BOOKS
 Family
Support
FS-1.5B Essential Allies: Families as Advisors,
Elizabeth S. Jeppson & Josie Thomas
(2 Copies) The information and tools provided in this publication equip
providers to work more effectively and collegially with family members
at the program and policy level.
FS-1.6B Families and Early Childhood Programs,
1989, Douglas R. Powell
FS-1.7B Families and Schools: A Handbook for
Practitioners, 1995, Sam Redding
This handbook includes strategies and a process-based approach to assist
parents in enriching the home-learning environment for their children.
FS-2.0B Megaskills: How Families Can Help Children
Succeed in School and Beyond,1988, Dorothy Rich
FS-2.1B Parent Articles 1: Enhance Parent Involvement
in Language Learning, 198, Margaret Schrader
This book includes over 80 reproductive articles written especially
for parents of children who have communicationdisorders or who are at
risk for having communication disorders.
FS-2.2B Parent Articles for Early Intervention,
1990, Marsha Dunn Klein
A wealth of easy to understand information, this book comprises 102
reproductive articles written especially for the parents of children,
ages birth through 3, who have been diagnosed with a variety of physical
disabilities and delays.
FS-2.3B Sibshops: Workshops for Siblings of
Children with Special Needs, 1994, Donald J. Meyer & Patricia
F. Vadasy
(2 Copies) This practical resource details the award-winning program
that brings together 8-13 years old siblings to express their good and
maybe not-so-good feelings about having brothers and sisters with disabilities.
FS-2.4B Strategies for Working with Families
of Young Children with Disabilities, 1996, Paula J. Beckman
FS-2.7B What Research Says: Fathers, Their
Children, and Disability, 1995
The purpose of this booklet is to provide descriptive information about
fathers of children with disabilities.
FS-2.8B Hooking Up With Dads - Service Providers
Share Their Insights About Including Fathers in Programs, 1997
This booklet is based on comments from educators that had successfully
reached out to and involved fathers in their programs.
FS-2.9B Feeding and Nutrition for the Child
with Special Needs: Handouts for Parents, 1994, Marsha Dunn Klein & Tracy
Delaney
This book of reproducible handouts provides professionals with information
in an easily accessible format for parents of young children with developmental
delays or disabilities that have feeding problems.
FS-3.0B Coaching Families and Colleagues in
Early Childhood, 2004, Barbara Hanft, Dathaln Rush & M'Lisa Shelden
This practical guidebook introduces an approach to working with families
and colleagues through coaching. The book defines and describes the five
steps of coaching - initiation, observation, action, reflection and evaluation.
FS-3.1B Understanding Families-Approaches to
Diversity, Disability and Risk, 2004, Marci Hanson & Eleanor
Lynch
This book combines research on families and family-centered services
with practical suggestions for professionals working with young children
who are at risk or who have disabilities and their families. Topics include
family diversity, the influence of disability, tips on communicating
and collaborating effectively with families.
FS-3.2B Connecting with Parents in the Early
Years, 2003, Jean Mendoza, Lilian G. Katz, Anne S. Robertson, Dianne
Rothenberg
This book provides a review of research and theory on issues relevant
to early childhood today: school readiness, vulnerable families, strategies
for parent/professionals connections, evidence-based practices in reaching
families.
FS-3.3B Building Culturally Linguistically Competent Services
To Support Young Children,
their Families and School Reading,
Kathy Seitzlinger Hepburn
The purpose of this tool kit is to provide guidance, tools, strategies and resources
for creating culturally and linguistically competent
services for families and young children.
General
Information
GEN-1.1B Endangered Minds: Why Children Don't
Think and What We Can Do About It, 1990, June M. Healy
Examines
reason why children today are less able to concentrate, to absorb, to analyze
information, and to think, than previous generations.
GEN-1.3B Frames of Mind: The Theory of Multiple
Intelligences, 1983, Howard Gardner
Explores the notion of a generic intelligence. Vital for anyone involved
in curriculum development.
GEN-1.4B Guide to Developing Neighborhood Family
Centers, 1992, The Family Center Planning Project
Provides a strategy for development of comprehensive and integrated
services with emphasis on primary prevention and development of family
and community capacity.
GEN-1.6B Marketing Workbook for Nonprofit Organizations,
1992, Gary J Stern
Provides instruction, non-profit case studies, and six step-by-step
worksheets that guide you through each stage of the marketing process.
GEN-1.7B Principle-Centered Leadership, 1991,
Stephen Covey
Looks at leadership by principal and efficacy rather than by survival
or bureaucratic expediency.
GEN-2.0B Strategic Planning Workbook for Nonprofit
Organizations, 1992, Bryan W. Barry
This book is useful as a general orientation to strategic planning;
a guide for nonprofits developing a strategic plan; and a tool for consultants,
trainers, or corporate volunteers who assist nonprofit groups.
GEN-2.4B From Case Management to Service Coordination
for Children with Emotional, Behavioral or Mental Disorders: Building
on Family Strengths, 1995, Barbara Friesen & John Poertner
GEN-2.5B Hidden Youth: Dropouts from Special
Education, 1991, Donald MacMillan
This book examines the difficulties of comparing and drawing meaning
from dropout data and examines the characteristics of students and schools
that place students at risk for leaving school prematurely.
GEN-2.6B Rural, Exceptional, At Risk, 1991,
Doris Helge
This book examines the unique difficulties of delivering educational
services to at-risk children and youth with disabilities who live in
rural areas.
GEN-2.7B Homeless and In Need of Special Education,
1991, L. Juane Heflin & Kathryn Rudy
This book examines the plight of the fastest growing segment of the
homeless population - families with children.
GEN-2.8B Grantsmanship: Writing Competitive
Proposals Workshop, Donald Kachur
This notebook provides information on exploring funding sources and
examining the grant proposal; writing the grant proposal; submitting
the proposal; approaching foundations for funding; and grant writing
resources.
GEN-2.9B Understanding and Locating Information
on Disability for Librarians and Information Specialists
This booklet provides information to information specialists and
other professionals that want to assist families in finding disability-related
information.
Hearing
Impairment
HI-1.0B Choices in Deafness: A Parents Guide
to Communication Options, 1996, Sue Schwartz
HI-1.1B Learning to Sign
in My Neighborhood, 1988, Diane E. Schmidt & Karen Cameron
A pictorial presentation (coloring book style) that depicts children
signing basic words.
HI-1.2B You and Your Hearing-Impaired Child:
A Self-Instructional Guide for Parents, 1988, John W. Adams
Explore how parents and hearing impaired children interact and considers
the special impact of having a hearing-impaired child in the family.
HI-1.3B The Young Deaf or Hard of Hearing Child:
A Family Centered Approach to Early Education, 2003, Barbara Bodner-Johnson,
Marilyn Sass-Lehrer
This book provides a solid foundation in current research and
practical suggestions for professionals that work with young children with
hearing impairments and their families. Topics covered include working
within the context of the family, language and communication issues, education,
and family-centered issues.
Inclusion
INCL-1.1B Best Practices in Integration: Inservice
Training Model, 1993, Susan M. Klein & Susan Kontos
Inservice training model for persons delivering services for infants,
toddlers, and preschool children with special needs within community-based
early childhood settings.
INCL-1.2B Changing Canadian Schools: Perspectives
on Disability and Inclusion, 1991, Gordon L. Porter & Diane Richler
Contains clear analysis of all the roles involved in changing special
education practices.
INCL-1.3B Children with Special Needs in Early
Childhood Settings, 1990, Carol Paasche, Lola Gorrill & Bev Strom
This guide provides information on finding ways of meeting a child's
special needs in typical early childhood settings.
INCL-1.4B Circle of Friends: People with Disabilities
and Their Friends Enrich the Lives of One Another, 1988, Robert Perske
INCL-1.5B Curriculum Considerations in Inclusive
Classrooms, 1992, William Stainback & Susan Stainback
INCL-1.6B The Early Integration Training Project,
1991
INCL-1.8B The Exceptional
Student in the Regular Classroom, Bill R. Gearheart, Mel W. Weishann & Carol
J. Gearheart
INCL-2.0B How It Happens: A Look at Inclusive
Educational Practices in Canada for Children and Youth with Disabilities,
1992, Marcia Rioux, et.al.
This report is useful in providing practical directions and ideas concerning
the means of achieving inclusive education.
INCL-2.1B The Inclusion Papers: Strategies
to Make Inclusion Happen, Jack Pearpoint & Marsha Forest
INCL-2.3B Making School and Community Recreation
Fun for Everyone, 1994, M. Sherril Moon
This book offers case studies and specific techniques to individuals
and groups interested in assisting children, teenagers, and adults with
disabilities so that they may participate more fully in local school
and neighborhood social and leisure activities.
INCL-2.5B Quilting Integration: A Technical
Assistance Guide on Integrated Early Childhood Programs, 1993, Leah
Holden, Maria Kaiser, Dennis Sykes & Rhonda Tyree
Practical ideas for integrated early childhood programs that are inclusive
of all children, regardless of disability.
INCL-2.6B Support Networks for Inclusive Schooling,
1990, William Stainback & Susan Stainback
INCL-2.7B Mainstreaming: Ideas for Teaching
Young Children, 1981, Judith Souweine, Sheila Crimmins & Carolyn
Mazel
(2 Copies) This book provides the ideas and teaching strategies of three
teachers in inclusive early childhood classrooms.
INCL-2.8B Children and Youth Assisted by Medical
Technology in Educational Settings: Guidelines for Care, 1997, Stephanie
Porter, et.al.
This reference book provides the help needed to give the care and support
required to include students assisted by medical technology in school
settings.
INCL-2.9B A Place for Me: Including Children
with Special Needs in Early Care and Education Settings, 1994, Phyllis
A. Chandler
(2 Copies) This practical book is for early childhood educators that
currently have, or will have, a child with special needs in their classroom.
INCL-3.0B Opening Doors through Integration,
Kathy Lake
INCL-3.1B Adapting Early
Childhood Curricula for Children with Special Needs, 1992, Ruth Cook,
Annette Tessier & M.
Diane Klein
INCL-3.3B Inclusive
Preschool Environments: Strategies for Planning, 1998, Belinda Hardin,
Pat Wesley & Lura
Lohr
This book is designed to provide information on how to include children
with special needs in typical preschool or early childhood settings.
INCL-3.4B Portraits of Inclusion through the
Eyes of Children, Families, and Educators, 1997, Susan Janko & Alice
Porter
The authors identify 10 policy issues that have an impact on inclusion
in early childhood. Each issue is illustrated through a story or anecdote
related to the experiences of a child, teacher or parent in early childhood.
INCL-3.5B Preschool Inclusion, 1999, Claire
Cavallaro & Michelle Haney
This new resource provides strategies for including young children with
disabilities in early childhood programs. Specific areas include: activity
planning, family involvement, multiple disabilities, observational assessment,
and positive behavioral support.
INCL-3.6B Me Too Series: Introducing Me, 2001,
Marci Hanson & Paula Beckman
This is a series of six booklets written for parents of young children
with disabilities. Parents and teachers will find this series helpful
in planning the successful inclusion of a child with disabilities into
a community preschool environment. This booklet provides a way for parents
to introduce teachers to their child. Pages and ideas are provided for
telling teachers and others about your child's strengths and interests,
ways to communicate with your child, and many other interesting things
that will help teachers know your child.
INCL-3.6B Me Too Series: It's Time for Preschool,
2001, Marci Hanson & Paula Beckman
This is a series of six booklets written for parents of young children
with disabilities. Parents and teachers will find this series helpful
in planning the successful inclusion of a child with disabilities into
a community preschool environment. This booklet discusses how to select
a preschool, meeting with teachers, understanding the laws that support
inclusion, and making inclusion a positive experience.
INCL-3.6B Me Too Series: Look What I Can Do
Now, 2001, Marci Hanson & Paula Beckman
This is a series of six booklets written for parents of young children
with disabilities. Parents and teachers will find this series helpful
in planning the successful inclusion of a child with disabilities into
a community preschool environment. This booklet focuses on strategies
for modifying schedules and the physical environment so that yourchild
can participate in preschool and community settings.
INCL-3.6B Me Too Series: My Community, My Family,
2001, Marci Hanson & Paula Beckman
This is a series of six booklets written for parents of young children
with disabilities. Parents and teachers will find this series helpful
in planning the successful inclusion of a child with disabilities into
a community preschool environment. This booklet discusses building positive
relationships with others in the community, selecting appropriate programs
and activities in your community, and adapting activities for all children.
INCL-3.6B Me Too Series:
My New Friends, 2001, Marci Hanson & Paula Beckman
This is a series of six booklets written for parents of young children
with disabilities. Parents and teachers will find this series helpful
in planning the successful inclusion of a child with disabilities into
a community preschool environment. This booklet discusses how to encourage
friendships between children in the preschool classroom and in the community.
INCL-3.6B Me Too Series: On My Best Behavior,
2001, Marci Hanson & Paula Beckman
This is a series of six booklets written for parents of young children
with disabilities. Parents and teachers will find this series helpful
in planning the successful inclusion of a child with disabilities into
a community preschool environment. This booklet helps to understand your
child's behavior. Techniques for planning for and supporting positive
behavior and decreasing negative behavior are illustrated.
INCL-3.7B Setting the Stage: Including Children
with Disabilities in Head Start, 1999
This training guide can be used to provide the framework for planning
how to include children with disabilities into Head Start programs. The
guide contains sections on Making Room for All of Us; Communication;
Making it Work; Continuing Professional Development; and Resources.
INCL-3.8B Natural Environments and Inclusion,
2000, Susan Sandall & Michaelene Ostrosky (Eds.)
This monograph addresses the importance of providing services in natural
environments and inclusive settings. Information on strategies for creating
inclusive environments, ensuring positive attitudes, providing valuable
experiences, and examples of state and legal regulations.
INCL-3.9B Building Blocks for Teaching Preschoolers
with Special Needs, 2002, Susan Sandall & Ilene Schwartz
This book provides teachers in inclusive early childhood classrooms,
practical solutions to everyday challenges. Topics covered include curriculum
modifications, embedded learning opportunities, and child-focused instructional
strategies.
INCL-4.0B The Inclusive Early Childhood Classroom:
Easy Ways to Adapt Learning Centers for Children, 1999, Patti Gould
and Joyce Sullivan
Each chapter of this book describes practical ways for teachers to adjust
learning centers and classroom routines for children with special needs.
INCL-4.1B Classroom Management in the Inclusive
Classroom: Staff Workbook, 2003, Project LEAP
This self-study manual can be used by teachers and teaching assistants
to enhance their work in supporting young children with special needs
in inclusive or self-contained classroom settings. An emphasis is placed
on understanding behavior and behavioral principles, and encouraging
communication.
INCL-4.2B Nurturing Social Skills in the Inclusive
Classroom: Staff Workbook, 2003, Project LEAP
This self-study manual is for teachers and teaching assistants that
want to enhance their abilities in organizing and facilitating social
skill settings and friendships for children with and without disabilities.
INCL-4.3B Blended Practices for Teaching Young
Children in Inclusive Settings, 2005, Jennifer Grisham-Bron, Mary
Louise Hemmeter and Krisite Pretti-Frontczak
This book bridges the gap between special and general education for
teaching young children. It provides the information that teachers need
to ensure that all of the children make progress in early childhood through
the use of vignettes, examples, and effective practices.
INCL-4.4B Achieving Learning Goals Through Play
- Teaching Young Children with Special Needs,
2nd Edition,
2005, Anne Widerstrom
This book provides creative, ready-to-use strategies for weaving individual learning
goals into play activities for children in early
childhood, early childhood special education, and Kindergarten classes. Topics
include fostering skill development during group
activities and play time, using centers and materials to create appropriate learning
activities, and adapting activities for children with
special needs.
INCL-4.5B Young Children with Disabilities in Natural Environments,
2006, Mary Jo Noonan & Linda McCormick
This book provides specific, practical and descriptive information on how to
teach young children, birth - 5 years, with special needs
in natural and typical settings.
INCL-4.6B All Kinds of Friends, Even Green!,
2002, Ellen B. Senisi
In this short book we meet Moses, a young boy with a disability in an inclusive class. Through Moses' eyes, readers will learn a lot
about what inclusion means.
INCL-4.7B Children with Special Needs in Earlychildhood Settings: Identification, Intervention,
Inclusion,
2004, Carol Paasche, Lola Gorril & Bev Strom
This book is designed to help early childhood teachers recognize children that are developing differently than other same-age
children. The book covers observable characteristics of a variety of delays and provides recommendations for supporting the child in
the classroom. Resources are also given in each section.
Law
LAW-1.0B Individuals with Disabilities Education
Act, Rev. 1997, 1997
(7 Copies)
LAW-1.1B Manual para Padres: Programa Individualizado
de Educacion
(2 Copies) This manual provides parents that speak and read Spanish
with information on the IEP document and process.
LAW-1.2B Parent Handbook for Individualized
Education Program: English with Chinese Translation
(2 Copies) This manual provides parents that speak and read Chinese
with information on the IEP document and process. The translation is
in Chinese characters; it can be read by parents that speak Cantonese
or Mandarin.
LAW-1.3B Children Without Parents: The IDEA's
Surrogate Parent Mandate, 1997, Nancy Hubley
LAW-1.4B Better IEPs: How
to Develop Legally Correct and Educationally Useful Programs (3rd Edition),
1998, Barbara Bateman & Many Anne Linden
This updated edition, based on IDEA 97, is a definitive guide to understanding
and writing useful and usable IEPs.
LAW-1.5B The Americans with Disabilities Act:
A Guide for People with Disabilities, Their Families and Advocates,
1990,
Daniel Goldberg & Marge
Goldberg
This book states how the ADA prohibits discrimination against persons
with disabilities in employment, public services, public accommodations,
telecommunications, and other service areas.
LAW-1.6B Wrightslaw: Special Education Law,
1999, Peter Wright & Pamela Wright
This book provides information to parents, professionals, advocates
and lawyers on key laws, regulations, statutes, and case law that have
an impact on the delivery of special education services. Areas covered
in this manual are: IDEA 1997, Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act,
Family Educational Records and Privacy Act (FERPA), U.S. Supreme Court
Decisions, and analysis and interpretation.
LAW-1.7B Wrightslaw Advocacy Series: Tactics
and Strategy Manual, 1999, Peter Wright & Pamela Wright
This manual provides parents with information on how to advocate for
their child's right to receive a free and appropriate public education
through the use of effective communication and preparation strategies
and knowledge of applicable federal laws.
LAW-1.8B The Complete IEP Guide: How to Advocate
for Your Special Ed Child, 1999, Lawrence Siegel
This non-adversarial guide to the IEP walks you step-by-step through
the entire process by providing instructions, suggestions, strategies,
letters, resources and forms.
LAW-1.9B IDEA Requirements for Preschoolers
with Disabilities, 2000, The Council for Exceptional Children
(2
copies) This guide addresses IDEA '97 provisions under Part B as they relate
to children 3-5 years of age and their families. The booklet uses a question & answer
format. It provides information on pertinent language in IDEA, the Federal
Regulations, non-regulatory guidance and helpful suggestions for implementing
IDEA, and effective practices and resource recommendations from DEC (Division
for Early Childhood).
LAW-2.0B Developing Educationally Relevant
IEPs: A Technical Assistance Document for Speech-Language Pathologists,
2000, Susan J. Brannen, et.al.
This book provides information based on the final Part B regulations
of IDEA '97 that will assist speech-language pathologists in their role
in developing and implementing the IEP. Samples of goals, benchmarks,
short-term objectives, IEPs, and curriculum-based communication skills
are provided in the extensive appendix section.
LAW-2.1B A Guide to the Individualized Education
Program, 2000, Lisa Kupper (Ed.)
This guidance from the Office of Special Education and Rehab Services
provides information that will assist parents and professionals in implementing
Part B of IDEA regarding IEPs. The guide explains the IEP process and
provides information to help all IEP team members develop and carry out
an IEP. An Appendix provides the final Federal Regulations related to
IEP requirements.
LAW-2.2B What Do I Do When... The Answer Book
on Individualized Education Programs, 1997, Susan Gorn
This book analyzes the IEP process and the IEP document in depth through
a series of questions and answers. The 243 questions addressed in this
book cover areas including: the IEP meeting; parental participation;
behavior management plans; student expulsion; private school, transition
planning, Section 504; and IEP disputes and remedies.
LAW-2.3B From Emotions to Advocacy: The Special
Education Survival Guide, 2001, Pam Wright & Pete Wright
This book provides information on how to plan, prepare and organize
information for effective parental participation on IEP teams. Some of
the topics covered include: understanding your child's educational needs;
organizing your child's file; working with professionals; writing goals
and objectives; and resolving conflict.
LAW-2.4B Part C and Head Start Regulations,
1999, Kenneth Kahn
This book provides the exact text of IDEA Part C Early Intervention
for Infants and Toddlers with Disabilities, andHead Start Performance
Standards for Operation, Recruitment, Enrollment, Staffing, Program Options,
and Services for Children with Disabilities.
LAW-2.5B Negotiating the Special Education
Maze: A Guide for Parents and Teachers, 3rd Edition, 1997, Winifred
Anderson, Stephen Chitwood & Deidre Hayden
This expanded and revised edition helps parents, teachers, and school
administrators understand the special education system and how to make
it work for individual families.
LAW-2.6B Guiandose por la Intrincada senda
de la educacion especial: Una Guia para Padres y Maestros, 1999,
Winifred Anderson, Stephen Chitwood & Deidre Hayden
(English Translation of Title: Negotiating the Special Education Maze:
A Guide for Parents and Teachers, third Edition) This expanded and revised
edition helps parents, teachers, and school administrators understand
the special education system and how to make it work for individual families.
Second copy of book at PAR-7.0B.
LAW-2.7B No Child Left Behind - A Desktop Reference,
2002
This book offers a clear and straightforward look at the major reforms
found in the No Child Left Behind Act of 2001.
LAW-2.8B Wrightslaw- No Child Left Behind,
2003, Peter W.D. Wright, Esq., Pamela Darr Wright, Suzanne Whitney
Heath
This book is a complete guide to the No Child Left Behind Act.
Learning
Disabilities
LD-1.0B Challenging Voices: Writings by, for
and about People with Learning Disabilities, 1993, Cheryl Gerson Tuttle
A collection of poems, letters, and essays written by children and adults
with learning disabilities.
LD-1.1B Crossover Children: A Sourcebook for
Helping Children Who are Gifted and Learning Disabled, 1995,
Marlene Bireley
This book provides instructional content and practices for children
that are gifted and learning disabled.
LD-1.2B Trouble with School: A Family Story
About Learning Disabilities, 1993, Kathryn Boesel Dunn & Allison
Boesel Dunn
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