Loving Someone with Attention Deficit Disorder

Does your partner have ADHD? Feeling a strain on your relationship? Loving Someone with Attention Deficit Disorder is your guide to navigating a relationship with someone with ADHD so you can create healthy boundaries while remaining sympathetic to your partner’s symptoms. This book can help you:

• Understand medication and other treatments
• Recover quickly when your partner’s symptoms frustrate you
• Establish personal boundaries to avoid excessive caretaking
• Identify and take care of your own needs so you can feel more relaxed

Interested? Email us at cedir@indiana.edu to check out this title, or use worldcat.org to find it in a library near you.

Inclusive Instruction

Looking for tools to manage your inclusive classroom? Inclusive instruction: Evidence-based practices for teaching students with disabilities presents research-based strategies for supporting K-8 students with high-incidence disabilities to become accomplished learners. Learn to plan a curriculum that fosters concept development across content areas, promotes strategic learning, and builds fluent skill use. Find out how to integrate technology effectively into instruction.


Want to check it out? Email us at cedir@indiana.edu or use worldcat.org to find it in a library near you.

Freedom Scientific Announces Scanning and Reading Desktop Video Magnifier

(St. Petersburg, Florida, June 27, 2012) — Since their release in December, the new High Definition video magnifiers from Freedom Scientific have been getting rave reviews. Now, with the release of GEM™ 4.0 software, Freedom Scientific has added scanning and reading capability to the TOPAZ® XL HD.


With the press of a key, the GEM software sends the High Definition image from the TOPAZ XL HD to Freedom Scientific’s OpenBook® scanning and reading software, which automatically performs optical character recognition and begins reading aloud.


Want to learn more? Visit: http://www.freedomscientific.com/products/lv/topaz-xl-hd-product-page.asp

AAC Conference

The International Society for Augmentative and Alternative Communication (ISAAC) is announcing its 2012 ISAAC Conference in Pittsburgh, PA, July 28 through August 4, 2012. Their 15th Biennial Conference's theme is "Highest performance communication; best life experience - WOW!" It focuses on ISAAC's mission that people anywhere in the world who communicate with little or no speech deserve to achieve the most effective communication possible in order to achieve their maximum potential.

To learn more about this conference, visit: http://www.isaac2012.org/

Mobile App Monday - Cookie Doodle

Cookie Doodle is a fun app for those who need help with fine motor skills, sensory issues, or for those who just love making cookies but don't enjoy the mess! A rolling pin, cookie cutters, the dough, frosting, sprinkles and candies are all provided for your enjoyment.

Learn more at: http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/cookie-doodle/id342128086?mt=8

Communities for a Lifetime

Three recipients of a pilot grant to study how to make their communities friendly for residents of all ages were recently announced. Communities for a Lifetime, a collaborative effort among state agencies, educational institutions and non-profit organizations, encourages cities and towns to welcome, value, and support the meaningful participation of people of all abilities across the entire lifespan.

These communities will receive grants to complete a 5-month planning process that will include determining their local need and walkability to food, medical care, and amenities. Other aspects will include setting safety standards, finding ways to locally promote intergenerational interactions and civic engagement, and maximizing independence for their residents.

The winning communities, which will receive $16,000 planning grants, are:

•    Huntington
•    Linton
•    Valparaiso

For more information on this project, visit: http://www.iidc.indiana.edu/index.php?pageId=3528

Mobile App Monday - Bugs and Buttons

Looking for a game app to help your child with fine motor skills and education? Want one that progressively adapts to your child's skill level? Bugs and Buttons is designed to be self paced with each activity offering simple visual instructions. The game also has two play modes: children can choose to be automatically guided or explore and play.

CRITICAL LEARNING:
• Counting
• Fine motor skills (i.e. pinching)
• Path finding
• Patterns
• Sorting
• Tracking
• and more...

Want to learn more about it? Visit: http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/bugs-and-buttons/id446031868?ls=1&mt=8

Proposed changes to REPA II

Jill Shedd, Associate Dean for Teacher Education at Indiana University-Bloomington, hosted a webinar yesterday on proposed changes to the Rules for Educator Preparation and Accountability (REPA II). This proposal will greatly impact teachers, administrators, parents of children with disabilities, advocacy groups, and those involved in teacher education. Below you will find the link to the recorded webinar and the downloadable documents.

On June 21st at 9:00 a.m. there will be a Public Hearing at the Indiana Department of Education in Indianapolis. If you have concerns about these proposed changes to the teacher rules, you are invited to attend this hearing and make your voice heard.

If you have any questions, please email Kharon Grimmet, Associate Instructor, Doctoral Candidate Indiana University - Bloomington at kgrimmet@indiana.edu.

http://connect.iu.edu/p6hy89qf12s/

Systematic Instruction for Students with Moderate and Severe Disabilities

Systematic instruction for students with moderate and severe disabilities was developed by a seasoned educator who has trained thousands of teachers. This textbook offers the nuts-and-bolts of the systematic instruction process which has its roots in applied behavior analysis. It includes sample lesson plans, chapter objectives, reflection questions, and a glossary. Practical materials, including 20 blank data collection sheets and quick step-by-step charts of instruction procedures, make this an invaluable resource for in-practice educators.

Want to check it out? Email us at cedir@indiana.edu or use worldcat.org to find it in a library near you.

Count Me In! K-5

Count Me In! K-5: Including learners with special needs in mathematics classrooms is research-based and field-tested. In this book, elementary teachers will find help creating programs for students with special needs. Case studies and teacher viewpoints are included as well as research on disability and solutions to managing learning environments.

Want to check it out? Email us at cedir@indiana.edu or use worldcat.org to find it in a library near you.

Helping Children with Selective Mutism and Their Parents

Got a child in your class who is unwilling or refuses to speak? Helping Children with Selective Mutism and Their Parents: A Guide for School-based Professionals can help. Written for guidance counselors, teachers, principals and deans, school psychologists, and school-based social workers, this book educates readers about the nature of selective mutism and its most common clinical manifestations (such as social anxiety, oppositional behavior, and communication difficulties). Offering methods to determine the form and function of a child's chronically mute behavior, the book provides evidence-based strategies to enhance a child's verbal participation at school and in other social and academic activities.

To check out this title, email us at cedir@indiana.edu or use worldcat.org to find it in a library near you.

Mobile App Monday - My DPS

The Digital Problem Solver (DPS) originally appeared in The Social Express™ as a tool for the characters to use to identify emotions and coping strategies. Users quickly requested a real DPS to use outside of the software. My DPS is a customizable application that enables children to select a feeling and a coping strategy to calm themselves. My DPS features eight feelings including:
• Bored
• Surprised
• Mad
• Annoyed
• Happy
• Scared
• Sad
• Frustrated

Want to know more? Visit: http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/my-dps/id513477150?mt=8

Transforming Behavior

Looking for a proven, flexible, and cost-effective way to address challenging behavior, social skills development, and family conflict? Transforming behavior: Training parents and kids together is a ready-to-use group therapy program, ideal for clinicians working in a range of settings with children 8-12 and their parents. The book has 22 adaptable modules (11 for children, 11 for parents) to help children learn positive social skills and emotional regulation, and to help parents learn successful techniques for responding constructively and consistently to difficult behaviors.

Want to check it out? Email us at cedir@indiana.edu or use worldcat.org to find it in a library near you.

What's food got to do with it?

Everybody has to eat, but not everybody knows how to cook or which foods are nutritionally sound. If you're working with young adults with disabilities, pick up What's Food Got to Do With It? It's part theory, part teacher's guide and part cookbook. It includes recipes, vignettes, and life lessons related to cooking.

Interested? Email us at cedir@indiana.edu to check it out.

Flight of the Gin Fizz

Flight of the Gin Fizz is a story about a man who found his passion in mid-life. It's a story about history and airplanes and deafness. In his fifties, Henry Kisor learns how to fly and, for the maiden voyage of his new thirty-six year old plane, decides to reenact the first coast-to-coast flight that Cal Rodgers took back in 1911. This story is for pilots, passengers, and armchair travelers alike and leaves readers with a new appreciation of life’s possibilities.

Interested? Email us at cedir@indiana.edu to check out this title or use worldcat.org to find it in a library near you.

Feeding Challenges in Young Children

Young children's feeding issues can be a complex challenge for early childhood professionals, especially since most get little to no training addressing this key developmental area. Feeding challenges in young children: Strategies and specialized interventions for success is a comprehensive resource that provides early childhood educators and interventionists with specific, practical, research-based guidance on resolving a wide range of feeding issues. The book also comes with a CD that has many helpful, printable tools for addressing feeding challenges.

Want to check it out? Email us at cedir@indiana.edu or use worldcat.org to find it in a library near you.

Mobile App Monday -- First Words

Looking for a pre-literacy app? Try First Words. This version is for education professionals and speech language pathologists. Professional uses the same intuitive interface that is so easy for preschoolers, kindergartners, and kids with special needs to use. Kids will love the beautifully drawn pictures and matching entertaining sounds while learning how letters correspond to sounds and how letters sounds form words.

To learn more about this app, visit: http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/firstwords-professional/id507560748?mt=8&ign-mpt=uo%3D4

What's New

Did you turn over the calendar page this morning? I did, and that means it's time for a new What's New page! Visit the following page to find out what new items were received in the library last month.

Happy June!

http://www.iidc.indiana.edu/index.php?pageId=2317