Empowering students with hidden disabilities: A path to pride and success

Empowering students with hidden disabilities: A path to pride and success is a 208-page guide to help you empower students with invisible disabilities. It discusses how to help them manage their challenges, accept and advocate for themselves, and reach their goals and dreams. It's loaded with plenty of personal stories and powerful strategies along with teaching tips and interventions.

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

Bionic Devices

Bionics: Cool Science by Judith Jango-Cohen is a book about artificial devices that help improve daily living. This book shows how bionic devices serve many different purposes for animals and people. For example, some bionic devices replace parts of the body that are missing due to injury or birth defects. This book includes chapters on Replacing Parts, Fixing Malfunctions, Assisting the Senses and Facing the Future. This book is recommended for students in grade 4th -6th.

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If not, check to see if your local library has it in WorldCat.

Transition Planning for Students with Disabilities

Transition Planning for Students with Disabilities: What Educators and Service Providers Can Do by Jeffrey Bakken and Festus Obiakor provides a wide range of topics that cover each area of transition impacting the lives of students with disabilities. This book takes an in-depth look at using assistive technology to help plan a student's future and stresses the importance of family involvement. This resource guide assists educators and service providers in developing an effective plan to help students with disabilities meet their goals to achieve success during school and beyond.

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If not, check to see if your local library has it by using WorldCat.

Combating Violence & Abuse

Combating Violence & Abuse of People with Disabilities by Nancy Fitzsimons is an eye-opening sourcebook for professionals, advocates and families to learn to recognize and stop abuse before it starts. This book empowers readers with the knowledge and strategies to help people with disabilities to develop practical safety skills, form healthy relationships, and communicate effectively. This well-researched and comprehensive book is highly recommended.

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If not, check your local library to see if they have a copy.

The Gift of Adult ADD

The Gift of Adult ADD: How to Transform Your Challenge & Build on Your Strengths by Lara Honos-Webb, PH.D offers a new approach on how to transform symptoms into strengths. This guidebook show readers how to use their ADD to improve their parenting skills, relationships and work lives. It also includes inspiring stories of people with ADD who have become successful by focusing on their strengths instead of on their weaknesses. This book offers positive and inspiring strategies of how to have a better overall quality of life.

Interested in this book and live in Indiana?

If not, check to see if your local library has it in WorldCat.

Winning the Disability Challenge

Written by John F. Tholen, Ph.D., Winning the Disability Challenge: A Practical Guide to Successful Living offers insight into how disabled individuals can lead successful, fulfilling lives and overcome feelings of helplessness and depression. The book includes 100 inspiring affirmations and offers advice on dealing with insurance companies, Medicaid, Social Security, and other organizations. It also provides tips on curing insomnia, coping with pain and distress, and maintaining wellness with diet, exercise, and relaxation. Anyone who has a physical disability that would like to learn more about improving the quality of everyday life will find this book beneficial. Check it out at CeDIR today!