A riveting and redemptive family memoir, The Four Walls of My Freedom is Donna Thomson’s account of raising a son with cerebral palsy and a passionate appeal to change the way we think about “the good life.” Donna Thomson’s life was forever changed when her son Nicholas was born with cerebral palsy. A former actor, director, and teacher, Donna became his primary caregiver and embarked on a second career as a disability activist, author, and consultant. Thomson vividly describes her experience in treading delicately through daily care, emergencies, and medical bureaucracy as she and her family cope with her son’s condition while maintaining value and dignity (for Nicholas, too). She brilliantly demonstrates the vital contribution that people with disabilities make to our society and addresses the ethics and economics of giving and receiving care. Featuring an introduction by John Ralston Saul, and two new chapters, The Four Walls of My Freedom is a passionate appeal to change to the way we think about the “good life” that will touch anyone caring for the life of another.
A clear-eyed look at the value of a life...What if a life was judged not by its monetary worth or possible economic benefit to society, but as a series of complex and rewarding relationships?" - Globe and Mail This is a riveting and redemptive family memoir. Donna Thomson's vivid descriptions of her own experience in treading delicately through daily care, medical emergencies And The medical bureaucracy as she and her family cope with her son Nicholas' cerebral palsy is both inspirational and instructive. From the first tentative diagnosis To The celebration of Nicholas' 21st birthday last summer, Thomson examines how she and her family have tried, with various degrees of success, To cope with Nicholas' needs, while at the same time ensuring that their lives, and Nicholas' life, have value and dignity. Donna Thomson's own experience with adversity takes on new meaning when viewed through the lens of Nobel Prize-winning economist Amartya Sen and other philosophers' roadmaps of how to realize a good life against all odds.
With a foreword by Judy Woodruff, The Unexpected Journey of Caring is a practical guide to finding personal meaning in the 21st century care experience. Personal transformation is usually an experience we actively seek out—not one that hunts us down. Becoming a caregiver is one transformation that comes at us, requiring us to rethink everything we once knew. Everything changes—responsibilities, beliefs, hopes, expectations, and relationships. Caregiving is not just a role reserved for “saints”—eventually, everyone is drafted into the caregiver role. It’s not a role people medically train for; it’s a new type of relationship initiated by a loved one’s need for care. And it’s a role that cannot be quarantined to home because it infuses all aspects of our lives. Caregivers today find themselves in need of a crash course in new and unfamiliar skills. They must not only care for a loved one, but also access hidden community resources, collaborate with medical professionals, craft new narratives consistent with the changing nature of their care role, coordinate care with family, seek information and peer support using a variety of digital platforms, and negotiate social support—all while attempting to manage conflicts between work, life, and relationship roles. The moments that mark us in the transition from loved one to caregiver matter because if we don’t make sense of how we are being transformed, we risk undervaluing our care experiences, denying our evolving beliefs, becoming trapped by other’s misunderstandings, and feeling underappreciated, burned out, and overwhelmed. Informed by original caregiver research and proven advocacy strategies, this book speaks to caregiving as it unfolds, in all of its confusion, chaos, and messiness. Readers won’t find well-intentioned clichés or care stereotypes in this book. There are no promises to help caregivers return to a life they knew before caregiving. No, this book greets caregivers where they are in their journey—new or chronic—not where others expect (or want) them to be.
Developing Early Comprehension Skills Through Picture Book Talk demonstrates how strategic ‘picture reading’ and playful sensory learning can develop young children’s explicit and implicit comprehension skills, regardless of their decoding ability. Offering an inclusive teaching and assessment approach that aligns with the Early Years Foundation Stage (EYFS) framework and supports the early adopter school initiative, it will help readers to guide children’s use of picture-reading-for-meaning strategies in preparation for more complex comprehension instruction in Year 1. The book also contains useful resources such as colour picture booklets and downloadable family workshop sessions to help guide parents in more effective ‘picture book talk’ at home. It offers corresponding steps for planning, teaching, and assessing children’s ‘picture book talk’, multisensory learning, self-questioning skills, and early reading for meaning. The methods and activities within this book specifically help to develop: • vocabulary (setting vocabulary, character vocabulary, general vocabulary) • communication and language skills • critical thinking and inference skills • metacognition (personal learning awareness) • self-confidence and self-regulation skills Providing examples of practice, photocopiable resources, and step-by-step guidance for teaching key comprehension strategies and early self-regulation skills, this book is essential reading for all those who work with young children and wish to encourage a love of reading.
Here is a simple and direct method to enhance your physical and emotional health -- pay attention to your energy, understand it, and make effective use of it. The meditations in this book will help you do just that. Many of them take only a few minutes, you can do them almost anywhere, and the results might just change your life. The Energetic Life is a manual of practical meditations to help you address the issues of modern life.
A food combining diet which includes menus and recipes that show how the right combinations of food can help pregnant women, children, sports people, those on special diets, and those on a budget.
ALL NEW SCHOLASTIC LITERACY SKILLS CD-ROM AND BOOK PACKS will recreate this best-selling series for the current market. Each book will be accompanied by a CD-ROM offering posters, interactive activities and photocopiable sheets to download. There are three mini-series within this series: Comprehension; Spelling; Grammar and punctuation COMPREHENSION YEAR 5 provides teachers with a complete resource to teach children key comprehension skills. The book is split into seven chapters which include *Retelling/Summarising *Predicting *Clarifying *Literal Questioning *Inference Questioning *Evaluation Questioning *Reviewing The book and CD-ROM provide teachers' notes and background knowledge on the skills and a focus on writing. As well as photocopiable pages and interactive activities.
ALL NEW SCHOLASTIC LITERACY SKILLS CD-ROM AND BOOK PACKS will recreate this best-selling series for the current market. Each book will be accompanied by a CD-ROM offering posters, interactive activities and photocopiable sheets to download. There are three mini-series within this series: Comprehension; Spelling; Grammar and punctuation COMPREHENSION YEAR 6 provides teachers with a complete resource to teach children key comprehension skills. The book is split into seven chapters which include *Retelling/Summarising *Predicting *Clarifying *Literal Questioning *Inference Questioning *Evaluation Questioning *Reviewing The book and CD-ROM provide teachers' notes and background knowledge on the skills and a focus on writing. As well as photocopiable pages and interactive activities.
Clinical Procedures for Medical Assisting, 2nd editionaddresses the most current competencies for CMA certification, CPR procedures, coding and insurance billing requirements, HIPAA regulations, OSHA guidelines, and clinical diagnostic testing such as hemoglobin A1c (diabetes) testing. It also includes coverage of procedures and the coverage of Anatomy and Physiology is increased significantly. It trains students on clinical procedures, infection control, anatomy and physiology, assisting with patients, medical emergencies and first aid, laboratory procedures, nutrition, pharmacology, diagnostic equipment, and much more.
ALL NEW SCHOLASTIC LITERACY SKILLS CD-ROM AND BOOK PACKS will recreate this best-selling series for the current market. Each book will be accompanied by a CD-ROM offering posters, interactive activities and photocopiable sheets to download. There are three mini-series within this series: Comprehension; Spelling; Grammar and punctuation COMPREHENSION YEAR 3 provides teachers with a complete resource to teach children key comprehension skills. The book is split into seven chapters which include *Retelling/Summarising *Predicting *Clarifying *Literal Questioning *Inference Questioning *Evaluation Questioning *Reviewing The book and CD-ROM provide teachers' notes and background knowledge on the skills and a focus on writing. As well as photocopiable pages and interactive activities.
Each workbook provides comprehension practice and is matched to the Scholastic English Skills: Comprehensionteacher resource book making it perfect to use in class or as a standalone resource for use at home.
Meditations To Energize Your Life is a manual of practical meditations that will help you understand your energy and make effective use of it. You will learn to set boundaries, to conserve energy, prevent energy drain in difficult relationships, and work with anxiety and negative thought patterns. Many of these meditations take only a few minutes, you can do them almost anywhere, and the results might just change your life.Experience the beauty of your own energy. Free your energetic flow so that you can accomplish what you want to do and live the dynamic life you have always envisioned.
QUICK FIX FOR YEAR SIX provides teachers with a quick SATs revision course for their children. Each book provides activities on basic skills along with activities that help the children practice those skills that get the most marks. Practice questions and answers throughout ensure that children and teachers are fully prepared. A calm tone and 'Don't Panic' boxes keep SATs terror at bay. QUICK FIX FOR YEAR SIX: COMPREHENSION provides carefully planned activities to prepare children for the SATs Comprehension paper. It's 'quick fix' is to teach children how to spot the clues in comprehension passages to pick up those top 'inference' marks.
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