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Adolescents and Inclusion: Transforming Secondary Schools by Edited by Anne M. Bauer, Ed.D., & Glenda Myree Brown, Ed.D.

Categories: Inclusion, Inclusion

Description:
"Bauer and Brown provide readers with a unique opportunity to experience inclusion and gain a sensory understanding of what secondary inclusive education may look like, sound like, taste like, and feel like."
—Craig A. Michaels, in Research & Practice for Persons with Severe Disabilities

"Over the years, I have found a new richness in my teaching as a result of these students.... I know my students have as well." —Kathy Heekin, teacher at PMHS

An Introduction to PECS - VHS by Lori Frost and Andrew Bondy

Categories: Communication,

Description:
This 26-minute video provides an overview of the potential benefits of using PECS. It portrays examples of each training phase within PECS in the school, home, and the community settings with a variety of communicative partners. This award-winning video is an introduction to PECS, and is not a training video.

Attention Deficit Hyperactivity and Learning Disorders Questions and Answers by J. Gordon Millichap, M.D.

Categories: ADD/ADHD,

Description:
Attention Deficit Hyperactivity and Learning Disorders: Questions ans Answers is written for the concerned parent, interested teacher and student, psychologist, and pediatrician. The reader is provided with facts, backed by controlled studies and supported by references to medical publications

Autism / PDD--Introducing Strategies for Parents and Professionals by Janice Adams

Categories: Autism,

Description:
This small booklet introduces practical approaches for parents and caregivers who are setting up a program for a child. Early concerns such as lack of speech, hyperactivity, promoting socialization, using pictures, behaviour, obtaining eye contact and some available resources, are just a few of the areas that are addressed.

Autism Spectrum Disorders by Edited by Amy M. Wetherby, Ph.D. & Barry M. Prizant, Ph.D.

Categories: Autism, Autism

Description:
This cross-disciplinary reference offers a thorough overview of the communication, language, social, and behavioral issues characteristic of autism spectrum disorders (ASD).

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	Titles 1 to 5 of 42
	Adolescents and Inclusion: Transforming Secondary Schools by Edited by Anne M. Bauer, Ed.D., & Glenda Myree Brown, Ed.D. *Categories:* Inclusion, Inclusion *Description*: "Bauer and Brown provide readers with a unique opportunity to experience inclusion and gain a sensory understanding of what secondary inclusive education may look like, sound like, taste like, and feel like." —Craig A. Michaels, in Research & Practice for Persons with Severe Disabilities "Over the years, I have found a new richness in my teaching as a result of these students.... I know my students have as well." —Kathy Heekin, teacher at PMHS
	An Introduction to PECS - VHS by Lori Frost and Andrew Bondy *Categories:* Communication, *Description*: This 26-minute video provides an overview of the potential benefits of using PECS. It portrays examples of each training phase within PECS in the school, home, and the community settings with a variety of communicative partners. This award-winning video is an introduction to PECS, and is not a training video.
	Attention Deficit Hyperactivity and Learning Disorders Questions and Answers by J. Gordon Millichap, M.D. *Categories:* ADD/ADHD, *Description*: Attention Deficit Hyperactivity and Learning Disorders: Questions ans Answers is written for the concerned parent, interested teacher and student, psychologist, and pediatrician. The reader is provided with facts, backed by controlled studies and supported by references to medical publications
	Autism / PDD--Introducing Strategies for Parents and Professionals by Janice Adams *Categories:* Autism, *Description*: This small booklet introduces practical approaches for parents and caregivers who are setting up a program for a child. Early concerns such as lack of speech, hyperactivity, promoting socialization, using pictures, behaviour, obtaining eye contact and some available resources, are just a few of the areas that are addressed.
	Autism Spectrum Disorders by Edited by Amy M. Wetherby, Ph.D. & Barry M. Prizant, Ph.D. *Categories:* Autism, Autism *Description*: This cross-disciplinary reference offers a thorough overview of the communication, language, social, and behavioral issues characteristic of autism spectrum disorders (ASD).