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This digital document is an article from Practical Homeschooling, published by Thomson Gale on January 1, 2005. The length of the article is 1207 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Special needs preschool.(READINESS)
Author: Melissa Morgan
Publication: Practical Homeschooling (Magazine/Journal)
Date: January 1, 2005
Publisher: Thomson Gale
Issue: 63Page: 28(2)

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This digital document is an article from Childhood Education, published by Thomson Gale on September 22, 2005. The length of the article is 3492 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Using family-based practices for young children with special needs in preschool programs.
Author: Sharon A. Raver
Publication: Childhood Education (Magazine/Journal)
Date: September 22, 2005
Publisher: Thomson Gale
Volume: 82Issue: 1Page: 9(5)

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Preschool Children with Special Needs explores ways of providing preschool children with special needs and their families with a learning environment that will help them develop and learn. The new edition has up-to-date and expanded coverage of issues in early childhood general and special education. The text continues to emphasize the needs of preschoolers age three to six and provides essential information to teachers and others who work with young children in all settings. Current models of curricula, which incorporate new features from research and practical experiences with children who have special needs, are described and discussed. ... Read more

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Preschool Children with Special Needs: Children At Risk, Children with Disabilities (2nd Edition)
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This book explores ways of meeting the challenges of preschool children who have special needs by providing these children and their families with a learning environment that will help them develop and learn. The text emphasizes the special needs of preschoolers age three to age six. The information is essential for all teachers and others who work with young children. Prospective and current teachers of preschool children who are at-risk or who have disabilities, as well as teachers of typical young children in regular preschool classes, need this knowledge. ... Read more

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Praise for the First Edition:

`… A warm feeling of positive reassurance and guidance runs throughout the book. [It] offers practical and emotional help, not only to a child's family, but equally to health and educational workers starting out within this field. This book should have a prominent place in every toy and leisure library as well as within childcare agencies.'

- Play Matters

`This very useful and readable book … provides a wealth of resource ideas to support parents of young children with special needs'

- Downs Syndrome Association (UK)

`This is a very practical book, full of common sense and simple ideas…Although intended for parents this book will also be an invaluable resource for anyone working with children with special needs'

- Let's Play

When young children are diagnosed with conditions such as Down Syndrome, autism or other forms of developmental delay, there is much that parents can do to help. This new edition of the award-winning Small Steps Forward includes up-to-date research and practice, providing parents and carers with the information they need and a host of ideas to encourage their child's development. The games and activities use toys and materials which most children will already have, and involve no special preparation. They are also fun to play.

Sarah Newman divides skills into six areas - cognitive, linguistic, physical, sensory, social and emotional - for convenient reference. She deals with general issues, such as behavior management, toilet-training and sleep management, which may be encountered by parents of children with any form of disability - physical, learning or sensory. She also provides an outline of child development so that parents can place their child's progress in context, and gives practical advice on coping with stress of having a child with special needs.

This book is an essential guide for parents of young children with developmental disabilities and will also be invaluable to anyone who works with children with special needs. ... Read more

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Excellent resource
This book gives lots of positive, practical and relevant ideas for use with special needs children.I have already tried a few ideas and they have worked very well.It is an English resource, but from New Zealand still very relevant!!

Parents of young children will find this a fine guide for behavior management and cognitive skills
This new edition of SMALL STEPS FORWARD: USING GAMES AND ACTIVITIES TO HELP YOUR PRE-SCHOOL CHILD WITH SPECIAL NEEDS offers the latest research and practice along with a host of games and activities to help kids. These games use no special materials and are fun to play, and are offered in a text dividing skills into six areas for easy reference. Parents of young children will find this a fine guide for behavior management and cognitive skills as well as social and emotional growth, and early education collections will welcome it.

A much needed book for parents of special needs children
Small Steps Forward by Sarah Newman

This is a great book written by a very impressive woman.Sarah Newman discovered she had an autistic child when her first son was a few months old.Her first reaction was panic andher next thought was to get as much help as she could.She searched for abook on the subject and found that there were none.So Sarah set to andwrote one that made use of her experience parenting her own special needschild.The result is the book - Small Steps Forward.

As you would expectfrom the circumstances surrounding its creation, the book is down to earthand practical.It is full of the experience that Sarah gained in the dayto day problems of managing, entertaining and helping a small child.Sarahis a practical and highly intelligent woman, so there is plenty of soundadvice on how to make the best use of professional advice and where to findpracticaql help.The book is written with real understanding for theproblems involved and comes to the re-assuring conclusion that parentsshould remember "it is you who know your own child best."

I read thisbook when my wife was preparing the illustrations and found the experiencevery moving.It gave me a small insight intothe problems and pleasuresof parenting a special needs child and struck me as a book that would be agod-send to any parent of such a child.In fact me and my wife havealready given it to the parents of one such child.Furthermore I believethat any parents of a child under 5 would find hundreds of good ideas andlots of good advice in the book..

The illustrations are beautifulcapturing the "different" charm and beauty that belongs to Downs Syndrome,Autistic, and other special needs children.Parents or young special needschildren will find this a beautiful book as well as a supremely useful one. I heartily recommend this book. Nick Mellersh ... Read more

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