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Special Education Products for Children, Parents, Teachers, and Schools

Autism, ADHD, and Dyslexia-related Products and Therapeutic Toys

The MotivAider --behavior management tool to help children with ADHD and other attention issues manage their own behavior

TFH Special Needs Toys--special needs toys for children and adults, specializing in MultiSensory Environments

HelpMyReading.Com-- Reading Skills Remediation Software and Tutoring Help For Special Needs (LD, ADD/ADHD, Low Vision, ESL, S/L, Trauma, Anxiety). Free initial consult and help.

Even Better Now, LLC-- Autism Natural Therapies and Nutritional Supplements

Medical Equipment and Devices for Children and Teens with Special Needs

Core Medical-- special needs changing tables and other equipment for kids, teens, adults with special needs

Products to help kids with Autism and Other Learning Differences

AtKidSystems --teaches color recognition, spatial awareness, directional awareness, numbers, and shapes to preschool kids with autism, developmental delays, CP, and motor challenges.

Home and Classroom Help for kids with Learning Disabilities / Physical Limitations -- and their Parents and Teachers

Teaching Kids with Mental Health & Learning Disorders in the Regular Classroom --a book by child psychologist Dr. Myles Cooley on How to Recognize, Understand, and Help Challenged (and Challenging) Students Succeed. Intended for general education teachers to assist them in understanding and effectively responding to students with mental health and learning disorders.

Custom Keyboarding Software--Unique software and typing books for students with Cerebral Palsy, missing fingers, Learning Disabilities, Dyslexia, Visually Impaired, etc. on all grade levels. (Real Human Voice)

Chester Creek Technologies-- Computer Keyboards, Computer Mice and other assistive technology products for children and adults with disabilities or special needs.

Handwriting Problem Solutions, LLC -- resource guide for Handwriting Solutions - Equipment, Teaching Strategies and Educatioal Resource Recommendations for Kids with Writing Disabilities. Consultation also available

eSpecialNeeds -- a premier provider of therapeutic & special needs toys, software, strollers, learning tools and adaptive equipment for special needs children

School System Management Aids and Products

SEAS Special Education Automation Software--SEAS is a proven web-based, special education data management system designed to ease the constantly changing demands of state and federal regulations

Reading Methods

Riggs -- Orton based reading, writing, and thinking methods for parents and teachers

PCI Education-- provider of research-based special education resources that are designed and created specifically for students with special needs, learning differences, and struggling learners.

Child1st Publications-- -- Phonics for Children with Learning Disabilities: Multisensory Phonics, Multisensory Reading Instruction -- see reading results in children when all other means have failed.

Rogers Center for Learning Software -- -- Special Education Software to Teach Reading, Writing, Spelling, Penmanship and Dictionary Skills

Parent Advocacy

IEP Game --3-D step-by-step guide for creating a legaly and educationally sound Parent Concern Letter for your IEP

Books Online

The Edison Trait: Saving the Spirit of Your Noncomforming Child, by Lucy Jo Palladino, Ph.D.
This well-written book provides practical suggestions for adults and children with different learning styles, some of whom might have been classified as having Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder. This book looks at the various subtypes: dreamers, discoverers and dynamos as having different skills- skills that may, in non-traditional school settings, lead to successful and productive lives. It is an excellent book for parents and educators alike.

Special Education Book Reviews

Special education professionals listed in the ISER directory have reviewed and recommended special education books for the visitors to ISER. You may purchase these books from Amazon.com by clicking on the book titles. You may also learn more about the professionals making the recommendation by clicking on the professional's name. You will be taken to their ISER listing.

ADD/ADHD

Discipline

Parenting

Janet S. Buelow, Ph.D., Psychological Resource Center, Los Altos, CA: Specialists in early childhood and preschool diagnosis and therapy.
Power Parenting for Children with ADD/ADHD: A Practical Guide for Parents Managing Difficult Behavior By Grad L. Flick, PhD and Harvey C. Parker
This book helps parents with very determined children to manage behavior. It helps parents teach children to get rewards and parental contact with constructive and appropriate behavior.
Assertive Discipline for Parents, by Lee Canter and Marlene Canter.
This book helps parents to provide consistent limits and boundaries. Many children with impulse control problems need help to understand how to behave appropriately. Parents benefit from the good ideas in this book that help them to discourage the long drawn out engagements that children may generate around limit setting. The book recommends a kind and firm approach.
Helping Your Child Sleep Through the Night, by Joanne Cuthbertson
This book is for parents of infants and toddlers to help them to understand how to stop promoting the behaviors that keep young children from sleeping through the night. It helps parents teach children how to develop good sleeping habits and how parents can cope with colic, nightmares and bedwetting.
How to Talk so Kids Will Listen and Listen so Kids Will Talk, by Adele Faber and Elaine Mazlish
This is the book that I recommend most often to parents. It describes a communication style that is respectful. This communication system promotes children's self-esteem. It also describes and illustrates with examples, the ways parents can set limits and at the same time validate their children's feelings. It is appropriate for parents of children of all ages.
How to Listen so Kids Can Learn: At Home and In School, by Adele Faber and Elaine Mazlish
A very good book that helps parents provide support for children when they do their homework without doing it for them. It provides parents with the understanding that they can be helpful and support their child's self-esteem at the same time.
Siblings Without Rivalry: How to Help Your Children Live Together So You Can Live Too, by Adele Faber and Elaine Mazlish
Faber and Mazlish show parents how to respond to children's fights without taking sides and making the problems worse. The authors demonstrate effective methods for stopping arguments and show how to help children develop problem solving behaviors.

ADHD
Learning
Disabilities

Central Auditory
Processing
Disorders

Auditory
Integration
Training Judith W. Paton, M.A., FAAA, pediatric and adult audiology, San Mateo, CA
Central Auditory and Language Disorders in Children, by Robert Keith
(This book is no longer in print, but Amazon.com will query several bookstores and try to locate it for you if you are interested.)
Although this is an older book, it is still recent in terms of the number of decades in which CNS auditory system dysfunctions have been researched. Quite readable to educators and other professionals as well as parents, it has chapters relating CAPD and motor and perceptual functions, a pediatrician's views on CAPDs, a chapter by Paula Tallal (of HAILO/ Fast ForWord fame) and phonemic synthesis training. Keith is the developer of the SCAN and SCAN-A tests, which are becoming well-known among educators.
Central Auditory Processing Disorders: A Transdisciplinary View, by Jack Katz, Nancy Stecker, and Donald Henderson, Eds. (1992)
This book is not available on Amazon.com. You may order it by contacting the publisher at: Mosby Year-Book, Inc., 11830 Westline Industrial Drive, St. Louis, MO 63146.
This is the real, modern science of CAPDs, suitable for any parent with a scientific bent. It has some practical chapters which include Katz's system for sub-dividing CAPDs into more manageable units, on the mix between CAPD and ADD and language disorders, and on every age range of patient. Other chapters describe the rigorous scientific evidence on which CAPD tests are based, including new techniques like functional MRI.
The following two books are the definitive books at present on Auditory Integration Training (AIT) or hyperacusis (unusual sensitivity to some sounds). This population always has some CAPD but is found in dignostic groups ranging from autistic to language-disordered, to head-injured.
Hearing Equals Behavior, by Guy Berard
This book is by the inventor of Auditory Integration Training.
Dancing in the Rain, by Anabel Stehli
This book contains accounts of more than 30 parents' experience with Auditory Integration Training.

Dyslexia

Spelling
Strategies

Don McCabe, Ph.D., M.A., A.B.T., AVKO Educational Research Foundation
To Teach A Dyslexic, by Don McCabe
Review by Eldo Bergman, M.D., The Texas Reading Institute: It takes a dyslexic like Don McCabe to teach us what dyslexia really is. It can be more a gift than it is a handicap. What he has achieved, other dyslexics can achieve-- with the proper help from teachers who understand the logic behind the dyslexic mind. Dyslexics may not make Who's Who (as McCabe did), but they certainly can become good readers, good spellers, and good citizens living happy and productive lives.
If It Is To Be, It Is Up To Me To Do It, by Don McCabe
This book is a tutoring book in which the dyslexic child learns that he can learn to spell WITHOUT studying and the parent learns that her child is capable of learning anything provided it's presented in a logical, sequential fashion.
AVKO Student Response Book for Sequential Spelling, by Don McCabe
This is the only spelling series based on immediate student self-correction of carefully sequenced spelling words so that students learn from their mistakes as they are taking the tests. Students do not study. But they learn rapidly and logically as they discover for themselves the spelling patterns that are used in our language.

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Special Education Book Reviews	Special education professionals listed in the ISER directory have reviewed and recommended special education books for the visitors to ISER. You may purchase these books from Amazon.com by clicking on the book titles. You may also learn more about the professionals making the recommendation by clicking on the professional's name. You will be taken to their ISER listing.
ADD/ADHD Discipline Parenting	Janet S. Buelow, Ph.D., Psychological Resource Center, Los Altos, CA: Specialists in early childhood and preschool diagnosis and therapy. Power Parenting for Children with ADD/ADHD: A Practical Guide for Parents Managing Difficult Behavior By Grad L. Flick, PhD and Harvey C. Parker This book helps parents with very determined children to manage behavior. It helps parents teach children to get rewards and parental contact with constructive and appropriate behavior. Assertive Discipline for Parents, by Lee Canter and Marlene Canter. This book helps parents to provide consistent limits and boundaries. Many children with impulse control problems need help to understand how to behave appropriately. Parents benefit from the good ideas in this book that help them to discourage the long drawn out engagements that children may generate around limit setting. The book recommends a kind and firm approach. Helping Your Child Sleep Through the Night, by Joanne Cuthbertson This book is for parents of infants and toddlers to help them to understand how to stop promoting the behaviors that keep young children from sleeping through the night. It helps parents teach children how to develop good sleeping habits and how parents can cope with colic, nightmares and bedwetting. How to Talk so Kids Will Listen and Listen so Kids Will Talk, by Adele Faber and Elaine Mazlish This is the book that I recommend most often to parents. It describes a communication style that is respectful. This communication system promotes children's self-esteem. It also describes and illustrates with examples, the ways parents can set limits and at the same time validate their children's feelings. It is appropriate for parents of children of all ages. How to Listen so Kids Can Learn: At Home and In School, by Adele Faber and Elaine Mazlish A very good book that helps parents provide support for children when they do their homework without doing it for them. It provides parents with the understanding that they can be helpful and support their child's self-esteem at the same time. Siblings Without Rivalry: How to Help Your Children Live Together So You Can Live Too, by Adele Faber and Elaine Mazlish Faber and Mazlish show parents how to respond to children's fights without taking sides and making the problems worse. The authors demonstrate effective methods for stopping arguments and show how to help children develop problem solving behaviors.
ADHD Learning Disabilities
Central Auditory Processing Disorders Auditory Integration Training	Judith W. Paton, M.A., FAAA, pediatric and adult audiology, San Mateo, CA Central Auditory and Language Disorders in Children, by Robert Keith (This book is no longer in print, but Amazon.com will query several bookstores and try to locate it for you if you are interested.) Although this is an older book, it is still recent in terms of the number of decades in which CNS auditory system dysfunctions have been researched. Quite readable to educators and other professionals as well as parents, it has chapters relating CAPD and motor and perceptual functions, a pediatrician's views on CAPDs, a chapter by Paula Tallal (of HAILO/ Fast ForWord fame) and phonemic synthesis training. Keith is the developer of the SCAN and SCAN-A tests, which are becoming well-known among educators. Central Auditory Processing Disorders: A Transdisciplinary View, by Jack Katz, Nancy Stecker, and Donald Henderson, Eds. (1992) This book is not available on Amazon.com. You may order it by contacting the publisher at: Mosby Year-Book, Inc., 11830 Westline Industrial Drive, St. Louis, MO 63146. This is the real, modern science of CAPDs, suitable for any parent with a scientific bent. It has some practical chapters which include Katz's system for sub-dividing CAPDs into more manageable units, on the mix between CAPD and ADD and language disorders, and on every age range of patient. Other chapters describe the rigorous scientific evidence on which CAPD tests are based, including new techniques like functional MRI. The following two books are the definitive books at present on Auditory Integration Training (AIT) or hyperacusis (unusual sensitivity to some sounds). This population always has some CAPD but is found in dignostic groups ranging from autistic to language-disordered, to head-injured. Hearing Equals Behavior, by Guy Berard This book is by the inventor of Auditory Integration Training. Dancing in the Rain, by Anabel Stehli This book contains accounts of more than 30 parents' experience with Auditory Integration Training.
Dyslexia Spelling Strategies	Don McCabe, Ph.D., M.A., A.B.T., AVKO Educational Research Foundation To Teach A Dyslexic, by Don McCabe Review by Eldo Bergman, M.D., The Texas Reading Institute: It takes a dyslexic like Don McCabe to teach us what dyslexia really is. It can be more a gift than it is a handicap. What he has achieved, other dyslexics can achieve-- with the proper help from teachers who understand the logic behind the dyslexic mind. Dyslexics may not make Who's Who (as McCabe did), but they certainly can become good readers, good spellers, and good citizens living happy and productive lives. If It Is To Be, It Is Up To Me To Do It, by Don McCabe This book is a tutoring book in which the dyslexic child learns that he can learn to spell WITHOUT studying and the parent learns that her child is capable of learning anything provided it's presented in a logical, sequential fashion. AVKO Student Response Book for Sequential Spelling, by Don McCabe This is the only spelling series based on immediate student self-correction of carefully sequenced spelling words so that students learn from their mistakes as they are taking the tests. Students do not study. But they learn rapidly and logically as they discover for themselves the spelling patterns that are used in our language.