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Aims to systematize the job development process by sharing replicable processes for transition-aged youth and adults with significant support needs and illustrating several urban and rural approaches to creative employment that blend funding streams, utilize SSA Work Incentives, and capitalize on the hidden jobs in small neighborhood companies.
Strategies for Individuals Who Are Champions for Children, Youth and Fam
By combining theory and research with practical applications, this brings together existing literature, examples from real-world situations, and personal tools readers can use to better understand and realize their role as menthal health leaders.
Offers step-by-step guidance for facilitating positive social relationships between children with and without disabilities through three components: large group story reading and discussion; small group interactions called cooperative learning groups; and an optional home literacy component.
To help students with disabilities make a smooth transition from high school to adulthood, you need proven and practical strategies that prepare them for success in an increasingly complex world. You'll find more than 500 research-based, teacher-tested support strategies in The New Transition Handbook-the modern transition guide for today's ......
Helps paraprofessionals and educators work together in understanding their respective roles and responsibilities to create effective inclusive classroom environments. This book includes forms, personal stories, activities, and planning guides. It provides emphasis on middle and secondary school examples and material on paraprofessional advocacy.
What does a great paraprofessional need to know and do? You'll find real-world answers from two experts in the second edition of this bestselling guidebook. Passionate inclusion advocates Julie Causton and Kate MacLeod bring you a supremely practical guide to surviving and thriving as an integral part of your school's inclusive team. You'll get ......
Total Quality Assurance System for Human Services and Education
This practical book presents the research-validated Periodic Service Review (PSR) to improve staff training and supervision and to translate principles of effective management into concrete practices and procedures.
Essential for programmes using the PICCOLO (TM), this training DVD includes a 64-minute narrated presentation and 14 invaluable DVD clips of parent-child interactions to help users practice observing and scoring. This DVD is part of the PICCOLO, a quick and reliable observation tool for measuring parent-child interactions.
