1-2-3 Magic
Kids are just kids! In addition to being delightful, charming and affectionate, children can also present their adult caretakers with a steady diet of difficult behavior: whining, arguing, teasing, fighting, yelling, tantrums and pouting.

For this reason, clinical psychologist, Dr. Thomas W. Phelan designed the 1-2-3 Magic program to bring practical, easy-to-use discipline techniques to families and educators.

Adapting Curriculum & Instruction in Inclusive Classrooms
Classrooms have always had students who learn at different rates, who have prior knowledge about the curriculum, who have varying abilities and bring different backgrounds and baggage into classroom. When students with disabilities are included, the range of those differences widens. In order to reach every student, teachers may need to make choices that they haven’t confronted before.

Adapting Curriculum and Instruction in Inclusive Classrooms provides a conceptual model for adapting curriculum across the learning spectrum. The framework challenges teachers’ existing repertoire and arms them with additional approaches to enhance student learning.  

ADHD Across the Lifespan. Timothy Bilkey, (Two-Disc DVD)

Through the years, children, teens and adults with ADHD will face different challenges as they work to overcome the obstacles that ADHD sometimes throws in their paths. ADHD Across the Lifespan offers concise, practical information and advice and current treatments that will help those with ADHD reach their full potential.

ADHD & LD: Powerful Teaching Strategies and Accommodations DVD. Sandra Rief, (DVD format, 52 minutes)
Sandra Rief presents proven and effective strategies and accommodations to help students with ADHD, learning disabilities and other related disorders to be successful in classroom settings. ADHD & LD: Powerful Teaching Strategies and Accommodations specifically illustrates how educators can greatly assist students with attentional, behavioral, and learning challenges within their classrooms using these effective techniques. Whether you are a teacher or school administrator, a staff development specialist or trainer, this new video provides you with a powerful tool for meeting the challenges of students with ADHD and LD in general education environments.

All About Attention Deficit Disorder
In honest and straightforward language, this comprehensive guide describes how to recognise the symptoms of Attention Deficit Disorder (ADD), how to best treat it, and how to handle its effects in everyday situations. Parents, teachers, physicians, and mental health professionals benefit from learning the latest on medication treatment for the disorder that affects approximately 20 million children and adults in the United States. This guide helps ADD individuals and their friends and families to understand ADD and to better serve the needs of ADD children and adults in school, workplace, and social situations.

All About Me introduces infants and toddlers to their own bodies! This delightful video features kids, songs, and fun. More than twenty body parts are reviewed, including face, mouth, eyes, ears, nose, hands, feet, legs, arms, back, shoulders, elbows, knees, fingers and toes. This exploration of the human body is tailored to the littlest learners and presents a number of original songs your child will love to sing along with. A cast of children and babies ensures that your child will be captivated. Approximate running time 30 minutes.

Asperger Syndrome at Work

FOR JOB SEEKERS: Employees with Asperger Syndrome and their supervisors, co-workers and job coaches reveal their secrets to getting and keeping a job.  The program covers job coaching, personal assessments, choosing careers based on interests and strengths, applying, interviewing, disclosure, supports, accommodations, interacting with bosses and coworkers, and modifying behaviors.

FOR POTENTIAL EMPLOYERS: The interviewees in the job seeker video describe the benefits of hiring employees with Asperger Syndrome and the accommodations that make them as productive -- or more productive -- than their coworkers.

Asperger Syndrome: a different mind

ee and hear about the nature of Asperger Syndrome from those actually diagnosed with the condition as well as from doctors, teachers and family members. Narrated by world-renowned psychologist Simon Baron-Cohen, this is an excellent introduction to Asperger's Syndrome, with real-life video footage from a range of contexts and settings, showing the lives of six ASD-diagnosed individuals who range in age from 5 to 22. This resource: • Introduces the viewer to the special interests, characteristics and differences of people with AS • Highlights the positive and recent developments diagnosing, treating and supporting those with AS. Running time: 30 mins

Asperger Syndrome, Living Outside the Bell Curve

In recent years schools have seen a marked increase of Asperger Syndrome diagnoses. This DVD looks at Asperger students in general and focuses in on 12 year-old Andrew. Includes an in-depth interview with Dr. Tina Iyama, M.D., University of Wisconsin Children's Hospital. She explains the causes, symptoms, and strategies for coping with Asperger Syndrome. Andrew shows that with appropriate supports it's possible to flourish outside the accepted social and educational bell curve.

Autism and Applied Behavioral Analysis

Research has shown that some children with autism who are enrolled in a curriculum of applied behavioral analysis at a young enough age can be mainstreamed right into the public school system. This ABC News program profiles two children with autism who receive this intensive and, to some, controversial form of therapy. Although the degree of improvement attributable to applied behavioral analysis varies from child to child, any gains, large or small, are of immense value to the children—and to those who love them.

Autism Spectrum Disorders

Learning about autism has never been easier with this DVD! In the Autism Spectrum Disorder DVD, educational psychologist, speaker and author Glenis Benson, Ph.D. presents a comprehensive overview of autism spectrum disorders. Her developmental perspective covers major issue areas:

•Cognitive style •Diagnostic characteristics •Communication skills and deficits •Social behaviors •Challenging behaviors DVD, 39 min