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This book is an excellent resource for any parent or professional involved in the life of a child with special needs! It is a must have! Written with the personal perspective of a parent, it provides an invaluable insight for professionals working with families on any level.

Working on business issues involves sharing your thoughts and mental work load with others (partners, employees, suppliers and customers). No longer can you personally or corporatively keep all the balls up in the air by yourself. Collaboration and partnership is the name of the game.

The process of sharing with others clarifies and enhances your original vision of the business opportunity. Talking it out generates some breakthroughs that can have a major impact on your future direction. Communicating your thoughts with others, who have different experiences and skills, will allow you to discover things you didn't know that you didn't know.

Although collaberation is important today, effective partnerships can be elusive and hard to crasp for most people. A new book, "Do You Hear What I Hear?", by Janice Fialka and Karen C. Mikus published by Procter Publications, LLC, explores the journey to creative partnerships. Although written to parents and professionals who help children with special needs, this book guides us all in understanding how to strengthen our partnerships with others. Here are some points the authors make regarding misunderstandings about the nature and evolution of partnerships:

"...there is often the expectation that parents and professionals immediately are full partners simply by sitting together at a conference table to discuss the plans and goals for a child. Our experience has been just the opposite: that partnershps evolve over time, go through various phases and involve different interactions during various points of working together. For these reasons, we believe that a developmental approach to partnerships is both realistic and useful. This way of thinking helps us to view challenges and struggles in the relationships as normal, universal and to be expected, rather than as hopeless indicators of a doomed relationship."

When sharing your vision and strategy with your partners, good things begin to happen. You no longer have to be the go-to-guy or gal for every decision. Those who work with you begin to understand the basis for past decisions and now feel empowered to make some appropriate decisions on their own. Their self-directed work activity can free you up to concentrate on the important, rather than the urgent, issues facing your organization.

If you are really passionate about your business venture, the sooner you begin to involve others in your business decision making process, the sooner you will foster their commitment to continuously improve your business. Business relationships with suppliers, partners and customers will improve since they know where you are headed and how they can help you get there.

Finding this book was such a gift!! There aren't nearly as many resources for dyslexic math as there are for reading and writing. I was so frustrated trying to help my daughter w/her math--the basic concepts are so simple (for me) that I didn't know how to break it down any further to explain it to her. This book details why dyslexics don't "see" math ideas like non-dyslexics do, and how other dyslexics have been helped to grasp math concepts. For instance, my daughter has told me that she finds division easier than the other three main math concepts (addition, subtraction, multiplication) which I thought was unusual. This book explained that that's true for dyslexics because it is the only one of the four that begins computations on the left! Six different authors contributed to this book, most of whom are college professors and all of whom have taught and studied dyslexics for years. The writing is sometimes a bit dry--scholarly--but I found it fascinating and so very helpful.

There is very good book to help teachers and parents. The secret is to get teachers to read it.

When you have a disability, traveling isn't easy. As the Disabilities Host on BellaOnline, I found this book to be very useful. It needs to be updated, but I think it is still beneficial and worth buying.

Although this book is also useful for senior and families with young children, we use it to learn which areas in the national parks are accessible and were private vehicles are restricted. It also advises when special passes can be obtained.

Visitors to restricted areas of the parks must ride in busses, special provisions are often made for the disabled (usually requires a state diabled permit for your vehicle) allowing you to drive your private vehicle in these areas. This book gives you advance notice of when you need a special permit for this privilege. In some cases, the book has provided us with information that is not easily available from any other source. This makes the park much more accessible for the disabled.

The only reason this is not a 5 star book is that the book is 8 years old and does not cover the newer parks.

As a psychologist with 30 years experience, I have been focusing on issues of attention, memory and cognition, as it relates to self esteeme, performance, and the development of emotional difficulties. The text is more focused on school which is where we developed and where we met our most difficult challenges in performance. It is exciting to see that educators are doing more to help children who are between the special education criterion and the kids who don't have difficulty. It is also important to understand the process of learning so we can better teach to the student rather than the student learning how we teach! This book can help open the educators doors to higher learning.

This is an excellent, informative book on executive function, which is often a lot of the problem with students further on the spectrum and who are mainstreamed in school. It explains things I haven't really understood previously about executive function problems that my son deals with -- why he doesn't get started on a project, why he doesn't continue through a project and finish it to the end. Various authors contributed to this book, and so you get a psychological, physical, and educational perspective that is necessary for understanding the situation, and some very good tools to help. Also of benefit is a full explanation of the battery of tests that are used to figure out if a student has executive function problems.

I took the book with me to our son's IEP this year, and used it quite a bit to help our son's teachers understand what might be issues in the coming year.

I had heard from a great many people about this book prior to reading it myself. The first time I heard about it was back in '94. Finally, I saw it for sale at a garage sale for cents on the dollar value and I bought it.

I was engrossed by the first page and it took me a little over 6 hours to finish. I like many others would have assumed that Jr. would have had a tough time stacking up to his father but the opposite was true. Both father and son had a bond that the books words conveyed perfectly. Junior has a knack for explaining things that is easy to understand and contextualize. The story is told easily with such candor that you actually find yourself feeling sorry for yourself and not just Junior's life. However, it does get a little stale with Junior's constant regard of anyone without "Vietmam" experience as less than himself. But, that in itself only enhances and clarifies what he experienced and what his generations conflicts were. The timultuous times of the 60's and early 70's are truly seen though the eyes of not a hippie or a burn out but of one who displayed wisdom beyond his years. Wisdom that could only be gained through combat experienc or more specifically the Vietmam experience. JUniors spirit and perserverence lent itself to mutual success and failure. Only when JUnior admitted his failures did he then start to experience success. As cliche as it may seem that is how the book is summed up. A good story told honestly and without prejudice.

Bill Smith -

First, get your summary of this book correct! Louis B. Puller Jr. was son of a great WW I, II, and Korean War hero, {Chesty} Louis B. Puller Sr.. He had only served in Vietnam. This book depicts a very clear picture of a man who has been pushed to his limits in life and came back from the depths of hell from a war that tore at the seams of our country. From his life as a young child, college student, and Marine Corps Officer there is a vivid portrayal of a man who had given all of himself to follow in the footsteps of his father. Louis jr. comes close to giving the ulitmate sacrifce for his counrty. The healing process that he went under after tripping a booby trapped artillary shell in Vietnam was not only physical, but in a large part mental for him. This book shows the battles he had overcome not only in the war but in life in general. I admire this bravery and only hope to learn for this mans wisdom that he so eloquenty depicts is this book. May God protect your soul Louis B Puller Jr. Semper Fidelis

This book was a great price and was shipped very quickly. I'll buy frim this place again for sure!

This book is required for a class I'm taking to finish my Master's degree. Unfortunately, my school's bookstore didnt have the book and wouldn't have it before class was scheduled to begin for the semester. I ordered this book from Amazon and had it within 2 days -- before the class started.

It's well written, and easy to read and considering that it's mandatory for the class, that's always nice.

I came across this book through "the reading group, by Elizabeth Noble". She has a great list of books to read.

Margaret Forster takes us on a wonderful journey through Catherine's discovery of her dead mother. The 'memory box' her mother leaves her daughter as she dies, when the child is only six months old, reminds us of the importance of personal history and the sense that it gives us all of our grounding in life. The journey that Catherine undertakes leads her to question her own lifestyle and the relationships with her father, stepmother and Tony her boyfriend. To the very end she reconciles her feelings for the mother she tried to ignore and discovers unexpected truths about herself. The box for thirty years enclosed and contained within the attic of her family home, once opened like Pandoras Box, couldnt be closed again. An engaging story which will make you question your history.

This guide provides important insights and practical strategies for teaching and supporting higher functioning students with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) in school. The examples used focus on high school situations, but the strategies can also be applied to students in other grades. This manual was written to help teachers increase awareness, and it also offers ideas that teachers can use to encourage academic and vocational success in students with ASD. Please visit our website to obtain a copy of this resource at the actual list price.

This is the first guide I have ever found aimed at educating teachers about higher functioning autism and asperger's syndrome. Aimed primarily at Junior High, High School, and College teachers. As a parent I found it accurate and full of extremely helpful ideas for educators. I am making sure each of my daughters teachers read it as it sheds light on the education problems that follow my daughter. This book will give educators information they can easily use and incorporate into their classrooms to help these adolescents be successful. Even includes social interaction information. I loved it.

It was very friendly written to make it easy to read. I was disappointed in that the book favored one organization over another.

As a parent of a blind 7 year-old, I will use this book to help me to encourage my daughter to become an independent and confident traveler. I can help her learn the skills of blindness. This book would also be extremely helpful for a parent with a baby or toddler who is blind including those with multiple disabilities. Mr. Cutter suggests a partnership between parents and O&M teachers. This book would be invaluable in a O&M teacher preparation program and for current teachers. An in-depth discussion of cane use, selection, and teaching is discussed including the use of a "teaching cane." I was encouraged by the positive attitude of this book toward blindness.

The Learning Differences Sourcebook, has been one of the most user friendly references that I have used. This book answered all of my questions for different components that make up childrens learning differences. The discriptions of the differences were easy to understand, useful, and applicable to the job I do. I highly recommend.

I'm really pleased with this book. I especially like that the term "Learning Differences" is used. The first few chapters are for people using professionals in the community. I did not find them helpful in my case. I did find the "non- professional" terminology helpful. The guide has specific ideas that can be implimented in a non-school, non-professional, parent controlled enviornment. Very parent friendly book. Also supportive of the alternative of homeschooling for children with these differences.