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Children learn more in their first two years than at any other time in their lives, so anyone caring for them has a vital role to play in helping them. This easy-to-use guide is filled with activities and play ideas for every stage of a child's development up to the age of 2 1/2.
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Francine Ferland, ergothérapeute et professeur émérite de l'Université de Montréal, répond aux questions que vous vous posez sur le jeu dans la vie de votre jeune enfant.
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A book that aims at proving that training preschoolers with flash cards and attempting to hurry intellectual development doesn't pay off. In fact, the authors claim, kids who are pressured early on to join the academic rat race don't fair any better than children who are allowed to take their time.…
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Ruby hates herself so much that she often feels more like a piece of rubbish than a little girl. Sometimes Ruby feels so miserable that she wants to sleep and sleep and never wake up again. Then Ruby meets Dot and, over time, Dot helps Ruby to move from self-hate to self-respect. After a very impor…
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This practical guide offers an introduction to the basic principles, tools and techniques that comprise the Integrated Play Groups model, designed to support children of diverse ages and abilities on the autism spectrum (novice players) in mutually enjoyed play experiences with typical peers and si…
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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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"It's Okay to Be Different cleverly delivers the important messages of acceptance, understanding, and confidence in an accessible, child-friendly format featuring Todd Parr's trademark bold, bright colors and silly scenes. Targeted to young children first beginning to read, this book will inspire k…
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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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New York Times bestselling author Missy Chase Lapine inspired legions of parents to “sneak” good food into their children’s meals with The Sneaky Chef. Now she extends her concept of “sneakiness” beyond the kitchen, by teaming up with fitness expert Larysa Didio to pro…
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With sensitivity and insight, this series offers suggestions for healing activities that can help survivors learn to express their grief and mourn naturally. Acknowledging that death is a painful, ongoing part of life, they explain how people need to slow down, turn inward, embrace their feelings o…
With sensitivity and insight, this series offers suggestions for healing activities that can help survivors learn to express their grief and mourn naturally. Acknowledging that death is a painful, ongoing part of life, they explain how people need to slow down, turn inward, embrace their feelings o…
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Presenting simple yet highly effective methods for coping and healing, this book provides answers and relief to parents trying to deal with the loss of a child. It offers 100 practical, action-oriented tips for embracing grief, such as writing a letter to the child who has died; spending time with …
Children learn that violence is never okay, that they can manage their anger and other strong feelings, and that they're capable of positive, loving actions- like playing, making music, learning, counting, helping, taking care, and much more. Includes a special section for adults with activities an…
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This book guides children and their parents through the cognitive-behavioural techniques used to treat problems with anger. The book uses examples, illustrations and step-by-step instructions to teach children a set of 'anger-dousing' methods aimed at cooling angry thoughts and controlling angry a…
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With sensitivity and insight, this series offers suggestions for healing activities that can help survivors learn to express their grief and mourn naturally. Acknowledging that death is a painful, ongoing part of life, it explains how people need to slow down, turn inward, embrace their feelings of…
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This eBook is an anxiety workbook for children age 5-11. Best Practice Guidelines for managing anxiety in this workbook have been adapted to be fun, engaging, and child friendly.
Shows how to teach kids to protect themselves when parents aren't there to take care of them. Includes age-appropriate methods for overcoming fear, reducing vulnerability, and building self-protection instincts; courage coaching as a way to create a "family" defense system; life-saving skills, such…
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The focus of this book is on children taking personal responsibility for what they say, as well as thinking before speaking. Communication skills that promote friendship and other key social skills are encouraged. Bright, colorful illustrations convey the messages well via body language and facial …
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This board book suggests positive things children can do instead of biting. Ideal for reading aloud, accessible and durable, this book also includes helpful tips for parents and caregivers.
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In simple words and colourful pictures, this book helps little ones learn how to use their feet for fun, not hurting others. Includes helpful tips for parents and caregivers.
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Using simple words and colourful illustrations, this book encourages careful handling, awareness, and respect of animals. Includes helpful tips for parents and caregivers.
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Even very young children can learn to choose words that are helpful, not hurtful. This simple, charming book shows them how. Includes helpful tips for parents and caregivers.; Todos los niños pueden aprender a escoger o utilizar palabras afectuosas o amables en lugar de palabras que lastimen o duel…
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The Highly Sensitive Child shows how HSCs are born deeply reflective, sensitive to the subtle, and easily overwhelmed. These qualities can make for smart, conscientious, creative children, but with the wrong parenting or schooling, they can become unusually shy or timid, or begin acting out. In thi…
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Superflex Takes On Glassman and the Team of Unthinkables introduces readers to a very persistent and sneaky Unthinkable named Glassman who causes people to have large reactions to small problems (or, shatter like a pane of glass). In the story, Aiden's classmates are regularly visited by Glassman a…
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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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The ABC?s of Anger leads children to discovery! It contains easy-to-read stories involving some aspect of the theme ?anger.? It provides children with an awareness of differing degrees of anger and helps them explore choices for responding when they are anger.; [...]; Each story begins with a lette…
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Set includes a child, youth and adult doll.
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Set includes a child, youth and adult doll.
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This is the board book for toddlers in the Germs Are Not for Sharing set that includes an expanded paperback for older kids ages 4-7. This board book is a colorful primer for basic hygiene, like when and how to wash hands, the importance of using tissues, the best way to cover your mouth when you c…
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A compassionate resource for friends, parents, relatives, teachers, volunteers, and caregivers, this series offers suggestions to help the grieving cope with the loss of a loved one. Often people do not know what to say?or what not to say?to someone they know who is mourning; this series teaches th…
A compassionate resource for friends, parents, relatives, teachers, volunteers, and caregivers, this series offers suggestions to help the grieving cope with the loss of a loved one. Often people do not know what to say?or what not to say?to someone they know who is mourning; this series teaches th…
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Saying please and thank you are fun and easy to remember with this simple and repetitive story told with the help of flaps that little fingers can easily lift.
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Social Inferences Fun Deck with Super Duper Secret Decoder has 63 social story cards to help students improve their inference-making skills. Students listen to/read the stories and choose the answer that represents a logical inference. There are three social skills sections.
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This resource, for parents and professionals, is written by a parent of a child with down syndrome who is also a sexual educator. It provides information about how to educate children and youth with intellectual disabilities about human sexuality, including such topics as: private body parts; expre…
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This board book includes tips for parents and caregivers on helping their children face the important milestone of using the potty. Tips from a pediatrician offer parents and caregivers additional support.
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Sneezes, coughs, runny noses, spills, and messes are facts of everyday life with children. And that?s why it?s never too soon to teach little ones about germs and ways to stay clean and healthy. This book is a short course for kids on what germs are, what they do, and why it?s so important to cover…
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This book presents ideas to help teens recognize mourning as a natural process of loss, reassures them not be afraid of deep emotions, and shows them how to release grief in healthy, positive ways.
This book presents ideas to help teens recognize mourning as a natural process of loss, reassures them not be afraid of deep emotions, and shows them how to release grief in healthy, positive ways.
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Learning to Work provides engaging and age-appropriate reading material for older beginning readers. The stories are intended for older students who are not yet reading conventionally for a variety of reasons, including cognitive delays and significant learning disabilities. Along with building rea…
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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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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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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 book includes tools for children to cope with stress in various areas of their lives:; On the playground with the school bully; At home with siblings; In the classroom with difficult tasks; After school with peer pressures; Easily adaptable to multiple scenarios, scripts and activities lead na…
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The authors answer parents' questions about their child's sexuality.
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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…
Ellyn Satter's Secrets of Feeding a Healthy Family takes a leadership role in the grassroots movement back to the family table. More a cooking primer than a cookbook, this book encourages singles, couples, and families with children to go to the trouble of feeding themselves well. Satter uses simpl…
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Bipley is a warm cuddly creature, but someone has broken his heart. He feels so hurt that he decides it is just too painful to ever love again. When he meets some big tough Honks in the wood, they teach him how to harden his heart so that he doesn't have to feel hurt any more. Luckily Bipley meets …
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Ce livre propose aux enfants un tour d'horizon complet des techniques cognitivo-comportementales employées pour traiter un problème de colère. Des exemples accrocheurs, des illustrations colorées et des explications simples montrent aux enfants une série de « techniques d'arrosage » qui visent à re…
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