Smart ways to spend your time

Do you know a kid who is a couch potato? Maybe she spends all of her time on the computer. Does he need ideas for places to go instead of just sitting around? Smart ways to spend your time has just that! Ideas are suggested, commercial-like, inside vignettes featuring kids who are also in need of adding the asset of constructive use of time in their lives. Ideas are offered in topics: At Home, At School, In Your Neighborhood, In Your Faith Community, and With Your Friends.

This book is part of a series called The Adding Assets Series for Kids. Each book in the series focuses a few of the 40 Developmental Assets that researchers have identified as necessary for kids to have in their lives.

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The Motivation Breakthrough

Author Richard Lavoie shares his knowledge and experience in The Motivation Breakthrough: 6 Secrets to Turning On the Tuned-Out Child. Parents and teachers alike will benefit from learning proven techniques and strategies on the six different motivation styles laid out in this book. Lavoie suggests ways parents and teachers can work together to help children succeed in the classroom and in life, with specific suggestions on how to work with children with learning disabilities.

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Social Research Methods

From the land Down Under comes Social Research Methods, a book written by active researchers in Australia. This second edition includes new chapters on designing social research, measurement and sampling, and working with SPSS using quantitative data. Prominent Australian researchers provide insight into current field work. Online resources extend the book's range of teaching and learning.

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SPEAK YOUR MIND!

Rate your community’s implementation of the Americans with Disabilities Act at The Polling Place

People with disabilities, their family members, and their advocates are invited to complete the 2010 ADA POLL, a survey about how Indiana communities are doing with implementation of the ADA. It’s important that your voices are heard when accessibility and discrimination issues are being addressed in your community! So don’t delay – let us know what you have to say!

To request the survey form in an alternative format, or for additional information, contact Dr. Vicki Pappas by phone: 1-800-825-4733 or e-mail: beheard@indiana.edu.

How do they decide?

Ever wondered what criteria the Social Security Administration uses to decide who gets disability benefits? Their website has the answers. Learn all about their five-step process, updated January 2010, that helps the SSA make decisions about benefits. Also find a list of frequently asked questions on the process. To find out more about what you can do online or to locate a Social Security office near you, go to http://www.ssa.gov/onlineservices/.