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Activities for Adults with Learning Disabilities

Having Fun, Meeting Needs

Helen Sonnet, Ann Taylor

This valuable resource for people working with adults with learning disabilities provides over 60 sessions of fun and engaging activities that aim to entertain and stimulate the minds of people with learning disabilities.

The sessions are divided into different types of activity including cookery, arts and crafts, drama and dance, and outside events. A comprehensive collection of varied and enjoyable activities, this practical book also contains useful tips to ensure that sessions run smoothly. All the activities are tried and tested by experienced practitioners and include a key advising the level of help required, wheelchair user suitability and any related health and safety issues involved.

Ideal for use in social clubs or residential homes, this is an essential resource for professionals and volunteers working with adults with learning disabilities.

23x15cm

160 pages

$39.95

Discover Your Child’s Learning Style

Children learn in unique ways - Here's the key to every child's learning success.

Mariaemma Willis & Victoria Kindle-Hodson

Includes "learning style" assesments for all ages. Does your child learn best in the morning, afternoon or evening. Does his reading comprehension increase or decrease when music is played in the background? Does she prefer to study alone or with others? This book shows you how to assess and nurture your child's individual learning potential based on his/her talents, interests, disposition, preferred environment and so on. Help your child excel at school, and in life as well.

19x23cm

325 pages

$40.00

Enriching the Brain

How to Maximize Every Learner's Potential (Jossey-Bass Education (Hardcover) )

Eric Jensen

Highlights the brain's extraordinary capacity for positive change. Jensen questions the "deficit-ridden" models in current education, including the value of standardized testing. Suggesting that certain forms of schooling actually shortchange young brains, Jensen offers solutions. He calls for an enrichment-based educational framework that emphasizes customized schooling for every learner from underachievers to the gifted. He goes on to show how the way we teach, parent, or run our schools can dramatically enrich brain capacity. In fact, we can now enrich over 90 percent of all learners, including those in poverty, with special needs, in pre-school, and of course, the gifted.

23x16cm

330 pages

$33.95

Executive Skills in Children and Adolescents

A Practical Guide to Assessment and Intervention 2ed

Peg Dawson, Richard Guare

Concise and practitioner friendly, this bestselling guide has helped put executive skills on the map for school-based clinicians and educators. The book explains how these critical cognitive processes develop and why they play such a key role in children's behavior and school performance. Provided are step-by-step guidelines and many practical tools to promote executive skill development by implementing environmental modifications, individualized instruction, coaching, and whole class interventions. In a large-size format with convenient lay-flat binding, the book includes more than two dozen reproducible assessment tools, checklists, and planning sheets.

The Publisher grants individual book purchasers nonassignable permission to reproduce selected materials in this book for professional use.

27x20cm

224 pages

$54.95

Help for the Struggling Student

Ready-To-Use Strategies and Lessons to Build Attention, Memory, & Organizational Skills

Mimi Gold

: Here is a unique picture book of learning solutions for teachers who are trying to help students struggling in three main areas of learning – attention, memory, and organization. For each area, it identifies specific problems such as difficulties with left to right scanning (an attention problem), presents an observed student behavior, explains the problem, and provides strategies and visuals to correct it, including illustrated worksheets.

27x22cm

305 pages

$49.95

How Do I Teach This Kid?

Visual Work Tasks for Beginning Learners on the Autism Spectrum

Kimberly A Henry

Provides special education teachers, therapists and parents with practicl, easy-to-implement ideas for creating over 80 different work tasks or boxes to be used to teach students to work independently and for an established length of time.
Contains classroom and home-tested ideas for addressing skills in six different areas: sorting, matching, reading, writing, mathematics, and motor tasks. The ideas are designed for early learners, ages two to ten.

28x23cm

111 pages

$36.00

Learning Disabilities: The Ultimate Teen Guide

The Ultimate Teen Guide

Penny Hutchins

Exclusively written for teenagers and young adults dealing with a wide variety of learning disabilities-including ADHD and dyslexia-this accessible resource offers the tools for taking a proactive role in identifying, understanding, and overcoming the obstacles facing teens with learning disabilities. Learning Disabilities provides a clear and informative overview of the most common disabilities, appealing to teenagers with its easy-to-read format and positive tips for success.

25x17cm

301 pages

$34.00

Learning With a Visual Brain in an Auditory World

Visual Language Strategies for Individuals With Autism Spectrum Disorders

Ellyn Arwood

Children diagnosed with an autism spectrum disorder (ASD) often present parents and educators with perplexing symptoms. Even though the skills of children with ASD can range from very high to very low, they have similar underlying learning systems. Knowledge about these learning systems helps provide direction for choosing effective assessment and intervention methods for helping individuals with ASD learn to behave, to perform academically, and to become socially competent. This book is unique in that the authors are recommending strategies based on the language of the way individuals with ASD learn. Even though many scholars recognize that individuals with ASD use "visual" ways of thinking, most fail to realize that a visual mental language is different from the visual sensory system of seeing something. The book is divided into three sections. Section One (Chapters 1-5) is about the learning system. Section Two (Chapters 6-9) connects the learning of a child with ASD to how the child performs behaviorally, academically, and socially. Finally, Section Three (Chapters 10-15) provides intervention strategies for helping a person (child or adult) with the visual brain characteristic of ASD to fit into an auditory culture.The strategies are language-based and take into consideration the complexity of the underlying biological learning system.

28x21cm

315 pages

$55.00

Making Sense of Children's Thinking and Behavior

A Step-by-Step Tool for Understanding Children with NLD, Asperger's, HFA, PDD-NOS, and other Neurological Differences

Leslie Holzhauser

Offers parents and professionals a tool for understanding children with neurological differences. These children have an atypical view of the world, unique to their particular disability, which can make their behaviour confusing and at times challenging. Each child therefore requires individualized accommodations in understanding and responding to them. The Systematic Tool for Analysing Thinking (STAT) offers such a system. It provides a step-by-step method for forming a hypothesis about a child's behavior, by laying bare the thinking behind it. It then suggests appropriate ways of responding, in order to try and both explain and eventually remedy the difficult behavior. This book will be invaluable for parents and professionals working with children with NLD, Asperger's, HFA, PDD-NOS, and other Neurological Differences.

24x16cm

189 pages

$36.95

Mind Maps for Kids

The shortcut to success at school

Tony Buzan

This book is pure good fun. Presented beautifully on quality paper and full of colour it is just so inviting. Mind Mapping is a breakthrough system of planning and note-taking that cut homework time in half and makes schoolwork fun. They make it easy to remember information, planning is a doddle and getting stuck for an answer a thing of the past. Tony Buzan shows kids how Mind Mapping can help kids to remember things, make clearer and better notes, revise, come up with ideas, unlock the imagination, save time, concentrate, and ace exams.

21x30cm

120 pages

$33.00

Mind Maps for Kids - Max Your Memory and Concentration

Tony Buzan

Mind Map genius Tony Buzan shows kids how easy it is to become the master of their memories and succeed at school with his unique combination of learning tools. Here he shares the amazing memory techniques behind his master mind and shows kids how they too can become champions of their own memories and enjoy greater self-esteem and success in everything they do.
This book shows how to
Memorize anything permanently
Absorb facts, figures and formulas with ease
Improve concentration and save time
Learn names, events, poems and lines
Recall information under pressure
Grow in self-confidence and ability.

25x19cm

118 pages

$35.00

Minds of Boys

Saving Our Sons from Falling Behind in School and Life

Michael Gurian

The follow-up to the blockbuster bestseller "The Wonder of Boys," this enormously fascinating and practical book shows parents and teachers how to help boys overcome their current classroom obstacles by helping to create the proper learning environment

22x15cm

351 pages

$27.95

One in Eleven

Practical Strategies for Teaching Adolescents with a Language Learning Disability

Florence Gough, Mandy Brent & Susan Robinson

A whole-school approach that identifies LLD students and offers suggestions for teaching and learning strategies to address this difficulty in various school contexts, especially in subject areas. The emphasis on modifying the curriculum and employing explicit teaching strategies for these students is supported by many case-study examples and practical recommendations are made through the use of photocopy masters.

26x20cm

$59.95

Overcoming Dyslexia

A New and Complete Science-Based Program for Reading Problems at Any Level

Sally E Shaywitz

Offers the latest information about reading problems and proven, practical techniques that, along with hard work and the right help, can enable anyone to overcome them. Here are the tools that parents and teachers need to help the dyslexic child, age by age, grade by grade, step by step.
--What dyslexia is and why some intelligent, gifted people read slowly and painfully --How to identify dyslexia in preschoolers, schoolchildren, young adults, and adults --How to find the best school and how to work productively with your child's teacher --Exercises to help children use the parts of the brain that control reading --A 20-minute nightly home program to enhance reading --The 150 most common problem words-a list that can give your child a head start --Ways to raise and preserve a child's self-esteem aqnd reveal his strengths --Stories of successful men and women who are dyslexic

23x16cm

414 pages

$26.00

Play Matters

Engaging Children in Learning: the Australian Developmental Curriculum - Early years at primary school

Kathy Walker

Play Matters provides information, examples and practical strategies for classroom teachers wishing to explore and implement the Developmental Curriculum (play and project based curriculum) into the learning environment.
Play is often viewed as the reward for when real work is complete. This is not how the term is used in the Developmental Curriculum. Play is part of the learning and work of children.
A play and project based curriculum has its foundations in the developmental perspective that recognises that children are not only biologically influenced in relation to their learning and development, but also shaped through the influences and experiences they are exposed to in their environments. It emphasises that learning is much broader and richer than just literacy and numeracy and is focusing parents, teachers and children on the 'whole' child.
This book highlights that the way young children learn in the early years of school, and the teaching and learning strategies that are required for this learning, are distinct and unique compared to the ways for older children and adults.
Aimed at early-learning and primary school staff, Play Matters provides examples describing experiences of schools using the play and project based approach as well as strategies for how to implement the approach.
Play Matters contains a CD of information sheets and key summaries, and forms for planning, observing, assessing and reporting. AUSTRALIAN

28x22cm

94 pages

$59.95

Positive Reinforcement

Activities and Strategies for Creating Confident Learners

Peter Clutterbuck

designed for schools that want to really focus on positive reinforcement of their students' confidence. Covers a wide range of issues which affect self esteem and self worth. Each topic has an introduction and an activity page and full instructions on carrying out the activity. All supplementary materials are supplied on a CD-ROM for ease of reproduction.

Part One deals with the child's self image. It explores developing self-awareness and helping the child to realize that it really is 'Good to be me.' The activities help children to understand their feelings and to understand why and how those feelings lead them to behave the way they do particularly the feelings of being excited, proud, surprised, hopeful, disappointed, worried and anxious.

Part Two covers children's beliefs and attitudes towards others. Building strong relationships with others has a huge impact on self confidence and these skills are developed in the same activity based way.

30x21cm

121 pages

$47.95

Raising a Left-Brain Child in a Right-Brain World

Strategies for Helping Bright, Quirky, Socially Awkward Children to Thrive at Home and at School

Katharine Beals

Does your child:

- Have impressive intellectual abilities but seem puzzled by ordinary interactions with other children?
- Prefer to spend time with adults or alone rather than with other kids?
- Have deep, all-absorbing interests or seemingly encyclopedic knowledge of certain subjects?
- Seem uncomfortable with unstructured play or social engagements?

If you answered "yes" to some or all of these questions, you may be raising a left-brain child. Bright, eccentric, and socially awkward, these are children whose talents and inclinations lean heavily toward the logical, linear, analytical, and introverted side of the human psyche--what is commonly referred to as the "left brain"--as opposed to the "right brain" which is our emotional, holistic, intuitive, and extroverted side. Left-brain kids are often found on the margins of the classroom and the playground, the ones who tend not to fit in with their peers but have rich interior and intellectual lives.
This book offers a new understanding of left-brain kids and practical strategies for nurturing and supporting them, both at school and at home.

23x15cm

232 pages

$30.00

Raising Boys' Achievement

Pocket Pal

Gary Wilson

Practical teaching strategies to raise boys' attainment in both primary and secondary

20x11cm

96 pages

$22.00

Smart But Scattered

The Revolutionary "Executive Skills" Approach to Helping Kids Reach Their Potential

Peg Dawson , Richard Guare

Scientists who study child development have recently found that kids who are "smart but scattered" lack or lag behind in crucial executive skills—the core, brain-based habits of mind required to “execute” tasks like getting organized, staying focused, and controlling emotions. Drawing on this revolutionary discovery, school psychologist Peg Dawson and neuropsychologist Richard Guare have developed an innovative program that parents and teachers can use to strengthen kids’ abilities to plan ahead, be efficient, follow through, and get things done. Smart but Scattered provides ways to assess children’s strengths and weaknesses and offers guidance on day-to-day issues like following instructions in the classroom, doing homework, completing chores, reducing performance anxiety, and staying cool under pressure. Small steps add up to big improvements, enabling these kids to build the skills they need to live up to their full potential. More than 40 reproducibles are included.

The Publisher grants individual book purchasers nonassignable permission to reproduce selected materials in this book for professional use.

25x18cm

314 pages

$29.95

Smart Kids with School Problems

Things to Know & Ways to Help.

Priscilla Vail

For the maths whiz who can't read, the budding artist who can't spell or solve a simple equation, the co-ordinated athlete with the undecipherable handwriting, school is a conundrum. This optimistic book provides specialist remedial programs as well as effective methods to break the cycle of anger, fear, pressure, self-doubt and frustration, making it possible to turn school failure into school success.

13x21cm

256 pages

$30.00

Teach your child to read in 100 easy lessons

Phyllis Haddox & Elaine Bruner

SRA's DISTAR is one of the most successful beginning reading programs available to schools. Research has proven that children taught by the DISTAR method outperform their peers. Now, this program has been adapted for use at home. In only 20 minutes a day, this remarkable step-by-step program teaches your child to read--with the love, care, and joy only a parent and child cane share.

28x21cm

395 pages

$34.95

Teaching Kids with Learning Difficulties in the Regular Classroom

Ways to Challenge & Motivate Struggling Students to Achieve Proficiency with Required Standards

Susan Winebrenner

Proven, powerful strategies and techniques to help any student become a successful learner, regardless of whether they are considered, slow, remedial, LD, ESL or disadvantaged.
Over 50 reproducible forms and handouts plus extensive resources.

247 pages

$74.00

Teaching the Tiger

A Handbook for individuals involved in the education of students with attention deficit disorders, Tourette syndrome or obsessive-compulsive disorder

Marilyn P Dornbush and Sheryl K Pruitt

The tiger symbolizes the ADHD/ADD/TS/OCD students. just as the tiger cannot control its natural instincts, neurologically impaired students often cannot control their unpredictable, impulsive behaviour. These students easily become overaroused and unable to perform at an optimum level.
One cannot corner a tiger without expecting an agitated, uncooperative animal. Likewise, one cannot always place demands on these students to perform and behave without expecting a similar reaction. In a structured, rule-governed world, inflexible, unrealistic demands often precipitate behavours that do not meet the expectations of teachers and parents.
This book is an attempt to give teachers and parents the tools they need to alter the environment and to "teach the tiger".

22x28cm

268 pages

$70.00

Walk in the Rain with a Brain

Edward M Hallowell, illus Bill Mayer

Each brain finds its own special way -- that's the message in this delightful, colorful story by Edward Hallowell, MD, a noted psychiatrist, teacher and expert on learning and childhood development.At many of his lectures worldwide he has read a story he wrote for children about how each person's brain is unique -- and it has resonated among the thousands of parents, teachers, and others who have heard it.
A little girl named Lucy is making her way down a rainy sidewalk when she spies, of all things, a brain -- Manfred, called Fred -- sitting forlornly in a puddle. The courtly cerebrum asks Lucy for help getting home, and as they walk along she worries that she's not smart enough. "Everyone's smart!" explains Fred. "You just need to find out at what!" Fred reassures her that each child learns and thinks differently -- and that every child has special talents.
A discussion guide at the end gives parents and educators the background support they need in order to help children understand and discover the sparkling individuality of their minds.

24x24cm

32 pages

$30.00

Working Memory & Learning

A Practical Guide for Teachers

Susan E Gathercole & Tracy Packiam Alloway

A good working memory is crucial to becoming a successful learner, yet there is very little material available in an easy-to-use format that explains the concept and offers practitioners ways to support children with poor working memory in the classroom.
This book provides a coherent overview of the role played by working memory in learning during the school years, and uses theory to inform good practice.
Topics covered include:
* the link between working memory skills and key areas of learning (such as literacy & numeracy)
* the relationship between working memory and children with developmental disorders
* assessment of children for working memory deficits
* strategies for supporting working memory in under-performing children
This accessible guide will help SENCOs, teachers, teaching assistants, speech and language therapists and educational psychologists to understand and address working memory in their setting

27x18cm

124 pages

$54.95


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