This fully revised and updated second edition of Learning through Touch is essential reading for practitioners who support learners with multiple disabilities and vision impairment. These learners will rely on support from their learning partners throughout their education to mediate their learning experiences. The text explores the key role that touch plays in the education of these learners and provides practical advice about how to develop the skills through touch that they will need to becom...
Journal Your Life's Journey
by Blank Book Billionaire and Journal Your Life's Journey
Quality of Life for Handicapped People (Routledge Revivals)
First published in 1988, Quality of Life for Handicapped People examines developments and innovations in research and practice concerning the quality of life for those with disabilities. The book centres on the topic of rehabilitation education, with a particular focus on issues relating to quality of life, including what is meant by 'quality of life' and the measures and systems required to assess the variables involved. It highlights the significance of rehabilitation education in underlinin...
Physical Education and the Physically Handicapped Child
by Robert Price
How to Increase the Potential of Students with DCD (Dyspraxia) in Secondary School
by Lois Addy
The structure of secondary education demands that young people are well-organised, self-sufficient, increasingly autonomous learners, who can cope with a wide range of teachers and a diverse timetable based around multiple locations and buildings. However, a substantial number of young people have motor co-ordination and perceptual difficulties which affect their participation in class activities. This condition was previously termed 'dyspraxia' but is now more universally referred to as 'develo...
Pearson Etext Instruction of Students with Severe Disabilities -- Access Card
by Fredda Brown, John McDonnell, and Martha Snell
An Adventure with Childhood Obesity (An Adventure with Childhood Obesity)
by Plum Hutton and Kate Rennie
An Adventure with Childhood Obesity is an exciting storybook and guidebook pair, designed to help readers understand the physical, social and psychological effects of obesity on children and young people. Down Mount Kenya on a Tea Tray: Wesley had never thought much about his lifestyle or how he looked. He enjoyed eating his way through weekends in front of the telly with his mum. However, fate catapults him to a new life in East Africa and he is forced to face the negative impact that obesity...
A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court (Kennebec Large Print Perennial Favorites Collection) (Narrativa74, #11)
by Mark Twain
This novel tells the story of Hank Morgan, the quintessential self-reliant New Englander who brings to King Arthur’s Age of Chivalry the “great and beneficent” miracles of nineteenth-century engineering and American ingenuity. Through the collision of past and present, Twain exposes the insubstantiality of both utopias, destroying the myth of the romantic ideal as well as his own era’s faith in scientific and social progress. A central document in American intellectual history, A Connecticut Ya...
Teaching Deaf and Hard of Hearing Students
by David Stewart and Thomas N Kluwin
This highly practical text for both pre-service and in-service teachers of the deaf and hard of hearing covers methods of teaching and other issues related to the teaching of deaf students. Teaching Deaf and Hard of Hearing Students takes a practical look at the challenges of teaching subject matter to deaf children. The text gives suggestions about what teachers can do in the classroom that will make a positive difference in how their deaf students learn. It emphasizes providing teachers with...
Toys and Play for the Handicapped Child (Croom Helm special education) (Routledge Special Education)
by Barbara Riddick
First published in 1982. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Bridges beyond the Sound : an Instructional Workbook on Understanding and
by Jensema
Special Needs In Singapore: Trends And Issues
by Meng Ee Wong and Levan Lim
The fields of special needs education and disability in Singapore have witnessed significant changes and developments especially during the past two decades in the wake of Singapore's evolution towards its vision as an inclusive society. It is therefore timely for this book to present information, knowledge and research across a wide range of topics and issues that are relevant to the lives of Singaporeans with special needs. The chapters in this book offer a compendium of local knowledge and re...
