New Books Added to Our Library:
Summer 2006
ADD & ADHD Answer Book Ashley, PhD
The Top 275 Question Parents Ask. Straightforward answers to their most pressing questions. Experienced child psychologist, The ADD & ADHD Answer Book covers such topics as: *The difference between ADD and ADHD, *Getting a child evaluated, *Oppositional Defiant Disorder, *Succeeding in school, *Surviving homework,*Routine, rules and rewards, *Medication, *Legal rights. Written in an easy-to-read Q&A format, The ADD & ADHD Answer Book helps parents understand their child's illness and develop a plan for success.
Delivered from Distraction (CD) Hallowell, M.D.,
Whether ADD runs in families, new diagnostic procedures, tests, and evaluations, the links between ADD and other conditions, how people with ADD can free up their inner talents and strengths, the new drugs and how they work, and why they're not for everyone, exciting advances in nonpharmaceutical therapies, including changes in diet,exercise, and lifestyle, how to adapt the classic twelve-step program to treat ADD, sexual problems associated with ADD and how to resolve them, strategies for dealing with procrastination, clutter, and chronic forgetfulness, ADD is a trait, a way of living in the world. It only becomes a disorder when it impairs your life. Featuring gripping profiles of patients with ADD who have triumphed, Delivered from Distraction is a wise, loving guide to releasing the positive energy that all people with ADD hold inside.
From Chaos to Calm Heininger, Ph.D.
The Gift of ADHD Honos-Webb, Phd
How to Transform Your Child's Problems into Strengths
Making the System Work for your Child with ADHD Jensen, MD
How to cut through red tape and get what you need from doctors, teachers, schools, and healthcare plans
The Little Monster: Growing up with ADHD Jergen
Autobiographical look from an insider's perspective. For parents, professionals, or individuals with ADHD.
Genius Nurturing the Spirit of the Wild, Odd, and Oppositional Child Lynn
Parenting Children with ADHD Monastra, PhD
10 Lessons that Medicine Cannot Teach. A book for Parents.
ADHD in the Young Child: Driven to Re-Direction: A Guide for Parents and Teachers of Young Children with ADHD Reimers
The authors sensitively and effectively describe what life is like living with a young child with ADHD. Then they provide practical solutions to common problems using over 75 cartoon illustrations.
How to Reach and Teach Children with ADD/ADHD Rief
Practical Techniques, Strategies, and Interventions. Grades K-12
The Girls' Guide to AD/HD Walker
Description: This book is specifically written for girls aged approximately 6 to 15 with ADHD. It is creatively written to hold young readers' interest and is organized into short chapters that cover topics from definitions to neuroanatomy and neurochemistry to social/behavioral issues. Purpose: It is designed to help girls better understand and handle issues related to ADHD. By presenting the information in an entertaining format, the author meets the objective of targeting an audience that depends on interest-based attention. Girls with ADHD are informed about the disorders in a very positive and constructive manner.
Teaching Teens with ADD and ADHD Zeigler
A quick reference guide for Teachers and Parents
Understanding Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASDs) AAP
Booklet with FAQs
Preparing for Life: The Complete Handbook for Transitioning to Adulthood for Those with Autism and Asperger's Syndrome Baker
A comprehensive resource for students on the autism spectrum preparing for life after high school, best-selling author/counselor Dr. Jed Baker offers "life skills training" on subjects such as non-verbal cues, body language, dealing with anger, frustration and anxiety, as well as building and maintaining friendships, roommates, and intimate relationships. He focuses on conversational and employment skills, ways to balance work/school with family demands, and problematic areas such as finances, emergencies and transportation matters. The assessment tools he provides for parents and the analysis of the laws that provide accommodations to adults with disabilities are critical for success in life after high school.
Social and Communication Development in Autism Spectrum Disorders: Early Identification, Diagnosis, and Intervention Charman
From leading clinical researchers, this volume presents important recent advances in understanding and treating autism spectrum disorders (ASD) in very young children. The book is grounded in cutting-edge findings on the social-communication behavior of typically and atypically developing infants, toddlers, and preschoolers. The contributors highlight the connections between ASD and specific early social-communication impairments--including problems with joint attention, imitation, and play--with a focus on what clinicians can do to help. Innovative screening and assessment procedures are reviewed, as are evidence-based intervention and prevention strategies. Throughout, attention to both real-world practice and research considerations enhances the book's utility as a clinical reference and text.
The Autism Sourcebook: Everything You Need To Know About Diagnosis, Treatment, Coping and Healing Exkorn
When Karen Siff Exkorn's son, Jake, was diagnosed with autism, she struggled to pull together comprehensive information about the disorder. Fortunately, she was able to educate herself quickly, and her extensive at-home treatment of her son led to his amazing full recovery. But the journey wasn't easy, and now, in The Autism Sourcebook, Siff Exkorn offers parents the wisdom she wishes she'd had at the beginning.
Employment for Individuals with Asperger Syndrome or Non-Verbal Learning Disability Stories and Fast
Unwritten Rules of Social Relationships: Decoding Social Mysteries through the Unique Perspectives of Autism Grandin, MD
Understanding and Managing Social Challenges for Those With Asperger's/Autism.
Engaging Autism: Helping Children Relate, Communicate and Think with the DIR Floortime Approach Greenspan, MD
The inspiring success of Dr. Stanley Greenspan's unique approach to autism and ASD (autistic spectrum disorders) is known to grateful parents and to professionals throughout the world. Now at last his highly effective and influential program is presented in one clear and accessible volume.
Asperger Syndrome in Young Children: A Developmental Approach for Parents and Professionals Leventhal-Belfer
This landmark book focuses on how AS presents in pre-school children. An essential guide for parents coming to terms with their child's AS diagnosis and for the professionals who work with this age group, it is unique in answering pressing questions specific to younger children. How can parents help their AS child to develop speech and language? What help is available at school and home? When, if at all, should a child be informed about AS? Including a useful summary of early childhood development stages, Leventhal-Belfer and Coe provide a diagnostic model based on assessment of the child in contrast to 'neurotypical' children, considering relationships at home, in school or in care. Their book shows how to develop tailored early intervention strategies and to assist parents, teachers and mental health professionals in making informed decisions to nurture the development of AS children.
Social Skills Solutions: A Hands-on Manual for teaching social skills to children with autism McKinnon, M.A.
This hands-on manual provides instruction on how to build a social skills program and presents effective methods for teaching specific goals. Based on the author's years of experience teaching social skills, this book addresses issues and skills that are often overlooked in other manuals. There is a comprehensive checklist to be used as an assessment of skills and as a method of creating goals for individual students. There are concrete strategies broken down into simple steps for using visuals, video modeling, peer play and natural occurring situations to facilitate social skills learning. Reproducible worksheets to reinforce these skills are also included for easy implementation.
Send In The Idiots:Stories from the other side of autism Nazeer
A remarkable, elegantly written portrait of four autistic men and women, and what their struggles and triumphs reveal about this baffling condition, and about us all.
Ten Things Every Child with Autism Wishes You Knew Notbohm
Framed with both humor and compassion, the book defines the top ten characteristics that illuminate the minds and hearts of children with autism. Ellen's personal experiences as a parent, an autism columnist, and a contributor to numerous parenting magazines coalesce to create a guide for all who come in contact with a child on the autism spectrum.
The Autism Acceptance Book: Being a Friend to Someone with Autism Sabin
The Autism Acceptance Book is an activity book, a conversation-starter, and an educational tool that teaches children about autism and the challenges faced by people with special needs. It shows children that we are all different, helps them understand why people with autism may act differently; helps them imagine how things might feel for those with autism and lets them think of ways to be understanding, respectful and accepting of people with autism. While focusing on autism, ultimately, this book teaches broad life lessons about accepting and embracing people's differences. This book is ideal to share with your child or in a classroom or group setting.
Adolescents on the Autism Spectrum Sicile-Kira
Helping a Child with Nonverbal Learning Disorder or Asperger's Syndrome Stewart
Some children are born with dysfunctions in the way the brain processes information, resulting in poor social skills and idiosyncratic use of language. These are symptoms of both Nonverbal Learning Disorder and Asperger's syndrome. This compassionate guide offers step-by-step strategies to help parents assess a child's disorder, understand the symptoms, discover effective intervention, and maximize resources.
The Language of Perspective Taking Toomey
An important milestone in a child's development is the point at which he or she is able to see things from the perspective of someone else. This book is intended to provide some tools to help students improve their ability to understand people's feelings and to perceive events from others' points of view using pictures, scenarios, and discussion questions. This ability is essential in comprehension of story or narrative structure, a cornerstone of literacy.
--Early Intervention
Scerts Manual: A Comprehensive Educational Approach for Young Children with Autism Spectrum Disorders- Prizant
Volume 1: AssessmentScerts Manual: A Comprehensive Educational Approach for Young Children with Autism Spectrum Disorders- Prizant
Volume 2: Program Planning and Intervention
Does My Child Have Autism: A Parents Guide to Early Detection and Intervention in Autism Spectrum Disorders Stone
Our author is an expert in the field, enjoying international acclaim for having developed the widely used Screening Tool for Autism in Two Year Olds (STAT). She believes that she it is now possible to identify Autism Spectrum Disorder as early as 18 months and hopes that her current research and clinical practice will prove that she can go as young as 12 months. She is on the cutting edge of research, theory, and practice in early detection, the key "red flags" to watch for, including poor communication,avoiding eye contact, anti-social behaviors, tics and other compulsive routine behavior, failure to form attachments, and many other symptoms. Specific checklists of symptoms to watch for and a screening test that everyone can use at home.
Could It Be Autism?: A Parent's Guide to the First Signs and Next Steps Wiseman
Provides parents with vital information so they can recognize the red flags of developmental delays and begin intensive intervention as early as possible
Caring for Children with Cerebral Palsy: A Team Approach Dormans, MD
Draws on the experience of pediatricians and orthopedic surgeons as well as physical and occupational therapists, speech-language pathologists, social workers, educators, and administrators. It presents a conceptual framework for care delivery and emphasizes goals for development and competency in family and community settings. An in-depth, practical resource, it is a must for physicians, nurses, therapists, educators, social workers, home visitors, and families who want to make sound, collaborative caregiving decisions.
Children
Imagine Me on a Sit-Ski! Moran
A child who has cerebral palsy and uses a wheelchair describes learning to ski with adaptive equipment
Handling the Young Child with Cerebral Palsy at Home Finnie
Fundamental to the successful treatment of children with cerebral palsy is the cooperation of parents in home handling. The long-awaited new edition of this classic and popular text has been expanded and updated to include a wealth of new information for therapists, nurses, parents and carers.
Teaching Motor Skills to Children With Cerebral Palsy and Similar Movement Disorders: A Guide for Parents and Professionals Martin
Uncommon Voyae Parenting a special needs child Shapiro Kramer
The Cerebral Palsy Handbook: A practical guide for parents and caregivers Stanton
This compassionate, comprehensive guide offers clear information for parents and guardians learning to care for a child with cerebral palsy. It covers the early stages, day-to-day care, types of treatment available, support networks, school and legal rights and benefits.
Baby Signing Time, Volume I, First Signs (Ages 0-5), DVD
"Play, sing, and sign along with Signing Time while learning American Sign Language. Babies and Toddlers can communicate with signs even before t hey can talk - some as early as nine months. Research shown that children who learn to sign may experience: reduced frustration and tantrums, increased bonding with pareents; enhanced speaking, spelling and reading skills."
Baby Signing Time, Volume 2, Playtime Signs DVD
"Play, sing, and sign along with Signing Time while learning American Sign Language." "Babies and toddlers can communicate with signs even before they can talk - some as early as nine months." "Children who learn sign may experience reduced frustration and tantrums, increased bonding with parents, enhanced speaking, spelling and reading skills."Baby Signing Time, Volume 3, Every Day Signs DVD
The Late Talker Agin, MD
Children's Communication Skills: From Birth to Five Years Buckley
Pediatric speech and language therapist Belinda Buckley provides a practical guide for professionals working with babies and young children on what constitutes human communication and what communication skills to expect from birth to five years of age.
Learning Language and Loving It: A Guide to Promoting Children's Social, Language and Literacy Development in Early Childhood Settings Weitzman
Coaching Families and Colleagues in Early Childhood Hanft
The Inclusive Learning Center Book: For Preschool Children With Special Needs Isbell
Designed for teachers and directors who work with all young children, including those with special needs. The final section has assessment and evaluation tools. The activities have suggested adaptations for children with a variety of special needs, such as physical challenges, speech and language problems, developmental and/or cognitive delays, behavioral challenges, visual challenges, and Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD).
Educating Children with Multiple Disabilities: A Collaborative Approach Orelove
A staple of teacher training programs in special education and related fields since 1987. With this expanded fourth edition, undergraduate and graduate students will have research and practical strategies for educating children with severe and multiple disabilities.
The Special Educator's Survival Guide Pierangelo
Written for educators who work with special children and teens, this second edition of a best-selling classic offers a practical guide to every facet of the special education teacher’s job, from teaching in a self-contained classroom or resource room to serving on a multidisciplinary team. This easy-to-follow format takes you step by step through the various stages required to understand the referral process, parent intakes and conferences, evaluation, interpretation, diagnosis, remediation, placement, individual education plans, classroom management, medication, educational law, and more.
Exceptional Lives Special Education in Today's Schools Turnbull
Teaching by Design: Using your computer to create material for students with Learning Differences Voss
Use your computer to create material for students with Learning Differences. CD with templates included.
Families with Children with Special Needs
More Than A Mom Living a Full and Balanced Life When Your Child Has Special Needs Baskin
Personal Hygiene? What's that Got to Do with Me? Crissey
Sleep Better! Durand
A Parent's Guide to Special Education: Insider Advice on How to Navigate the System and Help Your Child Succeed Wilmshurst
The term 'special education' encompasses dozens of learning challenges: developmental delay, learning and physical disabilities, emotional disturbance, retardation, language impairment, autism, and others. By nature of this diversity, navigating even well-run, well-funded special education programs can be daunting. A Parent's Guide to Special Education offers guidance to parents and their children -- as well as to teachers, counselors, and administrators -- on issues including: * diagnosis and awareness, * special education laws, * eligibility issues and requirements, * programs, * parenting issues, * communication between parents and school.
No Cupcakes for Jason: A Child's Story about the Gluten-free Casein-free Diet With a Parent' Guide and a Crane
Child's Story about the Gluten-free Casein-free Diet With a Parent' Guide and a School Guide Included
Incredible Edible Gluten-Free Food for Kids Sanderson
Raising Resilient Children: Fostering Strength, Hope, and Optimism in Your Child Brooks, Ph.D.
Top child psychologists offer expert insight and practical advice for raising strong kids in today's complicated world.
Challenging Child: Understanding, Raising and Enjoying the Five "Difficult" Types of Children Greenspan, MD
Most children fall into five basic personality types that stem from inborn physical characteristics: the sensitive child, the self-absorbed child, the defiant child, the inattentive child, and the active/aggressive child. Stanley Greenspan, M.D., is the first to show parents how to match their parenting to the challenges of their particular child. He identifies and vividly describes these five universal temperaments and then, with great empathy, shows parents how each of these children actually experiences the world and how to use daily childrearing to enhance an individual child's strengths and talents.
It's So Amazing!: A Book about Eggs, Sperm, Birth, Babies and Families Harris
An up-to-date book about sex and sexuality for children who were still too young for It's Perfectly Normal. Once again, the Bird and Bee are up to their antics, but this time they're younger. In It's So Amazing!, these reassuring characters reflect the many moods of children age 7 and up: silly, serious, curious, embarrassed.
The Happiest Toddler on the Block: The New Way to Stop the Daily Battle of Wills and Raise a Secure and Well-Behaved One- to Four-Year-Old Karp
Pediatrician Harvey Karp reminds parents that the real key to child contentment is good communication. He explains that toddlers go through four stages of "evolutionary" growth, each linked to a phase in the brain's development, each requiring specific behavioral techniques.
A Mind at a Time: America's Top Learning Expert Shows how Every Child Can Succeed Levine, MD
"Different minds learn differently," writes Dr. Mel Levine, one of the best-known learning experts and pediatricians in America today. Some students are strong in certain areas and some are strong in others, but no one is equally capable in all. Yet most schools still cling to a one-size-fits-all education philosophy. As a result, many children struggle because their learning patterns don't fit the way they are being taught.
Independent Living/Future Planning
Ready or Not, Here Life Comes Levine, MD
Dr. Levine examines why many young people seem to stall before beginning their adult lives and shows how they can get back on track
Sexuality Your Sons and Daughters with Intellectual Disabilities Melberg Schwier
A Special Kind of Brain: Living with Nonverbal Learning Disability Burger
Sharing the experience of bringing up a child with nonverbal learning disability (NLD), this book offers advice on subjects ranging across diagnosis and therapy, children's interaction with each other, suitable activities for a child with NLD and how to discuss NLD with children. This book will reassure, advise and inform parents and professionals who work with children with NLD.
Emotional Disorders and Learning Disabilities in the Classroom Interactions and Interventions Gorman
Preventing Reading Difficulties in Young Children Griffin
This book explores how to prevent reading difficulties in the context of social, historical, cultural, and biological factors. Contrasting the impaired progress of children with reading difficulties with so-called normal progress, this book examines the factors that put children at risk of poor reading. It explores in detail how to foster literacy from birth through kindergarten and the primary grades, including the evaluation of philosophies, systems, and materials commonly used to teach reading.
It's so Much Work to Be Your Friend: Helping the Child with Learning Disabilities Find Social Success Lavoie
A successful social life is immeasurably important to a child's happiness, health, and development, but until now, no book has provided practical, expert advice on helping learning disabled children achieve social success.
A Parent's Guide to Developmental Delays: Recognizing and Coping with Missed Milestones in Speech, Movement, Learning, and Other Areas Lecomer
Special education expert Laurie LeComer, M.Ed., provides parents with essential information, addressing important topics and uncomfortable questions on such issues as: - Spotting the "Red Flags" of abnormal development, - Getting a diagnosis and treatment plan, - Obtaining the best treatment options, education, and help, - The keys to a successful, fulfilling life for every developmentally delayed child
Learning Outside the Lines: Two Ivy League Students with Learning Disabilities and ADHD Give You the Tools Mooney
Every day, your school, your teachers, and even your peers draw lines to measure and standardize intelligence. They decide what criteria make one person smart and another person stupid. They decide who will succeed and who will just get by. Perhaps you find yourself outside the norm, because you learn differently -- but, unlike your classmates, you have no system in place that consistently supports your ability and desire to learn. Simply put, you are considered lazy and stupid. You are expected to fail.
The Explosive Child: A New Approach for Understanding and Parenting Easily Frustrated, Chronically Greene
"The Explosive Child lays out a sensitive, practical approach to helping your child at home and school including: reducing hostility and antagonism between the child and adults, anticipating situations in which the child is most likely to explode; creating and environment in which explosions are less likely to occur; focusing less on reward and punishment and more on communication and collaborative problem solving; helping your child develop the skills to be more flexible and handle frustration more adaptively."
Infant and Early Childhood Mental Health Greenspan
Seizures and Epilepsy in Childhood A Guide (Third Edition) Freeman, MD
--Fragile X
Children with Fragile X Syndrome Dixon Weber, Ed.
--Juvenile Rheumatoid Arthritis
Homeroom Exercise Striegel
Twelve-year-old Regan Shaffer lives to dance. And she's good. So good that she is chosen to lead "Homeroom Exercise," a program televised to her entire middle school. Except for a mysterious nagging pain in one knee, she's on top of the world. Then disaster strikes. Her body betrays her, and suddenly she's not sure she can trust anyone or anything.
--Gifted
Misdiagnosis and Dual Diagnoses of Gifted Children and Adults: ADHD, Bipolar, OCD, Asperger's, Webb
Our brightest, most creative children and adults are often being misdiagnosed with behavioral and emotional disorders such as ADHD, Oppositional-Defiant Disorder, Bipolar, OCD, or Asperger’s. Many receive unneeded medication and inappropriate counseling as a result.
The Young Deaf or Hard of Hearing Child: A Family-Centered Approach to Early Intervention Bodner-Johnson
Sixteen chapters by educators, scholars, language consultants, and advocates introduce key concepts, explain recent research, and offer suggestions for the early intervention and education of young children with hearing impairments. Important language and communication issues, such as parent-child communication and literacy development, are considered from family, community, cultural, educational, and linguistic perspectives.
Literacy and Your Deaf Child: What Every Parent Should Know Stewart
Literacy and Your Deaf Child: What Every Parent Should Know provides parents with the means to ensure that their deaf or hard of hearing child becomes a proficient reader and writer. In nine chapters, parents will learn about the relationship of language to reading and writing, including the associated terminology, the challenges that deaf children face, and the role of schools. They'll also learn activities that they can engage in at home that will strengthen their children's reading and writing capabilities.
Understanding Sensory Dysfunction, Learning, Development and Sensory Dysfunction in Autism Spectrum Godwin Emmons
Sibshops: Workshops for Siblings of Children with Special Needs Meyer
Children who have brothers and sisters with special needs have needs of their own—needs that are often overlooked. This practical resource details SibShops, the award-winning program that brings together 8 to 13 yr. olds to express their good (and maybe not so good) feelings about having brothers and sisters with disabilities. And because SibShops provide support and information in a recreational atmosphere, siblings have fun while they learn.
Topics Related to Family-Centered Care
--Disability Diversity
Understanding Families: Approaches to Diversity, Disability, and Risk Hanson
Combined research on families and family-centered services with practical suggestions for partnering with caregivers, especially those whose young children are at risk or have disabilities.