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Very Young Children with Special Needs: A Foundation for Educators, Families, and Service Providers (4th Edition)
Very Young Children with Special Needs: A Foundation for Educators, Families, and Service Providers (4th Edition)
Now in its fourth edition, Very Young Children with Special Needs: A Formative Approach for Today’s Children provides the best introduction to early childhood special education and early intervention for professionals preparing to work with infants, toddlers and preschool children with disabilities and their families. A foundational text that is both comprehensive and practical, it offers a thorough review of early intervention and early childhood special education, and the most detailed information available about the causes of disabling conditions in young children. Readers will be provided with “best practices” for supporting diverse families, five philosophical issues important to effective intervention and support to young children and their families, and unique coverage of typical child development across physical, emotional, language and cognitive domains. Through its use of narrative, case studies, and distinctive “close-ups”; updated information incorporating the newest provisions of the Individuals with Disabilities Education Improvement Act of 2004; inclusion of medical information regarding the etiologies of various disabilities; thorough introduction to emerging trends in the areas of personalization, relationship-based service, and evidence-based practices, students in fields as diverse as special education, social work, health care, and physical therapy will benefit from the interdisciplinary perspective and plethora of information found in the text’s entirety. It’s also a great resource for parents and families of children with special needs seeking ample information that’s also supportive and complete.
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Ready-to-Use Social Skills: Lessons & Activities for Grades PreK-K
This resource is part of the four-volume Social Skills Curriculum Library, a practical series designed to help you teach positive behavior skills to student of all abilities. Students learn such social skills as dealing with anger productively ... setting goals ... building self-confidence ... dealing with prejudice... and more.
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This book is a series of lessons that teach different social skills. Although it’s set up for a classroom setting, I’ve been doing them with my 8 year old son. I have been very pleased with the change I’ve seen in his behavior from doing these lessons at home. The book is very easy for follow for a non-educator such as myself and most importantly, it’s effective!
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This is very user friendly and is set out in lessons with the objective listed, the need for the lesson, introduction, skill components, rehearsal of behavior or skill and then practice and continuation of skill. It has reproducable worksheets for most lessons. I am the parent of an autistic child. I have a legal background not an education teaching degree but this is layed out so it will be very easy to implement. It would also be a great assest for any classroom to promote classroom unity and awareness of others. This would also be helpful for Sunday school classes where the teachers are often local volunteers. I may go back and get the grade K-3 book as well.
Review by michelle griswold for Ready-to-Use Social Skills: Lessons & Activities for Grades PreK-K
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This book is a great resource for teachers, administrators, and parents! It offers activities that strengthen teenagers social skills with concentration in communication, responsibility, respect, and many others. The students I used it with thought that the activities were “fun” and worked when they needed the skills the most. I would recommend this book to all who work with teenagers.
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This book has been a life-saver for me as a new school counselor. It addresses many social skills issues which need to be addressed in the elementary school setting. It includes everything from how to make and keep friends, to anger, self-control and everything in between. Really a great resource!!
Review by Kerry Bailey for Ready-to-Use Social Skills: Lessons & Activities for Grades PreK-K
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The description said you could easily apply the skills and exercises at home, outside of the classroom environment, but it is clearly written for classroom use.
The author doesn’t really explain what to do with each exercise either, it’s seemed more like a list of suggestions or ideas than real activities. For instance they would say “come up with a story to show typical youngsters conflicting over a problem and give examples of how to resolve those problems without violence.”
That’s what I got the book for…. if I knew how to come up with scenerios like that and exercises on my own, I wouldn’t need help.
I gove it 2 stars because there are a couple of worksheets included that do seem like they are useful practices, but other than that, this was a waste of money.
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