"Just Give Him the Whale!"

2008

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  • Author: Paula Kluth
  • Publisher: Brookes Publishing Company
  • ISBN:
  • Category : Education
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 164

When learners with autism have deep, consuming fascinations'trains, triangles, basketballs, whales'teachers often wonder what to do. This concise, highly practical guidebook gives educators across grade levels a powerful new way to think about students' "obsessions": as positive teaching tools that calm, motivate, and improve learning. Written by top autism experts and nationally renowned speakers Paula Kluth and Patrick Schwarz, this guide is brimming with easy tips and strategies for folding students' special interests, strengths, and areas of expertise into classroom lessons and routines. Teachers will discover how making the most of fascinations can help their students learn standards-based academic content, boost literacy learning and mathematics skills, develop social connections, expand communication skills, and minimize anxiety. Just Give Him the Whale! is packed from start to finish with unforgettable stories based on the authors' experience, firsthand perspectives from people with autism themselves, research-based recommendations that are easy to use right away, and sample forms teachers can adapt for use in their own classrooms. An enjoyable read with an eye-opening message, this short book will have a long-lasting impact on teachers' understanding of autism'and on their students' social and academic success.

Pedro's Whale

2010
Pedro's Whale

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  • Author: Paula Kluth
  • Publisher: Brookes Publishing Company
  • ISBN: 9781598571608
  • Category : Education
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 0

An eye-opening, fully illustrated story-based on the real event that sparked the bestselling Just Give Him the Whale!-this teaching tool will motivate educators to make the most of their students' fascinations and help all children learn.

Song for a Whale

2019-02-05
Song for a Whale

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  • Author: Lynne Kelly
  • Publisher: Delacorte Press
  • ISBN: 1524770256
  • Category : Juvenile Fiction
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 322

The award-winning and USA Today bestselling story of a deaf girl's connection to a whale whose song can't be heard by his species, and the journey she takes to help him. "Fascinating, brave, and tender...a triumph." --Katherine Applegate, Newbery Award-winning author of The One and Only Ivan From fixing the class computer to repairing old radios, twelve-year-old Iris is a tech genius. But she's the only deaf person in her school, so people often treat her like she's not very smart. If you've ever felt like no one was listening to you, then you know how hard that can be. When she learns about Blue 55, a real whale who is unable to speak to other whales, Iris understands how he must feel. Then she has an idea: she should invent a way to "sing" to him! But he's three thousand miles away. How will she play her song for him? Full of heart and poignancy, this affecting story by sign language interpreter Lynne Kelly shows how a little determination can make big waves. And make sure to read Lynne Kelly's next book and instant classic, The Secret Language of Birds!

Mozart and the Whale

2007-01-09
Mozart and the Whale

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  • Author: Jerry Newport
  • Publisher: Simon and Schuster
  • ISBN: 0743288920
  • Category : Biography & Autobiography
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 273

An unforgettable love story and the incredible chronicle of a musical genius and a mathematical prodigy who share a diagnosis of Asperger’s syndrome. When Jerry and Mary Newport met, the connection was instant. A musical genius and a mathematical wonder, the two shared astronomic IQs, but they also shared something else—they both were diagnosed with Asperger's syndrome, a form of autism that affects millions of Americans and makes social contact painfully unbearable. When Jerry and Mary married, they were catapulted into the limelight. They appeared on 60 Minutes and soon were known as "superstars in the world of autism," shining examples of two people who refused to give up in the face of their mutual challenge. But just when it appeared that their lives would enjoy a fairy-tale ending, their marriage fell apart. The Hollywood feeding frenzy was too much to handle, and they divorced. After heartbreaking years of soul searching, Jerry and Mary remarried. Today, with their union stronger than ever, they have dedicated themselves to helping countless other people with Asperger's and autism lead lives of dignity.

You're Welcome

2007
You're Welcome

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  • Author: Patrick Schwarz
  • Publisher: Heinemann Educational Books
  • ISBN:
  • Category : Education
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 40

sThree handbooks; 30 key ideas presented in small, smart packages; all the information necessary to start making inclusion work effectively. Whether you're a general educator, a special educator, an administrator, a therapist, or a family team member, You're Welcome presents the thinking you'll need to open your classrooms to all students. sYou're Welcome is divided into three handbooks that address the most important educational frameworks at the heart of inclusive schooling: Differentiating Instruction Collaboration and Teaming Positive and Peaceful Behavior SupportssEach book contains ten big ideas that provide the most pertinent information for understanding and supporting diverse learners. Schwarz and Kluth distill the research and best practices behind inclusion into concise, actionable nuggets for professional learning that include: classroom structures instructional strategies organizational principles and activities lesson ideas examples from real schools recommended print and Web resources. sGet answers to frequently asked questions about crucial topics such as coteaching, team building, collaborating with students, integrating the IEP into the general education curriculum, creating personalized learning agendas, and writing sensitive and responsive behavior plans. Read You're Welcome and discover a powerful tool for implementing educational practices that provide meaningful help for students with a range of diverse abilities, needs, gifts, and struggles as they achieve effective educational gains.s

A Land We Can Share

2008
A Land We Can Share

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  • Author: Paula Kluth
  • Publisher: Brookes Publishing Company
  • ISBN:
  • Category : Education
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 252

The how and why of teaching literacy skills to children with autism

Don't We Already Do Inclusion?

2013-01-08
Don't We Already Do Inclusion?

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  • Author: Paula Kluth
  • Publisher: Paula Kluth
  • ISBN: 9780999576632
  • Category :
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 144

Are you trying to grow the inclusive schooling model in your community? Do you feel like you have tried everything to create change in your school? Do you want to "sharpen the saw" and become reenergized as an advocate or educator? If you answered "yes" to any one of these questions, then this is the book for you! Don't We Already Do Inclusion? is not only filled with ideas for teaching diverse learners, but is also focused on change itself and, more specifically, on how those concerned about inclusion can create change even when they are not in positions of power. The activities, examples, and illustrations are designed to help participants refine their vision and their skills when it comes to inclusion. The ideas are free or low cost, and many can be achieved by any number of stakeholders--including students and families. Learn tried and true techniques, as well as out-of-the box solutions such as involving traditional and social media, "shrinking" the change, phoning for help, advertising, and writing your way to progress.

From Possibility to Success

2013
From Possibility to Success

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  • Author: Patrick Schwarz
  • Publisher: Heinemann Educational Books
  • ISBN: 9780325046686
  • Category : Education
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 0

"It's easy to feel hopeless in the face of statistics indicating that students with disabilities have fewer educational successes and greater quality-of-life issues than their classmates without disabilities. Yet every week I meet students, teachers, and families who transcend these statistics and are making exciting educational progress, from disability to possibility. This book takes this concept a step further, from possibility to success " -Patrick Schwarz In From Disability to Possibility, Patrick Schwarz made a passionate and compelling argument for the inclusive classroom. From Possibility to Success takes Patrick's case to the next level by providing teachers with powerful new tools to make inclusive education work, along with guidelines for incorporating them into classroom practice. With the goal of building lifelong skills, Patrick offers templates and authentic forms that help you plan lessons and units while at the same time embracing students' interests and passions, working toward students' dreams, promoting leadership, self-advocacy, self-determination, and membership in both school and the community. With an explicit overview of each tool, a rationale for using them, and compelling stories of how they have helped real students in real classrooms, Patrick empowers educators to combine the science and art of teaching all learners. Try them out and discover hope, direction, and inspiration to turn possibility into success.

Freedom from Meltdowns

2008
Freedom from Meltdowns

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  • Author: Travis Thompson
  • Publisher: Brookes Publishing Company
  • ISBN: 9781557669865
  • Category : Medical
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 0

Expert advice for frontline professionals on the most distressing aspects of living or working with children with autism.

Fluke

2009-10-13
Fluke

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  • Author: Christopher Moore
  • Publisher: Harper Collins
  • ISBN: 0061807680
  • Category : Fiction
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 338

“Readers new to the work of Christopher Moore will want to know two things immediately. First: Where has this guy been hiding? (Answer: In plain sight, since he has a cult following.)...[H]e writes laid back fables straight out of Margaritaville, on the cusp of humor and science fiction.”—Janet Maslin, New York Times Whale researcher Nathan Quinn has a problem. It’s not a new problem; in fact, it’s been around for nearly 20 million years. And Nate’s spent most of his adult life working to solve it. You see, although everybody (well, almost everybody) knows that humpback whales sing (outside of human composition, the most complex songs on the planet) no one knows why. Nate, a Ph.D. in behavior biology, intends to discover the answer to this burning question—and soon. Every winter he and Clay Demolocus, his partner in the Maui Whale Research Foundation, ply the warm waters between the islands of Maui and Lanai, recording the eerily beautiful songs of the humpbacks and returning to their lab for electronic analysis. The trouble is, Nate’s beginning to wonder if he hasn’t spent just a little too much time in the sun. Either that, or he’s losing his mind. Because today, as he was shooting an I.D. photo of a humpback tail fluke, Nate could’ve sworn he saw the words “Bite Me” scrawled across the whale’s tail. . .