Stardust is a five-level course for children learning English in primary school. It offers a graded introduction to listening, speaking, reading and writing in English. The course offers a range of fun and interactive activities based around contexts familiar to children. Each level contains information on culture and festivals.
The Safe Child Handbook is a practical guide for protecting your family in a way that reduces the stress that can so often sabotage such well-intentioned efforts. Step-by-step, the book shows how to prepare and protect your family from realistic threats and, at the same time, alleviate fearfulness and anxiety in you and your children.
The Safe Child Handbook outlines the top eight threats to children and parents weather emergencies, kidnapping, terrorism, inappropriate media influence, drug and alcohol abuse, child abuse, school violence, and home safety and shows how to be ready to face the most drastic situations with confidence. The Safe Child Handbook is filled with practical advice, activities for children, and techniques that will empower your whole family.
From Internet censorship to sex and violence on television and in video games to debates over rock lyrics, the effect of media on children and adolescents is one of the most widely debated issues in our society. The Encyclopedia of Children, Adolescents, and the Media
presents state-of-the-art research and ready-to-use facts on the media's interaction with children and adolescents. With more than 400 entries, the two volumes of this resource cover the traditional and electronic media and their controversial impact--for good and ill--on children and adolescents.
The author uses strong theoretical and practical arguments to show that deaf children can and should acquire languge just as hearing children do, provided they experience the same conditions all children need in order to learn to speak. For deaf children, sign language is the only language that can satisfy all those conditions.
This innovative book covers the basic nature and description of children with specific language impairments. This text also provides information on the cognitive, motor, and communication problems in young children with language impairments. It also contains up-to-date information on a variety of disorders such as: AD/HD, Fragile X, TBI, Prenatal Substance Abuse, Landau-Kleffner syndrome, and HIV-infected children.
