A Practical Guide for Helping Young Children with Autism
In Right from the Start: A Practical Guide for Helping Young Children with Autism, Karin Donahue and Kate Crassons assert that autistic children can be successful when parents and teachers understand key principles of autism and have the tools to help these children expand their social and emotional skills. Emphasizing the importance of ......
Vacation Strategies for Parents of the Anxious, the Inflexible, and the
This book combines advice from certified autism travel professionals, parents, and advocates to restructure every aspect of vacations for those with autism/ASD or mood/distraction disorders, though the tips can be used to soothe any child's travel anxieties.
This book mobilizes the theoretical resources offered by theories of little publics and posthuman civics to consider what it means to be a child in the Anthropocene.
This book will help you design and create the best version of yourself. It will give you the chance to shape the kind of person you want to be, and to articulate the goals you want to achieve in your life, both professionally and personally.
This book provides direct solutions to the question, How do we save play in a standard-driven educational environment? This book provides theoretical/historical foundation of connection between play and literacy, applied research studies, and practical strategies to connect play and literacy in early childhood and in teacher education.
Critical Explorations of Time(s), Place(s), and Identities
This interdisciplinary collection of essays explores internal and external precarities in the lives of children. The goal of the book is to illuminate, promote, and help situate subjectivities that are often blotted out for both the child and society.
This book examines relevant social/political issues while analyzing how repetitive patterns of interactions with significant people and the wider world develop one's expanding personality and how some repetitive patterns create "problems in living." The authors argue that people evolve by comprehending and challenging those patterns.
Violence, Empowerment, and the Teenage Super/heroine
This book tracks the vigilante feminist teenage super/heroine in comics and YA literature, a character who acts as a vigilante on behalf of the protection of girls and women. It traces the trajectory of super/heroines who experience violent trauma and are subsequently empowered by use of violence to reclaim control over their lives and bodies.
Discussing the meaning of childhood, friendship, justice and fairness, happiness, and death, Jana Mohr Lone considers how listening to children's ideas can expand our thinking about societal issues and deepen our respect for children's perspectives.
The ASQ:SE-2 Quick Start Guide is a concise, ataglance guide that keeps ASQ:SE-2 scoring and administration basics right at the user's fingertips. Package of 5.
ASQ (R):SE-2 is a low-cost, reliable parent-completed tool for screening infants and young children for social-emotional issues in the crucial first 6 years of life.
Effective Interventions in the Preschool and Kindergarten Years
Presenting interventions that are practical, effective, and easy to implement in educational and clinical settings, this book addresses the most frequently encountered emotional and behavioral problems in 3- to 6-year-olds. Strategies for collaborating with parents are emphasized. Practitioners are taken step by step through assessing and treating ......
Examines the reintegration of former child soldiers in Sierra Leone. Based on 18 months of participant-observer ethnographic fieldwork and ten years of follow-up research, this book argues that there is a fundamental disconnect between the Western idea of the child soldier and the individual lived experiences of the child soldiers of Sierra Leone.
Based on a two-year study of boys aged four to six, this book offers a new way of thinking about boys' development. It provides insight into ways in which adults can foster boys' healthy resistance and help them to access a broader range of options for expressing themselves.
