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Jessie was the youngest of four children to a nurse and a physician. When Jessie was little, her parents joined the Moral Re-Armament (MRA). Her parents became missionaries for the movement, leaving the children with an MRA nanny. This is where Jessie's feelings of abandonment began. The Close family moved to Switzerland, the MRA base . While ...
In 2017, Ulmer created the YouTube channel Special Books by Special Kids (commonly abbreviated as SBSK). On November 19, 2018, the Special Books by Special Kids YouTube channel reached 1 million subscribers. [5] He crisscrossed the country interviewing disabled children to give them, as ABC News put it
Larry K. Brendtro is the author of 16 books and over 200 articles in the field of positive youth development and trains youth professionals worldwide. [1] [2] He formerly was president of Starr Commonwealth, serving troubled youth in Michigan and Ohio, and has been a professor in the area of children's behavior disorders.
Related: Celebrate Black History Month reading these NAACP-nominated books, from fiction to poetry and young adult literature. Just as Hollywood, Broadway and other entertainment industries have ...
The Circle of Friends approach is a method designed to increase the socialization and inclusion of a disabled person with their peers. A Circle of Friends consists of a "focus" child, for whom the group was established, six to eight classroom peers, and an adult facilitator who meet once weekly to socialize and work on specific goals.
A 2011 Notable Children's Book in the English Language Arts [citation needed] Top 10 Book of the Year for Shelf Awareness [citation needed] Cooperative Children's Book Center (CCBC) Choice of 2011 [4] 2011 IRA Teachers' Choice Book [citation needed] 2011 IRA Young Adult's Choice [citation needed] 2013 Young Hoosier Book Award (Middle Grade) [5]
Speak is written for young adults and middle/high school students. Labeled a problem novel, it centers on a character who gains the strength to overcome her trauma. [1] [2] The rape troubles Melinda as she struggles with wanting to repress the memory of the event, while simultaneously desiring to speak about it. [2]
Darius the Great Is Not Okay is a young adult novel by Adib Khorram, originally published August 28, 2018, by Dial Books.The book has received various awards and has been translated into eight languages from the book's original language English (Russian, Japanese, German, Spanish, Portuguese, French, Italian, and Dutch). [1]