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Search our collection of print books, eBooks, CDs and DVDs, games, and teaching tools on health topics.
Search our collection of print books, eBooks, CDs and DVDs, games, and teaching tools on health topics.
This book contains a collection of over 50 Social Behavior Maps covering a range of topics for home, community and the classroom. Social Behavior Mapping was created for parents and professionals to help those with social thinking challenges understand what behaviors are expected and unexpected in …
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Use these picture-supported story lessons to teach your students important social skills related to health and hygiene. The instructional lessons teach what to say or do in social situations that are sometimes overwhelming to the student with autism and PDD. The behavioral lessons target specific s…
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Written for teenagers, this book covers the entire range of situations in which youth may find themselves grieving a death, whether the cause was old age, terminal illness, school violence, or suicide. The author helps youth address the gamut of strong and difficult emotions they will experience an…
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A compassionate resource for friends, parents, relatives, teachers, volunteers, and caregivers. This book addresses what to expect from grieving young people, and how to provide safe outlets for teens to express emotion. Included in each book are tested, sensitive ideas for ?carpe diem? actions tha…
Today's media-saturated teenagers are bombarded with mixed messages that distort their self-image and lead many to overeat and others to starve themselves. When "I feel fat" becomes a teen's common refrain, how can worried parents respond constructively? With this book, Dr. Dianne Neumark-Sztainer …
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Use these picture-supported story lessons to teach your students important social skills related to attending secondary school. The instructional lessons teach what to say or do in social situations that are sometimes overwhelming to the student with autism and PDD. The behavioral lessons target sp…
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Covering all stages in a child's life, from toddlers to teenagers and their postsecondary years, this book offers practical advice to parents that will help their children develop into capable, independent adults. This resource examines a parent's influence over a child's playtime, temperament, fr…
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This course is designed to be used by parents, grandparents, teachers, administrators, professionals - anyone who desires to make sense of adolescence. Dr. Neufeld helps shed light into this often dark and confusing time. He gives both the tools and the eyes to see an adolescent through the journey…
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For all teachers and children, here are 160 ready-to-use lessons and reproducible worksheets to help children become aware of acceptable social behavior and develop proficiency in acquiring basic social skills.
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First-person accounts of teenagers who overcame major life obstacles with insight, independence, relationships, initiative, creativity, humor, and morality. This inspiring book uses teens' stories to discuss "asking tough questions", "being your own person", connecting with people and "doing the r…
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A social skills program for elementary students to learn appropriate behaviours during a typical school day. Ideal for students with autism or behavioural disabilities. Includes 53 relevant skills with teacher guidelines and self-monitoring checklists for students. Example skills include getting re…
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This picture book appeals to the visual strengths of students on the autism spectrum, with color photos of students demonstrating various social skills in the correct (and sometimes incorrect) way. The skills depicted are meant to be read, role-played, corrected when necessary, role-played some mor…
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Encourages young readers to explore the "long, winding tunnel" of the grieving process and to keep going in the face of terrible loss and sadness.
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Depicts, step by step, children demonstrating various social skills. Each skill is formatted sequentially, similar to a cartoon strip, with digital pictures of actual children combined with text and cartoon bubbles to denote what the children are saying - and sometimes thinking - as they engage in …
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Written specifically for youth, this manual explains the nature and basis for anxiety, the different types of anxiety, and includes information on medication. It also includes specific coping strategies for youth. This is part of the TWD Series.
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The purpose of this curriculum and comic book is to provide an engaging teaching tool to help students learn more about their own social behavior and strategies on how to regulate it.; This kit includes:; - Superflex takes on Rock Brain and the team of Unthinkables; - Superfelx . . . A superhero th…
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The purpose of this curriculum and comic book is to provide an engaging teaching tool to help students learn more about their own social behavior and strategies on how to regulate it.
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This down-to-earth guide provides parents with an approach for maintaining a candid, open, mutually respectful dialogue with their teens. They cover how to: listen and respond helpfully to your teenager's concerns; express your irritation or anger without being hurtful; take action without punishin…
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In a school assignment, seven-year-old Moses, who has spina bifida and uses a wheelchair, reflects that his neighbor's disabled iguana resembles him because they both have figured out how to get where they want to be in different ways than those around them.
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A guide for parents of children and adolescents who have difficulty with executive functioning skills including; planning and organization, self-monitoring, impulse control, working memory, and initiating tasks. This book offers short-term strategies and ways to build skills needed for long-term, …
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