The PEERS Curriculum for School-Based Professionals

The PEERS Curriculum for School-Based Professionals
Author: Elizabeth A. Laugeson
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 480
Release: 2013-10-23
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1136239618

The PEERS® Curriculum for School-Based Professionals brings UCLA's highly acclaimed and widely popular PEERS program into the school setting. This sixteen-week program, clinically proven to significantly improve social skills and social interactions among teens with autism spectrum disorder, is now customized for the needs of psychologists, counselors, speech pathologists, administrators, and teachers. The manual is broken down into clearly divided lesson plans, each of which have concrete rules and steps, corresponding homework assignments, plans for review, and unique, fun activities to ensure that teens are comfortable incorporating what they've learned. The curriculum also includes parent handouts, tips for preparing for each lesson, strategies for overcoming potential pitfalls, and the research underlying this transformative program.

Born Reading

Born Reading
Author: Jason Boog
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 336
Release: 2014-07-15
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1476749817

A program for parents and professionals on how to raise kids who love to read, featuring interviews with childhood development experts, advice from librarians, tips from authors and children’s book publishers, and reading recommendations for kids from birth up to age five. Every parent wants to give his or her child a competitive advantage. In Born Reading, publishing insider (and new dad) Jason Boog explains how that can be as simple as opening a book. Studies have shown that interactive reading—a method that creates dialogue as you read together—can raise a child’s IQ by more than six points. In fact, interactive reading can have just as much of a determining factor on a child’s IQ as vitamins and a healthy diet. But there’s no book that takes the cutting-edge research on interactive reading and shows parents, teachers, and librarians how to apply it to their day-to-day lives with kids, until now. Born Reading provides step-by-step instructions on interactive reading and advice for developing your child’s interest in books from the time they are born. Boog has done the research, talked with the leading experts in child development, and worked with them to compile the “Born Reading Essential Books” lists, offering specific titles tailored to the interests and passions of kids from birth to age five. But reading can take many forms—print books as well as ebooks and apps—and Born Reading also includes tips on how to use technology the right way to help (not hinder) your child’s intellectual development. Parents will find advice on which educational apps best supplement their child’s development, when to start introducing digital reading to their child, and how to use tech to help create the readers of tomorrow. Born Reading will show anyone who loves kids how to make sure the children they care about are building a powerful foundation in literacy from the beginning of life.

Simmer

Simmer
Author: Deborah Grace Staley
Publisher: Bell Bridge Books
Total Pages: 236
Release: 2014-07-11
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1611943973

Fantasies come true on this sultry Georgia island. Emma Vance is the serious sister, happiest running her family's Wilde Dunes Resort from behind the scenes. She leaves the parties and the host duties to her sister, Sara. But when Sara takes off for unknown adventures, Emma is thrust into Sara's role--and finds herself face to face with a sinfully sexy guest. It isn't long before Emma begins considering mixing business with pleasure. Liam Anderson is rich, worldly, and gorgeous . . . but not at peace. At Solomon's Island, where his family once summered, he finds himself fantasizing about spending the week relaxing with Emma on the beach . . . and in his bed. Emma tells herself she's not his type, that this is just a fling, but the attraction between her and Liam is hotter than a Georgia summer. When trouble arrives and Liam appears to have come there with ulterior motives, she'll find out just how high the price may be when a fantasy is swept out with the tide.

Oxford Bookworms Factfiles

Oxford Bookworms Factfiles
Author: Jennifer Bassett
Publisher:
Total Pages: 60
Release: 2001
Genre: Foreign Language Study
ISBN: 9780194233590

Supplementary teaching material for the Oxford Bookworms Factfiles.

Heard It in a Love Song

Heard It in a Love Song
Author: Tracey Garvis Graves
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
Total Pages: 288
Release: 2021-11-09
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1250235707

From Tracey Garvis Graves, the bestselling author of The Girl He Used to Know comes a love song of a story about starting over and second chances in Heard It in a Love Song. Love doesn’t always wait until you’re ready. Layla Hilding is thirty-five and recently divorced. Struggling to break free from the past—her glory days as the lead singer in a band and a ten-year marriage to a man who never put her first—Layla’s newly found independence feels a lot like loneliness. Then there's Josh, the single dad whose daughter attends the elementary school where Layla teaches music. Recently separated, he's still processing the end of his twenty-year marriage to his high school sweetheart. He chats with Layla every morning at school and finds himself thinking about her more and more. Equally cautious and confused about dating in a world that favors apps over meeting organically, Layla and Josh decide to be friends with the potential for something more. Sounds sensible and way too simple—but when two people are on the rebound, is it heartbreak or happiness that’s a love song away?

Reaper (Book 1)

Reaper (Book 1)
Author: Nina Park
Publisher: E-Book Publishing World Inc.
Total Pages: 61
Release:
Genre: Fiction
ISBN:

This is book 1 of the Black Dogs MC romance series! Books 2 and 3 are available everywhere now! Prison is no place for a baby, but I’m gonna give her one anyways. In this prison, my days are numbered. I want a baby to ensure my legacy lives on. Sarah is a prison guard – and strictly off limits. But that won’t stop me from making her MINE. KURT It’s been a year since my wife and son were killed. And I’m in the mood to get drunk. But while I’m busy burying myself in booze, I hear some jerk talking about how he beats his kid. How dare he? I’ll never get to hold my son again. So I’m gonna make sure this ungrateful S.O.B. breathes through a tube for the rest of his life. I give him the beating he deserves. But my anger costs me my freedom. Now, I’m stuck behind bars. Luckily, my MC sends one of our girls in here with me. Sarah is working as a prison guard while I’m locked up. She’s doing her best to help me survive the danger lurking around every concrete corner. But I don’t care if these scum want me dead and gone. I’m not ready to face the reaper – not yet. Because, before I go, I’ve got one thing left to do: Drag Sarah in my cell and put a baby inside her. *** REAPER is a dark bad boy romance thriller suspense. This MC motorcycle club love story is about an imprisoned biker and the innocent prison guard who is brought into his world. Their hot chemistry leads to an unexpected baby and more. If you like alpha male biker romance novels, you’ll love REAPER by Nina Park.

The Second Chapter

The Second Chapter
Author: Reenie Mayes
Publisher: Dorrance Publishing
Total Pages: 279
Release: 2008-11
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1434900770

Sherlock Holmes Short Stories - With Audio Level 2 Oxford Bookworms Library

Sherlock Holmes Short Stories - With Audio Level 2 Oxford Bookworms Library
Author: Arthur Conan Doyle
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 64
Release: 2014-09-30
Genre: Foreign Language Study
ISBN: 0194632075

A level 2 Oxford Bookworms Library graded reader. This version includes an audio book: listen to the story as you read. Retold for Learners of English by Clare West. Sherlock Holmes is the greatest detective of them all. He sits in his room, and smokes his pipe. He listens, and watches, and thinks. He listens to the steps coming up the stairs; he watches the door opening - and he knows what question the stranger will ask. In these three of his best stories, Holmes has three visitors to the famous flat in Baker Street - visitors who bring their troubles to the only man in the world who can help them.