Education / Classroom
For parents of children with autism and teachers alike, great practical guides on curriculum building, teaching literacy, and sensory integration.
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Setting Up Classroom Spaces That Support Students With Autism Spectrum Disorders
This long-awaited book shows through clear and brief text and lots of photos how to determine what type of furniture and materials to choose for various types of classrooms and how to arrange them in a way that creates an effective learning environment while reducing anxiety and preventing problem behaviors.
$41.95Product Details »In stock
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The Complete Guide to Special Education: Expert Advice on Evaluations, IEPs, and Helping Kids Succeed, 2nd Edition
This book explores the special education process-from testing and diagnosis to IEP meetings and advocating for special needs children. Step by step the authors reveal the stages of identification, assessment, and intervention, and help readers to better understand special needs children’s legal rights and how to become an active, effective member of a child’s educational team.
$27.95Product Details »In stock
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Pedro’s Whale
Based on the real-life event that inspired Paula Kluth and Patrick Schwarz’s bestselling “Just Give Him the Whale!,” this simple but powerful story introduces educators to one of the best, most effective inclusion strategies: using students’ fascinations to help them learn.
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Behavior Solutions for the Inclusive Classroom: See a behavior? Look it up!
As inclusion becomes the norm in general education, teachers are faced with behaviors they have never seen before. Special needs educators may recognize the telltale symptom of a sensory need or a textbook-case of an avoidance behavior, but this is all new territory for the general-ed crowd!
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Acting Antics: A Theatrical Approach to Teaching Social Understanding to Kids and Teens with Asperger Syndrome
This fun and inspiring step-by-step program provides the full set of tools for developing social understanding in children with Asperger Syndrome (AS) through drama.
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How to Teach Life Skills to Kids with Autism or Asperger’s
In the real world, people on the autism spectrum need the same kinds of day-to-day skills everyone else needs to be functional. No matter how high-functioning children with autism or Asperger’s may be or may become, they function better as adults if they’ve had the chance to learn basic skills such as being on time or good personal hygiene. Many reach adulthood without those skills.
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Essentials of Transition Planning, 2nd. Ed.
For young people with disabilities, crossing the bridge to adulthood will be empowering instead of intimidating—when their support teams know the essentials of effective transition planning. Now all the fundamentals of well-crafted transition plans are collected in one concise quick-guide, straight from one of the top authorities on helping young people live fulfilling adult lives.
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Alternate Assessment for Students with Significant Cognitive Disabilities: An Educator’s Guide
To support K–12 students with significant disabilities and get an accurate picture of their skills and knowledge, schools need to implement effective alternate assessment based on alternate achievement standards (AA-AAS). This is the guidebook every team should have—not only to develop successful AA-AAS linked with grade-level content standards, but also to ensure the kind of quality instruction that leads to higher achievement.
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How Do I Teach This Kid to Read? Teaching Literacy Skills to Young Children with Autism
This book presents simple instructional strategies that can be used to help develop early literacy skills in young children with autism. Award-winning author Kimberly Henry provides dozens of fine-tuned, easily adaptable activities that teachers and parents can implement separately or in infinite combinations.
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Attention Games: 101 Fun, Easy Games That Help Kids Learn To Focus
If you want to focus children’s attention, you first have to capture their interest. “Attention Games” is filled with interesting and child-tested activities that can help children of all ages become better at focusing and paying attention.
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Coaching Comprehension: Nurturing Narratives – Story-based language intervention for children with language impairments that are complicated by other developmental disabilities such as autism spectrum disorders
Children with complex learning problems (CLP) need to learn important language and academic skills. These children are often in situations that may not be meaningful to them and hence are too complex for learning to occur. Due to the importance of understanding and telling stories for all children, “Nurturing Narratives” was developed as a story-based language intervention for children.
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The IEP from A to Z: How to Create Meaningful and Measurable Goals and Objectives
With the skyrocketing diagnoses of ADHD, autism spectrum disorders, and related conditions in schools, there is a growing need for information on creating effective IEPs for exceptional students. “The IEP From A to Z” is a step-by-step guide showing teachers and parents how to get the right education plan in place for students with ADHD, Autism/Asperger’s, Emotional/Behavioral Disturbance, and related conditions.
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Music for Special Kids – Musical Activities, Songs, Instruments and Resources
Music is a powerful means of engaging children with developmental disabilities such as Autism Spectrum Disorders, Down Syndrome and Cerebral Palsy. This lively music activity book shows how music can be an effective and enjoyable way to enhance the education and development of children with special needs.
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Building Sensory Friendly Classrooms to Support Children with Challenging Behaviors
Rebecca Moyes, a teacher, author, renowned lecturer, and mother of a child with Asperger’s Syndrome, helps walk any regular education or special education teacher through the process of setting up a sensory?friendly classroom in this easy to use book.
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Sensory Integration: A Guide for Preschool Teachers
Do you have a child in your early childhood classroom who: Climbs on top of furniture and jumps off?Covers his ears when children are singing? Refuses to touch clay, paint, or sand? Often falls down and skins his or her knees? Refuses to play on outdoor playground equipment?
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Active Imagination Activity Book: 50 Sensorimotor Activities for Children to Improve Focus, Attention, Strength, & Coordination
The activities in this book tap into what kids love best? PLAY. The activities pictured in this book provide fun, easy, and imaginative exercises to build your child’s skills that are necessary for meeting the challenges of everyday life at home, school, and out in the community.
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Autism and Reading Comprehension: Ready-To-Use Lessons for Teachers
Starting with Level 1 (The Cat) and ending with Level 9 (The Lizard), special-educator Joseph Porter has developed an amazing 90 hours of animal-themed, whole-group instruction. There are two student worksheets for each of nine animals, totaling eighteen worksheets. Each worksheet has four variations, and there is a ready-to-go lesson plan for each one.
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Teaching Teens with ADD, ADHD & Executive Function Deficits
Thousands of teachers and parents have relied on the authoritative, concise information in “Teaching Teens with ADD, ADHD & Executive Function Deficits” for advice on meeting the educational, medical, and social needs and challenges of adolescents with these conditions. This updated edition provides more than 80 summaries (annotated checklists for easy consumption) chock full of new information on research, teaching strategies, education law, executive functioning, social skills, and medication.
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Bright Not Broken: Gifted Kids, ADHD, and Autism
The future of our society depends on our gifted children—the population in which we’ll find our next Isaac Newton, Albert Einstein, or Virginia Woolf. Yet the gifts and talents of some of our most brilliant kids may never be recognized because these children fall into a group known as twice exceptional, or “2e.”
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Beating Dyspraxia with a Hop, Skip and a Jump: A Simple Exercise Program for Home and School, 2nd Edition
Children with dyspraxia often have reduced motor skills including balance, timing and coordination, as well as weak muscles – something recent research suggests may be not only a symptom but a cause of the condition. It is no wonder then, that they will do everything in their power to avoid gym class! By encouraging children with dyspraxia to take part in an easy and fun exercise program, teachers and parents can help them to overcome their symptoms, enjoy physical activities, and become as active as their friends and classmates.
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