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Seeing the Charade: What we need to do and undo to make friendship happen by Carol Tashie, Susan Shapiro-Barnard & Zach Rossetti
	Order code: 20-B004 Price: £12.00 Format: 210 x 145mm 194pp paperback This book examines why friendship is such an elusive goal for so many students with disability labels. It explores the barriers to friendship that exist in our schools and communities and offers specific strategies for how we can support students to have the kinds of social lives they want and deserve. Though written in an easy-to-read conversational style, the words are strong, as is the not-so-subtle suggestion that much of what we do in the name of special education actually serves to prevent friendships happening.
Sharing Community. Strategies, tips and lessons learned from experiences of community building at Options
	Order code: 27-B002 Price: £12.50 Format: 150 x 230mm 114pp paperback What is community building? How can we promote, facilitate and support it? Options in Community Living has been building community for 24 years. In Sharing Community, the authors share their experiences, the lessons they’ve learned, and some of their most meaningful efforts. This book establishes that the real, most basic reason for community building is to find and develop opportunities for relationships, belonging, inclusion, and more meaning in the lives of all involved. The authors show how each staff person is a resource and how community building efforts have a snowball effect: one unexpected connection leads to another, which in turn leads to new opportunities and more connections. With this process, there is no end to the possibilities. Explore the experiences that the Options staff share in this book—their processes, efforts, and successes. We hope that these experiences, successes, failures and lessons learned will inspire you to reflect and take action to build your own community.
Show Me No Mercy by Robert Perske
	Order code: 04-B003 Price: £9.00 Format: 200x135mm 144pp paperback Andy & Maggie Banks and their teenage twins, Beth & Ben, were a family like any other – tempering their disagreements and occasional squabbles with mutual love and support. Beth’s 16 year old twin had Down’s Syndrome. Nevertheless, Ben’s enthusiasm and tenacity had earned him a special place in a sometimes hostile world – until a car accident changed his life forever. Included in the 1985 World Book Yearbook listing of outstanding literature for children.
Simply dreams by Jacqueline Towers
	Order code: 18-B010 Price: £8.99 Format: 150x230mm 158pp paperback The images we see while asleep are considered both prophecies and expressions of thoughts and feelings that have occurred throughout the day. Did you know, for example, that if you dream about lightning, good luck may follow? This fascinating A-Z guide presents the meanings of common and unusual symbols, from angels to zebras. Using Simply Dreams, you’ll learn what your subconscious is trying to tell you.
Snapshots of Possibility by The Alliance for Inclusive Education
	Order code: 23-B002 Price: £8.70 Format: 210x210mm 54pp paperback Inclusive education is based on a dream in which all children are given the safety to develop into whole human beings, able to think and learn, love and understand each other, be creative, feel empathy and compassion, work and play co-operatively and to act powerfully within their communities and as world citizens. This book shows that many mainstream nurseries, schools and colleges are changing and developing their practice to begin to make this dream reality, especially for those children who are currently vulnerable to exclusion and segregation. They are inspiring stories, full of hope for the future.
Spinning Straw: The Jeff Apple story by Phyllis Green
	Order code: 05-B007 Price: £9.00 Format: 215x140mm 196pp paperback Powerful. Moving. Enlightening. These words can only begin to describe the emotional journey depicted in Spinning Straw. Jeff Apple was a beautiful baby who one day hit his head. From that day forward his family was subjected to an epic voyage past autism, developmental disability and extreme self-injury. Never wavering on love they always found hope, joy and laughter. Theirs was a lifetime of spinning straw into gold.
Staying Human. Respect, values and social justice by Gerry Hassan and Sue Rawcliffe
	Order code: 17-B004 Price: £13.50 217 x 147 mm 140pp paperback Never before have issues of social inclusion and social justice been more central to the policy debate and government concerns. Despite this, things are not changing for the better. The authors argue that conventional thinking has become trapped in a concern for integration into the mainstream, and that the service industry has developed a language and rationale which reinforces its importance. “Staying Human” looks at the decline of traditional ideas of equality, and examines the wider inclusion movement drawing from disabled people and other people facing discrimination. It offers an analysis of social justice debates in Scotland post-devolution, as well as comparison with Northern Ireland, Wales and the UK. It looks at new policy and practice across the world, and concludes with a prospectus for developing genuine and lasting social justice which goes beyond the latest government policy announcement.
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