The Parent's Guide to Occupational Therapy for Autism and Other Special Needs

With the help of this handy guide, you can bring tried and tested occupational therapy activities into your home and encourage your child to succeed with everyday tasks while having fun in the process. This expanded edition of the award-winning book includes new advice on toilet training, coping with changes in routine, repetitive behaviors, self-regulation and much more. The simple explanation…

Everyday Games for Sensory Processing Disorder: 100 Playful Activities to Emp…

Award-winning author and occupational therapist Barbara Sher has over 45 years experience helping children with sensory processing disorder, autism and Asperger's learn and thrive. In this new solutions-based guide, she's collected 100 sensory-rich games that make working with your child a joy. Whimsy and wisdom pour forth from this wonderful book. The fun and functional sensory-motor ideas ar…

Flight Behavior

Edition

1

ISBN/ISSN

9780062124272

Collation

436p; bw; pbk

Series Title

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Call Number

823 KIN f

Small Wonder

The first essay is "Small Wonder," and Kingsolver tells the (true) story of a toddler that wandered off from his home in a small village in Iran and was found later, safe, in a bear's den, with the bear curled protectively around the child. Apparently, the bear had actually been nursing the baby. She calls it "an impossible act of grace." (5) She writes about hoping/insisting that the world is …

Forty Acres and Maybe a Mule

Maybe nobody gave freedom, and nobody could take it away like they could take away a family farm. Maybe freedom was something you claimed for yourself. Like other ex-slaves, Pascal and his older brother Gideon have been promised forty acres and maybe a mule. WIth the family of friends they have built along the way, they claim a place of their own. Green Gloryland is the most wonderful place on…

Emma-Jean Lazarus : Fell Out of a Tree

That's Emma-Jean Lazarus, the smartest and definitely the strangest girl at William Gladstone Middle School. The kids at school don't understand her. But that all changes when she discovers Colleen Pomerantz sobbing in the girl's room. What happens when Emma-Jean decides to use her powers of logic to solve Colleen's problem? Emma-Jean's life gets messy, that's for sure, as she finds herself tum…

Frankenstein

Mary Shelley’s tragic story of a scientist who created a monster is perhaps even more compelling and meaningful today than when it was written nearly two centuries ago. From the bits and pieces of dead bodies, and the power of electricity, the brilliant Victor Frankenstein fashions a new form of life—only to discover, too late, the irreparable damage he has caused

Call It Courage

Mafatu has been afraid of the sea for as long as he can remember. Though his father is the great chief of Hikueru-an island whose seafaring people worship caourage-Mafatu feels like an outsider. All his life he has been teased, taunted, and even blamed for storms on the sea. Then at age fifteen, no longer willing to put up with the ridicule and jibes, Mafatu decides to take his fate into his o…

To Kill a Mockingbird

The unforgettable novel of a childhood in a sleepy Southern town and the crisis of conscience that rocked it, To Kill A Mockingbird became both an instant bestseller and a critical success when it was first published in 1960. It went on to win the Pulitzer Prize in 1961 and was later made into an Academy Award-winning film, also a classic. Compassionate, dramatic, and deeply moving, To Kill …

The Teacher's Funeral : a Comedy in Three Parts

SC Cilandak ( Pink / Connecting ) When the teacher passed away, Russell think that Hominy Ridge School will shut down for good. No such luck, Russell and his schoolmates are about to be ruled by a new teacher who's Russell's worst nightmare. Despite stolen supplies, rustic vandalism, a blazing boys privy, and more snakes than you can shake a stick at the new teacher will keep the school afl…