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Deadly Innocence?
by Robert Perske
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Order code: 04-B005 Price:
£11.50
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.
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Depo-Provera
by Change
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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.
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Depression
by Change
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Order code: 24-B001 Price:
£2.00
Format: 300x210mm 34pp paperback
What is depression? What
causes depression? What treatments are available? A health booklet aimed to
explain to people with a learning disability about depression and what
forms of treatment are available, in jargon free language along with images
from the Change Picture Bank. Sections include “What can I do to help
myself?” and “What friends and family can do to help”.
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Developing
Person Centred approaches in schools
by
H S A Press
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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.
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Disability Discrimination Act Toolkit
By David Ruebain and Jo-Anne Graham
Contributions from Joanne Owen, Disability Rights
Commission
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Order code: 26-B001 Price: £20.00
290x205mm 240pp paperback
In Autumn 2004, significant and important changes will
be 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.
We are delighted to announce the publication of 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 all amendments to it coming up this Autumn and 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.
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Disability Equality in the Classroom: A human rights
issue
by Richard Rieser and Micheline Mason
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Order code: 06-B001
Price: £13.00
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.”
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Disability is Natural: Revolutionary common sense
for raising children with disabilities
(2nd edition)
by Kathie Snow
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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.
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Disabling Imagery? A teaching guide to disability and
moving image media
By
Richard Rieser
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Order code: 06-B006 Price
£18.75
Format: 300x230mm 234pp wire bound
This book provides a wealth of information on how
disability has been represented in moving image from the earliest days. The
approach is from a disability equality and human rights perspective, which
draws on the collective thinking of the Disabled People's Movement.
Therefore, whether you are experienced in Media Studies/English teaching
and/or have some understanding of disability issues, it's important to read
the Introduction and Ways of thinking about disability before moving on to
look at the film and teaching sections.
Author, Richard Rieser said: “Disabling
Imagery? will be a great resource for all teachers, across all curriculum
areas, wishing to develop their pupils/ students thinking about disability,
as an equality issue. The pack will help all young people develop a more
critical approach to the representation of disabled people in the
media.”
Growing inclusion in schools means that disabled
children/students are expected to take part in the curriculum and social
life of mainstream schools. Teachers in the UK all have a duty to challenge
negative stereotypes of gender, race, ability and disability in the
curriculum materials they use.
The resource aims to: Examine critically how
commercial, Western - mostly Hollywood – cinema, has portrayed
disabled people ● Develop some ways of thinking about disabled people
from a human rights based approach as part of school’s wider approach
to equality ● Look at ways disabled film-makers and their allies have
represented disability in non commercial films.
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do? be? do?
by Dave Hingsburger
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Order code: 05-B003 Price:
£8.90
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.
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Don't Pass Me By:
Writings from the street
by Gary Bunch
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Order code: 02-B005
Price: £5.40
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.
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Don't Stop the Music
by Robert Perske
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Order code: 04-B004 Price:
£9.00
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.
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Dream Catchers and Dolphins. Reaching out in a time
of crisis
by Marsha
Forest & Jack
Pearpoint
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Order code: 02-B017 Price: £7.99
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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