Socially Handicapped category: 295 books
Medical Aspects of Autism and Asperger Syndrome
A Guide for Parents and Professionals
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2018
People with autism are at a higher risk of having additional medical conditions, so increased care should be taken to ensure any other needs are detected early and effectively managed. This book is the perfect aid for doing so, providing detailed information on the range of possible further conditions,...
A Guide to Mental Health Issues in Girls and Young Women on the Autism Spectrum
Diagnosis, Intervention and Family Support
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2017
This book addresses the specific mental health needs of girls and young women with autism spectrum disorder (ASD). Looking at the ways autism presents differently in girls than in boys, and the mental health conditions that occur most frequently in girls with ASD, this is the essential guide for clinicians...
Teaching Adolescents with Autism
Practical Strategies for the Inclusive Classroom
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2014
Award-winning educator Walter Kaweski offers secondary teachers practical strategies and heartfelt insights based on his extensive experience as an autism specialist, inclusion coordinator, and father of a son with Asperger syndrome. Students with special needs often require extra support as they...
by Travis Breeding
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2018
This book breaks down the similarities and differences between Autism fixations, obsessions, and special interests. Travis shares his opinions on how the fixations and obsessions battle against the special interest. The negative against the positive. Travis feels he has greater control over what his...
Progress Without Punishment
Effective Approaches for Learners with Behavior Problems
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
As learners with special educational, developmental, and behavioral needs are increasingly integrated into the community, it is essential that appropriate and dignified ways of responding to their needs are found. This book advocates and explores the use of alternative, nonaversive intervention procedures,...
by Travis Breeding
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2017
When we think of quality of life for autistic people should we really be thinking about anything different than what we would think quality of life is for people without disabilities? We have a lot of help for people with physical disabilities but we have lagged a little bit behind when it comes to...
Every Person Is a Philosopher
Lessons in Educational Emancipation from the Radical Teaching Life of Hal Adams
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2016
Hal Adams was a legendary radical educator who organized writing workshops with people who had been written off during much of their lives, marginalized for reasons of race, gender, class, and caste. Hal detested the carelessness and neglect his students endured and set about building spaces of respect...
by Diana Lawrence-Brown, Mara Sapon-Shevin
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
This important book provides a unique merging of disability studies, critical multiculturalism, and social justice advocacy to develop both the knowledge base and the essential insights for understanding and implementing fully inclusive education. Although inclusion is often viewed in schools as primarily...
Behavioral Disorders
Identification, Assessment, and Instruction of Students with EBD
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2012
Along with volume 23 of the same series, this book addresses the most current perspectives and issues related to behavior disorders and it involves leaders in the behaviour disorders field. This book specifically addresses identification, assessment and instruction. This book is organized to allow...
Behavioral Disorders
Practice Concerns and Students with EBD
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2012
Along with Volume 22 of the same series, this book addresses the most current perspectives and issues related to behaviour disorders and it involves leaders in the behaviour disorders field. This books specifically addresses practice concerns and students with EBD. This book is organized to allow...
Your Special Education Rights
What Your School District Isn’t Telling You
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2017
Drawing on decades of experience, Jennifer Laviano, a high-profile special education attorney, and Julie Swanson, a sought-after special education advocate, help parents of students with disabilities navigate their school systems to get the services they need for their children.
Parents will...
by Salome Thomas-El, Cecil Murphey
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2010
Salome Thomas-EL, award-winning educator and the highly-praised author of I Choose to Stay, has helped hundreds of troubled children get into magnet high schools, major colleges, and universities. Yet he still finds himself devastated by the long-ago death of a promising student named Willow Briggs....
by Miguel Nichols
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2017
The fact that you are contemplating this book tells me that you are an intelligent individual looking to better yourself, yet looking for some support along the way and an idea on where to start and how you should progress on this journey. How often have you admired a successful person and thought to...
by Travis Breeding
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2017
Travis gets a second chance at forming a relationship with the women of his dreams after finding out of his autism diagnosis. Will he be able to gain enough social supports to be able to form a relationship with April the woman of his dreams or we he fall short again due to his social skills? Travis...