exceptional children

Offers strategies designed to help young children who have had little exposure to literacy activities, focusing on the use of in-school family storybook sessions with small groups of kindergartners. Includes examples of student work, reproducibles, and photographs.

Offers tools--including facts, activities, and reproducible pages--for helping children with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder communicate and develop goals and coping skills.

Presents seventy individual skill lessons and activities designed to help students with Asperger syndrome and social-communication problems improve their social skills and learn acceptable behaviors in various situations.

Misfit hero and inventor Edgar Jones, who longs to fly, gets in trouble with his professor, an inventor, his father, and other people due to his inquisitiveness during the changes of the early nineteenth century, and when he builds something surprising, he puts himself and his family in danger.

Examines the impact of diversity on families, focusing on parenting children with physical and mental disabilities, child prodigies, children conceived in rape, children who become criminals, and transgender children.