Achieving Best Behavior for Children with Developmental Disabilities: a Step-by-Step Workbook for Parents and Carers. Pamela Lewis, $19.95

Achieving good behavior and social skills in a child with developmental disabilities can often be very difficult, and methods that improve behavior in other children are often unsuitable or ineffective. Achieving Best Behavior for Children with Developmental Disabilities is an accessible workbook designed specifically for parents of children with developmental disabilities. This book will also be of use to teachers, school psychologists, occupational therapists, speech/language therapists, social workers and anyone working with children with developmental disabilities.

Play is more than just fun; it's a powerful teaching tool that helps young children learn. With this practical, activity-filled guide, you'll have ready-to-use strategies for weaving individual learning goals into play throughout the school day. Created for use with children ages 2 to 5 who have special needs — but equally effective for typically developing children — Achieving Learning Goals through Play gives you:

• age-specific ideas for using classroom play centers and materials to create learning opportunities
• suggestions for supporting individual and group learning goals during familiar types of play (such as housekeeping, outdoor activities, and music and rhythm play)
• straightforward planning sheets that help you work play activities into your existing classroom schedule
• strategies that develop children's social skills during group activities and free play
• tips on adapting play for children with special needs

Throughout the book, there's information on how play activities can help children develop cognitive, communication, motor, social, and pre-literacy skills. Helpful appendixes offer guidelines for developmentally appropriate practice, resources for including children with disabilities, and photocopy-ready planning matrixes. Use this strategy-filled guidebook to help all your students reach their learning goals in fun, creative ways.

Addressing the Unproductive Classroom Behaviours of Students with Special Needs. Steve Chinn, $32.95

Certain classroom behaviours can signify an underlying learning disability. This book will help you recognize potential indicators of Asperger Syndrome, dyslexia, dyspraxia, AD/HD, physical disabilities and speech and language disorders. The book also explores the benefits of different interventions; and offers practical strategies for improving pupils' behaviours, social skills and self-esteem.

This practical, accessible book is an essential tool kit for special educational needs coordinators, learning support staff and teachers in both primary and secondary schools.

Autistic Disorder Intervention Manual. Amy Antes & Samm House, $46.00

The Autistic Disorder Intervention Manual is in the same format as the well known Pre-Referral Intervention Manual (PRIM) and is a compilation of goals, objectives and intervention strategies in response to behavior problems exhibited in educational settings.

Basic Skills Checklist: Teacher-Friendly Assessment for Students with Autism or Special Needs. Marlene Breitenbach, $22.50

An easy-to-use, informal assessment tool that brings method to the madness of classroom assessment. It focuses on pre-academic, readiness, and academic skills expected from learners in the early elementary years. Author and teacher Marlene Breitenbach developed these helpful checklists in special-needs and inclusive classrooms while serving children with autism and other developmental disabilities. Simple, customizable charts make it easy to record children’s progress in skill areas such as basic concepts, reading/language, math, fine motor, and independence.

Behavior Analysis for Effective Teaching. Julie Vargas, $87.95

Modern teachers increasingly encounter students who enter their classroom with low motivation, learning problems, or disruptive behavior. The mission of this book is to provide teachers and other human service professionals some specific tools they can use to teach more effectively without using the punitive methods that are too often part of educational practices. At the same time, the book explains the science on which behavioral practices are based.

This text is intended for undergraduate and graduate students in teacher education, special education, physical education, and educational psychology as well as for practicing teachers who would like to know what behavior analysis has to offer.

Brain-Friendly Strategies for the Inclusion Classroom. Judy Willis, $28.95

If you've ever felt unprepared to teach students with learning disabilities, here's a book that will extend your brain-friendly teaching practices to address students with learning disabilities and other special challenges. Neurologist and classroom teacher Judy Willis explains how the research on how people learn can help you to build safe and supportive classroom communities for students with learning disabilities and create a rich and inviting learning environment for all students in an inclusive classroom. To help you make the right accommodations and interventions, the book provides lots of sample lessons, teaching strategies, and tips.

These newly revised and updated editions of the Carolina Curriculum have an increased emphasis on the home environment, play and emergent literacy and reflect the changes in knowledge of child development. Reorganized and refined with a streamlined presentation, The Carolina Curriculum books provide effective tools for assessing and implementing goals for young children with disabilities.

Challenging Kids, Challenged Teachers: Teaching Students with Tourette’s, Bipolar Disorder, Executive Dysfunction, OCD, ADHD and More. Leslie Packer & Sheryl Pruitt, $37.50

Current estimates indicate that 20% of school-aged children, K-12, have one or more neurological conditions, and of these, most have multiple diagnoses.

Challenging Kids, Challenged Teachers is an educator's go-to source for creating a supportive environment to successfully teach children with multiple neurological disorders including Tourette's Syndrome, OCD, ADHD, LD, Nonverbal Learning Disability, Pervasive Developmental Disorders, Asperger's Syndrome, Anxiety Disorders, Depression, Executive Dysfunction, Sensory Processing Disorder, Pediatric Autoimmune Neuropsychiatric Disorder Associated with Strep (PANDAS), Bipolar Disorder, "Storms" or "Rages", Oppositional Defiant Disorder, and Sleep Problems. Parents, school psychologists, and social workers will also find this book essential reading.

The wealth of practical tools and strategies discussed in this book are founded on the authors' considerable experience treating children with neurological disorders in their private practices and conducting training workshops for teachers, as well as parenting their own children with multiple diagnoses. Full of charts, graphs, lists, quotes, and vignettes, this well-organized resource makes it easy for busy teachers to find the information they need, including:

• Understanding neurological disorders and why they may overlap, the behaviors they cause, and sanity-saving premises about understanding these students
• Each disorder's characteristics, impacts on academics, behavior & social relationships, teacher/student-friendly strategies, other conditions to be on the lookout for
• Conditions commonly observed in students with neurological disorders such as handwriting & visual-motor integration issues, language deficits, and difficulties with written expression, math calculation, reading, and more
• Assistive technology, testing accommodations, homework issues, interventions to address challenging behaviors, school-based related services, positive school-home collaboration, and helping children with peer relationships

Challenging Kids, Challenged Teachers also includes a glossary and resources, and its appendix of screening tools, forms, and checklists are on the accompanying CD-ROM for easy reproduction.

Children with Disabilities: Reading and Writing the Four-Blocks® Way. Karen Erickson & David Koppenhaver, $33.95

Children with disabilities require significant support and informed teachers to succeed. These ideas, strategies, and resources provide the means to truly meet the learning needs and preferences of the classroom. In addition, this book can help special education classrooms have success in reading and writing. This book includes variations for students with differing disabilities along with commonly asked questions that will help teachers be successful. Supports the Four-Blocks® Literacy Model.

Children's Comprehension Problems in Oral and Written Language: a Cognitive Perspective. Edited by Kate Cain and Jane Oakhill, $57.50

This book presents cutting-edge research on comprehension problems experienced by children without any formal diagnosis as well as those with specific language impairment, autism, ADHD, learning disabilities, hearing impairment, head injuries, and spina bifida. Providing in-depth information to guide research and practice, chapters describe innovative assessment strategies and identify important implications for intervention and classroom instruction. The book also sheds light on typical development and the key cognitive skills and processes that underlie successful comprehension.

Common Psychological Disorders in Young Children: a Handbook for Child Care Professionals. Jenna Bilmes & Tara Welker, $34.95

Common Psychological Disorders in Young Children is an easy-to-use guide that will help you recognize and deal with the symptoms and behaviors associated with ADHD, autism, anxiety, and other disorders you may face in your classroom. Learn to notice behaviors that may require referral for diagnostic screening and, for children already diagnosed, understand the reason a child might be exhibiting certain behaviors and how you can best help the child within your setting.

Common-Sense Classroom Management for Special Education Teachers Grades 6-12. Jill Lindberg, et al, $46.95

Ideal for teachers new to special education, teacher trainers and mentors, this resource provides a clear-sighted focus to help you shape the structure of each teaching day and ensure success for all your learners with special needs!

Conversation Skills On the Job and In the Community: a Curriculum for Adolescents and Adults with Developmental Disabilities. Marilyn Banks, $54.95

Conversation Skills II: Extending Conversations — a Curriculum for Adolescents and Adults with Developmental Disabilities. Marilyn Banks, $54.95

Workers with developmental disabilities often lose jobs and experience other social problems because of poor conversation skills and subsequent isolation. Conversation Skills and Conversations Skils II, by speech and language therapist Dr. Marilyn Banks, cover the basic and essential communication skills that will help young people enjoy successful job experiences and more fulfilling and independent social lives.

Each book has more than 50 self-paced, self-managed lessons, and take only 12 weeks of bi-weekly, 10 minute training sessions during which students acquire a ready social repertoire. All materials in the books are reproducible. The books include a Win/Mac CD with a printable PDF containing all the reproducibles in the book.

Derived Relational Responding Applications for Learners with Autism and Other Developmental Disabilities: a Progressive Guide to Change. Ruth Anne Rehfeldt & Yvonne Barnes-Holmes, $107.95

Derived Relational Responding offers a series of revolutionary intervention programs for applied work in human language and cognition targeted at students with autism and other developmental disabilities. It presents a program drawn from derived stimulus relations that you can use to help students of all ages acquire foundational and advanced verbal, social, and cognitive skills. The first part of this book provides step-by-step instructions for helping students learn relationally, acquire rudimentary verbal operants, and develop other basic language skills. In the second section of this book, you'll find ways to enhance students' receptive and expressive repertoires by developing their ability to read, spell, construct sentences, and use grammar. Finally, you'll find out how to teach students to apply the skills they've learned to higher order cognitive and social functions, including perspective-taking, empathy, mathematical reasoning, intelligence, and creativity. This applied behavior analytic training approach will help students make many substantial and lasting gains in language and cognition not possible with traditional interventions.

Differentiated Instruction for the Middle School Language Arts Teacher: Activities and Strategies for an Inclusive Classroom. Joan D’Amico & Kate Gallaway, $32.95

This valuable sourcebook offers teachers key strategies on how to design and deliver effective instruction, measure success, and get students to work together. Covering topics such as decoding, vocabulary, blocking, using graphic organizers, mnemonics, literary elements, writing as a process, and doing research, it features dozens of ready-to-use language arts activities that are tied to core curriculum standards, and each activity has adaptations for students with different learning needs.

The Down Syndrome Transition Handbook: Charting Your Child’s Course to Adulthood.  JoAnn Simons, $30.95

The Down Syndrome Transition Handbook helps parents with the enormous and often overwhelming task of preparing a child with Down syndrome or other intellectual disability for adulthood. It is full of practical tips and step-by-step instructions for envisioning their child’s future, developing a transition plan and seeing it through.

Drama Therapy and Storymaking in Special Education. Paula Crimmens, $29.95

Many aspects of drama therapy make it an ideal technique to use with students with special learning needs. This practical resource book for professionals covers the broad spectrum of students attending special needs schools, including those with attention deficit disorder, autism and Asperger syndrome, and students with multiple disabilities.

EDM: the Educator’s Diagnostic Manual of Disabilities and Disorders. Roger Pierangelo & George Giuliani, $54.99

The definitive resource for special educators, school psychologists, and child group study teams, this comprehensive guide provides all the information needed — including definitions, symptoms, characteristics, and types — for the most significant educational disabilities and disorders, presented in a user-friendly format … this book is ideal for coding and mapping to IEP. The very first manual created specifically for education professionals, this book addresses a range of disorders and relates their significance to classroom practice.

Educating Children with Fragile X Syndrome: a Multi-Professional View. Edited by Denise Dew-Hughes, $80.95

Fragile X is the most common inherited cause of learning difficulties, affecting a child's ability to tackle key areas such as literacy and numeracy, and causing behavior problems and social anxiety. This definitive text will provide essential support and information for teachers with the expertise of an international field of researchers, whose variety of perspectives contribute to a unique, multi-professional approach. Each chapter of the book suggests practical intervention strategies, based on sound educational principles expressed in clear non-specific terms. A range of important topics are considered, including:

• the effects of Fragile X on learning
• the physical and behavioral characteristics of Fragile X
• medication and therapy
• related conditions such as autism and attention deficit disorder

Executive Function in Education: from Theory to Practice. Lynn Meltzer, editor, $27.95

This uniquely integrative book brings together leading researchers and practitioners from education, neuroscience, and psychology. It presents a theoretical framework for understanding executive function difficulties together with a range of effective approaches to assessment and instruction … Scholarly and authoritative yet highly practical, the book provides guidelines for intervening at the level of the individual child, the classroom, and the entire school.

FISH: Functional Independence Skills Handbook. William Killion, $81.95 (Complete FISH Kit includes the Assessment and Curriculum Handbook and 10 Assessment Booklets)

The Functional Independence Skills Handbook, or FISH, is used for determining a person's ability to perform certain functional activities from daily life. It was developed for special education teachers, para-educators, and parents working with individuals with severe developmental disabilities. The objective of the program is a direct increase in personal independence in those with autism and other developmental disorders. This program would also be beneficial for children with cognitive deficits, school age through adult.

FISH is a criterion-referenced series of 421 tasks. The assessment instrument and lessons are organized according to seven domains: Adaptive Behavior Skills, Affective (or Emotional) Skills, Cognitive Skills, Sensori-motor Skills, Social Skills, Speech and Language Skills, and Vocational Skills.

Frequently Asked Questions about Response to Intervention: a Step-by-Step Guide for Educators. Roger Pierangelo & George Giuliani, $41.95

Increasingly, teachers are learning about the important role of Response to Intervention (RTI) in the success of every child. RTI is a multifaceted approach that provides immediate, relevant, and research-based services and interventions to students in general, compensatory, and special education. Written by two legal and special education experts, this concise, reader-friendly guide introduces educators to the purpose, core principles, legal basis, benefits, and application of this service delivery model.

Fun with Messy Play: Ideas and Activities for Children with Special Needs. Tracey Beckerleg, $19.95

Funny smells, sticky hands and squishy textures are all part of the way in which children develop sensory awareness. Fun with Messy Play is an exciting activity book that heightens the sensory perception of children with special needs through the imaginative use of everyday 'messy' materials like baked beans, condensed milk, jelly or glue. The activities in this book are fun for children and help to improve their co-ordination, communicative and cognitive abilities, as well as their self-esteem and social skills. This is an easy-to-use, practical resource for parents and professionals. It includes ideas and examples from practitioners along with helpful suggestions for different types of equipment that can be used.

Functional Assessment & Curriculum for Teaching Students with Disabilities — Volumes I-IV. Michael Bender, Peter Valletutti, Carol Ann Baglin & Audrey Smith Hoffnung, $56.95 each; Four Volume Set, $189.95

Now substantially revised and available in four volumes, these books are intended as a guide for educators, special education teachers, school administrators, counselors, and other professionals involved in rehabilitation services for individuals with disabilities.

Included are suggested activities that are divided into two major categories, Teacher Interventions and Family Interventions. These two categories are then divided into four subcategories of distinct age/grade levels – from infancy through secondary school/young adulthood.

All units within each volume comprise specific goals, related references, suggested readings, and selected materials/resources. 

Volume I:  Self-Care, Motor Skills, House Management and Living Skills, 4th Edition
Volume II: Nonverbal Communication, Oral Communications and Literacy Preparation, 4th Edition
Volume III: Functional Academics, 3rd Edition
Volume IV: Interpersonal, Competitive Job-Finding and Leisure-Time Skills, 2nd Edition

Getting the Most Out of IEPs: an Educator’s Guide to the Student-Directed Approach. Colleen Thoma & Paul Wehman, $34.50

Student-directed IEPs are quickly gaining momentum in schools — the proven benefits include higher academic achievement, enhanced student motivation, and increased communication and self-advocacy skills for students with disabilities. Now for the first time, there's a book that gives elementary and high school educators in-depth how-to guidance on making student-directed IEPs work for students with a range of special needs.

Packed with practical advice, helpful examples, and IEP resources for students themselves, this guidebook puts into print the best ideas for developing meaningful student-directed IEPs while adhering to legal requirements and evidence-based practices. Teachers will learn how to support students—regardless of their current skills and abilities—as they increase their own level of direction across every facet of the IEP process.

Growing Up with Autism: Working with School-Age Children and Adolescents. Edited by Robin Gabriels & Dina Hill, $35.50

Individuals with autism and their caregivers face unique challenges in later childhood and adolescence … This much-needed unique volume translates current research on the needs of this population into practical recommendations for clinicians and educators. Featuring vivid case examples and an in-depth, reproducible assessment form, the book comprehensively addresses the many contexts of children's lives.

Helping Children to Build Self-Esteem: a Photocopiable Activities Book. Deborah Plummer, $34.95

Helping Children to Build Self-Esteem offers over 100 simple, practical and fun activities specifically aimed at helping children to build and maintain self-esteem … These exercises are suitable for work with individuals and groups and with all children including those with special needs or with speech and language difficulties. This unique activities book will be an invaluable resource for anyone looking for creative, enjoyable ways of helping children to build their self-esteem.

Helping Children with Down Syndrome Communicate Better covers the scope of speech and language issues important for this age group, from understanding language pragmatics to building conversation skills and from using augmentative and alternative communication systems to improving speech intelligibility. Chapters include case studies, research, home and school activities for practice, and present:

• The distinctions between language and speech
• Factors that make speech and language difficult (articulation, grammar, fluency)
• The evaluation process (school or private evaluation)
• Assessment of language and speech skills
• Language treatment (grammar, vocabulary, reading)
• Speech treatment (articulation, fluency, apraxia)
• Communication skills at school
• Communication skills at home & in the community
• Conversational skills (how to start & end conversations, take turns, stay on topic)
• Assistive technology for communication (assessing need, types of augmentative or alternative communication, the right match for your child)

A suggested reading list, resource guide, and appendices (sample evaluations and blank forms) complement the wealth of practical suggestions and strategies. Parents, therapists, and teachers will want to refer to it often to help children make communication progress and participate fully in their lives.

How Come You Walk Funny? Tina Hahn, James Weyman, et al. DVD format, 79 minutes. $49.99

Finding a good school is tough, but finding a school that works for the Bowen twins is an even bigger challenge: Douglas is an able-bodied, bouncy 4-year old while brother Mark has cerebral palsy from oxygen deprivation when he was born. Their mother has worked hard to include Mark in all aspects of family life, but what happens when it's time for the boys to go to school and meet the real world?

The answer lies tucked away behind a quiet, well-kept neighborhood in North Toronto at the Bloorview MacMillan Centre School. Hailed by some parents as the utopia of kindergartens, the school's Integrated Kindergarten Program (IKP) is perhaps the only place in the world where committed parents and dedicated teachers deliver a bold childhood education program that marries academic exploration and self-discovery in a "reverse integration" setting that asks able-bodied kids to meet kids with physical challenges on their turf.

Enter a world where walkers and mobility equipment compete for space with scooters and trikes in the halls, where computer voices from communication devices mix with excited children's chatter. This is a place of laughter where achievement triumphs over differences — a world where anything is possible.

Watch a rambunctious class of 4 to 6 year-olds discover the common ground that unites them as they learn to milk a cow, parade in a dragon dance, find their perfect Valentine's match and dig for dinosaur bones in the Alberta Badlands. And witness the challenges and inspiration their parents discover as they try to extend inclusion beyond the classroom.

How the Special Needs Brain Learns, Second Edition. David Sousa, $42.95

Offering practical strategies for progressive classroom work, How the Special Needs Brain Learns is an indispensable tool for teachers, school administrators and support staff who want to better understand the way children with learning challenges process and retain information.

Identifying Children with Special Needs: Checklists and Action Plans for Teachers. Glynis Hannell, $47.95

If you’re a general education teacher with little or no experience in special education, identifying children and adolescents with potential disabilities may seem an impossible task. Glynis Hannell offers guidelines to help educators quickly recognize and categorize the specific characteristics of autism spectrum disorders, emotional-behavioral disorders, cognitive disabilities, speech or language impairment, health-related disabilities, and more. By identifying and understanding specific disabilities, teachers can then use specific tools to ensure that all students receive the services they need to succeed.

Inclusion Voices: Canadian Child Care Directors Talk about Including Children with Special Needs. Sharon Hope Irwin, $16.95

This unique book listens to the voices of child care directors across Canada as they speak about the inclusion of children with special needs, the challenges and the some of the strategies and techniques each has used to survive. Evidence-based and accessible, Sharon Hope Irwin's latest book offers valuable insight for practitioners, parents, directors, government officials and anyone concerned with the current state of early childhood care for exceptional children.

Inclusive Assessment and Accountability: a Guide to Accommodations for Students with Diverse Needs. Sara Bolt & Andrew Roach, $34.50

Inclusive Assessment and Accountability provides step-by-step guidelines for choosing appropriate accommodations and alternative testing practices for all K-12 students with mild to severe disabilities as well as English language learners. The authors also outline strategies, including universal design principles for instruction and assessment, to ensure that students with diverse needs are given access to the general education curriculum.

Inclusive Lesson Plans Throughout the Year: Early Childhood. Laverne Warner, Sharon Lynch, Cynthia Simpson & Diana Nabors , $37.50

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 veteran teachers, Inclusive Lesson Plans Throughout the Year helps new teachers develop plans for each day and provides veteran teachers with new ideas and approaches to add spark to their classroom teaching.

Instructional Practices for Students with Behavioral Disorders: Strategies for Reading, Writing, and Math. J. Ron Nelson, Gregory Benner & Paul Mooney, $26.50

Presenting a broad range of instructional programs and practices that are proven effective for students with behavioral disorders for K-3 teachers and special educators. Described are clear-cut strategies for promoting mastery and fluency in early reading, writing, and math, while tailoring instruction to each student's needs. A special chapter outlines instructional management procedures for enhancing student engagement and promoting positive behavior.

Just Give Him the Whale! 20 Ways to Use Fascinations, Areas of Expertise, and Strengths to Support Students with Autism. Paula Kluth & Patrick Schwarz, $21.95

When learners with autism have deep, consuming fascinations—trains, triangles, basketballs, whales—teachers often wonder what to do. This concise, highly practical guidebook gives educators across grade levels a powerful new way to think about students' obsessions: as positive teaching tools that calm, motivate, and improve learning.

This guide is brimming with easy tips and strategies for folding students' special interests, strengths, and areas of expertise into classroom lessons and routines. An enjoyable read with an eye-opening message, this short book will have a long-lasting impact on teachers' understanding of autism—and on their students' social and academic success.

Learning in Motion: 101+ Sensory Activities for the Classroom. Patricia Angermeier, Joan Krzyzanowski & Kristina Keller Moir, $43.50

Ideal for preschool, kindergarten and primary classes, each of the 101+ activities in Learning in Motion has been developed to attract and keep children’s interest by using a multi-sensory approach in order to improve each child’s learning and behavior. Activities are organized by month so educators can quickly choose activities that correspond with seasons, holidays and educational goals throughout the year.

Literacy Enhancement Strategies. Thomas Daly, $29.50

Literacy Enhancement Strategies was created to enrich the oral and written communication of upper elementary, middle, and high school students who are functioning near grade level but can benefit from additional practice, consistent routines, and step-by-step progression of skill development. Easy-to-follow sample lessons cover content areas, such as talking and listening, reading and comprehending, predicting and anticipating, self-monitoring and advocating for learning style, actively engaging, and organizing written language. The enhancement strategies are closely aligned to the existing general education curriculum and are linked to students’ individual educational goals and objectives. It is the perfect book for home education settings, general education classrooms, resource rooms, autism support teacher pullout sessions, and inclusive settings. Includes a CD with printable handouts.

Literacy Skill Development for Students With Special Learning Needs: a Strengths-Based Approach. Leslie Broun & Patricia Oelwein, $34.95

Literacy Skill Development for Students With Special Learning Needs is a practical approach based with strength-based strategies and reinforcement activities designed for the acquisition and development of literacy skills. Authors Oelwein and Broun demonstrate how the initial use of personal, meaningful vocabulary and making the reading process relevant to the students’ experience creates a positive climate for the acquisition of literacy skills. As their skills develop their access to and participation in the school curriculum is facilitated. This valuable resource can be used by both teachers and parents.

The Neuropsychology of Mathematics: Diagnosis and Intervention. Steven Feifer & Philip De Fina, $59.95

The Neuropsychology of Mathematics explores how young children learn and acquire basic mathematical skills from a brain-based educational perspective. There are discussions on three primary ways in which numbers are formatted in the brain, as well as the relationship between anxiety and mathematical performance during classroom learning situations.

The Neuropsychology of Reading Disorders: Diagnosis and Intervention. Steven Feifer & Philip De Fina, $42.95

The Neuropsychology of Reading Disorders discusses the various subtypes of dyslexia from a brain-behavioral perspective as opposed to the traditional discrepancy model. It includes in-depth material on:

• Neural Circuitry of Reading
• Subtypes of Dyslexia
• The 90 Minute Dyslexia Evaluation
• Remediation Techniques
• Case Studies, Teacher Checklists, Sample Tests

The Neuropsychology of Written Language Disorders: Diagnosis and Intervention. Steven Feifer & Philip De Fina, $47.95

The Neuropsychology of Written Language Disorders discusses both language based and non-language based written language disorders from a brain-based education model of learning. It is intended for school psychologists, occupational therapists, speech pathologists, special educators and school administrators.

Also available as a set — all three titles by Steven Feifer & Philip De Fina, $122.95

The Neuropsychology of Mathematics: Diagnosis and Intervention / The Neuropsychology of Reading Disorders: Diagnosis and Intervention / The Neuropsychology of Written Language Disorders: Diagnosis and Intervention

Play for Children with Special Needs: Supporting Children with Learning Differences, 3-9, Second Edition. Christine Macintyre, $40.50

Play for Children with Special Needs enables practitioners to appreciate the contribution that play makes to the education of all children. Christine Macintyre emphasis the importance of creating an environment where children become confident, independent learners, increasingly able to use their imaginations, care for others and to take safe risks.

Practical Behaviour Management Solutions for Children and Teens with Autism: The 5P Approach. Linda Miller, $44.95

Children and young people with autistic spectrum disorders present many challenges to the people who care for them. 'Difficult' or challenging behaviour is often encountered on a daily basis, and it is easy for both parents and professionals to feel completely overwhelmed by its sheer range and complexity.

Practical Behaviour Management Solutions for Children and Teens with Autism provides realistic solutions that really work. It offers a complete framework for behaviour intervention which has its roots in prevention and good practice, with an emphasis on promoting and encouraging the development of skills and independence. From identifying behaviour and understanding the root causes, through to planning and implementing a comprehensive intervention programme, this book is packed with practical strategies and expert guidance.

Designed specifically for parents and teachers, this book will provide structured yet flexible guidance for all parents and professionals supporting a child or young person on the autism spectrum.

RTI in the Classroom: Guidelines and Recipes for Success, K-5. Rachel Brown-Chidsey, Louise Bronaugh & Kelly McGraw, $40.95

Written expressly for teachers, this book is jam-packed with tools and strategies for integrating response to intervention (RTI) into everyday instruction in grades K-5. Numerous real-world examples connect RTI concepts to what teachers already know to help them provide effective instruction for all students, including struggling learners. Drawing on extensive classroom experience, the authors:

• Explain the core features of RTI and what they look like in action
• Describe evidence-based instructional methods for reading, writing, math, and behavior
• Show how to fit assessment and progress monitoring into the busy school day
• Present color-coded intervention recipes for all three tiers of RTI implementation
• Provide hands-on tools and 50 reproducibles, with a large format and sturdy wire binding for ease of use

RTI in Practice: a Practical Guide to Implementing Effective Evidence-Based Interventions in Your School. James McDougal, Suzanne Graney, James Wright & Scott Ardoin, $60.00

This comprehensive resource offers school-based professionals a timely "how-to" guide to implementing a quality, three-tiered response-to-intervention (RTI) model in public school settings. It offers concrete, balanced perspectives and directions for implementing an evidence-based and effective RTI model in public schools. In addition, an accompanying CD-ROM includes reproducible forms, surveys, and screening tools. School psychologists and special education professionals and teachers will benefit from this volume.

RTI Success: Proven Tools and Strategies for Schools and Classrooms. Elizabeth Whitten, Kelli Esteves & Alice Woodrow, $52.99 (includes CD-ROM)

RTI Success, (Response to Intervention) is an all-in-one resource that provides information on this innovative model as well as step-by-step administrator guidelines and practical teacher tools for implementation. Special educators and classroom aides can utilize the book in support of screening, progress monitoring, and early intervention methods.

Response to Intervention clearly has the potential to transform how schools work. What has been less obvious to many is how to implement the framework and effectively utilize intervention strategies in the classroom. RTI Success, written by three experienced practitioners in the field, provides this how-to information that educators have been asking for.

Solution-Focused RTI: a Positive and Personalized Approach to Response to Intervention, Grades K-8.  Linda Metcalf, $39.95

Linda Metcalf provides an effective approach to Response-to-Intervention using a "solution-focused" method, which emphasizes a student's strengths rather than his or her weaknesses. This important book guides educators to identify exceptions to students' learning problems and design personalized interventions that can help those students succeed. This book provides teachers with the basic building blocks of the solution-focused approach and offers step-by-step guidelines for identifying exceptions, designing interventions, and implementing a three-tiered Response-to-Intervention process.

Encourage understanding and appreciation for differences with this revised and updated set. Colorful photos show children with disabilities interacting with others in positive ways. Up-to-date, sensitive presentations give solid basic overviews of children with disabilities.

Some Kids Are Blind. Lola Schaefer, $6.95 (Preschool to Grade 2)
Some Kids Are Deaf. Lola Schaefer, $6.95 (Preschool to Grade 2)
Some Kids Have Autism. Lola Schaefer, $6.95 (Preschool to Grade 2)
Some Kids Use Wheelchairs. Lola Schaefer, $6.95 (Preschool to Grade 2)
Some Kids Wear Leg Braces. Lola Schaefer, $6.95 (Preschool to Grade 2)

The Special Education Almanac. Elaine Fletcher-Janzen & Cecil Reynolds, $77.99

A terrific resource for anyone working in special education, this is a practical and comprehensive reference that supports the everyday needs of professionals. Includes highly accessible summaries, tips, examples, best practices and references to the latest research on everything from IEP's to special education law, medications, measurements and testing, behavioral support and much, much more.

The Special Educator's Comprehensive Guide to 301 Diagnostic Tests, Revised and Expanded Edition. Roger Pierangelo & George Giuliani, $35.99

This important resource is an update of the best-selling book The Special Educator's Resource Guide to 109 Diagnostic Tests. This greatly expanded edition contains 301 new and enhanced tests, vital to understanding assessment in special education. Designed as an easy-to-use, hands-on resource, the book is filled with practical tools, information, and suggestions. Step-by-step, this practical guide explores the various stages of evaluation, interpretation, diagnosis, prescription, and remediation.

Special Stories for Disability Awareness: Stories and Activities for Teachers, Parents and Professionals. Mal Leicester, illustrated by Taryn Shrigley-Wightman, $34.95

Special Stories on Disability Awareness provides stories that fire the imagination and promote disability awareness and discussion among children aged 4–11 about universal issues such as fear, loss, feeling 'different', bullying, exclusion, joy, success, friendship and emotional growth. The stories provide a safe environment for young children to discuss painful emotions as well as a tool for teachers, parents and professionals to understand the experiences of disabled children. Each chapter features an engaging story, linked discussion and learning materials as well as suggestions for activities and photocopy-ready handouts. All those who work in early education or support young children will find this an invaluable resource.

Steps to Independence: Teaching Everyday Skills to Children with Special Needs. 4th Edition. Bruce Baker & Alan Brightman, $36.50

A hands-on resource that's already helped thousands of other parents, this book gives you proven strategies for teaching the life skills children from age three through young adulthood need to live as independently as possible. Updates in this edition help you manage behaviour challenges, strengthen partnerships with other teachers in the child's life and use technology as a source of information and support.

Successful Inclusion for Students with Autism: Creating a Complete, Effective ASD Inclusion Program. Sonja de Boer, $39.95

Successful Inclusion for Students with Autism gives teachers in both special and general education as well as administrators the information they need to start and maintain an effective inclusion program for children with autism spectrum disorders. The book also offers a wealth of helpful forms, checklists, and handouts that will assist with implementing the inclusion program and ensure that all involved—educators, administrators, parents, and students—have the information necessary to make the program successful.

Swivel to Success: Bipolar Disorder in the Classroom. Tracy Anglada, $18.95

A teacher’s guide to understanding and helping students with bipolar disorder succeed at school.

Teaching by Design: Using Your Computer to Create Materials for Students with Learning Differences. Kimberly Voss, $43.95

Teaching by Design shows readers how to use the computer to design meaningful educational materials for children and adults with special needs. A synthesis of computer graphics, education, and crafting, this book represents the author’s considerable expertise in customizing educational materials for her daughter with multiple disabilities as well as teaching other parents and teachers to create them too. Full of instructions for designing and adapting materials and strategies for using them, including a time-saving CD-ROM of templates, Teaching by Design is useful to parents and teachers of students of all ages with a wide range of disabilities. Design and customize lotto boards, interactive spelling cards, game pieces, playing cards, matching games, menus, fill-in-the-blank decals, handwriting transparencies, and more, to teach visual perception, math, language, communication, reading, handwriting, and self-help skills.

Teaching Children with Autism in the General Classroom. Vicki Spencer & Cynthia Simpson, $48.95

Strategies for effective inclusion and instruction in the general education classroom.

Teaching Exceptional Children and Adolescents: a Canadian Casebook. Nancy Hutchinson, $53.90

Teaching Exceptional Children and Adolescents presents 22 dilemma cases that are challenging, realistic and without any obvious or clear "right" answers. These case presentations will help teacher candidates and experienced educators alike in preparing to meet the challenges of a diverse classroom. Topics such as issues of equity, cultural diversity, child abuse, Asperger syndrome and more are discussed.

Teaching Infants, Toddlers and Twos with Special Needs. Clarissa Willis, $27.95

Teaching Infants, Toddlers, and Twos with Special Needs is written for all teachers and directors who work with infants, toddlers, and twos, including special educators and educators working with typically developing children. This book specifically addresses the needs of children with developmental delays, as well as children at risk for developing special needs.

Each chapter includes strategies and adaptations that are easy to use and apply to all children. Examples are presented for managing the physical environment and for teaching skills that will enhance the overall development of infants, toddlers, and twos with special needs.

• Anxiety Disorders including Generalized Anxiety Disorder (GAD); Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD); Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) and School Refusal
• Depression and Bipolar Disorder
• Communication Disorders including difficulties with articulation; Receptive and Expressive Language Disorder; stuttering and social communication problems (also known as Pragmatic Language Disorder)
• Learning Disabilities including reading, math and writing
• ADHD
• Disruptive Behavior Disorders
• Asperger’s Syndrome
• Tourette Syndrome
• Eating Disorders
• Self-Injury

Teaching Kids with Mental Health & Learning Disorders in the Regular Classroom is an essential tool for teachers, special education professionals, school counselors and psychologists, administrators, and teacher aides.

Teaching the Moving Child: OT Insights that Will Transform Your K-3 Classroom. Sybil Berkey, $34.50

Because sensorimotor and environmental factors have a profound effect on children's learning, every teacher should know how to weave strategies from occupational therapy into their everyday instruction so all students can achieve their full potential.

A clear and reader-friendly guide from an OT with nearly 35 years of classroom experience, Teaching the Moving Child gives elementary educators the solid foundation of knowledge they need to:

• maximize the link between movement and learning
• meet the needs of students with sensory processing issues by modifying the classroom environment and task demands
• improve students' writing skills (includes an easy-to-use, five-step process for handwriting instruction)
• facilitate children's fine motor ability, including using pencils and scissors and drawing lines and shapes
• optimize learning through strategic use of classroom seating, space, lighting, and visual and auditory stimuli
• promote imaginative play as essential to every part of the learning process
• recognize and minimize students' stress, especially during transitions and waiting times
• decrease restlessness and increase attention through environmental planning strategies
• collaborate skillfully with OTs to address sensorimotor issues before they become a barrier to learning

Teaching NLP in the Classroom. Kate Spohrer, $24.95

NLP (Neuro Linguistic Programming) is a very effective tool in helping students overcome fears, anxieties and limitations — which in turn can help them to achieve more in school and become more fulfilled as individuals. NLP techniques are a useful addition to every classroom, but are especially useful when working with children with special needs or behavioral difficulties.

Understanding, Developing, and Writing Effective IEPs: a Step-by-Step Guide for Educators. Roger Pierangelo & George Giuliani, $34.95

Clear, helpful answers for educators involved in developing Individualized Education Programs. Ideal for teachers and administrators, this jargon-free text provides techniques, suggestions, and information for all aspects of the IEP process.

You're Going to Love this Kid! Teaching Students with Autism in the Inclusive Classroom, Second Edition. Paula Kluth, $37.95

Thousands of educators have turned to You're Going to Love This Kid! for fresh ways to welcome and teach students with autism — and now the book teachers trust is fully revised and more practical than ever! Gathering feedback from teachers across the country during her popular workshops, autism expert Paula Kluth targeted this second edition to the specific needs of today's primary and secondary school educators.

Readers will also get updates on all of the other topics covered in the first edition, including fostering friendships, building communication skills, planning challenging and multidimensional lessons, and adapting the curriculum and the physical environment. And with the new first-person stories from people with autism and their teachers and parents, readers will have a better understanding of students on the spectrum and how to include them successfully.

A book that teachers will keep forever, this is the ultimate practical guide to including students with autism, teaching them effectively and sensitively, and appreciating the gifts they bring to the classroom.