Resources from Council for Exceptional Children

Council for Exceptional Children

Resource Title: College Planning for Gifted Students, Second Edition, Revised
Price: $24.00 (CEC Members $16.80)
Author: Sandra L. Berger
Description: Use this step-by-step guide for discovering the right fit between student and college. Helps students examine personal goals, values, and learning styles. Describes how to figure out what a college is really like. Revised edition includes information on how to get college planning information from the Internet.

Resource Title: Kids with Special Needs: Information and Activities to Promote Awareness and Understanding
Price: $16.95
Author: Veronica Getskow and Dee Konczal
Description: A great sourcebook designed to help children-and adults-develop an understanding and empathy for individuals with disabilities. Pages of reproducible material provide simulations, games, and activities. Gives background on communicative, developmental, physical, and learning disabilities. Ideal for parents and teachers who want to understand more about inclusive classrooms, planning an IEP, and meeting their child's needs.

Resource Title: Practical Ideas for Addressing Challenging Behaviors
Price: $12.00
Description: This monograph shows how you can more effectively prevent, identify, and address challenging behaviors by taking a positive behavioral approach. Research-based strategies written in accessible language are accompanied by examples of how strategies are implemented in real-life situations in early childhood programs at home.

Resource Title: Raising Your Child to Be Gifted: Successful Parents Speak!
Price: $16.80 (CEC Members $11.76)
Author: James Reed Campbell

Resource Title: Secrets of Discipline for Parents and Teachers: 12 Keys for Raising Responsible Children
Price: Book (#S5285) is $12.95, Video (#S5286) is $18.95. Set (#S5290) is $29.95
Author: Ronald G. Morrish
Description: Find out why behavior management alone fails. Learn about teaching compliance, setting limits, developing good habits and encouraging good decision making. Learn the importance of planning and commitment. Especially helpful in working with children who have ADHD. Video features popular speaker Ron Morrish.

Resource Title: Successfully Parenting Your Baby with Special Needs
Price: $49.95
Description: This new video will both educate and encourage parents who are expecting or have given birth to a baby with special needs. Both parents and experts in the field of pediatrics explain early intervention. Compassionate testimonials from parents, grandparents, and professionals underscore the need to teach parents in utilizing the early intervention approach. The success stories of babies with special needs who are thriving as a result of early intervention offer inspiration and guidance.

Resource Title: Taking Charge of ADHD: The Complete Authoritative Guide for Parents
Price: $17.75 (CEC Members $16.00)
Author: Russell A. Barkley
Description: A wise and compassionate book for parents and professionals that points the way toward a positive approach for managing children and youth with ADHD. Presents pioneering research that provides insight into preventing the disorder from becoming a major problem for family life. Provides suggestions on how to manage ADHD behavior in everyday situations. Presents information on a variety of medications.

Resource Title: Teaching a Young Child to Read
Price: $16.95
Author: Wood Smethhurst
Description: Good instruction is good instruction is good instruction! And good reading instruction may prevent the need for special education placement for some children. This book was written for parents, but presents such solid, time-tested basic reading instruction methodology that any practitioner faced with beginning or non-readers should also have a copy. Although designed for use with children up to age 7, it is also useful for remediation for somewhat older children. In fact, the systematic phonics instruction can be adapted for any age.

Resource Title: The ADD/ADHD Checklist: An Easy Reference for Parents & Teachers
Price: $17.75 (CEC Members $16.00)
Author: Sandra Rief
Description: This upbeat and encouraging book presents the latest on ADD/ADHD in a fast-paced, concise format. Through a series of checklists the author first distills basic information on the condition-traits, diagnosis, treatment schemes, medication-then gives special information and advice to parents and teachers, presents academic and behavioral strategies, and explains resources available. A section on ADD/ADHD and the law (IDEA and 504) will be especially useful in explaining where a student with ADD/ADHD stands in terms of special education services.

Resource Title: With All Due Respect: Keys for Building Effective School Discipline
Price: $16.95
Author: Ronald G. Morrish
Description: Exceptional children often do not receive the direct instruction and positive practice required for the development of respectful, responsible behaviors. This book lets you learn how to increase time for teaching, improve standards for student work, put the authority back in the teacher role and decrease reliance on punishment and suspension.