Alternative Approaches to Assessing Young Children, 2nd Edition. Angela Losardo & Angela Notari-Syverson, $55.95

In today's climate of increased accountability and diversity, alternative assessments for young children are more important than ever. That's why the timely new edition of this bestselling textbook is a must for all educators as they prepare to work with children who are culturally, linguistically, or developmentally diverse. This introductory text has been carefully updated to reflect 10 years of evolution in demographics, research, technology, and legislation. Pre- and in-service educators of children birth–8 years will:

• learn about six popular alternative assessment methods: naturalistic, focused, performance, portfolio, dynamic, and curriculum-based language
• explore the advantages and limitations of each approach
• effectively link assessment with intervention
• get clear and specific guidelines for before, during, and after assessment
• discover successful strategies for teaching in inclusive environments
• implement a transdisciplinary framework to ensure comprehensive, multidimensional assessment approaches

The included CD-ROM makes this book an invaluable resource, with more than 2 dozen printable forms for data collection, observation, progress monitoring, IEP/IFSP development, and more.

Grounded in the most current research and best practices, this essential new edition will help pre- and in-service educators capture the full picture of all young children's strengths and needs and provide them with appropriate, individualized instruction.

ASQ-3 User’s Guide. Jane Squires, Elizabeth Twombly, Diane Bricker & LaWanda Potter, $56.50

The complete guide to implementing the ASQ-3, this user-friendly manual gives early childhood professionals clear instructions on every step of the screening process.

Assessing Children's Well-Being: a Handbook of Measures. Sylvie Naar-King, Deborah Ellis & Maureen Frey, $68.95

Behavioral medicine has now matured as a field to the point where all recognize that different populations are presented with different issues. This practical and comprehensive reference guide is the first to sort, present, and review all the measures that can be used to evaluate the behavioral, cognitive, and emotional aspects of children's health. It organizes the measures under eight general headings, such as quality of life, adherence, pain management, and patient satisfaction. Each chapter begins with a leading authority's overview of the underlying theoretical construct and any concerns about how to measure it. Descriptions and reviews of relevant instruments follow; these include information on administration, scoring, psychometric properties, and ordering, as well as comments by the instruments' developers.

Assessing Children's Well-Being: a Handbook of Measures will be welcomed by all those professionals and scientists who seek to assess and effectively address the complex interactions between physical health and mental health in children.

Assessment of Young Children with Special Needs: a Context-Based Approach, 2nd Edition. Susan Benner & Joan Grim, $83.50

ASSESSMENT OF YOUNG CHILDREN WITH SPECIAL NEEDS helps prepare teachers for the task of evaluating the skills of infants, toddlers, and preschool children with developmental delays and those considered at risk to experience developmental delays or difficulties.

A child’s environment is a critical consideration when focusing on assessment, and authors Susan Benner and Joan Grim explore the important issues of family resources, health, multidimensional environmental influences, economic deprivation, and domestic violence on infant and child development. This textbook conveys a sense of respect for parents, the powerful influence assessment results can and do have in the lives of young children with special needs, and an understanding of the complexity of child development, progression, and measurement.

This fully revised edition includes updated versions of assessment, and the newest assessment tools that teachers will come across. ASSESSMENT OF YOUNG CHILDREN WITH SPECIAL NEEDS, 2ND EDITION now includes expanded discussion on progress monitoring and response to intervention, functional behavioral analysis, pros and cons of norm-referenced testing, web-based gathering tools, ELL students, and screening for autism.

Meeting a crucial need, this book provides clear recommendations for authentic developmental assessment of children from infancy to age 6, including those with developmental delays and disabilities. It describes principles and strategies for collecting information about children's everyday activities in the home, preschool, and community, which provides a valid basis for intervention planning and progress monitoring. Throughout, the book emphasizes the importance of enlisting parents as partners with practitioners and teachers in observation and team-based decision making.

The Carolina Curriculum for Infants & Toddlers with Special Needs. Nancy Johnson-Martin, Susan Atermeier & Bonnie Hacker, $74.50

The Carolina Curriculum for Preschoolers with Special Needs. Nancy Johnson-Martin, Susan Atermeier & Bonnie Hacker, $74.50

The Carolina Curriculum is an assessment and intervention program designed for use with young children from birth to five years who have mild to severe disabilities. With the new editions of this proven curriculum, professionals in home, school, or center-based environments will have an easy-to-use, criterion-referenced system that clearly links assessment with intervention and lets them work closely with the child's teachers, family members, and other service providers. While The Carolina Curriculum has been updated, reorganized, and refined by user feedback, the program works the same as it always has, ensuring that users of the previous editions can start using the new ones right away.

The Child’s World: the Comprehensive Guide to Assessing Children in Need. Jan Horwath, Editor, $52.95

This new and updated edition of the best-selling book on assessing children in need and their families integrates practice, policy and theory to produce a comprehensive and multidisciplinary guide to all aspects of assessment. Practitioners from different disciplines will be able to identify the developmental needs of children, assess parental capacity and evaluate the impact of family, economic and environmental factors on the ability to meet the needs of the child.

Children’s nonverbal cues can uncover critical information about their emotional, social, physical, communicative, and cognitive development. Designed for use with children from birth to seven years of age, and equally effective for those with and without special needs, this book reveals how to skillfully observe children’s nonverbal cues and develop a keen awareness of the feelings and messages behind them …Whether used in an early intervention program, in a classroom, or with individual caregivers and their children, this is an innovative, effective way to assess and enhance the development of young children.

The Early Childhood Education Intervention Treatment Planner. Julie Winkelstein & Arthur Jongsma, $71.99

The Early Childhood Intervention Treatment Planner helps mental health practitioners reduce paperwork and increase time spent with their clients by providing treatment plan components and treatment goals for the most common problems encountered while treating young children ages 3-6. It is applicable to treatment in a school setting; in traditional child therapy; or for therapy used as an adjunct to treatment for medical problems that can delay development.

Early Intervention Games. Barbara Sher, $19.95

A resource of fun games for parents or teachers to help young children learn social and motor skills.

Barbara Sher, an expert occupational therapist and teacher, has written a handy resource filled with games to play with young children who have Autistic Spectrum Disorder (ASD) or other sensory processing disorders (SPD). The games are designed to help children feel comfortable in social situations and teach other basic lessons including beginning and end, spatial relationships, hand-eye coordination, and more. Games can also be used in regular classrooms to encourage inclusion and all the games utilize common, inexpensive materials, and include several variations and modifications.

Early Intervention with Multi-Risk Families: an Integrative Approach. Sarah Landy & Rosanne Menna, $62.50

Helping families who live in environments with multiple risk factors, including poverty, domestic violence, teen parenthood, mental illness, and substance abuse, requires that professionals and paraprofessionals work together to provide the best possible interventions. This much-needed book shows service providers how to help these multi-risk families by using an integrative model that brings together the most effective intervention techniques from a variety of theoretical approaches, parenting strategies, and innovative programs.

Professionals will learn how to effectively engage parents if they are resistant to intervention, and they’ll discover specific, practical ways to help parents. Extended case studies vividly illustrate key points and techniques and present an integrated model of intervention, making this an ideal professional development resource for psychologists, social workers, early childhood educators, home visitors, and other service providers. The book is also an excellent resource for university and colleges that train early intervention practitioners who work with families in multi-risk environments.

Early Intervention Practices from Around the World. Samuel Odom, Marci Hanson, James Blackman & Sudha Kaul. $64.95

Early Intervention Practices from Around the World takes a look at effective practices in a diverse range of countries. This is a practical and broadly informative look at innovative service, support, professional development and organization that incorporates the social, cultural, political and economic context of each country studied.

The Early Intervention Workbook: Essential Practices for Quality Services. Lynda Cook Pletcher & Naomi Younggren, $48.95

Discover the seven key principles and associated practices for effective early intervention services — and start putting them into action today! This easy-to-use workbook reveals not only what every EI professional should be doing in their practice, but also how to do it, with practical tips, activities, and strategies they can use to improve their work with children and families right away. Based on specific recommendations from a workgroup of today's top researchers, this comprehensive resource walks readers through every key step of the early intervention journey with children birth to three, from the crucial first meeting with a family to the child's transition out of intervention. Perfect for group training sessions or independent study, it's a great workbook to fill in, learn from, and then keep close at hand as a quick and easy reminder of best practices.

Identifying Special Needs: Checklists for Profiling Individual Differences, 2nd Edition. Glynis Hannell, $50.50

 Drawing from her experience as an educational psychologist, and special education teacher, Glynis Hannell offers guidelines to help teachers quickly recognize and categorize the specific characteristics of developmental disorders, autism spectrum disorders, emotional-behavioural disorders, specific learning disorders, sensory impairments and other forms of special need. The practical checklists and resources in this fully revised new edition help both classroom and specialist teachers to:

• Screen any student for possible special needs
• Understand the causes and characteristics of various types of special needs
• Request and prepare for an intervention or IEP team meeting
• Link classroom observations to diagnostic criteria used by specialists
• Create accurate and comprehensive profiles for individual students
• Record each student’s unique pattern of development within a special needs ‘label’
• Quickly record important information and avoid writing time-consuming reports
• Coordinate information from several teachers or professionals
• Monitor progress and track significant changes over time
• Involve parents in observing and discussing their child’s pattern of strengths and challenges
• Plan effective, inclusive intervention in the classroom setting
• Follow up with recommended further reading, websites and professional references

Recognizing special needs and identifying each student’s unique profile of positive attributes and difficulties enables teachers and other educational professionals to ensure that all their students receive the support they need to succeed.

Infant and Early Childhood Mental Health: a Comprehensive Developmental Approach to Assessment and Intervention. Stanley Greenspan, & Serena Wieder, $95.95

Infant and Early Childhood Mental Health: a Comprehensive Developmental Approach to Assessment and Intervention redefines working with infants, young children, and their families when mental health, developmental, or learning problems occur. Greenspan and Wieder show how mental health and developmental challenges can be classified according to each child's unique emotion, cognitive, language, and sensory processing profile. Most importantly, they demonstrate and present their new data on the most effective ways of intervening with these challenges, demonstrating how even children with the most severe mental health and developmental problems can make more progress than formerly thought possible in learning to relate, communicate, and think meaningfully and adaptively.

Life Skills Progression: an Outcome and Intervention Planning Instrument for Use with Families at Risk. Linda Wollesen & Karen Peifer, $51.95

For use with at-risk families of children from birth to 3 years of age, the Life Skills Progression™ (LSP) is the only reliable, field-tested tool that provides the critical data home visiting programs need to demonstrate their effectiveness and receive support and funding. Generating a broad, accurate portrait of the behaviors, attitudes, and skills of both parents and children, the LSP helps professionals establish baseline client profiles, identify strengths and needs, plan interventions, and monitor outcomes to show that interventions are working.

LINKing Authentic Assessment and Early Childhood Intervention: Best Measures for Best Practices, 2nd Edition. Stephen Bagnato, John Niesworth, Kristie Pretti-Frontczak, $53.95

How can early childhood professionals make informed decisions while selecting assessment materials that meet recommended practices? This essential reference, the only book with professional ratings and reviews of 80 authentic, widely used assessment tools for children birth-8, is a key assessment guide for every early childhood program. This invaluable book will help professionals ensure high-quality services for children with and without disabilities.

Professionals will have the clear and concise guidance they need to choose appropriate assessment tools that link to their programs, help design interventions that meet children's individual needs, and give all young children the start in life they deserve.

Mental Health in Early Intervention: Achieving Unity in Principles and Practice. Gilbert Foley & Jane Hochman, $44.50

For effective assessment and intervention with infants and young children, professionals need to incorporate psychological, medical, and family factors — but too often, infant mental health and early intervention are dealt with separately rather than together. Integration of these two fields is the goal of this urgently needed text, ideal for introducing mental health concepts to supervisors and students in early intervention and teaching mental health professionals more about early intervention. An ideal textbook and professional development resource for early intervention practitioners — and a useful source of insight for mental health professionals — this comprehensive book fully prepares readers to integrate two interdependent fields and improve practices in both.

Neurogenetic Syndromes: Behavioral Issues and Their Treatment. Bruce Shapiro & Pasquale Accardo, $64.95

This cutting-edge volume sheds new light on neurogenetic syndromes using a promising clinical perspective: examining behavioral and psychological phenotypes, with a strong focus on the influence of genetics. Linking science with practice like no other current text on this topic, this comprehensive book combines the latest research of two dozen leading experts and shows how these advances in knowledge apply to treatment and therapy.

Positioning for Play: Interactive Activities to Enhance Movement and Sensory Exploration, 2nd Edition.  Rachel Diamant & Allison Whiteside, $89.95 (Birth to 3 years)

Young children learn best from engaging in regular movement and activities with family and friends in a supportive environment; the child develops motor, sensory, cognitive, language, communication, and social skills. This expanded collection of practical reproducible activities is designed for use by early interventionists, early childhood educators, occupational therapists, physical therapist, speech pathologists, and community health nurses who work with families with young children who have or are at risk for developmental delays. The activity sheets, grouped into ten sections according to developmental position, are designed to illustrate ways that caregivers can hold, position, and play with a child while using toys, objects, materials, and family members that are available. Furthermore, the sheets demonstrate proper body mechanics for both child and caregiver. Space is provided for notes.

Routines-Based Early Intervention: Supporting Young Children and Their Families. R.A. McWilliam, $55.95

Routines-Based Early Intervention gives professionals a detailed framework for early intervention that addresses families' individual needs and helps children participate in daily routines. With the step-by-step guidance on each part of the routines-based intervention model, professionals will reach their key goals during visits to homes and child care settings.

Six Simple Ways to Assess Young Children. Sue Gober, $61.95

Educators of young children will benefit from this easy to read guidebook that offers assessment methods that can be easily implemented into any program. Its principles are clearly presented, as the book explores the important role assessment plays in teaching children. Specific instruction is also given on creating portfolios, what they should look like, and how they facilitate teaching. Perforated pages of samples, developmental checklists, and instructional forms are included in the appendices for easy reference and use.

Understanding Newborn Behavior & Early Relationships: the Newborn Behavioral Observations (NBO) System Handbook. J. Kevin Nugent, Constance Keefer, Susan Minear, Lise Johnson, & Yvette Blanchard, $72.50

Giving babies a “voice” helps parents understand their baby’s unique strengths and needs. This observational tool and handbook, complete with beautiful four-color photographs by a Pulitzer prize-winning photographer, gives professionals a systematic way to help parents respond with confidence to their baby’s individual needs—and build positive parent-professional relationships in the process. Flexible, easy to integrate into everyday practice, and based on more than 25 years of research … this system is just what clinicians in hospital, clinic, or home settings need to help new mothers and fathers get to know their baby, increase their confidence and competence as parents, and support their child’s growth and development.