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Why Do English Language Learners Struggle With Reading?: Distinguishing Language Acquisition From Learning Disabilities
"Tackles the very difficult issue of why ELLs are disproportionately represented in special education and how, as educators, we need to look at our instruction and assessment to verify that there is a true need for referral versus a lack of understanding of the language acquisition process."
—Christine Engel, ESL Teacher
Webster Stanley Elementary School, Oshkosh, WI Make appropriate instructional and eligibility decisions for English language learners! This research-based guide offers educators proven methods for determining when English language learners (ELLs) are having reading difficulties that are related to the language acquisition process and when students' performance issues might be linked to learning disabilities. An excellent resource for general and special education teachers and service providers, the text provides an overview of the language acquisition process and offers a variety of best practices to prevent inappropriate referrals of ELLs to special education. Additionally, to help teachers meet NCLB and IDEA 2004 requirements, the authors outline:
- Assessment techniques for identifying learning disabilities and measuring proficiency in English as a second language
- Instructional tips for working with ELLs who struggle with reading
- A multi-tiered, data-driven intervention model to assist in determining a student's learning needs
- The role of Response to Intervention (RTI) in instruction
Each chapter includes practical ideas, suggestions, and checklists for easy reference and use in assessment and referral efforts. (20071105).
Price: $26.95
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Maitreya's Distinguishing Phenomena and Pure Being: Commentary by Mipham
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Psychological Masquerade: Distinguishing Psychological from Organic Disorders, 3rd Edition
When faced with a patient whose psychological symptoms may stem from an organic, or medical, condition rather than psychology, how does the practitioner determine exactly which is the true case? To facilitate this process and give psychologists, social workers, and nurses a useable guide to assessment, Robert Taylor created Psychological Masquerade and has updated it to be the most complete handbook you will ever need in the field. New chapters on violent behavior, amnesia and dementia, sex obsession, and Munchausen-by-Proxy fill out the guide and numerous case studies help clarify diagnostic criteria and provide a welcome hands-on approach to caring for clients in this delicate balance. As a further enhancement of the text as assessment tool, self-tests for hypothetical cases are included as are specific clinical tests that aid in clue gathering. This is the perfect clinical guide for any practitioner who is likely to come into contact with psychological masquerade among their clients and will be a welcome addition to the practitioner's toolbox. .
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The Spirit of Revival: Discovering the Wisdom of Jonathan Edwards
The Distinguishing Marks of a Work of the Spirit of God by Jonathan Edwards is one of the great classics of revival literature. A key figure of the Great Awakening, Edwards wrote this important discourse in 1741 just after the revival had reached its peak. In it you will discover a thorough examination of the true and false signs of revival based on the exhortations found in 1 John 4. Edwards concludes that while many a Spirit-led movement is accompanied by excesses and actions of a questionable nature, these negative signs do not necessarily disqualify it as authentic. You may be surprised at Edwards's remarkable balance in embracing the genuine enthusiasm in these elements while disavowing that there is definitely no supernatural origin for them. His critique is kind and gentle as he points to the true marks of revival: love and humility. In The Spirit of Revival, editor Dr. Archie Parrish makes Edwards's entire work accessible by modernizing the text and adding explanatory footnotes. R. C. Sproul's extended Introduction effectively compares Edwards's nineteenth century to our society, and the Preface by Edwards's contemporary, William Cooper, also rings resoundingly to today's church. Edwards's work therefore provides more than just insight into the Great Awakening of his day. It is a map to follow for all revivals in all times and is of abiding value for us today. "One studies the time and backgrounds of some men in order to understand them. Others have such rare greatness that one studies them in order to understand their times.... Jonathan Edwards was such an original." --Paul Ramsey, editor of Edwards's ethical writings in the Yale critical edition "No man is more relevant to the present condition of Christianity than Jonathan Edwards." --D. Martyn Lloyd-Jones "The western church... much of it drifting, enculturated, and infected with cheap grace... desperately needs to hear Edwards' challenge." --Charles Colson "He speaks with an insight into science and psychology so much ahead of his time that our own can hardly be said to have caught up with him." --Perry Miller, former Harvard historian "One of the most holy, humble and heavenly minded men that the world has seen since the apostolic age." --Ashbel Green, 1829, former president of the College of New Jersey "... the profoundest reasoner, and the greatest divine... that America ever produced." --Samuel Davies, 1759 "He was a man who put faithfulness to the Word of God before every other consideration." --Iain Murray, Edwards biographer "The disappearance of Edwards's [theocentric] perspective in American Christian history has been a tragedy." --Mark Noll, Wheaton College historian .
Price: $3.13
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Freedom from Extremes: Gorampa's "Distinguishing the Views" and the Polemics of Emptiness (Studies in Indian and Tibetan Buddhism)
Fifteenth-century Buddhist scholar Gorampa challenged his contemporaries’ thinking about the fundamental concept of “emptiness,” pioneering an approach that avoided what he critiqued as the traps of eternalism and nihilism. Freedom from Extremes is his powerful polemic on the subject. This critical edition of a book renowned for its conciseness, lucidness, and profundity provides students and scholars with direct access to Gorampa’s own words. The authors offer illuminating context in an extensive introduction on his life and work, along with an overview of Tibetan polemical literature. .
Price: $19.63
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Distinguishing Digital Architecture: 6th Far Eastern International Digital Architectural Design Award
The Far Eastern International Digital Design Award (The Feidad Award) was conferred for the first time in 2000, its aim being to encourage and honour innovative design created with the aid of digital media. In 2006, the jury which comprised Greg Lynn (Greg Lynn FORM), Marcos Novak, Jacob van Rijs (MVRDV), Birger Sevaldson (Ocean North), and other distinguished architects, awarded the prize for the sixth time. This book presents the 52 best projects by architects, students and designers worldwide. It explores digital concepts such as computing, information, electronic media, hyper-, virtual-, and cyberspace in order to help define and discuss future space and architecture in the digital age. Fully documented in text and colour illustrations, these award-winning projects provide an excellent overview of the very latest international developments in digital design and an invaluable source-book for all who make use of new media in their work. As special treat "stars” like Tadao Ando, Zaha Hadid, Toyo Ito, Fernando Menis, Asymptote, Diller+Scofidio, OCEAN-north, MVRDV and UN Studio were invited to submit projects for this edition. .
Price: $37.43
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