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Her award-winning Ph.D. dissertation investigated how to support teachers to increase access to secondary grade-level academic curriculum for students with intellectual disabilities. She now draws from her experience as a student, teacher, and researcher to advocate and promote inclusion and equity for all learners.
The book describes the life of a child named Joey Pigza who frequently gets into trouble at school due to his erratic behavior. He has a habit of swallowing a key attached to a piece of string in order to pull it back out again, and on one instance he forgets to attach a string to the key, preventing him from pulling it back up.
Marcia McCabe writing in PsycCRITIQUES said the book "gives an excellent overview of the topic area and provides practical information and guidance to the treating clinician." [4] The book was also reviewed in Journal of Family Therapy, [5] and SciTech Book News. [6] The book had a sequel Contemporary Guide to Adult ADHD (2009), about adults ...
Masten's book Ordinary Magic: Resilience Processes in Development [3] provides an optimistic perspective on children's natural resilience and ability to adapt to new experiences and challenging circumstances. This monograph explores how resilience can be nurtured in families, schools, and other social and community settings. [4]
Jessie was the youngest of four children to a nurse and a physician. When Jessie was little, her parents joined the Moral Re-Armament (MRA). Her parents became missionaries for the movement, leaving the children with an MRA nanny. This is where Jessie's feelings of abandonment began. The Close family moved to Switzerland, the MRA base . While ...
Hyperactivity has long been part of the human condition, although hyperactive behaviour has not always been seen as problematic. [1] [page needed]The terminology used to describe the symptoms of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, or ADHD, has gone through many changes over history, including "minimal brain damage", "minimal brain dysfunction", "learning/behavioral disabilities" and ...
Fell disliked school; enrolled at the University of Calgary where he struggled academically. [3] [4] Things improved after he encountered a quote by Joan Baez, "Action is the antidote to despair," [3] and after he met his future wife, Heidi, a medical school student. He focused on his education to impress her, and he discovered a love of ...
Reach Out and Read logo. Reach Out and Read, Inc. (ROR) is a US nonprofit organization that promotes reading. Reach Out and Read is a national early literacy organization working directly with pediatric care providers to share the lifelong benefits that result from families reading aloud to their children every day.