Product Description: Cecilia Rosales Vega, drawing from her own experience as a therapist and as the mother of a girl with Down syndrome, provides a guide for parents and caretakers for maintaining the physical well-being of children with a disability...read more

Written to assist teachers and other professionals who support children with visual impairment and additional difficulties, this text examines the role of touch in developing effective teaching and learning. The book is divided into eleven chapters that provide useful background information about the sense of touch, and consider how potential barriers to independent learning through touch can be reduced through structuring appropriate learning experiences. A series of reflective activities are included which are designed to draw out key issues from relevant chapters and invite the reader to explore the implications for his or her practice. A number of these activities are designed to cross-reference with relevant extension standards from the National SEN Specialist Standards for teachers and recommendations about further reading and teaching resources are provided throughout the book. This text will be useful for teachers and learning support staff working with children who have visual impairment and additional difficulties. It will also have relevance to other professionals working with children with severe and complex needs who wish to understand more about the role of touch in developing effective learning experiences.

Product Description: How we treat others often influences how individuals feel about themselves. This book illustrates how educators can effectively promote sensitive, inclusive classroom practices that maximize success for students with disabilities...read more

Product Description: Are you harnessing the power of a journal?If you are going through life right now feeling like everything is out of control or that things are not happening the way you planned, you need a journal. I don’t mean to be too direct, but it is time for you to discover why you feel the way you do and then figure out what to do about it...read more

Product Description: "Living with Abetalipoproteinemia" is Lori's life experience dealing with this disorder. It is her hopes and wishes that this book will inspire and educate other people on this topic. Lori stayed strong and true throughout her years of challenges, successes and set backs...read more

Product Description: Daily Math Division Practice 60 Worksheets This book contains 60 division worksheets for practice with one dividend of 4 digits and one divisor of 1 digit. These maths problems are provided to improve the mathematics skills by frequent practicing of the worksheets provided...read more

Product Description: The medical field is well-educated in book-knowledge about brain damage but they have nowhere near the experiential-knowledge of a TBI victim. Kindle version (cheaper but lower-quality as well): http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00WXI5OT4

Product Description: Adam Petty had a passion for children. In this book you will see the camp that Adam Petty started. This camp for seriously ill children is a place to remember. Children can come to camp free for a week out of the Summer. You child will have a counselor with them 24 hours a day...read more

Product Description: An adjustment to severe disability is accompanied by significant changes in several dimensions--psychological (lowered self-esteem), physical (restricted mobility), and social (changed social identity, the epithet "disabled). Such sudden changes also require short-term (physical) and long-term (psychological and social) adjustments...read more

Product Description: Essential for every school health office, this fully illustrated reference is the ultimate guide to caring for and supporting children with special health care needs in educational settings. A comprehensive update of the classic guide school nurses trust, this authoritative book compiles the latest guidelines on working with students with special health care needs, step-by-step procedures for using today's medical technologies, and access to more than 50 reproducible planning forms and checklists...read more