Not Just a Bad Day (Healthy Living Library)
by Moragne and Tabitha Moriarty
Attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) can affect teens in many ways-from poor performance in school to difficulties with family and friends. In Mindfulness for Teens with ADHD, a clinical social worker offers a skills based approach using mindfulness and neuroscience to help teens with ADHD successfully navigate all the areas of their life-whether that includes making good choices, completing tasks, increasing academic success, excelling in sports, driving safely, getting enough sleep,...
Brother: A Story of Autism (Zuiker Teen Topics)
by Carlton Hudgens and Bridget Hudgens
Bridget and Carlton are as close as any sister and brother. But their relationship is particularly special. Carlton has autism and is almost completely nonverbal. He's smart, funny, creative, and loving. He has immense challenges in speaking full sentences. Bridget's fierce loyalty to and compassion for her brother led to an unbreakable bond that has helped the siblings cope with divorce and homelessness. Carlton's devotion to his family is loud and clear, even in his silence. Carlton Hudgens...
Stuck on Fast Forward (Youth with Special Needs)
by Shirley Brinkerhoff
This is the first book in a PSE course for pupils of all abilities at Key Stages 3 and 4. The series is designed for use on a year-by-year basis, with Book 1 corresponding to Year 7, but the structure is flexible enough to allow teachers to use the sections selectively. Each of the pupils' books contains at least three units on each of the themes which the NCC has identified as "essential parts of the whole curriculum" - economic and industrial understanding, careers education and guidance (incl...
Written for the lower 60 per cent of the ability range, this text is part of a course that covers the National Curriculum requirements for English at Key Stage 3. It provides students with material that reflects the best practice in English teaching yet is pitched at the lower ability levels. The course features a clear modular structure that places an emphasis on grammar and language skills and provides differentiated activities and assessment opportunities.
Teacher’s Book 2 (English Direct)
Written for the lower 60 per cent of the ability range, this text is part of a course that covers the National Curriculum requirements for English at Key Stage 3. It provides students with material that reflects the best practice in English teaching yet is pitched at the lower ability levels. The course features a clear modular structure that places an emphasis on grammar and language skills and provides differentiated activities and assessment opportunities.
When Walela is diagnosed at twenty-three with advanced stage blood cancer, they're suddenly thrust into the unsympathetic world of tubes and pills, doctors who don’t use their correct pronouns, and hordes of 'well-meaning' but patronising people offering unsolicited advice as they navigate rocky personal relationships and share their story online. But this experience also deepens their relationship to their ancestors, providing added support from another realm. Walela's diagnosis becomes a cata...
As featured in the Oscar-nominated documentary Crip Camp, and for readers of I Am Malala, one of the most influential disability rights activists in US history tells her story of fighting to belong. “If I didn’t fight, who would?” Judy Heumann was only 5 years old when she was first denied her right to attend school. Paralyzed from polio and raised by her Holocaust-surviving parents in New York City, Judy had a drive for equality that was instilled early in life. In this young readers’ editio...
Understanding the emotions of yourself and others creates a path to friendship. Understanding emotions - their own and others' - poses a major challenge for children with autism spectrum and other social cognitive challenges, causing frustration and misunderstanding and often behavioural outbursts. Let's Talk Emotions Helping Children with Social Cognitive Deficits, Including AS, HFA, and NVLD, Learn to Understand and Express Empathy and Emotions, a collection of easy-to-use activities for child...
Take Off: Materials Glass Paperback
The National Literacy Strategy emphasises that children with special educational needs should work, wherever possible, with their peers within the Literacy Hour. The aim is to use structured, intensive teaching to enable as many children as possible eventually to work at the appropriate level for their age. The Take-Off! series is designed to be used with children of about 9 who are struggling to achieve the levels of literacy expected for their age. The titles chosen have been based on best-sel...
Need to Know: Sexually Transmitted Diseases (Need to Know)
by Sean Connolly
This new series provides thorough, factual information about drugs specifically aimed at teenagers. The series aims to educate young people about a range of drugs by providing clear information that does not patronise, over-simplify or judge. The books include: - a realistic range of real-life case studies and experiences - detailed information on the effects of drug-taking on the individual and society - details of organisations who can provide support or provide more information
Providing information that does not patronize, over-simplify or judge, this series examines social phenomena that are difficult or harmful. Each book traces the history, prevalence and consequences of such phenomena and offers ways of finding help for those involved or affected.