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Classroom Success for the Learning Disabled
By Suzanne H. Stevens. 1984
From The Book Jacket "Stevens has done it again! Her newest book on learning disabilities is lucid, accurate, insightful, practical,…
and it makes superb reading.... Her book provides the most helpful information I have seen for regular classroom teachers who are concerned with the realities and the nitty-gritties of helping LD children. My only regret is that the book has not been available for the last 20 years." DR. BARBARA BATEMAN University of Oregon "Stevens' book should be on the desk of every elementary and middle school teacher in every English-speaking country of the world. Stevens must have been an excellent classroom teacher, for she obviously understands both good elementary education and the learning-disabled child. Her book will go far to assist learning-disabled children toward a greater realization of their potentials." WILLIAM M. CRUICKSHANK, Ph.D. University of Michigan Between ten and twelve percent of the children in the U.S. are learning disabled. With such a large proportion of the population affected, the problem is not simply the concern of parents, LD individuals, and their teachers. It is the concern of society as a whole. In Classroom Success for the Learning Disabled, Suzanne Stevens discusses ways that we can help these children succeed in school and grow into productive adults. She offers practical suggestions on: Recognizing the LD child Adjusting teaching techniques Adapting texts and other materials Using LD specialists and psychologists effectively Adjusting classroom management procedures Testing and grading fairly Mainstreaming the LD child Stevens, a learning disabilities expert and a former classroom teacher, is the author of The Learning-Disabled Child: Ways That Parents Can Help. JOHN F. BLAIR, Publisher 1406 Plaza Drive Winston Salem, NC 27103 ISBN 0-89587-035-5 $8.95La civilisation inconsciente (CBC Massey lectures)
By John Ralston Saul. 1997
L'auteur poursuit dans cet ouvrage la réflexion amorcée dans ses deux essais précédents: "Les bâtards de Voltaire" et "Le compagnon…
du doute", dans lesquels il critiquait le pouvoir de la raison et l'esprit technocratique dans les sociétés occidentales. Dans ce troisième livre, qui a reçu le Prix du Gouverneur général 1996, il traite du pouvoir du langage dans les sociétés en crise, il clarifie les notions d'individualisme et de démocratie et dénonce le retour des corporatismes. 1997. Titre uniforme: The unconscious civilization.Somebody Else's Kids: They Were Problems No One Wanted ... Until One Teacher Took Them to Her Heart
By Torey L. Hayden. 1981
They were all "just somebody else's kids"-four problem children placed in Torey Hayden's class because nobody knew what else to…
do with them. They were a motley group of children in great pain: a small boy who echoed other people's words and repeated weather forecasts; a beautiful seven year old girl brain damaged by savage parental beatings; an angry and violent ten year old who had watched his stepmother murder his father; a shy twelve year old who had been cast out of Catholic school when she became pregnant. But they shared one thing in common: a remarkable teacher who would never stop caring-and who would share with them the love and understanding they had never known to help them become a family.Rogue primate : an exploration of human domestication
By John A Livingston. 1994
In the 1970s, environmentalist John Livingston began to find serious flaws in the conventional conservation argument. He began to challenge…
the belief that the survival of undomesticated plants and animals in a world dominated by humans could be enabled through "resource conservation" managed by humans. He argues that our dependence on ideas -- in effect, our own domestication -- has cut us off from the natural world, and led us to believe that our domination over nature is itself "natural." Winner of the 1994 Governor General's Award for Non-fiction.The boat who wouldn't float
By Farley Mowat. 1969
The first major effort to portray the intellectual forces which have moulded the thinking and writing of those English-speaking historians…
who sought to explain our past during the period 1900-1970. Winner of the Governor General's Award. 1976.Listen for the Bus: David's Story
By Patricia Mcmahon. 1995
A history of an Ontario grassroots disability rights movement, and their unfinished campaign to achieve a barrier-free province for persons…
with physical, mental and/or sensory disabilities, through the enactment of strong new legislation -- the Ontarians with Disabilities Act (ODA). Also provides a thorough description of the legislation which this movement secured in 2001, why it ended up being so disappointing, and the ODA movement's strategies to get the legislation implemented from late 2001 to 2003. It concludes with a look to the future when the ODA movement will seek to get Ontario's new government, elected in October 2003, to substantially strengthen this legislation. 2003.Reflections From a Different Journey: What Adults with Disabilities Wish All Parents Knew
By Stanley Klein, John D. Kemp. 2004
From the book: In this book, people with all kinds of disabilities make clear that they can be capable role…
models for children; advisors to their parents and family members; and teachers to educators, health care professionals, and the many other adults who provide services for children with disabilities and their families. In fact, the essays have important messages for all of us as we strive to make our world a more caring, loving, and peaceful place for all children and families. This book is a wonderful celebration of diversity. The essay writers have grown up with many different kinds of disabilities in many different places, including some countries outside the United States. They are not people who have "overcome" their disabilities. Rather, they have overcome the prejudices of society that all too often stereotype people with disabilities in destructive ways.Career Perspectives: Interviews with Blind and Visually Impaired Professionals
By Marie Attmore. 1990
Amos Fortune: free man
By Elizabeth Yates. 1950
Amos Fortune was a prince in the At-mun-shi tribe in Africa. He was captured by slave traders, brought to Massachusetts…
and sold at auction when he was fifteen years old. He never lost his dignity and courage but dreamed of being free and buying the freedom of his closest friends. His dreams finally came true when he was sixty years old. A Newbery Award book. Grades 3-6. 1950.Sailors, slackers, and blind pigs: Halifax at war
By Stephen Kimber. 2002
In May 1945, the city of Halifax erupted in a riot - a two-day orgy or boozing, looting, window-smashing, dancing…
in the streets, public fornication, and mindless mayhem to 'celebrate' the end of the war. The paternalism, privations, overcrowding, and tensions of a city at war created a situation waiting to explode, and an admiral's pride provided the match that set it off. Includes interviews with the people who lived through it - sailors, slackers (civilians), street urchins, prohibitionists, spies, profiteers, reporters, and just plain local folks. Some strong language. Winner of the 2004 CNIB Talking Book of the Year Award. 2002.Independence without Sight or Sound: Suggestions for Practitioners Working with Deaf-Blind Adults
By Dona Sauerburger. 1993
Special Parents, Special Children
By Joanne E. Bernstein, Bryna J. Fireside. 1991
Written for children in the middle grades, this book explores what it is like to grow up with parents who…
have disabilities. Four families in which one or more parent has a disability are profiled. In one, both parents are deaf, and in another, both have achondroplastic dwarfism. In one family the father uses a wheelchair, and in another the father is blind. Overall, the book is upbeat and informative.The Nor'westers: the fight for the fur trade (Great stories of Canada ; #4)
By Marjorie Wilkins Campbell. 1974
A courageous and enterprising band of men who worked for the Northwest Company not only captured the fur trade, but…
opened up the northwestern part of the American continent. Grades 3-6. First published 1954. Winner of the 1954 Governor General's Award for Children's Literature. c1974. (Great stories of Canada ; 4)Cet ouvrage explique les moeurs guerrières de Iroquoiens qui menaient des guerres de capture, la cruauté dont ils faisaient usage…
à l'égard de leurs prisonniers, le cannibalisme auquel ils se livraient. 1997.I Have A Sister -- My Sister Is Deaf
By Jeanne Whitehouse Peterson. 1977
Riding the Bus with My Sister: A True Life Journey
By Rachel Simon. 2002
This is an unusual memoir, framed by the year the author spent riding the buses of a Pennsylvania city with…
her sister Beth. Beth, who has mild mental retardation and lives in her own apartment, spends six days a week riding the buses from route to route. At times the author and the rest of the family are distressed by Beth's lack of purpose and ambition, and press her to get a job. When she agrees to accompany Beth on her rides, the author comes to understand how Beth has built a sense of community through her unconventional lifestyle. The various bus drivers, each portrayed as a unique individual, form a richly varied extended family for this otherwise isolated woman. In spending time with Beth riding the buses, the author opens her life to others and embarks upon her own inner journey.Right-Brained Child in a Left-Brained World: Unlocking the Potential of Your ADD Child
By Jeffrey Freed, Laurie Parsons. 1997
Jeffrey Freed draws upon years of tutoring children diagnosed with attention-deficit disorder (ADD) and concludes that most of these children…
are "right-brain dominant." These right-brained children are visual learners who perceive in mental pictures, and have great difficulty with the "linear thinking" widespread in today's schools. After examining the controversies surrounding the ADD diagnosis, the authors outline a program that can help the ADD child realize his full potential. They contend that our quick-fix, high-tech society actually encourages children to become visual learners, though the schools have not changed their teaching techniques to adapt today's students.Taking Hold: My Journey into Blindness
By Sally Hobart Alexander. 1994