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Multisensory Rooms and Environments
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 255

Multisensory Rooms and Environments

This unique, fully photocopiable resource offers guidance and materials to aid those developing multisensory environments - artificially engineered spaces that encourage relaxation, social skills and learning by stimulating the five senses. Particularly useful for those working with people with multiple disabilities, this resource explains the theory underlying multisensory environments, describes the different types, and outlines the practicalities of planning, setting up and equipping a multisensory space. The resource also features useful checklists and tools for creating multisensory experiences in both designed and everyday settings, such as the kitchen, bathroom, garden or beach. Multisensory Environments is published using photocopy-friendly lay-flat binding and is an essential tool for any professional working with individuals with multiple disabilities. It is the perfect complement to Sensory Stimulation: Sensory-Focused Activities for People with Physical and Multiple Disabilities, also authored by Susan Fowler and published by Jessica Kingsley Publishers.

Official Report of the Proceedings of the Board of Education of the City of Chicago
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 552
Group Homes for People with Intellectual Disabilities
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 289

Group Homes for People with Intellectual Disabilities

Draws on a unique 3-year action research study that surveyed daily life and residents' experiences. Provides evidence-based strategic and practical suggestions for ways that staff and organisations can improve quality of life for residents. Authors from La Trobe University, Australia.

Involving Senior Citizens in Group Music Therapy
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 147

Involving Senior Citizens in Group Music Therapy

This practical guide to running music therapy groups with senior citizens provides effective strategies that encourage therapists to be creative and engaging, and involve participants fully in the music-making process. The author explains how to choose or create music that is accessible to older people, relating to the group's shared experiences.

Unmentionables
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 394

Unmentionables

As weavers, garment workers, and peddlers, Syrian immigrants in the Americas fed the early twentieth-century transnational textile trade. These migrants and the commodities they produced—silk, linen, and cotton; lace and embroidery; undergarments and ready-wear clothing—moved along steamship routes from Beirut through Marseille and Madeira to New York City, New England, and Veracruz. As migrants and merchants crisscrossed the Atlantic in pursuit of work, Syrian textile manufacturing expanded across the hemisphere. Unmentionables offers a history of the global textile industry and the Syrians, Lebanese, and Palestinians who worked in it. Stacy Fahrenthold examines how Arab workers navigat...

Activities for Older People in Care Homes
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 210

Activities for Older People in Care Homes

When tasked with providing activities for older people in care homes, it can be difficult to know where to begin. What constitutes an activity? How can you make sure activities are as positive and person-centred as possible? What can you actually do? Written by an experienced activity coordinator, this handbook is an indispensable companion for others in this role. The author provides useful background information on dementia, the importance of activities and how to get to know residents through life story work. She addresses important practical considerations such as how to assess a resident for suitable activities, activity planning, timetabling, budgeting and money-stretching, as well as ...

100 Learning Games for Special Needs with Music, Movement, Sounds and...Silence
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 130

100 Learning Games for Special Needs with Music, Movement, Sounds and...Silence

Games and activities are a great way for children with special needs to learn important skills. This book provides inspiration and guidance for special education teachers, teaching assistants, parents and carers on how to use lively and engaging play ideas to foster learning and development. Targeting key skills including listening, self-awareness, movement, creative thinking and relaxation, each game has been developed with the capabilities of children with special needs in mind. The appropriate age group is clearly identified, and possible variations for different abilities are provided. All of the instructions are easy to follow and there are cheerful illustrations throughout. Using music, dance, art, word games and breathing exercises, this book is packed with creative and enjoyable games that make learning fun. This user-friendly activity book will be an ideal resource for use in special education schools, inclusive mainstream classrooms, day-care, residential and respite settings, or at home.

The Public School Journal
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 394

The Public School Journal

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1886
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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Proceedings
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 722

Proceedings

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1895
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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Annual Report of the Superintendent of Schools
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 386

Annual Report of the Superintendent of Schools

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1894
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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