Spotlight on Some New Additions to the CDR!

Choosing Education Goals– Teacher’s Manual and Student Lessons

“The lessons and materials in each package provide students school and community-based experiences to help them identify their interests, skills, and limits. The lesson sequence is flexible to fit into the school's existing curriculum and schedule. A student video entitled, Choosing Goals to Plan Your Life, introduces the concepts by showing high school students using the choosing goal process across the three transition areas.”

Choosing Personal Goals– Teacher’s Manual
"The lessons and materials in each package provide students school and community-based experiences to help them identify their interests, skills, and limits. The lesson sequence is flexible to fit into the school's existing curriculum and schedule. A student video entitled, Choosing Goals to Plan Your Life, introduces the concepts by showing high school students using the choosing goal process across the three transition areas"

Take Action: Making Goals Happen, Grades 6-12
“Educators use the Take Action lessons to teach students the crucial skills for attaining their goals. The lesson package consists of a student video, Take Action, teacher lessons plans, and student worksheets. Students learn to break their long-term goals into short-term goals that can be accomplished in a short time period. Lessons teach students to plan how they will attain their goal by deciding: a standard for goal performance. a means to get feedback among other goals"

Transitions to High School:DVD and Instructional material for students with learning differences

"In an unscripted interview format, five high school students with specific learning disabilities and/or attention deficit disorder speak about their school and transition experiences. Juxtaposed with their comments two years earlier, the students outline the steps to a successful transition from elementary or middle school to high school.”

Health, safety, and Nutrition for the Young Child
"Research-based information has been used to make practical suggestions. for promoting the well-being of young children in this best-selling book on the subject. Health, Safety & Nutrition for the Young Child emphasizes the critical relationship that exists among these three areas and the important role teachers and parents play in helping children establish healthy lifestyles.”

Steps to Self-Determination - Helping Adolescents Learn to Achieve their Goals
"Steps to Self-Determination is focused on helping students gain knowledge and skills that will allow them to increase their ability to achieve their goals in a variety of environments. This Instructor’s Guide for the Steps to Self-Determination curriculum includes an introductory section and lesson plans”

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New Titles at the CDR Library!

Setting Up Classroom Spaces That Support Students 
With Autism Spectrum Disorders 
(2010) 
-This book shows through clear text and lots of photos how to determine
what type of furniture and materials to choose for various types of classrooms and how to arrange them while reducing anxiety and preventing problem behaviors






Infants, Children, and Adolescents 
(2002)
— Berk has updated this best-selling, child development text by paying close attention to the relationship between theory, research, and applications. Berk creates a "cast of characters" for each unit based on real children and families,
artfully using their "stories" to illustrate the sequence and processes of
child development and applications of theory and research.






Toddler Play; 100 Fun-Filled Activities to Maximize Your 
Toddler’s Potential 
(2001)
— Based on the content of the successful Gymboree's Play & Music Programs,
this book is a "recipe book" of games, finger rhymes, nursery songs,
and craft exercises that parents can use to help their children develop
physical, cognitive, emotional, and social skills.





A Guide to Creating Partnerships With Parents
 (1990)
— Nine chapters contain information to help caregivers develop partnerships of mutual trust and respect with families. Studying the family in its
culture, involving families in the program, helping families under stress, and
handling difficult issues are among the topics discussed.






101 Healing Stories for Kids and Teens 
(2005)
— provides straightforward advice on using storytelling and metaphors
in a variety of therapeutic settings. Ideal for all who work with young people,
this unique resource can be combined with other inventive and evidence based techniques such as play, art, music, and drama therapies and behavioral approaches.





Adolescent Psychopathology and the Developing Brain 
(2007)
— A central question which this volume addresses is: With treatment
and preventive interventions, can we enhance healthy functioning, prevent potential maladaptive behavior, and alter the developmental course
of psychological disorders?

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