FAS Bookshelf related.gif - 3545 Bytes

videobut.gif - 3547 Bytes preventionbut.gif - 3576 Bytes booksbut.gif - 3505 Bytes posterbut.gif - 3550 Bytes relatedbut.gif - 3568 Bytes

line

Navigation

What's New
Order Info
Online Resources
Frequently Asked Questions
About Us
Why Us
Links
Your Privacy
Email
Home

How To Speak With Your Hands
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
BLU_BALL.GIFOrder Form
BLU_BALL.GIFTop
How To Speak With Your Hands
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
BLU_BALL.GIFOrder Form
BLU_BALL.GIFTop
How To Speak With Your Hands
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
BLU_BALL.GIFOrder Form
BLU_BALL.GIFTop
Special Needs
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
BLU_BALL.GIFOrder Form
BLU_BALL.GIFTop
Special Needs
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
BLU_BALL.GIFOrder Form
BLU_BALL.GIFTop

Special Needs
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
BLU_BALL.GIFOrder Form
BLU_BALL.GIFTop
Explosive Child
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
BLU_BALL.GIFOrder Form
BLU_BALL.GIFTop
Sensory Integration Dysfunction:  A Layperson’s Guide.
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
BLU_BALL.GIFOrder Form
BLU_BALL.GIFTop
r729.gif - 2040 Bytes
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
BLU_BALL.GIFOrder Form
BLU_BALL.GIFTop
r730.jpg - 2204 Bytes
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
BLU_BALL.GIFOrder Form
BLU_BALL.GIFTop
The Out Of Sync Child
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
BLU_BALL.GIFOrder Form
BLU_BALL.GIFTop
Out-Of-Sync Child Has Fun

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
BLU_BALL.GIFOrder Form
BLU_BALL.GIFTop
Video:  The Out-of-Sync Child.

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**
BLU_BALL.GIFOrder Form
BLU_BALL.GIFTop
Video:  Getting Kids in Sync.

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**
BLU_BALL.GIFOrder Form
BLU_BALL.GIFTop
Building Bridges
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
BLU_BALL.GIFOrder Form
BLU_BALL.GIFTop
bipolar
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
BLU_BALL.GIFOrder Form
BLU_BALL.GIFTop
Video:  How Difficult Can This Be?

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**
BLU_BALL.GIFOrder Form
BLU_BALL.GIFTop