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Socially ADDept: A Manual for Parents of Children with ADHD and/or Learning Disabilities
Janet Z. Giler

Socially ADDept: A Manual for Parents of Children with ADHD and/or Learning Disabilities

Socially ADDept helps parents teach the hidden rules of communication to children who are having social problems. The manual is in a workbook format and guides parents through each topic through a series of exercises and suggested dialogue. Some of the topics covered are how to handle teasing, use appropriate body language, comprehend jokes and sarcasm, and join groups effectively. Socially ADDept is easy to read and use.

Spaceman
Jane Cutler

Spaceman

Gary just can’t seem to fit in. He doesn’t have any friends, his school work is always sloppy, and his teachers endlessly criticize him. But Gary has a way to escape—he spaces out. Then one day Gary accidentally hurts someone, and now he’s being sent to a new school for kids with different learning styles. Will Gary finally be able to catch up and fit in, or will he remain the Spaceman forever?

My Teacher's My Friend
P. K. Hallinan

My Teacher's My Friend

A happy rhyming book that looks at the friendship between a child and his teacher.

The Behavior Disorder IEP Companion
Molly Lyle Brown

The Behavior Disorder IEP Companion

Save time planning and writing IEP goals! Useful in both the special ed and regular classroom, this comprehensive resource provides you with IEP goals, interventions, and strategies for your students with behavioral difficulties. Set a course for your students to succeed in the classroom and in daily social situations.
The Bully, the Bullied, and the Bystander
Barbara Coloroso

The Bully, the Bullied, and the Bystander

It’s a deadly triad: bullies who terrorize, bullied kids who are afraid to tell, bystanders who watch, participate, or look away, and adults who dismiss the incidents as a normal part of childhood. Drawing on her decades of work with youth, this practical book by bestselling parenting educator Barbara Coloroso explains the three kinds of bullying, the differences between boy and girl bullies, four abilities that protect your child from succumbing to bullying, seven steps to take if your child is a bully, how to help the bullied child heal and effectively discipline the bully, how to evaluate a school’s antibullying policy and much more.

The Gift of ADHD: How to Transform Your Child's Problems Into Strengths
Lara Honos-Webb

The Gift of ADHD: How to Transform Your Child's Problems Into Strengths

The goal of this book is to help readers recast the paradigm they use to think about the condition, encouraging them to help ADHD kids develop their unique gifts. It begins with an overview of current ADHD diagnosis including definitions and a sample of a case study. Each subsequent chapter reframes certain ADHD symptoms in a positive way and reinforces this transformation with awareness exercises designed to increase the appreciation of the child’s traits.

The Kissing Hand
Audrey Penn

The Kissing Hand

Chester Raccoon doesn’t want to go to school - he wants to stay home with his mother. She tells him he’ll make new friends and read new stories. Plus, she’s going to share a special, family secret with him - the Kissing Hand. This secret, she tells him, will make school seem as cozy as home.

The Night I Flunked My Field Trip (Hank Zipzer)
Henry Winkler, Lin Oliver

The Night I Flunked My Field Trip (Hank Zipzer)

It’s time for the “best field trip of the year” — a night on an old-fashioned three-mast sailing ship in New York Harbor. Then Hank accidentally sets the boat adrift! The best field trip of the year is becoming the worst night of Hank’s life — how’s he going to get out of this one?

The School Survival Guide for Kids With LD
Rhoda Woods Cummings

The School Survival Guide for Kids With LD

This guide offers specific tips and strategies especially for unique learners like you. Use these “school tools” to help build confidence in reading, writing, spelling, math, and more. Learn to organize time, set goals, stick up for yourself, handle conflict, stay out of trouble, cope with testing, and get help from adults.

The Unwritten Rules of Friendship
Eileen Kennedy-Moore

The Unwritten Rules of Friendship

This practical and compassionate guidebook enables parents to sharpen any child’s social skills by pinpointing the child’s particular social strengths and difficulties. Each chapter — from “The Shy Child” to “The Little Adult,” from “The Short-Fused Child” to “The Sensitive Soul” — uses case studies that focus on the specific social conventions that certain children don’t “get,” and offers drills that parents and teachers can use to help children understand the unspoken underpinnings of social situations, the knowledge essential to building, sustaining, and repairing relationships.

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