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The All-American Sport of Bipartisan Bashing: Common Sense Rantings from a Raging Moderate
With the sacred cows of American politics practically begging for someone to puncture their pomposity, Will Durst hits them in the funniest places. In The All-American Sport of Bipartisan Bashing, this equal-opportunity offender swats both partisan political piñatas from both sides of the spectrum upside their heads. From the utter incompetence of the Bushies and Dick Cheney’s destruction of the Constitution to the spineless antiwar posturing of the Congress and Hillary Clinton’s unmatched ability to play fast and loose with the truth, everyone takes their licks. Claiming to represent only those 60 percent of Americans in the middle, Durst attacks the fringe for its lack of common sense and Starbucks-like semantic corruption: he agrees that marketing a small as “tall” and a medium as “grande” is a great way to sell coffee, but having politicians chase “venti”-sized vote totals by appealing to the extremes is hardly a good way to run a country. .
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The Syracuse Community-Referenced Curriculum Guide for Students with Moderate and Severe Disabilities
The Syracuse Community-Referenced Curriculum Guide for Students with Moderate and Severe Disabilities Edited by Alison Ford, Ph.D., Roberta Schnorr, M.S., Luanna Meyer, Ph.D., Linda Davern, M.S., Jim Black, M.S., & Patrick Dempsey, M.S. A comprehensive handbook that focuses on the importance of not only integrating all students regardless of ability in a public school setting, but also on the need to teach them skills that are directly related to the expectations and demands of the community at large. -Mental Retardation Serving learners from kindergarten through age 21, this field-tested curriculum is a must for professionals and parents devoted to directly preparing a student to function in the world. It examines the role of community living domains, functional academics, and embedded skills, and includes practical implementation strategies and indispensable information for preparing students whose learning needs go beyond the scope of traditional academic programs..
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Harm Reduction Psychotherapy: A New Treatment for Drug and Alcohol Problems
Harm reduction is a framework for helping drug and alcohol users who cannot or will not stop completely the majority of users reduce the harmful consequences of use. Harm reduction accepts that abstinence may be the best outcome for many but relaxes the emphasis on abstinence as the only acceptable goal and criterion of success. Instead, smaller incremental changes in the direction of reduced harmfulness of drug use are accepted. This book will show how these simple changes in emphasis and expectation have dramatic implications for improving the effectiveness of psychotherapy in many ways..
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Perspectival Thought: A Plea for Moderate Relativism
Our thought and talk are situated They do not take place in a vacuum but always in a context, and they always concern an external situation relative to which they are to be evaluated Since that is so, Francois Recanati argues, our linguistic and mental representations alike must be assigned two layers of content: the explicit content, or lekton, is relative and perspectival, while the complete content, which is absolute, involves contextual factors in addition to what is explicitly represented. Far from reducing to the context-independent meaning of the sentence-type or, in the psychological realm, to the "narrow" content of mental representations, the lekton is a level intermediate between context-invariant meaning and full propositional content. Recognition of that intermediate level is the key to a proper understanding of context-dependence in language and thought. Going beyond the usual discussions of indexicality and unarticulated constituents in the philosophy of language, Recanati turns to the philosophy of mind for decisive arguments in favour of his approach. He shows, first, that the lekton is the notion of content we need if we are to properly understand the relations between perception, memory, and the imagination, and second, that the psychological 'mode' is what determines the situation the lekton is relative to. In this framework he provides a detailed account of de se thought and the first person point of view. In the last part of the book, Recanati discusses the special freedom we have, in discourse and thought, to shift the situation of evaluation. He traces that freedom to a special mode--the anaphoric mode--which enables us to go beyond the egocentric stage of pre-human thought..
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Teaching Students with Moderate to Severe Disabilities: An Applied Approach for Inclusive Environments
This book educates teachers on how to incorporate applied curriculum strategies into their classrooms so ALL students can participate A unique aspect is its ability to balance inclusive practice with practical, functional instruction and materials. It provides many actual examples of teaching skills in an applied setting. These scenarios, combined with mini case studies, games, and learning activities offer a keen understanding of how to work with those who have moderate to severe disabilities. A three-part organization covers foundations of curriculum, implementation of the curriculum, and instructional environments. For future preschool, elementary, and secondary level teachers of students with moderate to severe disabilities. .
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Curriculum and Assessment for Students with Moderate and Severe Disabilities
This timely volume provides a complete guide to designing and implementing personalized curricula for K-12 students with moderate and severe disabilities. The author delineates a comprehensive assessment model that provides a framework for pinpointing educational priorities, planning instruction in specific areas, and evaluating student progress. Emphasizing the values of self-determination, family-centered planning, multicultural awareness, and educational accountability, the strategies presented are teacher-friendly and data-based. Case studies in every chapter illustrate the educational needs and accomplishments of students with a variety of disabilities, including autism, mental retardation, severe behavior disorders, and multiple disabilities. Further enhancing the practical utility of the volume are sample assessment notes, reports, and instruction plans; inventories of key skills in different domains; and descriptions of commercially available instructional resources..
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Effective Literacy Instruction for Students With Moderate or Severe Disabilities
The book focuses on literacy instruction for students with disabilities within inclusive settings. Little has been written about this important topic. The book provides strategies and examples of implementing research-based effective practices within inclusive settings. First, it will focus on literacy instruction for all students, including those with severe cognitive disabilities. Second, it will incorporate the six key components of effective literacy instruction identified by the Reading First Initiative (phonemic awareness, phonics, fluency, vocabulary, text comprehension, and oral language) throughout the book, providing teachers with practical ways to incorporate these into daily instruction. Finally, it will focus on literacy instruction within inclusive settings, about which there is little written that addresses the needs of students with a range of disabilities..
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