250 Pub Quizzes A fiendish collection of questions to test your brain

Not absolutely necessary to be in a pub to use this , 250 rounds each of 16 questions... a staggering 4,000 questions from general knowledge , to entertainment to sport.... while not written for an ageing audience, it gives you the framework for getting a group entertained and engaged, and you will quickly learn when a question need to be "adjusted" to 10, 20 or 30 years earlier. What ever its deficiencies, the price isn't one of them , if you are working in age care and need the basis of a quiz book .... your search ends here!

Ages: -

$12.95

Add and Your Money: A Guide to Personal Finance for Adults With Attention-Deficit Disorder

Stephanie Moulton Sarkis, PH.D. and Karl Klein, JD

ADD and your money offers a simple, yet comprehensive look at ways adults with ADD can better manage their finances. The authors offer simple tips for tracking bills and sticking to a budget and valuable advice regarding investing money, paying off debt, dealing with common money issues, and making the most of bank services. The book also helps readers find an ADD-friendly bank and plan ahead to minimize the impact of ADD-influenced splurges.

Ages: -

$38.95

An ADHD Primer SOFTCOVER 2nd Ed

Lisa Weyandt

Filled with current, practical, and useful information for professionals and individuals, this second edition of An ADHD Primer summarizes the literature concerning ADHD across the lifespan. It offers a better understanding of the disorder by addressing the potential causes of ADHD, the developmental course, and numerous treatment approaches. Author Lisa L. Weyandt delivers research-based, cutting-edge knowledge in a concise and user-friendly fashion. The book skillfully explains the scientific literature, often complex, concerning this disorder.

2006

Ages: -

$74.00

Behavior Has Meaning -- Wheel Sets

These wheels on challenging behaviors offer a 3-step approach to understand and manage behaviors such as biting and tantrums effectively.

2010

Ages: -

$75.00

Challenging Kids Challenged Teachers Teaching Students Tourette's Bipolar DisorderExec DUE June

Leslie E. Packer,

Written for educators, parents and healthcare professionals, CHALLENGING KIDS, CHALLENGED TEACHERS looks at the approximately 70 to 90% of children seen in clinics who turn out to have one or more neurological disorder. The authors, a psychologist and educational therapist, draw on their extensive experience to describe the cardinal features of 16 related neurological conditions listed below and their educational and academic impact. CHALLENGING KIDS, CHALLENGED TEACHERS alerts readers to conditions that can occur together and offers concrete advice about dealing with their symptoms in the classroom.

2010

Ages: -

$49.00

Cognistat Manual Blue Cover /New revised

Includes examination instructions, normative data, examples of cognitive status profiles, and information on interpretation of test results.

2009

Ages: -

$145.00

Disorders of Behavior and Emotional Regulation in the First Years of Life

Mechthild Papousek, Michael Schieche, Harald Wurmser

Presented here for the first time in English, this book provides a scientifically proven demonstration of how to help families struggling with common and behavioral disorders. Contains numerous case studies and describes scientific and clinical evidence on topics such as excessive crying, sleeping and feeding disorders, and failure to thrive.

2010

Ages: -

POA

EMPOWERING YOUTH WITH ADHD

Jodi Sleeper-Triplett

Unveiling a powerful and proven methodology for teens and young adults with ADHD, this guidebook offers complete instruction for professionals and parents on what ADHD coaching for young people is and how it can dramatically improve the lives of the afflicted. A groundbreaking approach, this handbook discusses powerful intervention practices to help youths with ADHD break through barriers and succeed in their lives. The thorough hands-on guidance makes for an ideal resource for all individuals interested in learning more about couching young people with ADHD.

Ages: -

$43.95

Eggspressions Game and Scambled Feeling Book

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This wooden toy is perfect for developing hand-eye co-ordination, language development, recognition of colour size and shape and self expression and understanding. Eggspressions allows children the opportunity for role-play and a way to understand and express their feelings. Includes a storybook and a set of six expressive wooden eggs (Happy, Sad, Angry, Excited, Afraid, and Shy). Eggs measure 6cm.

2010

Ages: 2 -

$38.00

Generations Trivia Interactive Software 1940s-1960s

Interactive Game Shows for Recall and Deductive Reasoning

Give your adult clients high-interest content in an interactive, game-show format. These activities provide shared experience springboards to improve recall and reasoning. Use this versatile program to develop: General cognition, Attention and memory, General knowledge recall, Reasoning and Conversation

2009

Ages: -

$63.80

Generations Trivia Interactive Software 1970s-1990s

Interactive Game Shows for Recall and Deductive Reasoning

Give your adult clients high-interest content in an interactive, game-show format. These activities provide shared experience springboards to improve recall and reasoning. Use this versatile program to develop: General cognition, Attention and memory, General knowledge recall, Reasoning and Conversation

2009

Ages: -

$63.80

Gravity Pulls You In Perspectives on Parenting Children on the Autism Spectrum

Kyra Anderson

Mothers and fathers raising children on the autism spectrum explore their lives in the context of autisms gravity, discovering whats important and what they find centering View the universe of autism its marvels, chaos, and life changing impacts through the eyes of the contributors to Gravity Pulls You In. In 33 essays and poems, mothers and fathers raising children on the autism spectrum explore their lives in the context of autisms gravity, discovering whats important and what they find centering.

2010

Ages: -

$35.00

It's Time to Give Up Your Pacifier

Lawrence E. Shapiro

Talking, eating, singing, and more think of all the things little ones can do without pacifiers in their mouths This book shows toddlers the benefits of becoming big kids to gently wean them off their pacifiers. Its Time to Give Up Your Pacifier is written by child psychologist Lawrence Shapiro and includes advice for parents on guiding young children through this often difficult transition. This compassionate and engaging story will help your child say bye-bye to binky once and for all.

2009

Ages: 2 - 5

$12.95

It's Time to Sleep in Your Own Bed

Lawrence E. Shapiro

The Transition Times series offers charmingly illustrated childrens books for handling some of the major transitions of childhood. In Its Time to Sleep in Your Own Bed children learn that sleeping in their own bed makes them feel more grown up and more independent. This book includes helpful advice and tips for parents to deal with this problematic situation.

2009

Ages: 2 - 5

$12.95

Less Student Stress, More School Success Strategies and Activities for Creating Optimal Learning Env

Susanna Palomares, Dianne Schilling

Stress has an enormous impact on the ability of children to learn. The body's defense system is built for short-term physical stressors, not long-term psychological and emotional stress, which can lead to health problems, memory loss, and severe learning difficulties. This book includes dozens of activities and reproducible student "experience sheets" designed to help students understand what causes stress, identify sources of stress, and learn strategies for managing stress on a daily basis.

2010

Ages: -

$55.00

Melanie, Bird with a Broken Wing A Mother's Story

Beth Harry, Ph.D.

Gripping, raw, and beautiful, this book reveals the struggles and rewards of caring for a child with severe disability and helps professionals work more sensitively and effectively with families of children with special needs. Written with grace and candor by special education professional Beth Harry, the book chronicles the life of her daughter, Melanie, who was born with a rare form of cerebral palsy and died less than 6 years later.

2010

Ages: -

POA

Mosby's Pocket Book of Mental Health (Australian Authors)

Muir-Cochrane, Barkway, Nizette

Mosby's Pocketbook of Mental Health is a convenient, user-friendly resource for all health professionals. The potency of this text is in its easily accessible format which offers clear, concise guidance to students on clinical placements and practitioners.

2010

Ages: -

$49.00

No-Glamour(TM) Problem-Solving

Students learn the processes of effective problem solving with this research-based resource. Systematic instruction gives struggling learners a framework for problem solving and helps them generalize their learning for lifelong results. The units and tasks within the units are arranged in increasing complexity. Specific targeted skills are: identifying and stating problems, identifying causes and solutions, predicting results of solutions, choosing good solutions, evaluating problem solving, giving suggestions and advice + solving problems.
Age-appropriate problem-solving scenario(s) are presented with a short story and a picture. Students hone their skills in specific problem-solving strategies by answering multiple choice questions, evaluating solutions, explaining their answers, ranking choices, and making predictions. Learners with language and cognitive impairments learn workable, step-by-step problem-solving methods.

2010

Ages: 6 - 11

$108.90

No-Glamour(TM) Problem-Solving Cards

These cards teach students to recognize problems, apply past experience, and use goal-directed skills to solve problems successfully. The 200 cards are divided into three levels of difficulty. Level 1 tasks introduce students to simple problems. Students gather clues from each picture to answer questions. Level 2 tasks require more advanced reasoning skills, such as making predictions and inferences, taking others' perspectives, and analyzing outcomes. The tasks in Level 3 require students to listen to a short narrative paired with a picture and then answer questions. Students integrate verbal and visual information to solve problems. Common responses are provided for most questions. Extend the teaching by asking students to explain their answers, discuss similar situations, analyze new problems using prior knowledge, and generate multiple solutions to problems.

2010

Ages: 6 - 11

$93.50

Occupational Therapy Interventions, Effects, and Outcomes :( Adults and Older Adults)

Mary Law, PhD, OT Reg.(Ont.); Mary Ann McColl, PhD, MTS

Drs. Mary Law and Mary Ann McColl have comprehensively reviewed all of the intervention effectiveness literature for occupational therapy provided for adults. The material reviewed crosses all diagnostic categories and areas of practice for adults and older adults. Analysis of over 500 research studies and systematic reviews form the basis for this book.

2009

Ages: -

$78.95

Play Therapy for Preschool Children

Charles E Schaefer

Play Therapy for Preschool Children is a comprehensive sourcebook of play interventions for preventing and resolving the most common disorder of children ages 3 to 5 years. Leading clinicians and researchers present both the research background and recent advances in play therapy adapted for use with children who exhibit a variety of internalizing, externalizing, and developmental disorders as well as prevention programs for at-risk children.

2009

Ages: -

$130.00

Respecting Babies

Respecting Babies is a guidebook that will help parents and caregivers learn to provide support to babies and toddlers in a way that allows them to become confident explorers. Focusing on the importance of building secure relationships, this guide is easy to read and an engaging summary of the history and methods of care originally conceived by Magda Gerber, founder of the Resources for Infant Educarers (RIE) program. This book highlights key elements of the RIE program and examines how to effectively put them to use. Readers will learn about the importance of following routines, using language, and creating safe environments in order to promote a child's ability to experiment, explore, and learn.

2010

Ages: -

POA

Scripts for Role-Playing: Setting the Stage for Social Success FUTURE BOOKS(TM)

Kathleen Babineau

The program is designed for students who have largely intact language skills but lack social insight. Based on role-playing and employing a social cognitive approach, the lessons include one-page scripts for students to act out and discussion questions to help them analyze the behaviors portrayed in the scripts. Actors (students) learn to consider how body language, tone of voice, volume, and gestures affect social communication. Audience members (peers) carefully watch and analyze these aspects.

2009

Ages: 8 - 13

$169.40

Self-Regulation for Kids K-12: Strategies for Calming Minds and Behavior

Patricia K. Tollison, Katherine O. Synatschk, Gaea Logan

Organized as both a text about self-regulation and a step-by-step, practical guide to developing a program for helping children and adolescents, this text is a valuable resource for counselors, teachers, and behavior specialists.

2010

Ages: 5 - 18

$94.60

Sensory Modulation & Environment: Essential Elements of Occupation 3rd Edition

Tina Champagne

The newly revised third edition of the Sensory Modulation & Environment handbook is an excellent resource full of practical information created primarily for use with adolescent, adult and geriatric populations in mental health services. It explores the entirety of sensory modulation applications theory through practice. Included in this edition are sensory modulation assessment tools, worksheets and information on: The Sensory Modulation Program Trauma informed care The restraint reduction initiative Diagnostic considerations Self-injurious behaviour Creating sensory diets The use of weighted modalities The creation and use of sensory rooms Self-rating tools Individual and group treatment ideas Policy and procedure examples Quality improvement study samples Staff training handouts Assorted handouts, worksheets and much more This resource is a must have for the innovative mental health practitioner or educator Identify sensory processing patterns in everyday life activities

2010

Ages: 13 -

$1230.00

Sensory Processing Measure School Autoscore Form Pk 25

Ecker Et al

2010

Ages: 2 - 5

$69.95

Sensory Processing Measure - Preschool (SPM-P) NEW 2-5 years

Ecker, Parham, Huhaneeck, Henry, Glennon

Extends the popular Sensory Processing Measure down to age 2 Making early intervention possible. Admin time 10-20 Minutes for home and school form Now you can identify sensory processing difficulties in children as young as 2 years old.... lets you look at overall sensory functioning as well as specific vulnerabilities that can effect learning. This test measures the same functions as the SPM : Social Participation Vision Hearing Touch Body Awareness Balance and Motion Planning and Ideas Total Sensory Systems

2010

Ages: 2 - 5

$249.00

Sensory Processing Measure Home Auto Score Form 25Pk

Ecker Et al

2010

Ages: 2 -

$69.95

Social Language Training: Adolescent

Linda Bowers, Carolyn LoGiudice, Rosemary Huisingh

Help your teens with language impairment (LI), Asperger's Syndrome, and high-functioning autism learn to make and sustain friendships. This program applies the research on all aspects of social language: verbal, nonverbal, paralinguistic, and metalinguistics.

Ages: 12 - 18

$104.50

Squirmy Wormy How I Learned to Help Myself

Lynda Farrington Wilson

Squirmy Wormy is a wonderful little children's book about a boy named Tyler, who has autism and SPD (Sensory Processing Disorder). Together with Tyler, the reader learns about SPD, and what everyday easy therapys he can do by himself feel better. For instance: "I feel like running really fast, run run run! Maybe I just need a s-q-u-e-e-z-e between the couch cushions like a hot dog. Whew! I feel better."
Endorsed by Dr. Temple Grandin, this book is sure to help many children, who perhaps previously did not even know they had SPD, lead calmer, richer lives.

2009

Ages: 4 - 8

$25.00

Strong Start Pre-K A Social and Emotional Learning Curriculum

Kenneth W. Merrell, Ph.D., Sara A. Whitcomb, Ed.M., & Danielle M. Parisi

Studies show that positive social emotional development is a great predictor of future academic success and the earlier children start learning critical social emotional skills, the better. That's why preschools need Strong Start Pre K a field tested, kid friendly curriculum that makes it easy to give young children a strong foundation of social emotional competence. Focused on skills young children will build on and use for the rest of their lives managing anger, being a good friend, dealing with anxiety, resolving conflicts, and more

2009

Ages: -

POA

The ADHD Effect on Marriage: Understand and Rebuild Your Relationship in Six Steps

Melissa C. Orlov

An invaluable resource for couples in which one of the partners suffers from ADHD, this book guides troubled marriages towards an understanding and appreciation for the struggles and triumphs of a relationship affected by it, and to look at the disorder in a more positive and less disruptive way. This discussion offers advice from the author's personal experience and years of research and identifies patterns of behaviour that can hurt marriages, through the use of vignettes and descriptions of actual couples and their ADHD struggles and solutions.

Ages: -

$36.95

What Every Parent Needs to Know

Margot Sunderland

The Incredible Effects of Love, Nurture and Play on Your Child's Development.
Re-writes the rule book on raising a child. Based on over 700 scientific studies into children's development, the author and child psychotherapist explains how to develop your child's potential to the full. He reveals how touch, laughter and play build emotional wellbeing for life, and also strategies for dealing with temper tantrums and tears.

2006

Ages: -

$39.95

Working with Parents and Families of Exceptional Children and Youth 4thEd

Richard Simpson, Nancy Mundschenk

The primary theme of the fourth edition of Working with Parents and Families of Exceptional Children and Youth is that educators and related service professionals must be involved in helping parents and families to contend with the challenges of raising, living with and educating a child who has an exceptionality. This text retains its focus on developing critical knowledge and skills for conferencing and collaborating that springs from a strength-based approach when working with families to develop responsive practitioners. Additionally, it offers professionals current evidence-based methods and related resources for building knowledge and skill sets needed for effective parent and family involvement.

2010

Ages: -

$90.20