Download or read book Don t Medicate Educate written by Ilana Slaff and published by Ilana Slaff Medical Pllc. This book was released on 2017-02-17 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dr. Slaff writes about her personal and professional involvement in autism. She discusses her identical twin brothers' and daughter's life-threatening behaviors-one requiring surgery-and how her brothers' different residential placements have made them so different. She discusses the controversy of aversive skin shock, a research-based treatment that saved her brother's life. She describes the dangers of psychotropic medications, particularly for individuals with developmental disabilities, and how her brothers experienced devastating side effects. She examines how medication is frequently substituted for behavioral educational interventions. She talks about termination of services after individuals turn twenty-one. She writes about her own experiences treating individuals with developmental disabilities. She discusses her advocacy with school districts and other government officials and what must be done to improve services. She makes recommendations to parents to identify and obtain the treatments their loved ones need. Excerpts from Don't Medicate-Educate! Many individuals are not receiving the educational therapies they need, including applied behavior analysis, so their behaviors are not under control. Many end up needing residential placements and chemical and physical restraints just so no one gets hurt. The chemical restraints, as shown in my brothers' experiences, do not always work to stop the danger. One of the reasons for the system's reliance on chemical restraints is risk aversion: if a patient displays dangerous aggression or suffers a self-injury when behavioral therapies are not available, the doctor can be sued for malpractice for not prescribing medication or other treatment.The first four chapters discuss my personal experiences with my family members who have autism and the struggles to obtain effective treatment. The book discusses how one brother has been doing well with effective treatment, while his twin has done poorly. It also discusses effective treatment for my daughter.To determine if a treatment is effective or dangerous requires research. In chapter 5, I discuss published research on positive-behavior treatments, aversives, and psychotropic medications used to treat individuals with autism or other developmental disabilities. The discussion includes specific risks to individuals with autism and developmental disabilities in general. I also discuss what is actually being implemented in real-life settings and advocating for evidence-based treatment. Recommendations to improve access to effective interventions are discussed in chapter 6. In the appendix, I have included a history of evidence-based treatments utilized in autism to familiarize readers to topics discussed throughout this book. FROM KIRKUS REVIEWIn Slaff's debut book, a psychiatric chronicle that straddles the genres of memoir, case study, and position paper, readers learn the story of one woman's struggle to care for family members with autism. They also discover what that effort has taught her about medicine, politics, education, risk, and the necessity "to seek my own answers and not blindly follow others." After this affecting opening, in which the doctor and sister whom readers have come to admire sees her "nightmares of having a child with autism" come true, the book becomes a detailed support manual for people undergoing the same trials and a thoroughly researched testimonial to the effectiveness of aversive therapy. The lucid work also delivers a short, useful history of the ways that therapy has been misused (as a treatment for homosexuality) and mischaracterized (in reports by Geraldo Rivera and Connie Chung). "People do not choose to have autism or any other disability, but we can choose to love and take care of them," the author reminds readers. She proves herself a fine exemplar of this care and love in this engrossing and persuasive work.
Download or read book Educating the Net Generation written by Bob Pletka and published by Santa Monica Press. This book was released on 2007-07-01 with total page 169 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Educating the Net Generation: How to Engage Students in the 21st Century addresses the national problem of escalating high-school dropout rates and student disengagement, and offers solutions as to how to best involve students of the millennial generation. The book examines the unique characteristics of the Net Generation and explains how the educational expectations and needs of the Net Generation differ from their Gen-X parents and Baby Boomer grandparents. It also looks at why many students resist engaging in formalized education in schools and ultimately drop out. Chapters featuring student interviews and photographs synthesize the perspectives of current high school students regarding their experiences, beliefs, and thoughts on learning, while a parallel set of parent interviews reveals what parents feel is important in their child’s education and how they would like to see schools engage their children in learning. Recommendations for changes in school policy and the financial investment critical to turning the situation around are also included, along with an inventory/ checklist for parents, teachers, and school administrators to determine if their individual school environment has what it takes to keep students motivated and engaged.
Download or read book Un helth Can be Changed to a State of Helth Thru Natural Methods written by George Starr White and published by . This book was released on 1927 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book To Heal a Nation written by Jeffrey Trigo, D.C. and published by Christian Faith Publishing, Inc.. This book was released on 2020-09-29 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Have you ever wondered why our great nation is full of sickness and disease? Within the contents of this book you will find the answers that will bring about a much needed transformation to our broken health care system while obtaining true wellness within your own household. You will be inspired and challenged. One of the greatest goal setting tools I've ever seen is within the contents of this book for you personal growth. This goal setting tool will help you to learn what bring you the most satisfaction and joy while helping you identify your purpose in life. Learn about proper nutrition, exercise and other fundamentals that are absolutely paramount for wellness success and learn what toxic substances may be sabotaging your health. God doesn't make junk and we should be moving toward the 120-year lifespan that was promised in the Bible for the post flood man. Read, learn, apply, and enjoy the wellness journey that is described for you in the contents of this book. www.TrigoChiropractic.Com Follow me on Instagram: drjefftrigodc Facebook: Trigo Chiropractic- Dr Jeff Trigo D.C.
Download or read book Digital Griots written by Adam J. Banks and published by SIU Press. This book was released on 2011-03-16 with total page 207 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Scholar Adam J. Banks offers a mixtape of African American digital rhetoric in his innovative study Digital Griots: African American Rhetoric in a Multimedia Age. Presenting the DJ as a quintessential example of the digital griot-high-tech storyteller-this book shows how African American storytelling traditions and their digital manifestations can help scholars and teachers shape composition studies, thoroughly linking oral, print, and digital production in ways that centralize African American discursive practices as part of a multicultural set of ideas and pedagogical commitments. DJs are models of rhetorical excellence; canon makers; time binders who link past, present, and future in the groove and mix; and intellectuals continuously interpreting the history and current realities of their communities in real time. Banks uses the DJ's practices of the mix, remix, and mixtape as tropes for reimagining writing instruction and the study of rhetoric. He combines many of the debates and tensions that mark black rhetorical traditions and points to ways for scholars and students to embrace those tensions rather than minimize them. This commitment to both honoring traditions and embracing futuristic visions makes this text unique, as do the sites of study included in the examination: mixtape culture, black theology as an activist movement, everyday narratives, and discussions of community engagement. Banks makes explicit these connections, rarely found in African American rhetoric scholarship, to illustrate how competing ideologies, vernacular and academic writing, sacred and secular texts, and oral, print, and digital literacies all must be brought together in the study of African American rhetoric and in the teaching of culturally relevant writing. A remarkable addition to the study of African American rhetorical theory and composition studies, Digital Griots: African American Rhetoric in a Multimedia Age will compel scholars and students alike to think about what they know of African American rhetoric in fresh and useful ways.
Download or read book Instead of Medicating and Punishing written by Laurie A. Couture and published by . This book was released on 2008-10 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Parents in our culture today are bombarded by "experts" offering "tools," "programs," diagnoses," treatments" and medications. Why doesn't any of it seem to help our children act and feel better? With this book parents will learn: . Children's brains are wired from conception through adolescence to need certain parenting and educational conditions that are different from almost everything that we have grown up with or have learned from our culture. . What people in peaceful tribal cultures have known about parenting and education for millennia . How to heal their children's mental health, behavioral and learning problems at the root causes, resulting in genuine improvements in family happiness. "Instead of Medicating and Punishing" is for parents of children of all ages, from pregnancy through late adolescence. It is for parents of children who have mild, moderate or severe mental health, learning or behavioral problems and also addresses the special needs of adoptive children.
Download or read book EastWest written by and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 736 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Kids First written by Ogi Ressel and published by Square One Publishers, Inc.. This book was released on 2013-07-02 with total page 283 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Designed for parents, teachers, health professionals, and all who share in the care of children, Kids First helps you determine the underlying causes of many children’s illness and assists you in creating a healing program that will produce lasting results. Chiropractic healer Dr. Ogi Ressel first looks at the history of conventional medicine, including the current focus on medication. The remainder of the book explains and explores how you can maintain children’s health without using drugs that actually interfere with an individual’s innate potential for wholeness. The topics covered include nutrition during pregnancy, infantile colic, fever, ear infections, asthma, and much more. Commonsense remedies are offered, and important topics such as vaccination are discussed in depth. Finally, the author provides the information you need to choose a chiropractor who can restore and safeguard your family’s well-being. If you have been looking for a more natural, more effective, and far safer way to care for children, Kids First: Health With No Interference will prove to be a valuable reference book as well as a lively bedside read.
Download or read book The Diary of a Mad Public School Teacher written by David A. Hancock MA and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2017-07-21 with total page 179 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Many are asking, what is wrong with teaching, learning, schooling, and education, and what can be done? You will get the answers (panacea) from the letters of a mad public school teacher: intrepid, irascible, cantankerous, provocative, passionate, thought-provoking, iconoclastic, and enhanced with vitriolic demagoguery. As a grad student / colleague said, Thanks for an enjoyable class on education issues in society. I also enjoyed your letters to the editor. Ive been told that I say what other people think. Well, you write and publish what were all thinking.
Download or read book Trapped in America s Healthcare Scam written by Michael J Considine and published by Speedy Publishing LLC. This book was released on 2013-07-23 with total page 50 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The government shuts down, you are trapped in America's Healthcare Scam and Obamacare won't fix anything! Politicians argue over who should pay for a broken Healthcare system while Americans get sicker every day. We do not have a Healthcare System in America we have a for profit symptom care system controlled by the pharmaceutical companies. The Healthcare System in America is little more than a government back legalized network of drug dealers and pushers, pimping prescription drugs for the pharmaceutical companies. Do you think it's a problem that in 2014 around 50% of the FDA's operating budget will come directly from the pharmaceutical companies, the very industry they are regulating? Should we continue to allow these drug pushers to prescribe 6 million prescriptions per year for a drug more potent than cocaine to 5 million American children for a disease that there is no scientific proof even exist? Should the American Healthcare System be based on profits not cures, treat symptoms of a disease not the actual disease itself? Are you trapped with nowhere else to go...? This short book reveals the real reasons why America's Healthcare system is making Americans sicker not better, and what you can do to protect your family from this scam starting today.
Download or read book A Complete Exam Notes written by David Groth and published by Sybex. This book was released on 2001 with total page 580 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Preparation for A+ Core Hardware Service Technician exam and A+ Operating System Technologies exam (formerly known as the A+ DOS/Windows exam).
Download or read book My Dog My Buddha written by Kimberly Artley and published by Mango Media Inc.. This book was released on 2019-07-23 with total page 267 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A dog trainer shares one hundred ways to be a better parent to your pup through keeping your cool while getting the best behavior out of them. Our furry friends reflect the love and affection we pour into them. But any pet parent who is struggling with puppy training or ongoing behavioral issues knows that it’s easy to get frustrated. My Dog, My Buddha offers one hundred life lessons that will help you build a better relationship with your pet and get the behavior you want. Kimberly Artley, an expert in canine psychology will teach you how to truly understand dog behavior. She knows that our dogs look to us for cues, guidance, directives, and how to feel about each and every situation they enter into. Dog care is a dialogue. My Dog, My Buddha will show you how to manage that conversation with your pet from a calm and centered place. My Dog, My Buddha is meant to educate, empower, and equip the human end of the leash. In this book, you’ll learn how to: Bridge the disconnect between human and canine Find personal growth through the years with your dog Build a relationship on trust, love, and respect If you liked Training the Best Dog Ever, For the Love of a Dog, Dog Training for Dummies, or Rescued, you’ll love the empathetic approach to pet care and dog training in My Dog, My Buddha.
Download or read book Hearings Reports and Prints of the House Committee on Education and Labor written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Education and Labor and published by . This book was released on 1976 with total page 1464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Tip of the Needle written by Ashraf Elghandour and published by Archway Publishing. This book was released on 2020-12-27 with total page 263 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nader and Addis, two exceptionally bright high school boys, live on opposite sides of the Israeli/Palestinian conflict in Israel. They’re brought together by the unlikely friendship between their fathers, a prominent Imam, and an influential Rabbi. As the idealistic religious leaders attempt a campaign to bring their people/followers closer, one is brutally assassinated. The course of each boys’ life is changed forever. Ten years later, Nader and Addis are rising stars in their respective fields in the United States. Their paths cross again when they’re brought together by the love and ambition of Sacha Zimmerman, the whip smart daughter of wealthy tech giant Zack Zimmerman. As each grapples with their feelings for Sacha, they’re drawn into opposing sides of Zimmerman’s plan to change the world with his breakthrough biotechware technology. The worldwide release of this technology has the potential to eliminate many of the scourges on humanity but risks tipping the balance of power between good and evil. In a world where technical advances are outpacing the ability to correct for unintended consequences and humanity becomes more willing to relinquish privacy and freewill for the promises offered by technological innovations, the universe is balanced on the tip of a needle. In a modern-day story of Adam and Eve and the lure of the proverbial apple called technology, Nader, Addis, and Sacha must each make decisions based on friendship, love, loyalty, and religion as Zimmerman’s plan has the potential to take him to the presidency and beyond.
Download or read book A Guide to a Multi Domain Model of Living and Education written by David Carter and published by Austin Macauley Publishers. This book was released on 2024-06-21 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Navigating the complexities of school life can be a daunting task for young people, educators, and parents alike. This book aims to provide practical guidance and insights to those who find themselves struggling in the educational landscape. While grounded in academic theory and evidence-based research, the primary focus of this book is on offering tangible solutions and real-world examples. Through a series of stories, vignettes, and problem-solving scenarios, the authors explore the challenges faced by students, teachers, and parents from various perspectives. By delving into these narratives, readers are likely to find answers to the questions that prompted them to pick up this book in the first place. The authors propose a model for change called the Multidomain Model of Education and Living (MDM), which aims to facilitate and enhance collaborative relationships between home and school, as well as within these two domains. Rather than advocating for sweeping, top-down changes that are often met with resistance, the MDM offers a flexible framework that can be adapted in part or in its entirety to suit the unique needs of each school community. The authors draw upon their own experiences in the Irish education system to illustrate how these ideas can be further developed and implemented. By inviting parents, guardians, pupils, and school staff to consider incorporating elements of the MDM into their own schools, the book serves as a catalyst for meaningful dialogue and incremental change. Ultimately, the authors believe that lasting transformation in Irish education will not come from above or below, but rather from the middle, where people come together to engage in open and constructive conversations. This book is a vital contribution to that ongoing dialogue.
Download or read book Departments of Labor Health and Human Services Education and Related Agencies Appropriations for 2008 written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Appropriations. Subcommittee on the Departments of Labor, Health and Human Services, Education, and Related Agencies and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 1356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Departments of Labor Health and Human Services Education and related agencies appropriations for 1985 written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Appropriations. Subcommittee on the Departments of Labor, Health and Human Services, Education, and Related Agencies and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 1048 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
