Backyards and Butterflies: Ways to Include Children with
Disabilities in Outdoor Activities
Written by
four mothers; a developmental psychologist, occupational
therapist, special educator and an illustrator. This
book was written with families in mind, using low-tech,
inexpensive, homemade “assistive technology”
ideas for use at home. The Reader will learn how
to build accessible planting tables, locate accessible
garden sites, and adapt gardening tools for special needs. There
are many other adaptations for: fishing, berry picking,
animals as well as other home projects to construct. All
children deserve the opportunity to enjoy our great out-of-doors
and this innovative book helps parents and professionals
to make out-of-door projects and play accessible to special
needs.
Cost: $15.00 plus
S/H
Children with Visual
Impairments Edited
By Cay Holbrook, Ph.D.
Discovering and learning about a young child’s
visual impairment can be a scary and lonely time for parents. But,
this guide written by parents and professionals including
an ophthalmologist, optometrist, and special educators,
provides parents with support and guidance. Crucial
topics covered include: Diagnosis & Treatment;
Family & Life Adjustment, Your Child’s Development,
Early Intervention & Special Education, Literacy,
Orientation & Mobility, Multiple and Visual Disabilities,
Legal Issues, and The Years Ahead.
Cost: $17.00 plus S/H
Guide to Resources for Children and Youth
with Visual Impairments: 3rd Edition 1999
By Denise M. Ferrin
This comprehensive directory of companies
and organizations lists products and services for children
and youth with visual impairments. Adults will find the
book indispensable. Children and young adults can
use the book to find, for themselves, the item and service
they need, thus increasing their independence. Two
versions available: regular print and IBM diskette.
Cost: $19.00 plus S/H
Parents $15.00 plus S/H
Language, Literacy
and Children with Special Needs
By Sally Rogow
As more and more children with special needs
are welcomed into primary classrooms, teachers are searching
for ways to ensure that they have plenty of opportunity
to share in literacy activities with their classmates. In
Language, Literacy and Children with Special Needs, Sally
Rogow draws on the stories of real youngsters in real
classrooms to show how this can happen. Specific
strategies for developing language awareness in a variety
of situations are liberally illustrated with sensitive
descriptions of the children’s responses and concrete
examples of their work. Dr. Rogow’s firm conviction
that inclusion benefits everyone pervades this book and
is a source of inspiration for all teachers involved with
children with special needs.
Cost: $17.00 plus S/H
Living and Learning
with Blind Children: A Guide for Parents and Teachers
of Visually Impaired Children
By Felicity Harrison
and Mary Crow
Children who are blind and visually impaired
experience the world in unique ways. To help them
learn and develop, parents and teachers need to understand
how such children relate to their environment. Felicity
Harrison and Mary Crow, who have spent years working with
children who are blind and their families, offering practical
strategies for encouraging the development of the child
who is blind and interaction with his or her family and
school community.
Cost: $18.00 plus S/H.
Planet of the Blind
By Stephen Kuusisto
Kuusisto has been fractionally sighted since
birth, the result of postnatal care that severly damaged
his retinas. Brought up in a small town, ashamed
of his difference, Kuusisto spent much of his life trying
to pass as sighted. Planet of the Blind, his stunning
memoir, charts the years of lonely childhood spent behind
bottle-lens glasses, the depression that brought him from
obesity to anorexia, the struggle through high school,
college, first love, and sex.
Cost: Hardcover $23.00 plus
S/H
Paperback $12.00 plus S/H
Preschool Vision
Stimulation: It’s More Than a Flashlight!
By Lois Harrell and Nancy
Akeson
One of our favorite books for working with
children with low vision. Developmental perspectives
for infants and preschoolers who are visually and multi-impaired. With
a glossary, resource guide to organizations, list of books
for adults as well as a list of book for children.
Cost: $14.00 plus S/H
Promoting Acceptance
Of Children With Disabilities: From Tolerance To Inclusion
By P. Ann MacCuspie,
Ph..D.
Written for parents and educators of children
who are visually impaired, this book offers practical
suggestions for promoting the development of friendships
and positive peer acceptance of children. Factors
relevant to the social development and interaction of
children with visual impairments are presented. Although
written in response to research involving children with
visual impairments, the multiple factors common to all
children with disabilities are clearly presented. This
book provides an insightful look at the array of factors
to be considered in social settings like public school
classrooms and playgrounds. The book includes specific
suggestions for classroom teachers, special educators,
administrators, and parents. The appendices list
resources used in designing programs to promote social
acceptance.
Cost: $28.00 plus S/H.
See It My Way and
TLC - My way
By Marilyn Swieringa
Written after diabetes claimed her sight
at the age of thirty eight, these are must have books
for all who have contact with young adults and adults
who have lost their vision. See It My Way was written
for friends who requested a handbook to guide them in
dealing with the blind. TLC – My Way relates her
hospital experiences and is a guide to help the sighted
understand how to care for a patient who is blind. The
contents of both are real and very human. Each page
documents the author’s experiences. A wife
and mother, Marilyn was determined to not only continue
a “normal” family life but also to maintain
her civic activities and responsibilities. Everyone
who takes the time to read these books carefully will
come away enlightened as to the real world of a person
who is blind and how to assist them.
Cost: $6.00 each plus S/H
$10.00 set of two
Shared Moments: Learning
Games for Children with Disabilities
By Sally Rogow,Ph.D.
& Julia Hass
Shared Moments is a book of learnings for
young children with visual, physical and/or developmental
disabilities. This book will enable parents and caregivers
to provide interaction, stimulation, motivation, and fun. Specific
guidelines for playing games with children who have visual,
physical, and/or developmental problems are given.
Cost: $9.00 plus S/H.
Teaching Visually
Impaired Children
By Virginia Bishop, Ph.D.
“As more visually impaired students
are served in the regular classroom, basic and practical
information about instructional practices will be in greater
demand. The original version of Dr. Bishop’s
book was published 25 years ago, and since then today’s
classroom environment has changed. Technology, expanding
multicultural and international issues, and more flexible
concepts of families and schools have impacted the world
of education. The skills emphasized in Dr. Bishop’s
book encourage interdependence as well as independence,
and the teacher who follows its guidelines can build a
learning environment which allows the student choices
and opportunities for the best education.” This
is not a book that will sit on a shelf to provide an illusion
of knowledge. For the practitioner, it is a friendly
and efficient consultant, ready to provide another perspective
on how a student who is visually impaired can accomplish
a task or achieve a new level of knowledge.
Cost: $36.00 paperback
$49.00 hardcover (U.S.) plus S/H
The Early Development of Blind Children:
A Book of Readings
Edited By Iain F.W.K.
Davidson and Joyce Nesker Simmons
This book of readings brings between two
covers some of the most important articles and writings
published, during the past 50 years, about the impact
of blindness on the development of young children who
are blind. Of interest to parents as well as psychologists
and professional caregivers, the book embraces a range
of issues, with 30 articles organized into nine chapters.
Chapter One addresses the problems involved
in conceptualizing blindness. Chapters Two and Three
deal with developmental perspectives. How children
who are blind discover, explore, and learn are questions
addressed in Chapter Four; while Chapter Five deals with
social and emotional growth.
For conceptual clarity the first five chapters
of the book treat blindness in isolation. Chapter
Six, on the other hand, addresses the unavoidable fact
of blind life: blindness increasingly occurs in association
with other handicaps. Chapter Seven explores societal,
family, and professional reactions and attitudes to early
blindness. While the development of sensory aids
for adults who are blind has a lengthy history, their
provision for young children who are blind is relatively
recent; the selections in Chapter Eight discuss such provision. Discussion
of assessment and intervention has been reserved for the
final group of selections in Chapter Nine. The editors’
concluding statement in the Postscript is intended to
underscore the work in the field that needs to be done—as
their Introduction (Chapter 1) sought to initiate discussion
by emphasizing the difficulties inherent in grasping the
nature and implications of blindness.
Cost: $36.00 plus S/H
The New Language
of Toys: Teaching Communication Skills to Children with
Special Needs, A Guide for Parents and Teachers
By Sue Schwartz, Ph.D.
and Joan E. Heller Miller, Ed.M.
Now updated and expanded, The New Language
of Toys is a fresh, hands-on approach to using everyday
toys--both store-bought and homemade -- to stimulate language
development in children with special needs from birth
through age six. New to this edition are chapters on computer
technology, videotapes, and television. The section on
toy dialogues is expanded to include age-appropriate activities
for six year olds (up from age 5).
Cost: $17.00 plus S/H
The Simmons-Davidson
Developmental Profile (SDDP)
By Joyce Nesker Simmons and
Iain F. W. K. Davidson
The Simmons-Davidson Developmental Profile
(SDDP) is a specialized assessment procedure for use with
young children who are blind and visually impaired. In
the SDDP, the child is always assessed in context, and
thus, it is possible to compare the child’s performance
across settings. Guidelines are provided to gather
and interpret information about the child’s Health
Care, Family and various Interventions. The result
is that at the end of each assessment, there is a clear
and useful program plan.
The SDDP is an invaluable resource for all
specialists in the field including teachers, psychologists,
pediatricians, nurses, doctors, physical and occupational
therapists, early childhood specialists, and social workers. Parents
are an integral part of this assessment procedure and
results are readily understandable.
Each Kit Includes:
