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1% Better: Reaching My Full Potential and How You Can Too
by Chris Nikic Nik NikicWhat would life look like if you measured your success by improvements instead of victories? Nik Nikic shares the incredible story of his son Chris&’s journey to become the first person with Down syndrome to ever complete an IRONMAN® triathlon, inspiring others to achieve their goals by getting 1 percent better every day.From the moment Chris Nikic was born, his parents knew he could achieve anything he set his mind to do. So when he became involved in triathlons with the Special Olympics, his dad, Nik, took on the role of coach and encouraged Chris to aim even higher. Together, they set their sights on making history—Chris becoming the first person with Down syndrome to complete an IRONMAN® triathlon.Written from Chris&’s father&’s perspective, Nik shares the 1% Better mindset that has helped Chris achieve many of his goals—and the underlying principles of the 1% Better system can help you pursue and achieve your dreams too! Through Chris and Nik&’s story, learn the benefits of applying the model to your own life and discover how to:Overcome the mental hurdles of painStay motivated using three irrefutable laws of motivationSee failures as opportunities for improvementForm a lifelong habit of successYou may never be the best. But you can be better than your best when you stop imposing self-limitations and begin the journey to reach your goals—one confident step at a time.Publisher&’s Note: 1% Better is written in Nik Nikic&’s voice. Chris and his accomplishments are the focus of 1% Better, and Chris is a coauthor of the book as he was interviewed by his father and the writer.
"Mommy, What Is Deaf?"
by Nikki Sian-Leigh AksamitThe author of "Mommy, What is Dead?", Nikki Sian-Leigh Aksamit, has added "Mommy, What is Deaf?" as the next book in her "Mommy, What is...?" series. Aimed at preschool age children, "Mommy, What is Deaf?" explains sound, the definition of "deaf", and all the reasons why some people can not hear. With straight forward text, and uncomplicated drawings, young children easily understand how the ears work, and why in some people they do not. Kids are also challenged to "feel" the sounds around them, as deaf people do.
Career Planning
by Spencer G. Niles Thomas F. Harrington Garbette A. M. GarrawayNIMAC-sourced textbook
Success Strategies for Parenting Gifted Kids: Expert Advice From the National Association for Gifted Children
by Kathleen Nilles Jennifer Jolly Tracy Inman Joan Franklin SmutnyWhen parents need guidance on raising gifted kids, they can turn to Success Strategies for Parenting Gifted Kids: Expert Advice From the National Association for Gifted Children. This collection of practical, dynamic articles from NAGC's Parenting for High Potential magazine:Offers parents the support and resources they need to help their children find success in school and beyond.Presents easy-to-understand research-based concepts and practical how-to strategies.Is written by leading experts in the field of gifted education.Provides advice for navigating complex issues that gifted students may face.Gives parents an easy-to-understand overview of each topic based on research and best practices.Chapters address such topics as underachievement, twice-exceptionality, acceleration, underrepresented populations, student advocacy, and more. Additionally, the book includes discussion and reflection questions that are perfect for parent support groups, conversations with families and children, and individual parent reflections.
Success Strategies for Parenting Gifted Kids: Expert Advice From the National Association for Gifted Children
by Kathleen Nilles Jennifer L. Jolly Tracy Ford Inman Joan Franklin SmutnyWhen parents need guidance on raising gifted kids, they can turn to Success Strategies for Parenting Gifted Kids: Expert Advice From the National Association for Gifted Children. This collection of practical, dynamic articles from NAGC's Parenting for High Potential magazine:
Minutes in the Dark, Eternity in the Light
by Kathy NimmerThis book contains 140 minute poems: short word pictures of the author's personal journey through vision loss. While every poem is anchored in the theme of blindness, the poems inexplicably rise above that disability label. Many poems are upbeat while others are quite sad. Some share incidents that are well-known by those in his world while others speak of things he has never communicated to another living soul. It is an honest collection of his life experiences tied to the decline of his sight.
Two Plus Four Equals One: Celebrating the Partnership of People with Disabilities and Their Assistance Dogs
by Kathy NimmerShort, funny, moving, and touching accounts of the effect guide dogs and service dogs have had on their owners' lives.
Anything for My Child: Making Impossible Decisions for Medically Complex Children
by Stephanie NimmoEvery parent wants the same thing: for their child to enjoy a long and fulfilling life. But what happens when things don't go according to plan? What happens when parents have to become advocates for their child's healthcare needs? Who decides what is in a child's 'best interests'?Stephanie Nimmo faced these questions first-hand when her daughter, Daisy, was diagnosed with a life-limiting condition as a baby. Seen through the lens of Stephanie's own experiences, this sensitive book delves into the complex world of medical ethics and paediatric palliative care. From recognising tipping points to the importance of building relationships with palliative care teams well before crisis, this book explores how medical professionals can better support families throughout their child's care.Interviews with clinicians and snapshots from the lives of patients' families provide insight into the realities of life on both sides of the hospital bed. Compassionate explanations of the conflicting pressures in the hospital system foster understanding and help medical professionals and families work together.
Expository Discourse in Children, Adolescents, and Adults: Development and Disorders (New Directions in Communication Disorders Research)
by Marilyn A. Nippold Cheryl M. ScottSchool success in the 21st century requires proficiency with expository discourse -- the use and understanding of informative language in spoken and written modalities. This occurs, for example, when high school students read their textbooks and listen to their teachers' lectures, and later are asked to demonstrate their knowledge of this complex topic through oral reports and essay examinations. Although many students are proficient with the expository genre, others struggle to meet these expectations. This book is designed to provide information on the use and understanding of expository discourse in school-age children, adolescents, and young adults. Recently, researchers from around the world have been investigating the development of this genre in typical students and in those with language disorders. Although many books have addressed the development of conversational and narrative discourse, by comparison, books devoted to the topic of expository discourse are sparse. This crossdisciplinary volume fills that gap in the literature and makes a unique contribution to the study of language development and disorders. It will be of interest to a range of professionals, including speech-language pathologists, teachers, linguists, and psychologists who are concerned with language development and disorders.
Just Care: Messy Entanglements of Disability, Dependency, and Desire (D/C: Dis/color)
by Akemi NishidaJust Care is Akemi Nishida’s thoughtful examination of care injustice and social justice enabled through care. The current neoliberal political economy has turned care into a business opportunity for the healthcare industrial complex and a mechanism of social oppression and control. Nishida analyzes the challenges people negotiate whether they are situated as caregivers, receivers, or both. Also illuminated is how people with disabilities come together to assemble community care collectives and bed activism (resistance and visions emerging from the space of bed) to reimagine care as a key element for social change. The structure of care, Nishida writes, is deeply embedded in and embodies the cruel social order—based on disability, race, gender, migration status, and wealth—that determines who survives or deteriorates. Simultaneously, many marginalized communities treat care as the foundation of activism. Using interviews, focus groups, and participant observation with care workers and people with disabilities, Just Care looks into lives unfolding in the assemblage of Medicaid long-term care programs, community-based care collectives, and bed activism. Just Care identifies what care does, and asks: Are some people’s needs more sacred and urgent than others?
The 'Healthy' Embryo: Social, Biomedical, Legal and Philosophical Perspectives
by Jeff Nisker Françoise Baylis Isabel Karpin Carolyn Mcleod Roxanne MykitiukThe ever-increasing use of assisted human reproduction technology and the use of human embryos to derive stem cells will ensure that the ethical, legal, and social issues explored in The 'Healthy' Embryo: Social, Biomedical, Legal and Philosophical Perspectives will remain the focus of public attention and subjects of debate and research across many academic disciplines.
Rocky Mountain Match
by Pamela NissenWhen blindness strikes carpenter Joseph Drake, the prospect of a lifetime of darkness fills him with despair. But then his brother hires Katie Ellickson. The strong-willed, confident teacher knows what it's like to be outcast, alone--and she won't give up on Joseph, even when he's ready to give up on himself. He thinks blindness is his most difficult obstacle, until he finds a bigger challenge--trying to reach Katie's heart. Will she let him? Katie has secrets that she's carried with her to the Rocky Mountains. And there's a darkness of her own in her past, which she can't escape for long...
Mainstreaming and the American Dream: Sociological Perspectives on Parental Coping with Blind and Visually Impaired Children
by Howard Nixon IIBased on in-depth interviews with parents and professionals, this research monograph presents a sociological framework for looking at the needs and aspirations of parents of blind and visually impaired children.
I Fight, You Fight: Life isn't about the hand you're dealt, but how you choose to play it
by Alex NobleThe inspiring story of a young man whose wisdom and strength can teach us all how to live life to the fullest, no matter what it throws at us. Sixteen-year-old Alex Noble was a high school rugby star with a promising sporting career ahead of him when an on-field injury left him fighting for his life in the ICU. Following a four-day coma and a diagnosis of C4 quadriplegia, Alex&’s first words to his brother Zac were, &‘If I fight, you fight.&’ These words became a war cry as Alex&’s friends, family and community rallied around him, watching in awe as he fought to regain control over his body and defy his diagnosis. From learning to breathe and move again to travelling the world, starting his own business, and even going skydiving, Alex&’s story is about the power of mastering your own mind, finding happiness and taking risks to achieve your goals – no matter how out of reach they may seem. Full of warmth, humour and insight, this is a book that will teach you principles to live your life by, written by a young man who has put them into practice.I Fight, You Fight is so much more than an inspiring memoir – it&’s a philosophy for finding happiness and reaching your true potential.
Halfway House
by Katharine NoelOne day, Angie Voorster-diligent student, all-star swimmer, and Ivy-League-bound high school senior-dives to the bottom of a pool and stays there. In that moment, everything the Voorster family believes they know about each other changes. As Angie swings between manic highs and dangerous lows, the Voorsters struggle to maintain the appearance of an ideal New England family. It is only when Angie is finally able to fend for herself that the family allows itself to fall apart and then regather in a new, fundamentally changed way. With grace and precision, debut novelist Katharine Noel guides us through a world where love is imperfect, and where longing for an imagined ideal can both destroy one family's happiness and offer it redemption.
Effective Teaching Strategies for Dyscalculia and Learning Difficulties in Mathematics: Perspectives from Cognitive Neuroscience
by Marie-Pascale Noël Giannis KaragiannakisEffective Teaching Strategies for Dyscalculia and Learning Difficulties in Mathematics provides an essential bridge between scientific research and practical interventions with children. It unpacks what we know about the possible cognitive causation of mathematical difficulties in order to improve teaching and therefore learning. Each chapter considers a specific domain of children’s numerical development: counting and the understanding of numbers, understanding of the base-10 system, arithmetic, word problem solving, and understanding rational numbers. The accessible guidance includes a literature review on each topic, surveying how each process develops in children, the difficulties encountered at that level by some pupils, and the intervention studies that have been published. It guides the reader step-by-step through practical guidelines of how to assess these processes and how to build an intervention to help children master them. Illustrated throughout with examples of materials used in the effective interventions described, this essential guide offers deep understanding and effective strategies for developmental and educational psychologists, special educational needs and/or disabilities coordinators, and teachers working with children experiencing mathematical difficulties.
Perceptual Factors in Braille Word Recognition
by Carson Y. Nolan Cleves J. KederisThis monograph presents the findings of several years of study of the braille system as a communication process.
Under The Eye Of The Clock: A Memoir
by Christopher NolanA powerful and moving autobiography from a gifted writer who has been compared to Joyce and Yeats.This is the story of Joseph Meehan, born cruelly handicapped and known to the world as 'the crippled boy'. Filled with insight into the soul inside a broken body and warm with the beauties of the Irish landscape it is the story of Joseph's fight to escape the restrictions and confines of his existence.UNDER THE EYE OF THE CLOCK can also be read as the autobiography of its author, Christopher Nolan.
Under The Eye Of The Clock
by Christopher NolanA powerful and moving autobiography from a gifted writer who has been compared to Joyce and Yeats.'A book of sheer wonder. As an author he competes as an equal with the ablest of them' DAILY EXPRESSThis is the story of Joseph Meehan, born cruelly handicapped and known to the world as 'the crippled boy'. Filled with insight into the soul inside a broken body and warm with the beauties of the Irish landscape it is the story of Joseph's fight to escape the restrictions and confines of his existence.UNDER THE EYE OF THE CLOCK can also be read as the autobiography of its author, Christopher Nolan.
Pregnant Pause
by Han NolanA thought-provoking and courageous new novel by National Book Award winner Han Nolan. Nobody gets away with telling Eleanor Crowe what to do. But as a pregnant sixteenyear-old, her options are limited: move to Kenya with her missionary parents or marry the baby's father and work at his family's summer camp for overweight kids. Despite her initial reluctance to help out, Elly is surprised that she actually enjoys working with the campers. But a tragedy on the very day her baby is born starts a series of events that overwhelms Elly with unexpected emotions and difficult choices. Somehow, she must turn her usual obstinance in a direction that can ensure a future for herself--and for the new life she has created. The e-book includes a sample chapter from Born Blue by Han Nolan.
Accessing the General Curriculum: Including Students With Disabilities in Standards-Based Reform
by Victor Nolet Margaret J. MclaughlinFeaturing updated strategies for fitting special education into frameworks created by standards and assessments, this indispensable resource shows teachers how to achieve expected results with all students.
The Deaf Community in America: History in the Making
by Melvia Nomeland Ronald NomelandThe deaf community in the West has endured radical changes in the past centuries. This work of history tracks the changes both in the education of and the social world of deaf people through the years. Topics include attitudes toward the deaf in Europe and America and the evolution of communication and language. Of particular interest is the way in which deafness has been increasingly humanized, rather than medicalized or pathologized, as it was in the past. Successful contributions to the deaf and non-deaf world by deaf individuals are also highlighted. Instructors considering this book for use in a course may request an examination copy here.
No Map To This Country: One Family's Journey Through Autism
by Jennifer NoonanA heartbreaking yet also funny and ultimately empowering memoir revealing the a multi-year journey into the latest science and treatments in order to rescue her kids and her family from autism.
Teamwork: A Dog Training Manual for People with Disabilities
by Stewart Nordensson Lydia KelleyThis manual explains the exercises of "sit" "stay" "down" "come, and a varity of more, with ideas on how to train them with a physical disability. This book proves that it is not the "method" that makes the training successful but the trainer and the dog. Topics covered include, equipment, different adaptations, food in training, teaching the "leave it" command. And talks about basic Service dog training.
Teamwork II
by Stewart Nordensson Lydia KelleyTeamwork II is the second book designed to help people with disabilities train their dogs- Teamwork II focuses specifically on service dog skill training. It is a good resource for anyone considering owner training or private training or even for people with program trained dogs to add further skills to their dogs training.