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Home at Last
The departure point and underlying theme of this book is the conviction that people with profound intellectual and multiple disabilities have the right to a lifestyle which is both meaningful and as independent as possible. It follows the attempts to help two young women with disabilities achieve their dream of a home of their own, supported by twenty-four hour care. Two of the authors are their parents. Home at Last is an indispensable source of information for parents, carers and social workers, offering practical knowledge, guidance and expertise, including details of planning and financing, for setting up a home-support scheme and making it work successfully. It gives an insight into the practical realities of new patterns of living in the community for those with the most profound intellectual and multiple disabilities.
Listen to Me
Written for parents, carers and professionals who have responsibilities for people with profound intellectual and multiple disabilities, Listen to Me is a practical guide to coping with the complex problems of someone with this level of disability, asserting their rights, interpreting their needs successfully, and maintaining effective contact with all the professionals and organisations who deal with them. Using examples from the author's experience with her own daughter, each chapter deals with communicating the person's rights and needs in particular situations. It is shown how it is possible to enrich the individual's experience and ensure that others value him or her as a distinct individual with a right to a meaningful life.
A Weaver of the Light
This is the story of a friendship between two women, each with different lives and on their own paths. At a critical point for both women, their paths intersect and a journey begins that will change them. Having left corporate America, Mara is a weaver who is ready to move forward in a new direction of her life. She learns to trust her own intuition as she develops her skills as a Weaver of the Light, bringing together threads of spirit, family, friends, and soul to help those transitioning in their lives. Jesse leads an independent, self-directed life. She has had to make difficult choices again and again. This friendship with Mara changes everything for her as she is undergoing the most important transition in her life when she receives a diagnosis of cancer. She learns to trust and open herself to those she loves. In the end, the three generations of friends, partners, mothers and daughters weave together a tapestry of hope, of sharing, of willingness to be vulnerable and ultimately, a place of strength from love.
Step-By-Step Tai Chi
Like massage and yoga, the practice of Tai Chi enhances health and fitness and helps to reduce stress. This easy-to-use manual takes readers through four levels of techniques. Detailed drawings and clear text describe the progression from gentle fundamental movements to advanced exercises.
Housing Options for Disabled People
Adaptations or re-housing can help people with disabilities to live at home in the community. This multidisciplinary guide suggests innovative ways of working out solutions to problems, and highlights the key role of occupational therapists.
From Isolation to Intimacy
If you have no language, how can you make yourself understood, let alone make friends? Phoebe Caldwell has worked for many years with people with severe intellectual disabilities and/or autistic spectrum disorder who are non-verbal, and whose inability to communicate has led to unhappy and often violent behaviour. In this new book she explores the nature of close relationships, and shows how these are based not so much on words as on the ability to listen, pay attention, and respond in terms that are familiar to the other person. This is the key to Intensive Interaction, which she shows is a straightforward and uncomplicated way, through attending to body language and other non-verbal means of communication, of establishing contact and building a relationship with people who are non-verbal, even those in a state of considerable distress. This simple method is accessible to anyone who lives or works with such people, and is shown to transform lives and to introduce a sense of fun, of participation and of intimacy, as trust and familiarity are established.
Waldwick
Waldwick, like other towns in northern New Jersey, was created because of the railroad. The area around the borough, however, has a much longer history, dating back to the era of the Lenni Lenape Indians. During the Revolutionary War, as George Washington was staying at the Hermitage, his troops camped in Waldwick. In Waldwick, the photographs and stories of many Waldwick residents and a newly created historical map reveal the rich heritage of this close-knit community.
Genealogical Classification by Family Group Coding for Descent from Common Ancestors
Peter Stewart (1825-1899) married Flora McMaster in 1853, and immigrated from Scotland to Wellington County, Ontario. Peter and a son, John C. Stewart, immigrated to Pembina (now Cavalier) County, North Dakota in the early 1880s, and later Flora came to join them. Descendants and relatives lived in North Dakota, Michigan, New York, New England, Texas, California and elsewhere. Includes many descendants and relatives in Ontario in Canada. Includes ancestry in Scotland, Germany, Scandinavia and elsewhere.
Rock Hall
Rock Hall, Maryland, is a small, tranquil community nestled in Kent County on the Eastern Shore of the Chesapeake Bay. Settled by fishermen and recently released indentured servants lured by subsistence fishing and farming, the town soon earned a reputation for enormous hauls of rockfish; thus, Rock Haul (later Rock Hall) was named. Eventually shipbuilding and other water-oriented enterprises developed, and the town evolved. More than 300 years later, farmers and watermen still provide the basis of the communitys economy, and the residents are evermore dedicated to historic preservation. In Images of America: Rock Hall, vintage photographs depict Rock Hall harbor, Tolchester Beach, Eastern Neck Island, and the Chesapeake Bay.
