Diversity, Equality, and Inclusion Resources for Clark State: Disability

The book is designed as a general introduction to the many varied influences on the growth of this movement, including notable individuals, some of whom will be familiar to general readers, while others remain virtually unknown outside of the communities they have affected.

A resource for college students with ADD or ADHD; including advice on how to design a successful academic program and achieve life-school balance while managing AD/HD symptoms. Also included is information on academic accommodations, specialized services, AD/HD coaching, medication, relationships, and healthy living.

Editor Prince-Hughes is herself a person with Asperger's Syndrome, (also termed high-functioning autism), which is a diagnosis being applied more frequently these days, to the relief of people plagued with its problems for years without explanation. Twelve individuals share their experiences.

Opposing Viewpoints collection on behavioral Disorders.

Provides basic consumer health information about physical, cognitive, emotional, and sensory disabilities, along with facts about assistive technologies and other tools and services to foster independence, and guidance for families on educational, legal, and financial concerns.

Restricting the rights of "manifestly unfit" peoples to reproduce -- Defining free and appropriate education for children of all abilities -- Affirming the rights of disabled people to participate in community life -- Ensuring equal access to public places.

Forbidden Signs explores American culture from the mid-nineteenth century to 1920 through the lens of one striking episode: the campaign led by Alexander Graham Bell and other prominent Americans to suppress the use of sign language among deaf people.

A guide book that covers everything from assessing your skills and interests to accommodating your disability on the job.

This book offers simple, straightforward guidance for the practitioner who wants to use assistive technologies to extend library access.

Dr. Temple Grandin discusses how and why people with autism think differently, economical early intervention programs, how sensory sensitivities affect learning, the difference between bad behavior and bad behavior caused by a disability, teaching people with autism how to live in an unpredictable world, the pros and cons of alternate medicine and conventional medicine, and employment ideas for adults with autism.

"The new girl at school tries to befriend Andy, an autistic boy who spends every recess by himself, spinning a yellow frisbee under the watchful eye of his older sister."

Is Little Bear ignoring his friends when they say hi, or is something else going on? A discovery opens new doors in a tale that will delight kids with deafness and all children learning to navigate their world.

The well-known tale about the little girl who wanders through the woods and disturbs the house of the three bears, accompanied by diagrams showing how to form the Signed English signs for each word of the text.

"Lana is 10 years old and she is deaf. In this story she tells what it's like to be deaf, describing some of the things she uses to help her learn at school and communicate with her teachers and friends"

Today’s children deal with stress, trauma, and violence. Oehlberg offers information about how these difficult times affect children physically and emotionally. More than 70 activities engage children in self-healing, empathy, and empowerment.

Teaches in sign language the numbers 0-20, 30-100 by tens, 1000 and 1,000,000.

Presents well-known Mother Goose rhymes accompanied by diagrams showing how to form the Signed English signs for each word in the poems.

Louis Braille was just five years old when he lost his sight. He was a clever boy, determined to live like everyone else, and what he wanted more than anything was to be able to read. Even at the school for the blind in Paris, there were no books for him. And so he invented his own alphabet -- a whole new system for writing that could be read by touch. A system so ingenious that it is still used by the blind community today

A girl with autism who almost never speaks demonstrates how easily she communicates with her brother and grandmother through facial expressions, gestures, flashcards, and drawings.

"Sign to Learn is the first complete introduction to appropriate sign language curriculum for hearing preschoolers. This unique, research-based resource gives you the tools you need to learn how to integrate American Sign Language (ASL) into your classroom in order to enhance the academic, social, and emotional development of children and to respectfully introduce children to Deaf culture."

Drawing on research and approaches from the fields of neuroscience, child development, child psychiatry, counselling and applied behavior analysis, this text offers teachers simple strategies to manage behaviors and promote mental health and resilience in young children.

Aaren Snyder uses years of experience to increase mental health awareness in the black community, through captivating real-life stories and simple, down-to-earth explanations of complex psychological problems that impact the black community.

It brings together contributors from psychology, sociology, law, and medicine, as well as the humanities, to discuss issues ranging from stress, sexual assault, healing, self-care, and contemplative practice to health-policy considerations and parenting. Merging theory and practice with personal narratives and public policy, the book develops a new framework for approaching Black women's wellness in order to provide tangible solutions.

Through interviews with individuals living with PTSD, forays into the scientific, literary, and cultural history of the illness, and memoir, Morris crafts a moving work that will speak not only to those with the condition and to their loved ones, but also to all of us struggling to make sense of an anxious and uncertain time.

This book provides important information to mental health clinicians about doing treatment with sexual and gender minorities, but following evidenced-based care.

Accessible, critical and digestible, "Key Concepts in Mental Health" includes 68 entries covering the breadth of past and contemporary understanding of mental health.

Both a resource for struggling veterans and a useful tool for their loved ones or anyone looking for ways to support the veterans in their lives.

This is a quick-access clinical guide to the range of mental health issues and diagnoses that commonly affect women across the life span. It focuses on the unique biopsychosocial factors that make women especially vulnerable to psychological disorders and emphasizes key stressors specific to women that are precursors to mental illness.

Your source for trustworthy recommendations on quality care of children and adolescents with mental health issues.

In PTSD, Allan V. Horwitz traces the fluctuations in definitions of and responses to traumatic psychic conditions. Arguing that PTSD, perhaps more than any other diagnostic category, is a lens for showing major historical changes in conceptions of mental illness, he surveys the conditions most likely to produce traumas, the results of those traumas, and how to evaluate the claims of trauma victims.

Leading contributors address a wide range of challenges, including babies and very young children who have a serious illness, have complex diagnoses, or have been exposed to violence or adversity in early childhood.

A member of a sketch comedy group describes growing up with OCD, discussing his pop-culture obsessions, the roles of literature and Christianity in shaping his perspective, and his visit to the OCD Institute in Massachusetts.

Part of the Oxford Cultural Psychiatry series, Urban Mental Health brings together international perspectives on urbanisation, its impacts on mental health, the nature of the built environment, and the dynamic nature of social engagement.

This handbook proposes a more integrative approach to women's depression, in particular, and mental health, for all more generally.

This book lays bare the logic of forgotten abuse. Psychologist Jennifer Freyd's breakthrough theory explaining this phenomenon shows how psychogenic amnesia not only happens but, if the abuse occurred at the hands of a parent or caregiver, is often necessary for survival.

Laurie Barkin's account of the five years she worked as a psychiatric nurse on the surgical/trauma unit at San Francisco General Hospital.

Infused with clinical wisdom, this book describes a supportive group treatment approach for survivors just beginning to come to terms with the impact of interpersonal trauma.

Discusses the causes and symptoms of post-traumatic stress disorder, tells how to identify situations that trigger attacks, and offers advice on recovering from rape, domestic violence, natural disasters, vehicular accidents, and combat experiences.

Claudia Black presents a searing portrait of a broken family system, exploring how addiction and trauma develop and how their damaging repetition uproots and frequently destroys one's family tree.