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Debunking four common steryotypes about kids with special needs

Often what is known about disabled children comes from television and movies. This information often is false and exaggerated and leads people to believe in stereotypes. Stereotypes can be destructive to the relationships between children and new, inexperienced caregivers.

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Select-A-Meal Curriculum

Dining out can be an exercise in frustration. Select-A-Meal can help.

Everyone loves to eat out. However, endless restaurant choices, the challenge of using correct table manners, and the nuances of restaurant etiquette can make dining out an exercise in frustration. Select-A-Meal, with hands-on student resources and instructor's guide, can help. Student resources make menu selection easy. Select from 144 restaurant cards to place orders at your favorite restaurant. Foods are grouped by meals: Breakfast, lunch, dinner; by desserts, side dishes, condiments and beverages. Just slide appropriate cards in pocket book and go! Students can "read" the order or hand the pocket book to the server. The Illustrated Menu features all the restaurant card illustrations (plus more!) in a handy, ready-to-go laminated booklet. Select-A-Meal instructor's guide helps you prepare for fast food, table service, and self-service restaurant outings. The guide sets lesson plans and shows you how to use student resource materials. includes a data collection system plus picture step pages, communication cues, social skill pages, and other training aids. Includes 144 laminated restaurant cards, marking set, pocket book, illustrated menu and a 150 page instructor's guide with reproducibles.

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Select-A-Meal Curriculum

Typical Access Profile

Auditory

Normal
Low
Extremely Low
Not Using Hearing
Hyper-Acute

Vision

Normal
Low
Extremely Low
Not Using Vision

Gross Motor

All
Some
Few
Not Using Gross Motor

Fine Motor

All
Some
Few
Not Using Fine Motor

Developmental Age Range

0 - 2
3 - 5
6 - 8
9 - 12
13 and Over

Language

Typical
Some Spoken
Receptive Only
Sign
Assistive/Augmentitive
Not Using Language
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The Physiotherapy Egg: Sensory Integration, Balance and Coordination

Try letting your new walker straddle an egg and rock from side to side, shifting their weight from foot to foot. Pick the size that suits you child best.

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