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This text for human service providers offers answers to questions such as ""Why am I doing this job?"" or ""What do I expect to accomplish?

Gives service providers helpful strategies for increasing effectiveness and maintaining well-being while working in the rewarding yet challenging field of human services. This intuitive guide also offers guidelines for working with families, coping with stress and burnout, and enhancing service management and quality.

With this authoritative research volume, administrators and policy makers will discover the latest findings on best professional development practices in early childhood education - and learn how to scale up successful efforts.

A must for future early interventionists, this introductory text prepares professionals to support infants and toddlers with special needs and their families. Focusing on the specific needs and challenges of children from birth to three, the book gathers more than a dozen expert contributors with proven expertise in helping children who have or are at risk for developmental delays.

Including the third edition of this textbook for neurodevelopmental pediatrics, these two volumes discuss the epidemiology, etiology, assessment, and treatment of a range of neurodevelopmental disabilities in infants and children. This edition emphasizes the training needs of people entering pediatrics programs in neurodevelopmental disabilities.

Comprehension problems have become an epidemic. Start addressing the root of the problem today with this practical guidebook, designed to strengthen adolescents' reading comprehension and written expression so they can master academic content.

Anxiety is one of the biggest challenges faced by children with high-functioning autism spectrum disorders and Asperger syndrome. Help them conquer their fears - and participate more fully in home, school, and community life - with this innovative group therapy program for children 8-14 years old and their parents.

Effective early intervention doesn't stop when the provider leaves the family's home. That's why every interventionist needs this practical source-book, packed with research-based strategies for helping parents and caregivers take a consistent, active role in supporting young children's development. Targeting 80 skills in 6 key developmental domains for children birth to three, this reader-friendly guide gives professionals dozens of ready-to-use ideas for helping families and caregivers embed learning opportunities in their everyday routines. Early interventionists will turn to this book again and again for strategies that enhance child development, strengthen attachment, and help children with developmental delays participate fully in family life.

Children with autism learn social skills best in group settings where they can practice everyday interactions with peers. Now there's a highly effective, ready-to-use curriculum educators can use to explicitly teach social skills right in the classroom! Ideal for Grades 4-8 but easily adaptable for use with older children, this social skills intervention curriculum gives educators 24 lessons that help students with autism make progress in areas critical to social success. Each step-by-step lesson gives students a social story that models a key skill; worksheets that reinforce takeaway points; a simple, memorable icon that helps them remember what to do; opportunities to role-play and rehearse the skill; and take-home worksheets to ensure generalization in settings outside of school.

Enhance the growth and development of infants and young children with more than 400 fun, fast, and easy-to-use learning activities now in a new edition specially developed to complement ASQ-3 . Perfect for sharing with parents of children who are developing typically or need nonintensive support in one or more areas, these playful, developmentally appropriate activities encourage progress in the same five developmental areas as ASQ-3 communication, gross motor, fine motor, problem solving, and personal-social use safe, age-appropriate materials that most families have at home help even the youngest children develop crucial early language and literacy skills promote closer parent child interactions serve as a natural follow-up for children who score in the ASQ-3 monitoring zone New to this edition are more activities (for the 0 2 month age range, too) more language and literacy activities, more language modeling for parents, more differentiation of activities by age, and a PDF format that's easy to email to parents. And, it's packaged as a book and CD-ROM together so you can photocopy or print them as needed. These creative, cost-effective activities are the perfect way for parents and children to learn and have fun together.

This popular reference provides hard-to-find information and practical advice to professionals who are working with children and families from diverse cultural and linguistic backgrounds. It includes facts about the influence of culture on people's beliefs, values, and behaviours; descriptions of the challenges families may have adapting to a different culture; and more.

Children who learn maths fundamentals in preschool have the best chance of later achievement in school - but too often, children don't get the effective early maths instruction that makes all the difference. This core early childhood textbook helps current and future educators teach the most critical maths concepts to young students while meeting today's standards for mathematics education.

Teach spatial skills to young children-and improve their overall academic outcomes. This innovative teaching resource has the research-based insights and practical activities early childhood educators need to promote spatial development throughout the school day.

For families of an infant leaving the NICU, nothing's more exciting - and challenging - than the critical transition to home life with their baby. Support the NICU-to-home transition with this accessible book, the complete guide to helping parents meet their baby's special needs and promote optimal development in the first year after homecoming.

Enhance the grown and development of infants and young children with more than 400 fun, fast, and easy-to-use learning activities developed especially to complement Ages and Stages Questionnaires (TM), Third Edition (ASQ-3 (TM)).

Addresses how faith communities, service providers, and families can work together to support the full participation of individuals with disabilities in the faith community of their choice. This book incorporates practical strategies, vignettes, case examples, resource lists, and photocopiable forms, checklists, and interview guides.

Provides a practical, highly readable guide to enhancing attention and impulse control, time management and organization skills for all students, with and without learning disabilities. Memorable metaphors, classroom examples, and crystal-clear explanations of brain functioning, will help teachers grasp what executive function is and how it affects their students' learning and behaviour.

This two-volume set provides a multidisciplinary approach to enhancing communication and socioemotional abilities of young children with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) and related disorders. The approach is a practical model that is systematic and semi-structured but is flexible to respond to the individual differences of children and families.

Helps administrators, supervisors, and program directors gather the crucial data schools need to strengthen classroom quality and build better literacy programs, both by improving teacher development and comparing their practices with others.

As the population of young dual language learners continues to rise, how can early childhood professionals choose culturally and linguistically appropriate assessments for Spanish-English bilingual pre-schoolers? They'll get expert guidance in this one-of-a-kind resource, a comprehensive roundup and analysis of 37 developmental assessments available in English and Spanish.

A comprehensive tool that assesses programme-wide PBIS in all types of early childhood settings, PreSET uncovers the full picture of PBIS through classroom observations and interviews. An ideal way to target quality improvement efforts and determine professional development needs.