This handbook offers a succinct study of Childhood Development Paediatrics with practical applications for helping the child and family through all areas of the developmental process. The book covers diverse topics like developmental delay, learning difficulties, attention deficit disorders, autism, Asperger syndrome, behaviour difficulties, language disorders, school refusal, bullying, emotional difficulties, neurological impairments that affect development (examples being cerebral palsy ...

A heart warming story of a group of school friends who venture out on a school project and stumble upon the origins of their local town. A photography class visit the local graveyard and take pictures focussing on the light and contrast only to discover other hidden results on film.Would you take photos in a creepy old cemetery?And if one of your pictures turns out to contain the faint image of a ghost child...would you go back?Winnie, Harry, Christ...

This is a story of an African American woman working at the highest levels in STEM. Dr. Sandra K. Johnson earned a Ph.D. in electrical and computer engineering from Rice University, Houston, Texas, in May 1988, the first Black woman to do so. She then became a successful global technology leader and an IBM Chief Technology Officer (CTO). The story narrates the inextricable human dimension of dealing with various personal and familial challenges that people naturally encounter—with the high...

When Bronte first steps inside High Moor House, she feels this is where she belongs. the house seems to welcome her.That is until evil is unleashed.All that Bronte needs is a less stressful life. Can she find that back in her home town?Bronte is a funny quirky character who falls in and out of love by the minute. She has moved back to her childhood village and has bought an old house. After builders remove an ancient fireplace, the house becomes so scary that Bronte...

Saundra Johnson is a white-skinned black woman who was born in Little Rock, Arkansas, in l943 during the harsh period of Jim Crow. However, she and other white-skinned family members identified as black and embraced its rich heritage during a period of thriving black communities and businesses. Although having light/white skin had some privileges, the first day that Saundra arrived at Central High School in 1959, it became apparent that her color had no immunity when confronting hardcore r...

The twenty-first century has witnessed an explosion in studies on comparative health studies, but mental health remains virtually ignored. Unlike the well researched topic of health policy, there is a gap in the marketplace covering mental health policy and health care policymaking. This book fills that gap; it is a comparative analysis of the implementation of Assertive Community Treatment (ACT), an evidence-based practice employed in two states that promises to empower the well-being of ...

A sweeping epidemic of hate crime targeted over one hundred Southern Black Churches between 1995 and 1996, leaving them in charred ruins. St. John Baptist Church in Dixiana, South Carolina, was one of the first destroyed. This small, isolated church had faced dark times before. It had been viciously desecrated in 1985 and withstood more attacks until it was burned down in August 1995.From the beginning, two friends--a white woman named Ammie Murray, and a black woman named Barbara S...

*A riveting story of how a suicidal African-American teenager's forcing a young white cop to kill him devastates the teenager’s mother as well the rookie cop. It also sparks a massive race riot and puts the mother and rookie in the crosshairs of a deranged gunman.The only place Emma Jennings, the mother, and Russell “Rusty” Carter, Jr., the cop, find refuge from the chaos engulfing them is the teenager’s serenely beautiful grave. Through initially awkward meetings there, Emma and R...

Why is assessment so important in the teaching-learning process?How should we assess pupils in the primary classroom?Assessing Learning in the Primary Classroomis an accessible introduction to the concepts critical to a professional understanding of this vital aspect of a teacher’s role. It comprehensively considers the principles underpinning effective assessment, the different forms it can take and the different purposes ...

Inspirational Nuggets Too is a new volume in a collection of words of wisdom. Like its predecessor, Inspirational Nuggets, it is designed to encourage and inspire readers to reflect on their lifes journey and to act on purpose to reach their ultimate potential. From positivity to purpose and destiny to having a zest for life, Inspirational Nuggets Too will encourage you to have the life you were born to live, and to live it to the utmost!

This anthology of poems and short stories is an homage to Texas singer/song-writer Robert Earl Keen, who stands in the songwriter/storyteller tradition of Townes Van Zandt, Guy Clark, John Prine, and Keen’s contemporaries Lyle Lovett and James McMurtry. The poems and short stories here are each inspired by Keen’s songs, some expansions of themes of Keen’s songs, others move in creative directions suggested by the characters in his work. Keen’s songs are impressive for their literary sensib...

Managing cataracts to the best advantage of the glaucoma should result in the best long-term visual outcomes for patients. Cataract surgery is one of the most frequently performed procedures in the United States. Notably, cataracts are a leading cause of visual impairment in the world and glaucoma is a leading cause of irreversible blindness. The coexistence of these two diseases is not uncommon and management of the cataract in the context of glaucoma can have significant impact on the gl...