zoey Speaks Out and #19 Kate Finds Love. With more to come.
How to Be a Superhero Called Self-Control!: Super Powers to Help Younger Children to Regulate their Emotions and Senses
by Apsley Lauren BruknerMeet Self-Control, a superhero who wants to teach young children his super powers of self-control! Anxiety, frustration, anger, and other difficult feelings won't stand a chance against their new-found powers. Self-Control teaches children with emotional and sensory regulation difficulties aged approximately 4-7 how to calm themselves using self-massage, deep pressure, breathing exercises, and activities such as making an imaginary list and finding their own peaceful place. This illustrated book also features an appendix with photocopiable super power charts, reinforcers, and reminder tools to ensure that parents, teachers, and other professionals can support children in upholding superhero strategies even after the book has been read.
Stay Cool and In Control with the Keep-Calm Guru: Wise Ways for Children to Regulate their Emotions and Senses
by Apsley Lauren BruknerMeet the Keep-Calm Guru, our expert guide to the art of staying cool, calm, and in control in the face of overpowering feelings! This illustrated book introduces wise ways for children to recognize and cope with anxiety, anger, frustration, and other difficult emotions. Using everything from yoga poses and pressure holds, to deep breathing and relaxing coloring activities, the Keep-Calm Guru shows kids how to take back control and feel cool, calm, and just right. Suitable for children with sensory and emotional regulation difficulties aged approximately 7-14 years.
Explicit Instruction: Effective and Efficient Teaching
by Anita L. Archer Charles A. HughesExplicit instruction is systematic, direct, engaging, and success oriented--and has been shown to promote achievement for all students. This highly practical and accessible resource gives special and general education teachers the tools to implement explicit instruction in any grade level or content area. The authors are leading experts who provide clear guidelines for identifying key concepts, skills, and routines to teach; designing and delivering effective lessons; and giving students opportunities to practice and master new material. Sample lesson plans, lively examples, and reproducible checklists and teacher worksheets enhance the utility of the volume.
Explicit Instruction: Effective and Efficient Teaching (What Works for Special-Needs Learners)
by Anita L. Archer Charles A. HughesExplicit instruction is systematic, direct, engaging, and success oriented--and has been shown to promote achievement for all students. This highly practical and accessible resource gives special and general education teachers the tools to implement explicit instruction in any grade level or content area. The authors are leading experts who provide clear guidelines for identifying key concepts, skills, and routines to teach; designing and delivering effective lessons; and giving students opportunities to practice and master new material. Sample lesson plans, lively examples, and reproducible checklists and teacher worksheets enhance the utility of the volume. Purchasers can also download and print the reproducible materials for repeated use. Video clips demonstrating the approach in real classrooms are available at the authors' website: www.explicitinstruction.org. See also related DVDs from Anita Archer: Golden Principles of Explicit Instruction; Active Participation: Getting Them All Engaged, Elementary Level; and Active Participation: Getting Them All Engaged, Secondary Level
The ADHD Advantage
by Dale ArcherWhy ADHD could be the key to your successFor decades physicians delivered the diagnosis of ADHD to patients as bad news and warned them about a lifelong struggle of managing symptoms. But The ADHD Advantage explodes this outlook, showing that some of the most highly successful entrepreneurs, leaders, and entertainers have reached the pinnacle of success not in spite of their ADHD but because of it.Although the ADHD stereotype is someone who can't sit still, in reality people with ADHD are endlessly curious, often adventurous, willing to take smart risks, and unusually resilient. They are creative, visionary, and entrepreneurial. Sharing the stories of highly successful people with ADHD, Dr. Archer offers a vitally important and inspiring new way to recognize ADHD traits in oneself or in one's loved ones, and then leverage them to great advantage--without drugs.As someone who not only has ADHD himself but also has never used medication to treat it, Dr. Archer understands the condition from a unique standpoint. Armed with new science and research, he hopes to generate public interest and even debate with his positive message as he guides the millions of people with ADHD worldwide toward a whole new appreciation of their many strengths and full innate potential.
The Great White Wyrm (Dragonlance Champions #3)
by Peter ArcherA powerful white dragon is the target of one man's obsession, and anyone foolish enough to get between the two of them will be the first to die.