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  • Mental Health in Schools

    Engaging Learners, Preventing Problems, and Improving Schools

    "This resource gives the reader everything needed to design and implement a successful mental health program to benefit a diverse student population. The authors present a strong case for planning and delivering comprehensive integrated services. I commend the authors for their willingness to tackle the tough issues surrounding mental health services for all students."—Marian White-Hood, Director ... Read more

    $37.99 USD

  • A Handbook for High Reliability Schools

    The Next Step in School Reform

    Usher in the new era of school reform. The authors help you transform your schools into organizations that take proactive steps to prevent failure and ensure student success. Using a research-based five-level hierarchy along with leading and lagging indicators, you’ll learn to assess, monitor, and confirm the effectiveness of your schools. Each chapter includes what actions should be taken at each ... Read more

    $22.99 USD

  • A Teacher's Guide to Adapted Physical Education

    Including Students With Disabilities in Sports and Recreation, Fourth Edition

    A healthy, active lifestyle for all students: That's the promise of physical education, and the goal of this comprehensive textbook. Now in a thoroughly updated fourth edition, this text prepares current and future PE teachers to lead welcoming, inclusive classes where every student participates, makes friends, and learns new skills and values. K–12 physical educators will get cutting-edge ... Read more

    $50.99 USD

  • (Un)Learning Disability

    Recognizing and Changing Restrictive Views of Student Ability

    Series series Disability, Culture, and Equity Series
    How do high school students confront and resolve conflicting messages about their intelligence and academic potential, particularly when labeled with social and learning disabilities? How does disability become “disablement” when negative attitudes and disparaging perceptions of ability position students as outsiders? Following the lives of adolescents at home and at school, the author makes ... Read more

    $32.99 USD

  • A Parent's Guide to High-Functioning Autism Spectrum Disorder

    How to Meet the Challenges and Help Your Child Thrive

    Over 100,000 parents have found the facts they need about high-functioning autism spectrum disorder (ASD), including Asperger syndrome, in this indispensable guide. Leading experts show how you can work with your child's unique impairments--and harness his or her capabilities. Vivid stories and real-world examples illustrate ways to help kids with ASD relate more comfortably to peers, learn the ... Read more

    $16.99 USD

  • Helping Foster Children In School

    A Guide for Foster Parents, Social Workers and Teachers

    by John DeGarmo ...
    Helping Foster Children In School explores the challenges that foster children face in schools and offers positive and practical guidance tailored to help the parents, teachers and social workers supporting them.Children in care often perform poorly at school both in terms of their behavior and their academic performance, with many failing to complete their education. They will have often ... Read more

    $25.99 USD

  • The Idea of the University

    A Reader, Volume 1

    Series Book 17 - Global Studies in Education
    The Idea of the University: A Reader, Volume 1 is a unique compilation of selected works of the major thinkers who have contributed to the discourse on the idea of the university in the German, English, American and French traditions, dating from the establishment of the University of Berlin in 1810. Readings include excerpts from Kant and Humboldt in the German tradition of Bildung through to ... Read more

    $83.99 USD

  • Traveling Blind: Life Lessons from Unlikely Teachers

    by Laura Fogg ...
    For 35 years Laura Fogg has worked with blind children and their families, traveling throughout beautiful and sometimes treacherous Mendocino County, using her car as an office and her abundant creativity as her main teaching tool. In her remarkable memoir, Traveling Blind: Life Lessons from Unlikely Teachers, Fogg describes the challenges and delights in her life's work while portraying blindness ... Read more

    $7.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • In the Mind's Eye

    Creative Visual Thinkers, Gifted Dyslexics, and the Rise of Visual Technologies

    In the Mind's Eye has been recognized as a classic in its field. The book still stands alone as a uniquely compelling argument for the great importance of visual thinking and visual technologies as well as the high creative potential of many individuals with dyslexia or other learning difficulties. In this third edition, Thomas G. West reviews a number of recent developments that support and ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • Specific Learning Difficulties - What Teachers Need to Know

    by Diana Hudson ...
    This book clearly explains what Specific Learning Difficulties (SpLD) are, and describes the symptoms of conditions most commonly encountered in the mainstream classroom: dyslexia, dyspraxia, dyscalculia, dysgraphia, Autism Spectrum Disorder, ADHD, and OCD. The author provides an overview of the strengths and weaknesses commonly associated with each of these conditions, as well as practical ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • The Sunny Side of Crazy

    The Sunny Side of Crazy is a work of narrative non-fiction. It is the story of a little adopted daughter who comes to her American mother with secrets.She has multiple personalities.It is the story of love, courage, and the search for a normal life.This story is bound to entertain and educate readers of all ages and interests. ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Straight Talk about ADHD in Girls

    How to Help Your Daughter Thrive

    Parenting a daughter with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) is no easy path--especially because of the myth that the disorder is rare to nonexistent in girls. From pioneering researcher Stephen P. Hinshaw, this empowering guide provides vital information and advice to help you understand and meet your daughter's needs. Dr. Hinshaw delivers up-to-date facts on what ADHD is, why ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Unsilenced

    A Teacher's Year of Battles, Breakthroughs, and Life-Changing Lessons at Belchertown State School

    The year is 1969, and fresh-out-of-college smart-aleck Howard Shane has just landed his first teaching job—at Belchertown State School, a bleak institution where people with disabilities endure endless days of silence, tedium, and neglect.Howard is stunned by the conditions at Belchertown and the challenges of his new job, but as he gets to know his diverse, endearing, and intelligent students, he ... Read more

    $21.99 USD

  • When Young Children Need Help

    Understanding and Addressing Emotional, Behavorial, and Developmental Challenges

    Learn how to reach children who need special help.Almost anyone who works with 3- to 6-year-olds knows what it feels like to spend time with youngsters who are particularly puzzling or hard to help. When Young Children Need Help examines how early childhood educators can make sense of what is going on for such children and then use that understanding to help promote growth and mastery. Written for ... Read more

    $25.99 USD

  • Supporting Students with Emotional and Behavioral Problems

    Prevention and Intervention Strategies

    Severe social, emotional, and behavioral challenges can be major obstacles to your students' academic success. Break down those barriers with the research-based interventions in this book, your guide to addressing serious problem behaviors in K-12 classrooms. Aligned with recommended practices for schoolwide positive behavior supports (SWPBS), this book presents a highly effective tiered approach ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • Understanding and Supporting Students with Emotional and Behavioral Disorders

    Students who experience serious emotional and/or behavioral disorders (EBD) are at risk for a wide range of negative outcomes, from limited academic progress to problems with employment and community life after they leave school. Positive educational experiences can help, and this textbook fully prepares educators, school psychologists, and administrators to create supportive K–12 learning ... Read more

    $53.99 USD

  • Different Minds

    Gifted Children with AD/HD, Asperger Syndrome, and Other Learning Deficits

    Through recognizing the different levels and kinds of giftedness, this book provides an insight into the challenges and benefits specific to gifted children with attention difficulties. Explaining why certain children are gifted and how giftedness is manifested, each chapter on a specific topic addresses the relevance for children with AD/HD and Asperger Syndrome. Lovecky guides parents and ... Read more

    $36.99 USD

  • Teaching Students With Learning Disabilities

    A Step-by-Step Guide for Educators

    "Provides the reader with a very clear understanding of the student with learning disabilities. This book addresses in detail all the possible processing weaknesses and provides strategies to help a student access the general education curriculum. It′s something you can pick up, locate valuable information in, and refer to time and again."—Esther M. Eacho, Special Education TeacherFairfax County ... Read more

    $32.99 USD

  • Understanding the Boundary between Disability Studies and Special Education through Consilience, Self-Study, and Radical Love

    Series series Critical Issues in Disabilities and Education
    In Understanding the Boundary between Disability Studies and Special Education through Consilience, Self-Study, and Radical Love, the authors explore what it means to engage in boundary work at the intersection of traditional special education systems and critical disability studies in education. The book consists of fifteen groundbreaking accounts that challenge dominant medicalized discourses ... Read more

    $40.99 USD

  • The Everyday Guide to Special Education Law: A Handbook for Parents, Teachers and Other Professionals, Third Edition

    You do not have to be a lawyer to understand the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA). The Everyday Guide to Special Education Law is written by an attorney in a concise and accessible manner and is a valuable resource to all involved in educating students with disabilities, including parents, teachers and special education administrators. It is an essential tool to help parents get ... Read more

    $9.95 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Hacking School Discipline

    9 Ways to Create a Culture of Empathy and Responsibility Using Restorative Justice

    Series Book 22 - Hack Learning Series
    Eliminate old-school punishments and create a community of responsible, productive learnersAre you or your teachers frustrated with carrots and sticks, detention rooms, and suspension--antiquated school discipline practices that simply do not work with the students entering our classrooms today? Our kids have complex needs, and we must empower and embrace them with restorative practices that not ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • Train Go Sorry

    Inside a Deaf World

    A “remarkable and insightful” look inside a New York City school for the deaf, blending memoir and history (The New York Times Book Review).Leah Hager Cohen is part of the hearing world, but grew up among the deaf community. Her Russian-born grandfather had been deaf—a fact hidden by his parents as they took him through Ellis Island—and her father served as superintendent at the Lexington School ... Read more

    $2.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Bad Sister

    A tense and emotional psychological thriller with an unforgettable ending

    One rotten apple can spoil the bunchThe Keane sisters grew up together at Raven House, a luxurious riverside home that their mother inherited. On the day of a party at the house, tension fills the air as Jess, Natalie and Teresa all fear the exposure of things they’re desperate to hide. The beautiful evening is marred by tragedy, and a celebration turns into a nightmare when a young life is lost. ... Read more

    $3.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Teaching a Struggling Reader: One Mom's Experience with Dyslexia

    DOG ON A LOG Parent and Teacher Guides, #1

    Series Book 1 - DOG ON A LOG Parent and Teacher Guides
    There are a lot of children (and adults) who struggle with reading. Some are helped by their schools, some are not.In this short booklet, Pamela Brookes shares some of the basic information she wishes she'd had when she was first trying to figure out how to help her child learn to read.Teaching A Struggling Reader: One Mom's Experience with Dyslexia is filled with links to informational and ... Read more

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