Inclusion (Special Needs)
A to Z of Special Needs
A Practical Resource for Early Childhood and Primary TeachersAuthor(s): Anne Vize (click on the author's name for more titles)
This indispensable reference covers 50 disabilities in easily accessible double-page spreads including autism, asthma, ADHD, coeliac disease, cerebral palsy, developmental delay, dyslexia, epilepsy, obesity, muscular dystrophy, visual processing disorders, and many others.
RRP $39.95
Ants in Their Pants
Teaching Children Who Must Move to LearnAuthor(s): Aerial Cross (click on the author's name for more titles)
From sunup to sundown, extra busy children have an endless supply of energy and remain on the move throughout the day. Ants in Their Pants offers successful and tested techniques to help caregivers, educators, and parents provide the best support to active learners so they can thrive in the classroom and at home.
RRP $67.95
Children With Special Needs
Lessons For Early Childhood ProfessionalsAuthor(s): Marjorie J Kostelnik (click on the author's name for more titles)
Bridging the gap between child development and strategies for inclusion, this powerful volume will help early childhood practitioners and pre-service teachers feel better equipped to meet the needs of all the children in their early childhood setting.Each chapter introduces you to a child (ages birth to 8 years) with one or more special needs.
RRP $56.95
Come and Play
Sensory-Integration Strategies for Children with Play ChallengesAuthor(s): Aerial Cross (click on the author's name for more titles)
Come and Play addresses five common play challenges and provides key intervention guidelines and sample play plans for each challenge.
RRP $67.95
Common Psychological Disorders in Children
A Handbook for Childhood ProfessionalsAuthor(s): Jenna Bilmes, Tara Welker (click on the author's name for more titles)
Common Psychological Disorders in Young Children is an easy-to-use guide that will help you recognize and deal with the symptoms and behaviours associated with ADHD, autism, anxiety, and other disorders you may face in your centre.
RRP $67.95
I Belong
Active Learning for Children with Special NeedsAuthor(s): J Levanger Dowling, T C Mitchell (click on the author's name for more titles)
This book includes practical strategies and real-life examples of how the High/Scope Curriculum can be adapted in a variety of preschool settings serving children with special needs. It builds on and maximizes their strengths and abilities, recognizing each child's individual needs and developmental differences. The book addresses the issue of integrating curriculum and therapy, and meeting the goals of Individual Education Programs.
RRP $58.95
Including One, Including All
A Guide to Relationship-Based Early Childhood InclusionAuthor(s): Leslie Roffman, Todd Wanerman (click on the author's name for more titles)
This book provides guiding principles for you to create a program that strengthens and supports children with behavioural, emotional, social, physical, and learning challenges. It includes an overview of inclusion, including historical background; a description of the Engage-Reflect-Plan cycle, a method to identify unique strengths, challenges, and approaches to help each child thrive; stories, strategies, and tools; ideas for collaboration and partnership with families and detailed case studies.
RRP $89.95
Inclusive Early Childhood Classroom, The
Easy Ways to Adapt Learning Centres For All ChildrenAuthor(s): Joyce Sullivan, Patti Gould (click on the author's name for more titles)
This book is written to help teachers look at classroom design in a new way and suggests different ways of approaching activities to help children with special needs to be successful. Particular attention is given to the needs of children, who are developmentally delayed, orthopedically impaired, have Autism/Pervasive Developmental Disorder, Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder or behavioural issues, motor planning problems or visual impairments.
RRP $56.95
Inclusive Learning Center Book, The
for Preschoolers with Special NeedsAuthor(s): Christy Isbell, Rebecca Isbell (click on the author's name for more titles)
This book invites all children to learn and play in learning centres. Research has clearly shown that play in centres helps young children learn language, develop social skills, and enhance cognitive understanding. Children with special needs can actively participate and use materials that interest them. This stimulates brain connections in young children.
RRP $67.95
Inclusive Lesson Plans Throughout the Year
Author(s): Cynthia Simpson, Diana Nabors, Laverne Warner, Sharon Lynch (click on the author's name for more titles)
Inclusive Lesson Plans Throughout the Year has over 150 lesson plans for teachers who have children with special needs in their early childhood classrooms. Perfect for both beginning teachers and experienced teachers, Inclusive Lesson Plans Throughout the Year helps new teachers develop plans for each day and provides experienced teachers with new ideas and approaches to add spark to their classroom teaching.
RRP $67.95
Inclusive Literacy Lessons for Early Childhood
Author(s): Clarissa Willis, Pam Schiller (click on the author's name for more titles)
Best-selling, award-winning authors Pam Schiller and Clarissa Willis have teamed up to create this collection of 100 literacy lessons, designed to introduce children ages 3 to 6 to a variety of literacy concepts and build important literacy skills. Each of these simple, fun lessons offers adaptations for children with special needs.
RRP $56.95
Let's Be Friends
Peer Competence and Social Inclusion in Early Childhood ProgramsAuthor(s): Kristen Mary Kemple (click on the author's name for more titles)
This book describes methods of support and intervention teachers can use to create social inclusion in preschool and the primary grades. This unique volume uses actual classroom observations; explains a wide variety of strategies; describes common needs and interventions for children experiencing particular challenges and disabilities, including autism; portrays reflective teaching and professional collaboration as frameworks for teachers' desision making; and provides Food for Thought exercises at the end of each chapter to help readers reflect on and apply what they read.
RRP $53.95
My Child Has Autism
What Parents Need to KnowAuthor(s): Clarissa Willis (click on the author's name for more titles)
There are no words to describe how families feel when they learn that a child they love has been diagnosed with autism. This book was written for those families. It explains autism in simple terms, discusses the major characteristics associated with autism, and offers simple strategies for helping children with autism function in their homes, at school, and in the community.
RRP $29.95
Play and Imagination in Children with Autism, Second Edition
Author(s): Pamela J Wolfberg (click on the author's name for more titles)
This second edition has been thoroughly revised to reflect major new developments in the field of autism. Notable additions include an updated description of the Integrated Play Groups (IPG) model and related research; an examination of the nature of autism and of play from past to present, with major updates on incidence, diagnosis, and characteristics; and a comprehensive review of play interventions.
RRP $56.95
Sensory Integration
A Guide for Preschool TeachersAuthor(s): Christy Isbell, Rebecca Isbell (click on the author's name for more titles)
Sensory Integration helps you identify children who have difficulties with sensory processing, and it offers simple, easy-to-use solutions to support the sensory needs of young children in the preschool classroom.
RRP $44.95
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