Measuring the Impact of Dyslexia

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Hayes, Carol

Exercise & Fitness

Routledge

Measuring the Impact of Dyslexiashows the considerable benefits of recognising and celebrating the skills of those with information processing differences, explains their unique brain organisation and shows how they can excel as contributing members of society with proper support and guidance. It offers a balanced and research-based perspective to living with this condition, highlighting the huge number of children leaving school with low literacy levels, as a result of undiagnosed information processing differences. Full of critically-reflective questions, case studies and interviews with those affected by dyslexia, this text encourages educators of children and young people with dyslexia to challenge their own perceptions by understanding the links between low literacy and anti-social behaviour, poor health, unemployment and limited educational attainment, and includes helpful pointers for improving practice and outcomes. This accessible and readable text is aimed at students, practitioners, researchers and experienced professionals in a range of disciplines to enhance CPD. It is particularly relevant for students working on both taught and research based master's degrees, especially programmes related to specific learning difficulties.

Developmental Dyslexia from Birth to Eight

Developmental Dyslexia from Birth to Eight takes a fresh approach to a condition which is often poorly understood and unjustly stigmatised. Illuminating the latest neurological advances in the field, this book will empower educational professionals to play a decisive role in supporting and encouraging children with dyslexia.  With an overarching focus on the ways in which practitioners can advance children’s development and learning, Developmental Dyslexia from Birth to Eight recognises the varying guises in which this information-processing difference might present, and addresses the challenges that this creates for children and practitioners alike. Each chapter provides the reader with a thorough examination and explanation of dyslexia, along with reflective examples, case studies and relevant further reading. Areas of focus include:    The origins and identification of dyslexia   Intervention strategies and alternative therapies   Observation and assessment   Dyslexia and English as a foreign language   Dyslexia-friendly settings   National and global policy on provision for dyslexic children   An engaging and accessible guide, this book will be an invaluable resource for educational practitioners and childcare specialists seeking to enhance their knowledge and understanding of dyslexia, to better support the children in their care.

Developmental Dyslexia from Birth to Eight: A Practitioner’s Guide

Medical Books

Medicine

For almost two thousand years, the pottery made by the Indians of America's Southwest has remained a vital art. Today, more than twenty Pueblos and tribes make pottery within the tradition, each with a distinctive style. Many of those local styles have persisted for hundreds of years. In prehistory, beautiful pieces had high trade value, and the finest contemporary pieces command prices appropriate to fine art of any type. Potters like Nampeyo, Maria Martinez and Juan Quezada achieved worldwide fame. Yet despite its history and the skill of its artists, Southwestern Indian pottery remains surprisingly easy to collect. This book introduces the art from its beginnings to the present and displays examples that describe how America's first important art form grew into one of the world's most accessible treasures.

Pottery of the Southwest: Ancient Art and Modern Traditions (Shire Library USA)

Arts & Photography

Hayes, Allan

History & Criticism

Shire Publications

Thousands of motorists traverse daily the steep grades of the highway through New Hampshire's Pinkham Notch, traveling ten miles in minutes. Few people know the story of Daniel Pinkham (1779-1855), a young farmer in the town of Adams (now Jackson), New Hampshire, who attempted to build the first road there. A multi-talented jack-of-all-trades - a carpenter, a mason, a wheelwright, a minister, and a blacksmith, he had a vision of making a road to the north, through a narrow, rocky defile along Mount Washington's base. After two heated town meetings, he got the go ahead to seek state aid from the Legislature. The road had to be finished in three years, complete with bridges, and safe for every sort of vehicle. His beloved project was nearly completed, in record time, when it was ruined by an unprecedented three-day storm of disastrous rains, swollen rivers, and horrendous landslides. Because Dan had received no monetary consideration, the storm brought financial disaster. Pinkham then moved his family north to the wilderness of the Glen at the base of Mount Washington and later settled in Lancaster, New Hampshire. Woven through the text also is the story of how the Border Wars between southern Canada and our northeastern states affected the area's residents. The boundary disputes ended in 1842's famous Webster-Ashburton treaty. Pinkham has been long forgotten, but he is a true New Hampshire pioneer whose tale is told in this well-researched historical novel.

Pinkham's Notch

Literature & Fiction

United States

PETER E. RANDALL PUB.

We all have something in our lives that while not obviously valuable, is displayed as though it were a precious and irreplaceable artifact. Inquire about the object's provenance and you'll likely be treated to a lively anecdote about how it came into your host's possession. Keep digging, and you might even crack the code of what the thing really means. 
Taking Things Seriously is a wonder cabinet of seventy-five unlikely thingamajigs that have been invested with significance and transformed into totems, talismans, charms, relics, and fetishes: scraps of movie posters scavenged from the streets of New York by Low Life author Luc Sante; the World War I helmet that inoculated social critic Thomas Frank against jingoism; the trash-picked, robot-shaped hairdo machine described by its owner as a chick magnet; the bagel burned by actor Christopher Walken, moonlighting as a short-order cook. The owners of these objects convey their excitement in short, often poignant essays that invite readers to participate in the enjoyable act of interpreting things. You'll never look at the bric-a-brac on your shelves the same way again.

Taking Things Seriously: 75 Objects with Unexpected Significance

Humor & Entertainment

Glenn, Joshua

Pop Culture

Princeton Architectural Press

When this book first appeared in 1996, it was “Pottery 101,” a basic introduction to the subject. It served as an art book, a history book, and a reference book, but also fun to read, beautiful to look at, and filled with good humor and good sense. After twenty years of faithful service, it’s been expanded and brought up-to-date with photographs of more than 1,600 pots from more than 1,600 years. It shows every pottery-producing group in the Southwest, complete with maps that show where each group lives. Now updated, rewritten, and re-photographed, it's a comprehensive study as well as a basic introduction to the art.

Southwestern Pottery: Anasazi to Zuni

Blom, John

Taylor Trade Publishing

Cybersecurity and Privacy Law in a Nutshell by Jay P. Kesan and Carol M. Hayes provides a comprehensive and up-to-date overview of cybersecurity law and policy. Cybersecurity is a serious concern in our lives. It affects individuals, governments, the military, big businesses, small businesses, and law firms themselves. Cybersecurity policy issues implicate both private and public international law, in addition to domestic law. In this Nutshell, we present case law, federal, state and international legislation, administrative actions and regulations, and relevant policy considerations that attorneys and their clients should keep in mind, whether they are working on a case about cybersecurity or just wanting to know more about cybersecurity and privacy in the Internet age.

Cybersecurity and Privacy Law in a Nutshell (Nutshells)

Kesan, Jay

Legal Theory & Systems

West Academic Publishing

In Sausalito during the 1950s, Enid Foster stood at the center of a magic world of poetry, performance, and visual wonder that owed as much to her powerful personality as it did to her brilliant art. In another time, that magic might have brought her fame, but in the 1950s, that art was too far beyond the mainstream. The curators, critics, and gallery owners who had recognized her as an internationally important sculptor thirty years before now only saw Sausalito’s town character: a white-haired 60-year-old in frayed blue jeans, beat-up tennis shoes, and a railroad man’s work shirt walking an old dog through town on her way to the bookstore―an amusing eccentric who made irrelevant art. They missed the magic, but those who understood it never forgot it. This book exists because the authors were among the fortunate few who fell under her spell. Enid’s story needs to be told. Her art speaks for itself.

Enid Foster: Artist, Sculptor, Poet, Playwright, Creative Force, Ringleader, Cultural Icon

Individual Artists

Roundtree Press

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