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Costello,
E. & Lehman, L. (1995). Signing:
How to Speak with Your Hands. Bantam
Books. Paperback. 288 pages. A comprehensive
guide that contains more than 1,300 signs
and their descriptions arranged into 14
logical groupings. Large, clear, lifelike
upper-torso illustrations are accompanied
by precise easy to follow instructions
on how to perform specific signs. Contains
the basic vocabulary and linguistic information
that families, friends, and professionals
need to communicate effectively with hearing
impaired children and adults. Item
Number: R-701 $22.00 |
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Cowan, L. & Lee, J. (2003). Living with Prenatal Drug Exposure: A Guide for Parents. Society of Special Needs Adoptive Parents/Ben Simon Press. Paperback. 118 pages.” Modeled on …Living with FASD: A Guide for Parents, this …book for parents and professionals introduces …the challenges of caring for a child prenatally exposed to drugs. (It) offers practical techniques and strategies, debunks well-known myths, explores social issues. Item Number: R-725 $25.00 |
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Graefe, S. (ed.). (2003). Lifelong Issues (Volume 1 of Adoption Piece by Piece). Society of Special Needs Adoptive Parents/Ben Simon Press. Paperback. 219 pages. This book “covers the core topics of adoption with chapters on grief and loss, open adoption, attachment, identity, search and reunion, disruption, single parent and gay lesbian adoption, and inter-racial families.” Item Number: R-721 $29.00 |
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Graefe, S. (ed.). (2003). Special Needs (Volume 2 of Adoption Piece by Piece). Society of Special Needs Adoptive Parents/Ben Simon Press. Paperback. 205 pages. This book is “a comprehensive overview of the challenges that adopted children often face such as FASD, prenatal drug exposure, Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD), Conduct Disorder, mental health issues, histories of abuse and neglect, invisible disabilities and post-institutionalization.” Item Number: R-722 $29.00 |
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Graefe, S. (ed.). (2003). A Toolkit for Parents (Volume 3 of Adoption Piece by Piece). Society of Special Needs Adoptive Parents/Ben Simon Press. Paperback. 179 pages. This Toolkit “covers all the nuts and bolts of parenting adopted children with chapters on health cae, the legal system, education, self-help and support, financial planning, self-care for parents and advocacy. This book will help caregivers through the maze of living as an adoptive family in Canada.” Item Number: R-723 $29.00 |
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Graefe, S. (ed.). (2003). Special Trilogy Price – One each of the three volumes described above (Lifelong Issues, Special Needs, and A Toolkit for Parents). This trilogy “represents a comprehensive collection of articles from experienced parents and professionals on a variety of topics related to adoption.” To receive this special trilogy price, all three books must be ordered at the same time using Item Number R-724. Item Number: R-724 $70.00 |
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Greene,
R. (1998). The Explosive Child: A New
Approach for Understanding and Parenting
Easily Frustrated, "Chronically Inflexible"
Children. HarperCollins. Paperback.
342 pages. A compassionate look at children
who are inflexible and explosive and how
to understand and help them at home and
school. Item Number: R-702 $19.00 |
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Cook, P. (2004). Sensory Integration Dysfunction: A Layperson’s Guide. P. Cook. Booklet. 38 pages. “This booklet is designed to provide parents, educators, daycare staff, and others with (basic) information on Sensory Integration Dysfunction (SID), and the possible influences the environment may have on some individuals.”
Item Number: R-720 $4.00 |
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Cook, P. 2004 RAGE – A layperson’s guide to what to do when someone begins to rage. P. Cook Booklet. 38 pages “This booklet is a guide to parents, educators, daycare staff and other with (basic) information on the definition and difference between tantrums and rages, description of the rage cycle. Strategies and suggestions for dealing with rage and using rage events as learning opportunities.”
Item Number: R-729 $4.00 |
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Cook, P. 2006 Talk...some other perspectives. P. Cook Booklet. 42 pages. This booklet provides information on What is talk and what is language. How does hearing differ from listening? What are some other factors that have implications on language. How does emotion flavor language? Item
Number R-730 $5.00 |
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Kranowitz,
C. (1998). The Out-of-Sync Child: Recognizing
and Coping with Sensory Integration Dysfunction.
Penguin Putnam. Paperback. 322 Pages.
“This guide offers comprehensive, easily
understood information on sensory integration
and its counterpart, Sensory Integration
Dysfunction –and a drug-free treatment
approach -- for children who need it.”
Item Number: R-704 $19.00 |
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Kranowitz, C. (2003). The Out-Of-Sync
Child Has Fun. Penguin Putnam.
320 pages. Paper. This book has “more
than one hundred playful activities that
are sensory-motor, appropriate, fun, and
easy to help develop and organize a child’s
brain and body. These activities work
at home, at school, or out in the world
and add a few more smiles to your child’s
day.”
Item Number: R-707 $19.00 |
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Video: The Out-of-Sync Child. (2001). Sensory Resources Inc. 86 minutes (2 video set). “This video explains: what sensory integration dysfunction is, how to recognize the symptoms and how to help those affected... with emphasis on early diagnosis and intervention. (It) was taped … before a live audience and includes footage of Carol S. Kranowitz’s students at St. Columba’s Nursery School in Washington, DC.”
Item Number: RV-718 $75.00** |
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Video: Getting Kids in Sync. (2003). Sensory Resources Inc. 27 minutes. Carol S. Kranowitz, MA, “author of The Out-of-Sync Child and The Out-of-Sync Child Has Fun demonstrates SAFE (Sensory-Motor, Appropriate, Fun, and Easy) activities with the help of the children of St. Columba's Nursery School in Washington, DC. These …activities help children of all abilities to develop their bodies and integrate their senses, and they are easy to use in a home or school.”
Item Number: RV-719 $35.00** |
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Yack,
S. & Aquilla, P. (1998). Building Bridges
Through Sensory Integration: Occupational
Therapy for Children with Autism and Other
Pervasive Developmental Disorders.
Building Bridges Through Sensory Integration.
Paper. 186 pages. This handbook contains
many practical strategies for parents
and teachers to use to help children who
have sensory processing and/or motor planning
difficulties. Item Number: R-705 $42.00 |
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Papalos,
D. & Papalos, J. (1999). BiPolar Child:
The Definitive and Reassuring Guide to
Childhood’s Most Misunderstood Disorder.
Broadway Books. Hardcover. 398 pages.
This book "demystifies this disorder of
childhood… details the diagnosis, tells
how to find good treatment and medications,
and advises parents about ways to advocate
effectively for their children at school."
  Item Number: R-706 $36.00 |
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Video: How Difficult Can This Be? Understanding Learning Disabilities: (1996). PBS Video/McIntyre Media. 70 minutes. For kids with learning disabilities, the classroom can be an intimidating place. In this (video), Richard Lavoie …leads a group of parents, educators, psychologists, and children through a series of exercises that cause Frustration, Anxiety, and Tension…feelings all too familiar to children with learning disabilities…By dramatizing the classroom experience so vividly, Lavoie lets us see the world through the eyes of a child.”
Item Number: RV-726 $100.00** |
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