Keeping Families at the Center of Health Care
Explore the rich diversity encountered in programs and environments for children ages birth to 8, including those serving children with special needs. The emphasis is on the practical and immediate concerns of the early childhood professional and family service worker, though all information has strong theoretical support.
The authors have “colored outside the lines” in creating a dialogue that enables us, the readers to gain insights about the partnership dynamics between parents and professionals. In their unique creation, we learn about the feelings, hopes, fears, uncertainties, and expectations from both parent and professional perspectives allowing both parents and professionals insight into how… More Do You Hear What I Hear? Parents And Professionals Working Together For Children
Early Childhood Assessment identifies important outcomes for children from birth to age 5, and how best to assess them in preschool, childcare, and other early childhood programs. The book explores a variety of techniques and instruments for developmental assessment and points to the risks and the dangers of appropriate evaluation techniques that are commonly used… More Early Childhood Assessment: Why, What and How
Written with several goals in mind. It is to help parents of very young children, ages 2 to 5, to use home activities to challenge their children’s minds. First, you need to see that mathematics is everywhere. You use math every day when you shop for groceries, cook dinner, share a pizza, ride a bus,… More Early Childhood: Where Learning Begins – Mathematics: Mathematical activities for parents and their 2 to 5 year old children
Leave behind confusing textbooks and unreliable websites. This book will guide you through your child’s early years by providing sound advice based on over twenty years of experience. In an easy-to-read, question-answer format, Dr. Jim explains what makes your child tick, how to get the most out of early intervention services, and how to choose… More Early Intervention and Autism: Real-Life Questions, Real-Life Answers
This practical sourcebook is packed with research-based strategies for helping parents and caregivers take a consistent, active role in supporting young children’s development. Targeting 80 skills in 6 key developmental domains for children birth to three, this reader-friendly guide gives professionals dozens of ready-to-use ideas for helping families and caregivers embed learning opportunities in their… More Early Intervention Every Day!: Embedding Activities in Daily Routines for Young Children and Their Families
Guiding you in making legally sound placement decisions! What is the LRE for a student with autism? Make a sound determination every time with guidance in this one-of-a-kind resource. Part I provides a straightforward explanation of your IDEA requirements and insights into common LRE/placement disputes. Part II backs it all up, with concise summaries of… More Educating Students With Autism in the LRE: IDEA Rules and Decision Digest
Written by the NH Deaf and Hard of Hearing Education Initiative Project this book outlines recommended standards for the education of children and youth who are deaf or hard of hearing here in NH. Provides guidance for identifying, assessing, planning, providing and monitoring progress of a student. Available to borrow or download here. Educational Services… More Educational Service Guidelines For Students Who Are Deaf And Hard Of Hearing
We follow Ricardo through a day at school. (Spanish)
A publication of the Division on Developmental Disabilities of the Council for Exceptional Children, this book gives an overview of embedded instruction and includes information on preparing for instruction, designing an embedded instruction program, implementing the embedded instruction program and supporting efficient student learning.
How engaged are your students? Making some simple adjustments in the classroom environment could be the key to increasing children’s levels of active engagement and preventing behavior problems caused by restlessness and boredom during transitions between activities. This extremely practical, accessible book offers a strong, evidence-based approach to promoting engagement in preschoolers. Readers will find… More Engagement of Every Child in the Preschool Classroom
From this book, practitioners will learn why touch is essential to young children’s development and how it can be incorporated safely into early childhood settings, from the infant program to the primary classroom.
GREAT ideas, lesson plans and explanations for teaching social skills! Includes an impressive 30 minute DVD and workbook divided into 10 units in 3 sections (Body Awareness and Visual Strategies, Facilitating Dynamic Social Situations, Verbal Strategies) that are incremental and progressively builds upon previous concepts and strategies. Ages 4 to 12 years.
This book provides you with signs to use at home, school, with the family and much more! Learn Sign Language as a tool to enhance communication with your children. Helps children with ADHD build communication skills, eye contact, and express themselves without using spoken language.
This book provides you with signs to use at home, school, with the family and much more! Learn Sign Language as a tool to enhance communication with your children. Helps children with autism build communication skills, eye contact, and express themselves without using spoken language. Includes a DVD.
This book describes the significant role that executive function plays in learning and presents practical suggestions for effectively teaching students to use their executive functions. The contributing authors are among the leading experts in the field. It provides a level of specificity on how to improve executive function through the teaching process that is not… More Executive Function in Education: From Theory to Practice
Concise and practitioner friendly, this 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… More Executive Skills In Children And Adolescents
Secure attachment between child and parent is one of the most important factors in early learning and development—and for children in infant-toddler programs, teachers are a critical third partner in this relationship dance. That’s why child care administrators and educators need this warm and practical program guide. An in-depth blueprint for promoting attachment and relationships… More Extending the Dance in Infant and Toddler Caregiving: Enhancing Attachment and Relationships
Assistive technology can work wonders for children with disabilities, but it takes expertise and persistence to find the correct devices and identify funding.
This book will teach you how to plan, prepare, organize and get quality special education services. In this comprehensive, easy-to-read book, you will learn your child’s disability and educational needs, how to create a simple method for organizing your child’s file and devising a master plan for your child’s special education. You will understand parent-school… More From Emotions To Advocacy: The Special Education Survival Guide