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  • A Blind Child's Pathway to Learning

    Developing Cognition Without Sight

    Our intention in writing this book is to provide three distinct but closely related groups with insight into the factors required to help a blind child attain his/her maximum level of cognitive abilities. The first group consists of parents who face the day to day reality of helping their blind child deal with the challenges imposed by the lack of sight. The second group consists of beginning and ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

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  • Reading Between the Signs

    Intercultural Communication for Sign Language Interpreters

    by Anna Mindess ...
    "A must-read! An enlightening book ... a defining document in the literature of Deaf culture." - Linda Bove, Certified Deaf Interpreter, Actress, ConsultantIn Reading Between the Signs, Anna Mindess provides a perspective on a culture that is not widely understood-American Deaf culture. With the collaboration of three distinguished Deaf consultants, Mindess explores the implications of cultural ... Read more

    $16.99 USD

  • How Behavioral Optometry Can Unlock Your Child's Potential

    Identifying and Overcoming Blocks to Concentration, Self-Esteem and School Success with Vision Therapy

    Visual dysfunctions can limit children's concentration, self esteem and school success as they struggle to understand fundamentals such as colors, letters and how to judge distance. With the right help, these obstacles can be overcome, allowing children to reach their full potential and see the world clearly.This accessible book explores how visual problems develop and how they can be reversed ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

  • Teaching Pupils with Visual Impairment

    A Guide to Making the School Curriculum Accessible

    Edited by Ruth Salisbury ...
    Series series Access and Achievement
    Bursting with practical advice, suggestions and handy tips, providing readers with a positive starting point for sharing ideas and good practice, this is a key practical guide to making learning accessible for primary and secondary school pupils with visual impairment.This user-friendly book shows how, with appropriate support, pupils with visual impairment in mainstream schools can have as ... Read more

    $70.99 USD

  • The Hearing Impaired Child

    The Hearing Impaired Child introduces the background issues of hearing impairment then discusses specific aspects. These include causes of hearing loss, speech and language, personality and emotional development, and careers. Appendices provide checklists for language acquisition and reading and writing skills, lists of useful addresses, a helpful glossary and references for further reading. ... Read more

    $53.99 USD

  • Music for Children with Hearing Loss

    A Resource for Parents and Teachers

    Written by an expert in the field who is both a teacher and a teacher-educator, this book is an in-depth and practical resource for educators and parents who wish to introduce music to children with hearing loss. Author Lyn Schraer-Joiner makes a compelling case for offering music education to children with hearing loss before presenting a series of important and up-to-date teaching strategies ... Read more

    $29.69 USD

  • Belonging

    An Autoethnography of a Life in Sign Language

    This book weaves intensely personal and evocative stories into a layered autoethnographic text about the author’s experience of childhood deafness, sign language and education. Interwoven with the performative narrative are powerful stories of stigma, trauma, friendships, relationships, love, isolation and displacement. Using interpretative and reflective analysis, the author explores the storied ... Read more

    $66.19 USD

  • People Need to Know

    Confronting History in the Heartland

    Series Book 484 - Counterpoints
    People Need to Know follows a group of students as they study the defining event in their community’s history – a 1930 lynching that was captured in one of the century’s most iconic and disturbing photographs. With ambitions of contributing to public understanding, the students set out to create a collection of online resources about the lynching. As they encounter troubling information and ... Read more

    $43.99 USD

  • Valuing Profoundly Disabled People

    Fellowship, Community and Ties of Birth

    by John Vorhaus ...
    Growing numbers of human beings live with profound and multiple learning difficulties and disabilities. Exploring the moral, social and political implications of this trend, Valuing Profoundly Disabled People addresses questions that are high on policy and practice agendas in numerous regions around the world, including the UK and the EU, the USA, and Australasia.In this important work Vorhaus ... Read more

    $63.99 USD

  • Supporting Children with Medical Conditions

    Series series nasen spotlight
    The fully revised new edition of Supporting Children with Medical Conditions provides teachers and practitioners with a reference to medical conditions most commonly found amongst school-aged children, including asthma, cerebral palsy, cystic fibrosis, eczema, epilepsy, head injuries, heart conditions, hydrocephalus and spina bifida. With up to date advice for practitioners, each condition is ... Read more

    Was $44.99 USD Now $38.99 USD

  • Enacting Change from Within

    Disability Studies Meets Teaching and Teacher Education

    Series Book 2 - Inclusion and Teacher Education
    Disability Studies in Education (DSE) provides a useful and compelling framework for re-envisioning the possibility of education for all students. However, the philosophies of Disability Studies (DS) can be seen as contradictory to many mainstream values and practices in K-12 education. In an ever-shifting educational landscape, where students with disabilities continue to face marginalization and ... Read more

    $43.99 USD

  • Including Children 3-11 With Physical Disabilities

    Practical Guidance for Mainstream Schools

    by Mark Fox ...
    First Published in 2005. This is a guide to help teachers successfully include children with physical disabilities in mainstream classrooms. The book looks at: planning for inclusion; understanding different kinds of physical disabilities; managing teachers' and parents' expectations; organising the classroom; liaising with other professionals and considering the emotional and social aspects of ... Read more

    Was $48.99 USD Now $41.99 USD