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Turn autism around : an action guide for parents of young children with early signs of autism / by Barbera, Mary Lynch,1965-author.; Grandin, Temple,writer of foreword.;
Includes bibliographical references and index."Developmental delays and signs of autism usually show up before 18 months of age. This book is for parents of young children aged one-to-five years who are passionate about helping their child as well as learning how they can return their lives to as much normalcy as possible. Turn Autism Around delivers a new message: autism and other developmental delays can be remediated, and in some cases, delays can be caught up altogether, if parents intervene while the child is young. This book introduces a novel approach to teaching kids with developmental delays that uses the science of Applied Behavior Analysis (ABA) but marries it with a positive, child-friendly methodology that any parent can use-whether or not their child has delays-to learn communication skills, socialization strategies, as well as tackle sleep, eating, toileting, and behavior challenges in a positive, effective, and lasting way. This book will educate parents that they can't afford to wait and worry about autism as well as empower them to regain hope and take back control with simple practices they can implement themselves-even 15 minutes a day-to dramatically improve outcomes for their children"--
Subjects: Autistic children; Behavior therapy for children.; Behavioral assessment of children.; Parents of autistic children.; Verbal behavior.;
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Beautiful country : a memoir / by Wang, Qian Julie,1987-author.;
"An incandescent and heartrending memoir about Qian Julie Wang's five years living undocumented after immigrating with her parents from China to New York City in 1994. In Chinese the word for the United States, Mei Guo, translates directly to "beautiful country," but when seven-year-old Qian is plucked from her warm and happy childhood surrounded by extended family in China, she finds a world of crushing fear and poverty instead. Unable to speak English at first, Qian is isolated and disregarded, put into special education classes because she doesn't speak the language and humiliated by teachers and classmates when she struggles to pay attention because of hunger or exhaustion. She encounters racism, and people of other races, for the first time, shocked at where her family fits in comparison to their status as educated elites in China. After school she works shifts alongside her mother in Chinatown sweatshops. There is so much about Qian's new home that doesn't make sense, but the rules of survival are drilled into her head: If you see a policeman, you must run in the other direction. If anyone asks--or even if they don't--you tell them you were born here. Do as you're told or we could be separated forever. Understanding impliclity the toll this has taken on her parents, Qian tries desperately to cheer them up and mediate their increasingly heated arguments, certain that if she is good enough, she can hold the family together. In remarkable, unsentimental prose Wang channels her childhood perspective, illuminating the cruelty and indignity of America's immigration system, while also crafting a narrative of resilience from her family's small moments of joy: their first slice of pizza, "shopping days" when the family would unearth unlikely treasures in Brooklyn's trash, and the necessary escape she found in books at the local library. Searing and unforgettable, Beautiful Country is an essential book about the cost of making a home in a hostile land from an astonishing new talent"--
Subjects: Biographies.; Autobiographies.; Wang, Qian Julie, 1987-; Wang, Qian Julie, 1987-; Chinese Americans; Illegal aliens; Immigrants;
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The sea of lost girls : a novel / by Goodman, Carol,author.;
'The Sea of Lost Girls', the new thriller from the author of 'The Lake of Dead Languages', is a twisty, harrowing story set at a prestigious prep school in which one womans carefully hidden past might destroy her future.
Subjects: Thrillers (Fiction); Psychological fiction.; Private schools; Murder; Secrecy; Mothers and sons; Teachers;
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Arctic predator : the crimes of Edward Horne against children in Canada's North / by Lippa, Kathleen,author.;
Includes bibliographical references and index."The shocking crimes of teacher Ed Horne wrought lasting damage on Inuit communities in Canada's Arctic. In the 1970s, a young schoolteacher from British Columbia was becoming the darling of the Northwest Territories education department with his dynamic teaching style. He was learning to speak the local language, Inuktitut, something few outsiders did. He also claimed to be Indigenous -- a claim that would later prove to be false. In truth, Edward Horne was a pedophile who sexually abused his male students. From 1971 to 1985 Horne's predations on Inuit boys would shatter life in the communities where he worked -- towns of close-knit families that would suffer the intergenerational trauma created by his abuse. After years of research, journalist Kathleen Lippa examines the devastating impact Horne's crimes had on individuals, families, and entire communities. Her compelling work lifts the veil of silence surrounding the Horne story once and for all"--
Subjects: Biographies.; Personal narratives.; True crime stories.; Horne, Edward (Teacher); Child molesters; Child sexual abuse by teachers; Generational trauma; Inuit children;
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How We Learn. by Pasupathi, Monisha,actor.; The Great Courses (Firm),dst; Kanopy (Firm),dst;
Monisha PasupathiOriginally produced by The Great Courses in 2012.Shed some much-needed light on what's going on when you learn, and dispel some pervasive myths about an activity so central to your daily life. With Professor Monisha Pasupathi's 24-lecture course, HOW WE LEARN, you'll examine interesting theories about learning; explore the ways we master tasks such as speaking a new language, learning a musical instrument, or navigating through a new city.Mode of access: World Wide Web.
Subjects: Educational films.; Education.; Psychology.; Social sciences.; Instructional films.; Educational films.; Teachers.;
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Step [videorecording] / by Dofat, Paula,on-screen participant.; Giraldo, Blessin,on-screen participant.; Grainger, Cori,on-screen participant.; Lipitz, Amanda,film director.; Fox Searchlight Pictures,production company.; Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment firm,publisher.;
Paula Dofat, Blessin Giraldo, Cori Grainger.The senior year of a girls' high school step dance team against the background of inner city Baltimore. Empowered by their teachers, coaches, families, and each other, they strive to win a championship and go to college.Canadian Home Video Rating: PG.MPAA rating: PG; for thematic elements and some language.DVD ; widescreen presentation ; Dolby Digital 5.1 DVS.
Subjects: Dance films.; Documentary films.; Nonfiction films.; Video recordings for people with visual disabilities.; Video recordings for the hearing impaired.; African American girls; Dance teams.; High school seniors; Step dancing.;
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Antlers [videorecording] / by Chaisson, C.,screenwriter.; Cooper, Scott,1970-film director,screenwriter.; Dale, J. Miles,film producer.; Goyer, David S.,film producer.; Greene, Graham,1952-actor.; Plemons, Jesse,1988-actor.; Russell, Keri,1976-actor.; Thomas, Jeremy T.,actor.; Toro, Benicio del,1967-film producer.; Buena Vista Home Entertainment (Firm),publisher.;
Keri Russell, Jesse Plemons, Jeremy T. Thomas, Graham Greene, Scott Haze, Rory Cochrane, Amy Madigan.In a remote Oregon town, a middle-school teacher and her sheriff brother become entangled with her enigmatic student, whose dark secrets lead to horrifying encounters with a legendary ancestral creature who came before them.Canadian Home Video Rating: 14A.MPAA rating: R; for violence including gruesome images, and for language.Described video for the blind and visually impaired.Subtitled for the deaf and hard-of-hearing (SDH).DVD ; wide screen presentation ; Dolby Digital 5.1, Dolby Digital 2.0.
Subjects: Feature films.; Horror films.; Monster films.; Video recordings for people with visual disabilities.; Video recordings for the hearing impaired.; Family secrets; Good and evil; Monsters; Windigos;
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Listen / by Bronwasser, Sacha,1968-author.; translation of:Bronwasser, Sacha,1968-Luister.English.; Colmer, David,1960-translator.;
"A twisty, slow-burn mystery set in Paris and the Netherlands that has become an international bestseller, now in English for the first time. In 1989, twenty-year-old Marie jumps at the chance to work as au pair in Paris -- even though it means dropping out of her prestigious art program in the Netherlands. The city, the language, and the complicated French family she works for all quickly overshadow the turmoil and pain she'd been reckoning with in school. Even as her experiences with the family in Paris begin to echo the troubles left in the Netherlands, Marie pushes on. Years later, during the 2015 attacks in Paris, Marie is shocked to recognize her former teacher, and the main reason she fled the Netherlands, pictured in the aftermath of the attacks in the exact arrondissement where her previous employers live. The past she believed she's untethered from turns out to be be a knot still capable of constricting tightly around her. Can she face Paris -- and what she ran away from to get to Paris -- and finally disentangle herself from her past?"--
Subjects: Thrillers (Fiction); Novels.; Au pairs; Dysfunctional families; Fate and fatalism; Man-woman relationships; Psychic ability;
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Larry Crowne [videorecording] / by Cedric,the Entertainer,1965-actor.; Cody, Alan,editor of moving image work.; Cranston, Bryan,1956-actor.; Goetzman, Gary,1952-film producer.; Grier, Pam,1949-actor.; Hanks, Tom,film producer,actor,screenwriter,film director.; Henson, Taraji P.,actor.; Howard, James Newton,composer.; Mbatha-Raw, Gugu,1983-actor.; Roberts, Julia,1967-actor.; Rousselot, Philippe,1945-director of photography.; Valderrama, Wilmer,1980-actor.; Vardalos, Nia,1962-screenwriter.; Wilson, Rita,actor.; Playtone (Firm),production company.; Universal Pictures (Firm),production company.; Universal Studios Home Entertainment (Firm),film distributor.; Vendome Pictures (Firm),production company.;
Music, James Newton Howard ; editor, Alan Cody ; director of photography, Philippe Rousselot.Tom Hanks, Julia Roberts, Bryan Cranston, Cedric the Entertainer, Taraji P. Henson, Gugu Mbatha-Raw, Wilmer Valderrama, Pam Grier, Rita Wilson."When he suddenly finds himself without his long-standing blue-collar job, Larry Crowne (Hanks) enrolls at his local college to start over. There, he becomes part of an eclectic community of students and develops a crush on his teacher (Roberts). Now this simple guy will discover that when you think everything worth having has passed you by, you just might find your reason to live"--Container.Canadian Home Video Rating: PG.MPAA rating: PG-13; for brief strong language and some sexual content.Described video for the blind and visually impaired.Subtitled for the deaf and hard-of-hearing (SDH).DVD ; wide screen presentation ; Dolby Digital 5.1, Dolby Digital 2.0 DVS.
Subjects: Video recordings for people with visual disabilities.; Video recordings for the hearing impaired.; Comedy films.; Feature films.; Romantic comedy films.; Adult college students; Teacher-student relationships; Unemployment;
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Being Lolita : a memoir / by Wood, Alisson,author.;
"A dark romance evolves between a high schooler and her English teacher, in this breathtakingly powerful memoir about a young woman who must learn to rewrite her own story. "Have you ever read Lolita?" So begins seventeen-year-old Alisson's metamorphosis from student to lover and then victim. A lonely and vulnerable high school senior, Alisson finds solace only in her writing--and in a young, charismatic English teacher, Mr. North. He praises her as a special and gifted writer, and she blossoms under his support and his vision for her future. Mr. North gives Alisson a copy of Lolita to read, telling her it is a beautiful story about love. The book soon becomes the backdrop to a relationship that blooms from a simple crush into a forbidden romance, with Mr. North convincing her that theirs is a love affair rivaled only by Nabokov's masterpiece. But as time progresses and his hold on her tightens, Alisson is forced to evaluate how much of that narrative is actually a disturbing fiction. In the wake of what becomes a deeply abusive relationship, Alisson is faced again and again with the story of her past, from rereading Lolita in college, to working with teenage girls, to becoming a professor of creative writing. It is only with that distance and perspective that she understands the ultimate power language has had on her--and how to harness that power to tell her own true story. BEING LOLITA is a stunning coming-of-age memoir of obsession, passion, and manipulation, shining a bright light on our shifting perceptions of consent, vulnerability, and power. This is the story of what happens when a young woman realizes her entire narrative must be rewritten--and then takes back the pen to rewrite it"--
Subjects: Biographies.; Autobiographies.; Wood, Alisson.; High school girls; Sexual harassment in education; Sexually abused teenagers; Teacher-student relationships;
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