The Blind Advantage

Losing your vision is scary. But when first-year teacher Bill Henderson found out that was happening to him, he didn't take the advice others gave him--to get out of the field of education. In The blind advantage: How going blind made me a stronger principal and how including children with difficulties made our school better for everyone, Henderson takes his readers on his journey through deteriorating vision into blindness, and how he persevered in maintaining his career and even getting to the head of the class!

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

Beyond the Label

Got a child who is struggling with a learning disability or a behavioral disorder? Beyond the label: A guide to unlocking a child's educational potential can help. This book explains how to recognize the warning signs of a potential learning problem and also where to turn for help. It discusses what an accommodation is and how it can help your child. Issues such as attention, concentration, visual perception, emotional functioning and more are also discussed.

Check out this title by emailing us at cedir@indiana.edu or by using worldcat.org to find it in a library near you.

My Dyslexia

My dyslexia is the moving story of Pulitzer Prize for Poetry winner Philip Schultz. As a child, Schultz always felt as if he was being relegated to the "dummy class" in school, where he was largely ignored. Many years later, his oldest son was diagnosed with dyslexia, and Schultz wondered whether he might also have the same condition.


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Mobile App Monday - iSign

Looking for an app for American Sign Language? Try iSign. The developer boasts this app contains over 800 signs in an animated format so that the user can see the movement necessary to make the words.

For more information on this app, visit: http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/isign/id288858200?mt=8

Assistive Technology for people with Disabilities

Assistive Technology for People with Disabilities, Second Edition, provides a focused look at devices and software that can help people with disabilities live more independent lives. This second edition includes new research and content across the lifespan that address current developments in the field.

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New titles for educators

CeDIR has a couple of new titles for educators in the library:

How to co-teach: A guide for general and special educators
This book offers basics of co-teaching, thoughts on what each teacher brings to the relationship, how to become a co-teacher, general communication advice, and more!

Implementing the framework for teaching in enhancing professional practice.
With its clear definition of the elements of good teaching, the framework for teaching, designed by Charlotte Danielson, is used by educators around the world for professional preparation, recruitment and hiring, mentoring and induction, professional development, and performance appraisal. This action tool can guide you in applying the framework in your own classroom or school and strengthening your professional practice with proven strategies.

Email us at cedir@indiana.edu to check out either of these titles.

Language and Reading Disabilities

From the book description:

"Now more than ever, increased attention has been given to students achieving adequate levels of reading proficiency. Maintaining its strong clinical and research basis, the third edition of Language and Reading Disabilities successfully keeps pace with the rapid changes in our knowledge about language and reading disabilities by providing readers with the most up-to-date advances in research and instruction in reading disabilities. This edition continues to cover a wide variety of theories by comparing and noting the similarities and differences between spoken and written language. This text is broad-based in its coverage of identification, assessment, and treatment of reading and writing disorders." 

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