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Idea Man by Karin Melberg Schwier
	Order code: 05-B011 Price: £3.99 Format: 215x140mm 43pp paperback Winner of the 1996 Children’s Literature Award, Saskatchewan Writers Guild. The story deals with issues like stereotyping and peer pressure realistically. “This is a delightful way for young readers to appreciate differences and learn to look beyond the surface in others. It is a book that touches a sensitive subject with a light hand and in an unforgettable way. I won’t forget the Whiffle Niffle Bird and neither will the readers of this charming tale.”
If You’re Happy And You Know It Clap Your Hand By David Moreau
	Order code: 02-B043 Price: £9.45 Format: 140 x 210mm 94pp paperback David Moreau is a poet; a long term front line care worker. His poems explore the delight, humour, bureaucratic absurdity, and human frailty that humans face as we struggle to care for one another with dignity and sensitivity. These poems are truly about 'human' service, from the inside out. Provoking thoughts; deep insights; truth. David Moreau benefits all of us by telling the world what he knows about the true costs of caring for each other. These acute observations offer insight into the world created by those who spend their work lives with people with developmental disabilities in day programmes and group homes. With honesty and humour that express a struggle for compassion and a longing for even more meaning in the lives that concern him, his poems capture the pressures that make the work mindlessly routine and moments of transcendence, only visible to a discerning eye. –John O’Brien
Implementing Person-Centered Planning. Voices of experience edited by John O’Brien & Connie Lyle O’Brien
	Order code: 02-B023 Price: £13.50 Format: 210x135mm 396pp paperback A book by people DOING person centred planning - as they face the complexities. An essential follow up to “A Little Book about Person Centered Planning”. Ways to think about person-centred planning, its limitations, the conditions for its success and its contributions. 30 voices of experience explore the possibilities and the dilemmas. Essential as a teaching resource. Practical as an organisational ideas bank.
In Community. Practical lessons in supporting isolated people to be part of community edited by Carl Poll, Jo Kennedy and Helen Sanderson
			Order code: 21-B017 Price: £24.95 Format: 245x175mm 272pp paperback This is a book about how the most isolated people in society can be not just part of community but make important contributions to it. The authors of the 13 chapters set out what they have learned from their involvement in imaginative initiatives that are helping marginalised people to make connections – mainly in the UK, but also the USA and India. The backdrop to the book is the government’s personalisation agenda – the plan to radically reform how social and health care are organised. The new system is opening a door to community for the millions of people who, till now, have probably been the most isolated in Britain: disabled people, older people, those with mental health problems and people with long-term conditions. Those people will have an Individual Budget enabling them to live their lives in communities rather than services. The book describes practical approaches to unlocking this vast potential for increasing social capital. The lessons and ideas gathered are useful for social care staff, health professionals, community members and community workers.
In depth Person Centred Thinking Cards by H S A Press
			Order code: 21-G001 Price: £11.45 Format: 105x150mm cards in plastic wallet This little pack of 14 cards gives you an opportunity to start supporting people in ways that really matter to them. Formal training settings do not offer the opportunity for ‘teaching moments’. These are powerful opportunities for coaches to introduce and/or help others use a person centred thinking tool as the situation calls for. The sections included are; The doughnut ● Sorting important to/for ● Matching staff Relationship circle ● Communication charts ● Learning log ● What is working/not working ● 4+1 questions ● Citizenship ● Decision making agreement ● From presence to contribution ● Hopes and dreams ● How to help others use the tools.
In: Difference. A little book about diversity by Michael Soucie, Astra Milberg & Dave Hingsburger
			Order code: 05-B017 Price: £3.00 Format: 215x140mm 22pp paperback “Powerful”, “Inspiring”, “Challenging” are words that have been used to describe the articles in this little book. Collected here for the first time, three unique voices talk about difference and diversity. Astra Milberg wrote “Letter to a baby” as a means of inspiring young people who have Down Syndrome while challenging those who support them. The line “God gave me an extra chromosome. It’s an odd gift but it is a gift,” sums up not just philosophy but Astra’s unique take on life with a disability. “Perhaps change is the only way to apologise”, Michael Soucie writes in an article that has been called one of the best essays written in Canada. Mike asks us to reflect on deeply held biases against people with disabilities. He chronicles his own growth and in doing so inspires others.
Inclusive Education: Emergent solutions By Gary Bunch & Angelo Valeo
			Order code: 02-B042 Price: £19.50 Format: 255x180mm 275pp paperback A worldwide revolution is occurring in education of learners experiencing disabilities. The Special Education model is being replaced by Inclusive Education, educating all learners together in the regular classrooms of community schools. Inclusive Education is not simply a new way to educate students who differ in ability, hearing, vision, behaviour, or body. It is based in sweeping change of how we regard people experiencing disability and their right to full participation in society. As with all change, Inclusive Education is not welcomed by everyone. Some governments, educational administrators, teachers, and parents prefer the Special Education approach, which regards some learners experiencing disability as so different that they cannot learn in the company of their typical peers. Under this view, they must be separated for their own good. However, increasing numbers of people in every nation see and argue for the social justice of bringing all learners together in school. They understand that difference is a reason to be included. This book presents snapshots of the struggle of educational change as seven nations respond to this new human rights understanding of how education and disability should intersect. In various ways and at different levels, each is experiencing the tension and excitement, which always accompany change.
Inclusion in Early Years DEE Course Book by Richard Rieser, Mole Chapman, Jo Skitteral
			Order code: 06-B004 Price: £10.00 £5.00 Format: 210x300mm 189pp wire bound The overall goal of this course book is to help early years practitioners to understand basic equality issues, inclusion, and the implications of the new Special Educational Needs and Disability Discrimination legislation. To help them differentiate between medical model and social model thinking in practice. This should ultimately provide clearer thinking about provision, participation, and play for younger children.
Inclusion in Schools DEE Course Book by Richard Rieser & Hazel Peasley
			Order code: 06-B002 Price: £10.00 £5.00 Format: 210x300mm 126pp wire bound Increasingly, inclusion and inclusive education are becoming buzzwords to which everyone subscribes. However, behind the language lies a struggle for human rights, which is by no means won nor complete. This book has 9 sections covering Policy, History & Images, Medical/Social Model, Integration/Inclusion, Intentional Building of Relationships, Behaviour, Resources, Activities, Disability Equality in Education.
Inclusion: How To. Essential classroom strategies by Gary Bunch
			Order code: 02-B019 Price: £12.00 Format: 275x205mm 111pp paperback Gary Bunch gives theory and practice to make inclusion possible for all children and all teachers. This readable, jargon free book tells you all you will need to know to include any child - if you want to. Inclusion: How To is a handbook for every school teacher. In straight forward language, Dr. Bunch (York University) outlines proven strategies that work in real classrooms. Without pretention, the book constantly references known research that gives authority to these strategies.
Inclusion: Recent research by Gary Bunch & Angela Valeo
			Order code: 02-B013 Price: £11.50 £3.50 Format: 255x185mm 183pp paperback Acceptance or rejection of inclusive education for all students is primarily a matter of attitude. There is no longer any argument that the inclusive approach cannot work, that teachers cannot undertake it without unfair stress, that the education of other students will be harmed, or that included students will suffer wholesale rejection by their peers. Such arguments are disproved by the fact that teachers successfully practice inclusion everyday. We know that any significant educational reform will draw resistance from some educators due to fear that their working conditions will be affected, that the task is beyond their capacities, and due to the implied or direct challenge to the manner in which they have understood and practised their profession. Dr. Bunch, a professor of education at York University, Toronto, and research associate Angela Valeo, a teacher, use the most up to date research to deal with topics such as challenging behaviour, effects of inclusion on the “other” students, teacher attitudes, academic achievement and more.
Inclusion: What young people tell us Research by Anne Darby and Ailsa Fairley Compiled by Penny Barratt, Anne Darby, Julia Hayes, Ruth Jobs
			Order code: 14-B001 Price: £5.00 Format: 300x210mm 17pp paperback Education around the world is becoming increasingly inclusive. There is an onus on schools to develop their ability to include pupils who are described as having special educational needs. Nottingham City Council demonstrated its endorsement of inclusion through consultation and publication of an Inclusion Policy Statement in 1999. The statement explicitly adopts the social model of disability with its focus on the removal of barriers. The social model contrasts with the traditional medical model of disability which identifies the individual's impairment as creating a special problem in need of treatment. This 17 page book presents the views of some of the young people who attend schools in Nottingham. They were encouraged to comment on their experiences of the inclusion process to highlight good practice. Contents: Introduction Why collect the views of young people? How were the views of young people collected in this research project? What the young people said From conversations with young people-recommendations for good practice Strategies for schools in developing good practice
Incurably Human by Micheline Mason
			Order code: 20-B002 Price: £9.00 Format: 235x160mm 120pp paperback This book traces the growth of the inclusion movement and explains the philosophy of liberation which lies beneath it. It is written from the perspective of the excluded and their allies who are the driving force behind the call for change. It is an attempt to take the reader on Micheline’s journey of discovery, starting from childhood certainty that she was already fully human, and therefore not in need of a “cure”, to a much later understanding that all human beings are “incurable” at our core, and that the inclusion movement is this inextinguishable flame made visible. Each chapter is like the overturning of a stone along a path - my discovery of a small piece of a picture which will hopefully one day fit together into a natural pattern. As you read it, and when you have finished it, I hope you will realise that each one of you has come along a unique path of your own, not mine. Mine may only help you shed light on your own, and give you enough confidence to continue, and above all share your discoveries with others, so that the journey feels more like an outing with friends than a lone battle against the world.
It’s your life: Set of 3 books by Neighbours Inc.
			Order code: 31-M001 Price: £14.50 This 3 book set includes, "Living Your Own Life", "You and Your Budget", and "You and Your Personal Assistants". The set is a great start for exploring very practical aspects of being in charge of your own life
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