My Mom Has Two Jobs
Author: Michelle Travis
Publisher: Michelle Travis
Published: 2018-07-15
Total Pages: 62
ISBN-13: 9780997722062
DOWNLOAD EBOOKChildren explore how their mothers have careers but also have the job of taking care of them.
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Early Focus
Author: Rona L. Pogrund
Publisher: AFB Press
Published: 1992
Total Pages: 172
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKEarly Focus synthesizes and makes understandable the experience of professionals from such fields as: education, orientation and mobility, pediatrics, ophthalmology and optometry, psychology, occupational therapy, and social work. This is a resource for both professionals and parents.
Kids at Work
Author: Russell Freedman
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Published: 1994
Total Pages: 120
ISBN-13: 9780395797266
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA documentary account of child labor in America during the early 1900s and the role Lewis Hine played in the crusade against it.
Working with Families of Young Children with Special Needs
Author: R. A. McWilliam
Publisher: Guilford Press
Published: 2010-01-13
Total Pages: 281
ISBN-13: 1606235400
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis user-friendly book presents research-based best practices for serving families of children with special needs from birth to age 6. Expert contributors demonstrate how early intervention and early childhood special education can effectively address a wide range of family concerns, which in turn optimizes children's development and learning. Tightly edited, the volume offers indispensable tools for assessing families; identifying and capitalizing on their strengths; providing information, support, and coaching; collaborating with parents and teachers to address children's functional needs in the context of everyday routines; and coordinating care. Over a dozen reproducible checklists and forms help professionals immediately implement the techniques and strategies described.
A Will of Their Own
Author: Manfred Liebel
Publisher: Zed Books Ltd.
Published: 2013-07-04
Total Pages: 297
ISBN-13: 1848138032
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book shows how children's work can take on widely differing forms; and how it can both harm and benefit children. Differing in approach from most other work in the field, it endeavours to understand working children from their own perspective.
Working with Children, Young People and Families
Author: Helen Davies
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Published: 2010-11-15
Total Pages: 209
ISBN-13: 1848609892
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWritten from a unique interprofessional perspective, this book is an essential introduction to working with children, young people and families. It covers policy, practice and theory, exploring key themes and developments, including: - poverty and disadvantage - ethical practice - child development - education - child protection - children and young people's rights - doing research. The book introduces students to a range of theoretical perspectives, links the key themes to the existing and emerging policy and practice context and supports students in engaging with and evaluating the central debates. With case studies, reflective questions and sources of further reading, this is an ideal text for students taking courses in childhood studies, working with children, young people and families, interprofessional children's services, early years, youth work and social work.
Rights and Wrongs of Children's Work
Author: M. F. C. Bourdillon
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Published: 2010
Total Pages: 311
ISBN-13: 0813548888
DOWNLOAD EBOOKExplores the place of labor in children's lives and child development. By incorporating recent theoretical advances in childhood studies and in child development, the authors argue for the need to re-think assumptions that underlie current policies on child labor. Proposes a new approach to promote the well-being, development, and human rights of working children. From publisher description.
Five Flying Penguins
Author: Barbara Barbieri McGrath
Publisher: Triangle Interactive, Inc.
Published: 2020-12-11
Total Pages: 38
ISBN-13: 1684520762
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFive little penguins are content in the cold--until they spot a menacing mammal! With a rhyming narrative that counts to five, adorable penguins are soaring--or flying--through the sea, trying to elude a lurking creature. But as young readers of this charming tale will discover, a friendly seal is only looking to play a game of tag.
Protecting Youth at Work
Author: National Research Council and Institute of Medicine
Publisher: National Academies Press
Published: 1998-12-18
Total Pages: 335
ISBN-13: 0309064139
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn Massachusetts, a 12-year-old girl delivering newspapers is killed when a car strikes her bicycle. In Los Angeles, a 14-year-old boy repeatedly falls asleep in class, exhausted from his evening job. Although children and adolescents may benefit from working, there may also be negative social effects and sometimes danger in their jobs. Protecting Youth at Work looks at what is known about work done by children and adolescents and the effects of that work on their physical and emotional health and social functioning. The committee recommends specific initiatives for legislators, regulators, researchers, and employers. This book provides historical perspective on working children and adolescents in America and explores the framework of child labor laws that govern that work. The committee presents a wide range of data and analysis on the scope of youth employment, factors that put children and adolescents at risk in the workplace, and the positive and negative effects of employment, including data on educational attainment and lifestyle choices. Protecting Youth at Work also includes discussions of special issues for minority and disadvantaged youth, young workers in agriculture, and children who work in family-owned businesses.
Working with Families of Children with Special Needs
Author: Nancy M. Sileo
Publisher: Prentice Hall
Published: 2011-02-25
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780137147403
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFor preservice students taking special education courses as well as inservice educators seeking professional development. An engaging discussion of the legal, ethical, practical, and cultural considerations of working with families of special needs children. With a strong focus on the families of special needs children, this first edition text provides students with both the information to understand the challenges and needs of these families as well as the skills and strategies required of educators working with such families. Containing a thorough discussion of the common legal and ethical concerns surrounding children with special needs and their families, this book also emphasizes the many individual differences among families. With that in mind, the authors focus on diversity in families with special needs children, cultural considerations, age, and communication with special needs families. In addition, a distinctive final chapter called "A Family's Voice," gives students the special opportunity to hear about the unique thoughts and experiences of a large selection of family members of children with special needs.
