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Dear Parents by Micheline Mason
	Order code: 20-B006 Price: £10.50 Format: 150x210mm 140pp paperback The title of this book is deceptively simple and conceals that the reader is about to encounter voices that will speak of the relationship between disabled children and their parents. The first voice is Micheline’s. Disabled person and parent of a disabled child - this is the voice of the disability rights activist. The second voice comes from the survivors of special education - those who eked out an education and searched for love within their segregated settings throughout the 20th century - and into the 21st. In essence this book is about helping parents learn how to navigate around and away from the medical model of disability and bring the social model of disability home for them and their children.
Deadly Innocence? by Robert Perske
	Order code: 04-B005 Price: £10.50 £6.00 Format: 280x215mm 143pp paperback For five years Robert Perske followed vulnerable people on death row whose confessions came too easily. He was drawn back to Pueblo, Colorado, into a period dating from 1915 to 1939 by a shy likeable man named Joe Arridy. Joe had been kicked out of school, labelled “feebleminded”, and placed in a “state home for mental defectives”. A sheriff led Joe to confess to the vicious rape and murder of a teenager in Pueblo, leading to Joe’s conviction under strange circumstances. In this fast paced true story, Perske traces Joe Arridy’s life from birth to gas chamber. Much of what Perske reports can cast fresh light on what is happening in the criminal justice system today.
Depo-Provera by Change
	Order code: 24-B002 Price: £2.00 Format: 300x210m 25pp paperback What is Depo-Provera? How does Depo-Provera work? Is it right for me? A health booklet about the contraceptive injection. Written with clarity, using images from Change Picture Bank, this booklet tackles things to think about before choosing the injection, which women cannot use it, mums who are breast feeding, side effects, what to do if you choose to have a baby.
Developing Person Centred approaches in schools by H S A Press
	Order code: 21-B006 Price: £14.95 Format: 300x210mm 134pp wirebound This resource has come about in response to the learning of schools that have been involved in the person centred transition review programme. As these schools extend the delivery of person centred reviews, they find they are making changes to all aspects of school life. For example, alterations to lesson plans allow for preparation for reviews to take place and cross curricular teaching methods enable a creative approach. The resource outlines many examples of such changes. In addition to the specifics of reviews, enabling all students participate in their review has highlighted the necessity of taking an individual approach to teaching and learning. We address some of the challenging questions practitioners are asking and bring together some of the innovative practice we have seen over the past few years. We aim to support those people facilitating change in mainstream and special schools. The examples we show have been developed as the result of the learning needs of particular children. They will work for other children, but they will not be appropriate for all children. We invite you to think about how you could make appropriate resources to meet the needs of individuals and groups you work with.
Disability Discrimination Act Toolkit By David Ruebain and Jo-Anne Graham Contributions from Joanne Owen, Disability Rights Commission
	Order code: 26-B001 Price: £20.00 £10.00 290x205mm 240pp paperback In Autumn 2004, significant and important changes were introduced extending disability discrimination law in the fields of employment, goods and services and education. These changes enhance and develop the law which, over the past decade, has now established itself firmly as a major area of specialist practice, impacting on the rights of disabled people and the obligations of employers, services providers and the education sector in virtually every way. The 10th edition of DDA Toolkit (formerly known as 'Notes on the Disability Discrimination Act') is now available. This fully comprehensive and easily readable resource book provides complete, up to date information on the law and on amendments coming in the future. It is an important and key source book for all advisors and everyone involved in the provision of services to, or the employment of, disabled people, and also to disabled people themselves and their organisations.
Disability Equality in the Classroom: A human rights issue by Richard Rieser and Micheline Mason
	Order code: 06-B001 Price: £13.00 £6.00 Format: 310x245mm 283pp ring binder This UK pack (240 pages & resource pages) has been written by disabled people for teachers in institutions of all kinds and draws on pilot teaching carried out in a school. It is a very thought provoking document and, like any such, is unlikely to be accepted in total by all who read it. You will most probably find your own thinking challenged, and as a consequence you will respond more appropriately to disabled people. “..... Children with impairments are marked out for a particular form of ‘special’ provision which is generally segregated, dominated by medical rather than educational criteria, and given a low priority in the system as a whole. As a result disabled school leavers rarely have the skills and confidence to achieve full and active adult life comparable to that of their non-disabled counter-parts. Hence, ‘special’ education helps create the negative stereotypes against which all disabled people are judged. At the same time the removal of children with impairments from mainstream schools denies non-disabled pupils access to the experience of disability, so perpetuating the ignorance and fear upon which stereotyping and prejudice depend.”
Disability is Natural: Revolutionary common sense for raising children with disabilities (2^nd edition) by Kathie Snow
	Order code: 10-B002 Price £21.00 Format: 255x180mm 632pp paperback Disability like gender, ethnicity and age is simply one characteristic of being human. There have always been people with disabilities in the world, and there always will be. When we recognise that disability is a natural condition of human experience, new attitudes will lead us to new actions! When parents replace today’s conventional wisdom with the common sense values and creative thinking detailed in this book, all children with disabilities can live the life of their dreams. With this book, you will learn how to: define your child by his assets, instead of his disability-related “problems” replace conventional therapeutic interventions and other services from the system with natural supports and services in your community create new and improved partnerships with educators to ensure your child is educated in inclusive, age-appropriate education classes.
do? be? do? by Dave Hingsburger
	Order code: 05-B003 Price: £12.00 Format: 215x140mm 124pp paperback A continuation of the behaviour series. Dave practices what he preaches. He regularly runs classes for people with developmental disabilities. In a year he teaches several hundred people who have great difficulty learning about relationships, sexuality and self protection. As a front line worker he began by teaching everything from bed making to table setting to shoe tying. In this book Dave draws on personal and professional experiences to discuss ideas about how we should be teaching people who have come to fear learning and expect failure.
Don't Pass Me By: Writings from the street by Gary Bunch
	Order code: 02-B005 Price: £5.40 £2.00 Format: 200x130mm 100pp paperback Every city in the world has a population of people who live on the streets. Many of us pass them by. Gary Bunch decided to collect the writings of teenagers affiliated with the Beat the Street Literacy Program. The book also describes the SCIL (student centred individualised learning) approach to teaching reading and writing based on the 3 R's of Respect, Reality and Relationships. An introduction to Beat the Street is followed by 60 pages of moving poetry by students who thought they couldn't read and write.
Don't Stop the Music by Robert Perske
	Order code: 04-B004 Price: £6.00 £2.00 Format: 200x135mm 140pp paperback Joe & Jessica, two teens with cerebral palsy, become key elements in cracking a car theft ring. You will be amazed as the “Jays” use their wits – and their motorised wheelchairs – to capture the thieves and make some very special friends along the way. Another novel aimed at younger readers.
Dream Catchers and Dolphins. Reaching out in a time of crisis by Marsha Forest & Jack Pearpoint
	Order code: 02-B017 Price: £7.99 £3.00 Format: 210x130mm 338pp paperback This is a book about communication and mutual support. It is also a book about observing mutual support in action...and the growth that can come from that. It is about a whole circle of friends - including caring, concerned people who might not have initially called themselves “friends”, and including friends who are dispersed around the world. And it is about this circle of friends all observing this crisis in the life of a couple; observing the efforts to cope with the crisis; in turn, many of them deepening their own ability to understand and cope; and then pitching in to contribute - through their contribution - to the healing process of coping and surviving. In their e-mails, Marsha and Jack show a great deal of honesty and openness. They reveal their fears, their anger, their need for respect of their boundaries, their courage and their determination. This book is about how people used the medium of e-mail, to extend their support. It worked for them, and in this widely spread community, worked beautifully. The book reveals the ways that this medium allowed mutual sharing and mutual growth among a wide circle of people.
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