Incorporating Social Goals in the Classroom or Focus on Health

Incorporating Social Goals in the Classroom: A Guide for Teachers and Parents of Children with High-Functioning Autism and Asperger Syndrome

Author: Rebecca A Moyes

This book provides practical, hands-on strategies to teach social skills to children with high-functioning autism and Asperger Syndrome. It includes a detailed description of the social deficits of these children as they appear in the classroom -- difficulties with such things as understanding idioms, taking turns in conversation, understanding and using tone of voice and body language -- and ways to address them. Instruction is included in the book to enhance the development of appropriate, measurable, and meaningful individualized education plans (IEPs) to incorporate social goals. Lesson plans are included to facilitate the ability to 'teach' these social goals. Parents will find this text an excellent training tool to help develop social education curricula for their children, and teachers will find it particularly helpful as an easy-to-read manual containing many 'nuts and bolts' strategies to utilize in the classroom.

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Focus on Health

Author: Dale B Hahn

This text offers an exciting and practical approach to the teaching of the traditional content areas of personal health. Its two key themes--the six dimensions of health and the five developmental tasks--help students apply the text's content to their own lives, by improving their decision-making skills. Technology use is also integrated into the text with Online Learning Center boxes, HealthQuest activities, and "Health on the Web" boxes.

Table of Contents:

1 Charting a Plan for Behavior Change

Part 1 The Mind

2 Characteristics of a Psychologically Well Person

3 Managing Stress

Part 2 The Body

4 Components of Physical Fitness

5 Understanding Nutrition and Your Diet

6 Maintaining a Healthy Weight

Part 3 Preventing Drug Abuse and Addiction

7 Making Decisions About Drug Use

8 Taking Control of Alcohol Use

9 Rejecting Tobacco Use

Part 4 Preventing Disease

10 Reducing Your Risk of Cardiovascular Disease

11 Living with Cancer and Chronic Conditions

12 Preventing Infectious Diseases

Part 5 Sexuality and Reproduction

13 Understanding Sexuality

14 Managing Your Fertility

Part 6 Consumerism and Safety Issues

15 Becoming an Informed Health-Care Consumer

16 Protecting Your Safety

Part 7 The Life Cycle

17 Accepting Dying and Death

Glossary

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Index

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