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    AHEAD: At Home and At Day Care
    This Resource Manual is for early-intervention service providers who work with young children with special needs, their families, and child-care providers. Includes: Resource Manual in Two Volumes


    Breaking the Cycle
    This video demonstrates how early intervention at a preschool for young children with challenging needs can help parents learn positive strategies to break the cycle of oppositional behavior. Available on VHS and DVD.


    Children with Disabilities
    Along with extensive coverage of genetics, heredity, pre- and postnatal development, specific disabilities, family roles, and intervention, The fifth edition of this book features new chapters on substance abuse, HIV and AIDS, Down syndrome, fragile X syndrome, behavior management, transitions to adulthood, and health care in the 21st century.


    Family and the IFSP Process
    This video and facilitator's guide builds understanding of the Individualized Family Service Plan (IFSP) process while promoting family-centered approaches to service. Available in VHS format only.


    Family Focused Interview
    Featuring Pamela Winton, Ph.D. this instructional program will help early interventionists develop initial skills in conducting the Family Focused Interview.


    Gentle Touch
    In this video a group of inner city foster parents of infants who were prenatally exposed to drugs, describe the experiences they have had using infant massage with their foster children. Available in VHS and DVD.


    How to Help Your Child Succeed in School
    This video presents information needed for parents of children with ADHD or other learning disabilities to help their children succeed in school. A strong partnership between and home is the key to success. Includes: VHS


    Johns Not Mad: Tourette Syndrome
    This video is a documentary portrait of an adolescent who suffers from an extremely severe case of Tourette Syndrome, a neurological disorder causes him to make involuntary sounds, including a constant stream of profanity. Available on VHS and DVD.


    Journey to a Place Called Home
    This video illustrates the experiences of young children with medical problems who are physically weak or disabled in a transitional care facility. Available in DVD and VHS formats.


    Just Being Kids
    Supports and services for infants and toddlers with special needs are best provided in the context of a family’s everyday routines, activities, and places (also known as “natural environments”). Includes: VHS and 55-page Facilitator’s Guide.


    Last One Picked, First One Picked On  (Parent's Version)
    Playing with friends is usually a happy ritual for most children, but children with learning disabilities are often isolated and rejected. Their impulsive, immature, and unpredictable behavior is often misunderstood by peers and adults. Available on VHS with Guide


    Last One Picked, First One Picked On (Teacher's Version)
    Host Richard Lavoie, a nationally recognized expert on learning disabilities, explains why children with learning disabilities experience rejection in social situations, and what parents and teachers can do to help them improve their social skills. Available on VHS with Guide


    Listening to Families: Bernardo Family: Parental Intuition Makes Diff. for Child w/ Ambiguous Diagnosis
    In this session the focus is on the parents' difficulties in making decisions for their child with speech delays when the diagnosis is uncertain or ambiguous, differences over which language to speak in the home, and financial concerns. Available in DVD and VHS formats.


    Listening to Families: Bond Family: Love Changes Everything: A Young Couple Forms a New Family
    The focus is on the development of a couple bond, family-of-origin relationships and acceptance, medical and EI services, and hopes for the future. Available in DVD and VHS formats.


    Listening to Families: Colton Family: A Family Fighting for Its Vision of Carissa with Colton Family: One Year Later.
    The focus of this two-volume video set is on the Colton family's hopes and vision for their one-year-old daughter, Carissa, who has Down Syndrome. The interviews with family consultant Jana Staton, are one-year apart. Available in DVD and VHS formats.


    Listening to Families: Exploring Family Strengths
    This presentation includes all families in the Listen to Family Series with their family consultants. The consultants demonstrate strategies to engage families in conversations about their strengths as well as their problems. Available in DVD and VHS formats.



    Listening to Families: Johnson Family: Love Across Generations: Grandmothers Caring for Grandchildren
    The focus is on family strengths, differences in child-rearing philosophy across generations, impact of drugs on family life and continuity, importance of extended family, friends, social services, and spiritual values. Available in DVD and VHS formats.


    Listening to Families: King Family: When Support Isn't Enough with King Family: One Year Later.
    The focus is on parenting roles, stress on the parents and on their relationship from caring for a medically fragile child, the needs of the older sibling, interactions with medical and EI providers, conflicts over diagnosis and treatment, and financial and future concerns. Available in DVD and VHS formats.


    Listening to Families: Rivas Family: Hopes of a Strong Immigrant Family on Fragile Ground
    The focus is on the family's hopes for the children, the parents' understanding of the boys' disabilities and abilities, EI services available, the parents' employment difficulties, and the support from the extended family and the church community. In Spanish with subtitles. Available in DVD and VHS formats.



    Listening to Families: Thompson Family: Hanging in There: Two Generations with Altered Priorities
    The focus is on the boy's medical condition, the attitudes of medical staff towards the family, financial difficulties, communication, and tensions over the shared responsibilities and altered priorities of the grandparents. Available in DVD and VHS formats.


    Listening to Families: Williams Family: Strength and Vulnerability in a Family with Many Concerns
    The focus is on family strength and vulnerabilities, multiple caregiving demands brought on by the mother's worsening sickle cell anemia, the three-year-olds special needs and EI services, custody issues with niece, the strengths and support of the African-American family, the community and church, and the mother's hopes for the future for herself and her children. Available in DVD and VHS formats.


    Managed Care Maze: The Challenge for Teen Parents
    This program brings ideas, answers, and possibilities for teen parents who are trying to negotiate the managed-care maze for their children with special needs. English version availale in DVD and VHS. Spanish version available in VHS format only.



    Managed Care Maze: What About the Children?
    This video follows several culturally diverse families as they negotiate their health care systems. The families learn to advocate for themselves and together with their doctors they solve problems and develop strategies for dealing with complex health care systems.



    More Alike Than Different
    This video shows children with chronic conditions practicing karate, enjoying summer camp, playing soccer, perfecting scouting skills, playing musical instruments, driving cart racers, and having fun. Includes: VHS


    No Body's Perfect
    This program profiles three elementary-school-age children with disabilities. The children all have different disabilities: Tristan is deaf, Olivia has a visual impairment, and Emily lost a leg in a farm accident. Includes: VHS


    Parents as Partners: Booklet Series One (Birth to three)
    This set of booklets and accompanying video were produced to assist families in understanding the services provided in early intervention/early education programs. The video discusses the need to provide parents with appropriate written material on services and describes how the booklets can be used to support families. Languages: English and Spanish


    Pathways in Early Intervention Service Coordination (a set)
    Video Guide and companion training manual identify the many tasks and responsibilities of early intervention service coordination includeing both the knowledge and personal skills fundamental to building partnerships between families and professionals. Includes: VHS, VHS Guide, and Companion Training Manual



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