| Description |
1 online resource (182 pages) |
| Contents |
Book cover; title; copyright; contents; foreword; acknowledgments; introduction; beginnings: a mother's recall; part one: behind the office door: building the organic curriculum; 1 december: making the connection; 2 early january: the reciprocal compromise principle leads to the organic curriculum; 3 late january: seeds of collaboration; 4 an atypical family meeting; 5 february: goal-setting, present and future, in a safe haven; 6 march: alternate routes to word mastery, engaging the teachers; 7 april: a new use for soap operas, journal writing, and dreams of the elephant man |
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PART TWO: EMPLOYMENT AND CONTINUED EDUCATION: LIVING THE ORGANIC CURRICULUM8 MAY: JOB VS. OCCUPATION VS. CAREER--AND LESSONS ON WORRY; 9 JUNE: TRAFFIC TICKETS AS CURRICULUM, AND OTHER MISUNDERSTANDINGS; 10 JULY: LESSONS ON THE JOB, LESSONS IN LITERATURE, HEADLINES, AND FAIRNESS; 11 AUGUST: COLLEGE IN SUMMER, FIELD TRIP, AND VIDEOTAPE AS A LEARNING TOOL; 12 SEPTEMBER/OCTOBER: COLLEGE TEXTS AND MORNING PAPERS-- A WHOLE NEW PATH; 13 NOVEMBER: AN INTEREST IN AUTISM BECOMES A SAGA; 14 DECEMBER: SOCIAL CHALLENGES OF THE HOLIDAY SEASON REVIEWING A YEAR'S GROWTH |
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Part three: continuing change: short vignettes from subsequent years in educational therapyyear 2: working for dad's office: from doubt to confidence; year 2: role modeling: the pressure of personal appearance; year 2: knee surgery, pain, and face-offs with professionals; year 2: overcoming a fear: becoming a flyer; year 3: the whole dam thing; years 3 and 4: job at cozy cloz: no longer a victim; year 5 and on: bumps and potholes on the road to respect; nora now: life lessons and uncommon courage; epilogue; author's reflections; nora's response to the book |
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Appendix a: rules for the use of commasappendix b: place value cards: how to play with your place value cards; appendix c: barsch learning style inventory and scoring procedures: a summary; appendix d: test scores and excerpts from psychoeducational testing; bibliography |
| Summary |
This book provides an in-depth look at what€ the educational therapist does and how they do it. It goes behind the clinician's door to illustrate the unusual and broad range of interventions that an educational therapist employs |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780203831540 |
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0203831543 |
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