Offers an alternative approach to thinking about and working with "difficult" families. From a nonpathologizing stance, this work demonstrates creative ways to help family members shift their relationship to longstanding problems; envision desired lives; and develop more proactive coping strategies.
Serving as a guide to aid clinicians who provide AAC interventions for adults with acquired communication disabilities, this book covers a range of communication disabilities and disorders caused by injury and illness. It offers AAC intervention strategies and procedures in medical settings.
Demographic Changes and the Well-being of Older Persons
Examines the effects of the aging baby boomers in America on health care, migration and immigration and how it can support the tax health care networks, cultural issues regarding access to health care, and changing cultural attitudes towards marriage and family that are affecting the relationships between the elderly and their communities.
How to Prepare for Every Stage of Your Child's Life
Combines financial planning knowledge with a focus on families who have members with disabilities. This book also focuses on identifying and protecting government benefits as well as strategies to supplement government benefits.
The Nature and Origins of Mathematical Learning Difficulties and Disabil
Comprises a comprehensive and multidisciplinary treatment of research on mathematical learning disabilities. This book discusses empirical, theoretical, methodological, and pedagogical perspectives on this area, drawing on a range of fields including cognitive and developmental psychology, educational psychology, neuropsychology, and others.
Serves as a guide to behavior management for students with behavior problems that cannot be resolved through usual methods or are not affected by school-wide Positive Behavior Support (PBS). This manual helps school teams develop effective individualized solutions for students with persistent behavior problems.
A follow-up to the successful ""Transition to Kindergarten (1999)"", this book offers a discussion of transition in the context of modern educational arena, reflecting policy changing practices, and different program approaches. It also addresses pertinent community influences in early education demographic changes, racial and cultural influences.
Examining brain-behavior relationships in atypically developing children, this volume integrates theories and data from multiple disciplines. It presents research on specific clinical problems, including autism, Williams syndrome, learning and language disabilities, ADHD, and issues facing infants of diabetic mothers.
Lutherans often have questions about Lutheran theology and beliefs that are basic to the Christian faith itself. Featuring a unique question-and-answer format, Lutheran Questions, Lutheran Answers is an accessible and concise treatment that provides the most frequently asked questions on important topics and brief but complete answers.
