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Bones Diseases College student orientation United States Female Urogenital Diseases Diagnosis Genitourinary organs Diseases Motivation in education Muscles Diseases Musculoskeletal system Diseases Obsessive-compulsive disorder Juvenile literature People with disabilities Physically handicappedAustin, Denise.
Summary: Presents a workout plan that targets specific female "fat zones," and includes exercises and nutritional advice designed to reduce fat.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Rodale 2003
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 613.7 AUSSummary: How could a child be a top math student yet not be able to read? Why can another child read well but not be able to write a paragraph that makes sense? While watching children being taught new ways to learn, this program offers expert insight into the nature of learning disabilities, why learning disabilities may also be accompanied by ADHD or social disorders, and what can be done to help...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2005
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Alvarado, Denise
Summary: "The first guide and spell book for modern witches on how to bring the renowned Marie Laveau's spiritual heritage to life. The Marie Laveau Voodoo Grimoire is a practical guide to New Orleans-style magic inspired by the life and traditions of Marie Laveau-the eternal and enduring Queen of New Orleans Voodoo. This is a working grimoire, or spell book, created for the modern witch and Conjure...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Weiser Books 2024
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1 available in New Non-fiction, Call number: 133.4 ALVAustin, Denise.
Summary: Provides a basic-level guide to Pilates yoga designed for practitioners at any fitness level, and requires only a mat, chair, and towel or blanket.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Rodale 2002
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 613.7 AUSSummary: In this classic program, internationally known learning disabilities expert Richard D. Lavoie leads a group of educators, psychologists, parents, and children through a series of exercises that vividly illustrate the daily classroom reality of LD students, an experience fraught with F.A.T.: frustration, anxiety, and tension. After the workshop is done, participants discuss strategies for...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2009
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Locker, Denise
Contents: Why use volunteers? -- How do volunteers contribute? -- Where and how do you find volunteers? -- Before volunteers arrive -- How to keep volunteers coming back after the first day -- Training volunteers for success -- Structuring a volunteer program -- Handling problems -- Keeping volunteers happy -- Resources for volunteers -- Frequently asked questions and frequently voiced concerns --...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Beacon Hill Press of Kansas City 2010
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 254 LOCSummary: Aids for disabled people; ultrasonic "torch" that replaces the long stick used by the blind, light-activated switches operate a typewriter for a paraplegic woman
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 1956
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Summary: What key issues and challenges affect the lives of people with severe disabilities today -- and what should tomorrow's professionals do to address them? Aligned with the core values and agenda of TASH, this visionary text prepares professionals to strengthen supports and services for people with disabilities across the lifespan. Readers will fully examine more than a dozen critical topics in...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 362.4 EQUSpellberg, D. A. (Denise A.)
Contents: Introduction : Thomas Jefferson's Qur'an : imagining the Muslim as citizen at the founding of the United States -- The European Christian origins of negative, incorrect, curious, but sometimes accurate American ideas about Islam and Muslims, 1529-1797 --Positive European Christian precedents for the toleration of Muslims, and their presence in colonial America, 1554-1706 -- What Jefferson...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2013
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.46 SPEFlaim, Denise.
Summary: An animal rescue organization comprised of tattooed bikers describes the mutual passion that inspired their work, sharing favorite rescue stories as well as descriptions of their visits to schools where they teach students about abuse awareness.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2010
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP 179.3 FLASummary: In this program, the issues of body image and self-acceptance are considered first by a teenager with a neurological disorder preparing for her first prom and then by a group of adults who first became disabled later in life. In addition, the need to improve attitudes and eliminate prejudices that can come between people with different types of disabilities is discussed; yoga modified for...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2000
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Boaler, Jo
Summary: "Mathematical Mindsets provides practical strategies and activities to help teachers and parents show all children, even those who are convinced that they are bad at math, that they can enjoy and succeed in math. Jo Boaler--Stanford researcher, professor of math education, and expert on math learning--has studied why students don't like math and often fail in math classes. She's followed...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Jossey-Bass & Pfeiffer Imprints 2016
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1 available in Juvenile Parent-Teacher Collection, Call number: JPT 510 BOAFlaim, Denise.
Summary: The true story of ten tough and tattooed bikers who rescue animals in danger while spreading the message that "Abusers Are Losers." When Joe Panz, Johnny O, Batso, Big Ant, G, Angel, Des, and Eric initially met at tattoo and motorcycle conventions, they soon learned that they shared another passion: animals. Each had been rescuing troubled animals on their own for years. Together they decided...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2009
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 179.3 FLASummary: This program explains the principles of assisting people with speech, hearing, or vision impairments. Various speech impediments are explored, such as misshapen palate, spastic dysarthria, and dysphasia due to stroke or Parkinson's disease. Speech pathologists are shown working with individuals who have speech or hearing impairments. Excellent computer animation is used to show the two major...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2007
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Mooney, Jonathan.
Summary: Outlines specific study skills and provides exercises and charts to help learning-disabled students utilize their unique cognitive abilities and creative talents to achieve success.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2000
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Summary: This book examines the causes and symptoms of obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD), looks at the everyday realities of people with OCD, and explores the management and treatment options available today.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: ReferencePoint Press, Inc. 2019
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Summary: Taking Flight provides the essential information students with disabilities will need to be successful in college.Rather than just focusing on the academic skills needed in college, Taking Flight addresses college as a system that needs to be mastered and the strategies and self-awareness needed to be successful.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Morgan James Publishing 2020
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1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 378 LARSummary: This program addresses disability-related concerns that are matters of not only a person's health but dignity as well. The two types of long-term bladder problems-disinhibited and paralyzed bladder-are discussed, along with their management. The reasons for constipation and the different types of laxatives are explained, as well as the advantages and disadvantages of the bedpan and commode....
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2006
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Summary: This program confronts competing issues of athlete safety and discrimination through the cases of two wheelchair runners training at the University of Alberta's indoor track at the Butterdome. The program also applauds two classic movies-My Left Foot and Born on the Fourth of July-for defying typical Hollywood stereotyping while decrying the portrayal of pianist David Helfgott in Shine as a...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2001
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Camarata, Stephen M.
Summary: Argues for a return to instinct-driven parenting, debunks parenting myths, and empowers parents to put down the flashcards and follow their instincts.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Current 2015
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 649 CAMSummary: Their popularity in the online business and publishing world is well known, but wikis and blogs are also increasingly used as tools in the classroom-and not just because young learners can easily access them. They are easy to create as well, giving students another powerful method of communication and self-expression. This program presents the basic concepts behind wikis and blogs. It also...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2010
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Kursmark, Louise.
Summary: Students and career-center advisors will benefit immeasurably from this outstanding reference. Best Resumes for College Students and New Grads, Third Edition, includes descriptions of skills and attributes that are valuable in the workplace, answers to common questions, expert advice that is relevant in today's hiring market, and features a showcase of high-quality resumes and cover letters...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: JIST Works 2012
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 650 KURSummary: This program presents a disability simulation in which an all-star football player learns to deal with some of the day-to-day physical challenges faced by single-arm amputees. In addition, two enabling activities are featured: golfing at a course designed specifically for wheelchair users, who compete using specialized clubs and adapted carts, and cruising on a motorcycle ingeniously customized...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2000
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Summary: This program takes a detailed look at a condition that can re-disable survivors of polio later in life: post-polio syndrome. Two case studies shed light on its symptoms, effects, and treatment. Three additional segments focus on Mike Nemesvary, the first quadriplegic to drive around the world unassisted; the Adult Connections in Education initiative at the University of Prince Edward Island,...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2000