When it comes to academic work, students with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) often have the required knowledge but struggle to get their thoughts down in writing. This is a practical guide to teaching and improving writing skills in students with ASD to meet academic writing standards and prepare for the increased expectations of higher education.The book covers key considerations for all educators teaching writing skills to high school and college students with ASD including how t...

The late teens and twenties are exciting times, but filled with potential pitfalls as young people navigate the transition into independent adult life.This handbook is filled with the information that young people with ASD say they want (and need) to know about alcohol and drugs, social media and online safety, relationship types and boundaries, safe sex, stress and emotional health, and independent living. It includes real life examples, coping strategies and practical tips to hel...

I Am Very… is a book of positive affirmations that all children can learn at a young age. With this book, children will gain a valuable sense of self-worth, positivity, kindness, and confidence.Parents can use this as a guidebook on how to talk to their young ones about feelings, achievements, and gratefulness in a way that is fun! This book is written as a reminder to all parents. That children need stability, positive reinforcement, and the quotes in this book read to them daily....

I Am Very… is a book of positive affirmations that all children can learn at a young age. With this book, children will gain a valuable sense of self-worth, positivity, kindness, and confidence.Parents can use this as a guidebook on how to talk to their young ones about feelings, achievements, and gratefulness in a way that is fun! This book is written as a reminder to all parents. That children need stability, positive reinforcement, and the quotes in this book read to them daily....

Scale is an overlooked issue in the research on interactive governance. This book takes up the important task of investigating the scalar dimensions of collaborative governance in networks, partnerships, and other interactive arenas and explores the challenges of operating at a single scale, across or at multiple scales and of moving between scales.First published as a special issue of Policy & Politics, the volume explores the role of scale and scaling in a wide range of policy ar...

Evidence-based interventions benefit learners only when they are implemented fully. Yet many educators struggle with successful implementation. This unique book gives practitioners a research-based framework for working with PreK–12 educators to support the effective delivery of academic, behavioral, and social–emotional interventions. Step-by-step procedures are presented for assessing existing implementation efforts and using a menu of support strategies to promote intervention fidelity....

Shy Olivia goes to an office party but wonders if maybe it was a misdirected email invite.Jenks follows Olivia as she leaves the party, eager to finally make his move only to have an accident, get slightly broken and lose her in the process.When Olivia finds herself held captive with some new abilities and a craving for red liquid, she wishes she’d taken a chance with the brown eyed boy at the office.Jenks won’t rest until he finds her and Olivia’s not sure her gent...

Administrators and faculty in medical, nursing and health science programs are witnessing a substantial increase in the number of students with disabilities entering their programs. Concurrently, the benefits of diversity in healthcare are becoming increasingly apparent and important. Provider-patient concordance is a known mechanism for reducing health care disparities. By developing a workforce that mirrors the patient population, we can appropriately inform disability care, reducing hea...

Administrators in medical, nursing and health science programs are witnessing a substantial increase in the number of students with disabilities entering their programs. Concurrently, the benefits of diversity in healthcare are becoming increasingly apparent and important.A commitment to disability inclusion for qualified students should be a high-level goal of nursing, medical, and other health science programs. To support this goal, leaders in these areas must develop robust prog...

The usual wide range of approaches to garments and fabrics appears in this tenth volume. Three chapters focus on practical matters: a description of the medieval vestments surviving at Castel Sant'Elia in Italy; a survey of the spread of silk cultivation to Europe before 1300; and a documentation of medieval colour terminology for desirable cloth. Two address social significance: the practice of seizing clothing from debtors in fourteenth-century Lucca, and the transformation of the wardro...