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2) ADD/ADHD
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Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder or ADHD can make parenting a challenge, as if it wasn’t already! Whether it’s inattentiveness, hyperactivity, impulsiveness, or all three combined, you have your work cut out for you!
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Steffi doesn't talk. Rhys can't hear. They understand each other perfectly. Love isn't always a lightning strike. Sometimes it's the rumbling roll of thunder ... Steffi has been a selective mute for most of her life - she's been silent for so long that she feels completely invisible. But Rhys, the new boy at school, sees her. He's deaf, and her knowledge of basic sign language means that she's assigned to look after him. To Rhys it doesn't matter...
4) Autism
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This Mid-America Emmy Award winning film launches an exciting campaign that calls our communities, our kids and the world to learn, understand and accept those living with autism. Harnessing the power of film to connect and create empathy in others in an unprecedented way, this documentary captures the real life stories of three children and their best friends/sibling. They explain their lives with autism in relatable everyday scenes. The kids and...
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Shouta Kikuzato's hopes of starting on his school's prestigious soccer team are derailed when a terrible incident costs him his leg. Now in his first year of high school (again), Kikuzato has resigned himself to never reaching his athletic dreams. But when Chidori, a passing prosthetist, notices Kikuzato's artificial limb--and speed--as he races through the train station, the specialist proposes a partnership: Chidori will build Kikuzato a brand-new...
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"When twelve-year-old Blake is shipped away to stay with her weird aunt in Fever Swamp for the summer, she expects her weeks to be filled with video games, mosquito bites, and a whole lot of nothing. Instead, she finds herself in a spooky turf war between wolf hunters and werewolves! Blake's never let anything--including her prosthetic hand--slow her down or stop her from crushing her opponents in a game of Lore Hunter, but real-life monsters on...
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Explores the history, passage, and enforcement of special needs law in the United States in regards to providing youth with special needs appropriate education and medical care as well as equal access to jobs, services, and public places. Includes research activities, text based questions, a glossary of key terms, and a list of additional resources.
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Focuses on the role of families of youth with disabilities in the juvenile justice system. It identifies barriers to their participation and suggests strategies for facilitating family involvement educationally and socially, during and after they leave the juvenile justice system.