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1) Infants of parents with mental illness: developmental, clinical, cultural and personal perspectives
Publisher
Australian Academic Press
Pub. Date
2008
Language
English
3) The orphans of Davenport: eugenics, the Great Depression, and the war over children's intelligence
Author
Publisher
Liveright Publishing Corporation, a division of W. W. Norton & Company, Inc
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"The fascinating-and eerily timely-tale of the forgotten Depression-era psychologists who overthrew long-accepted racist and classist views of childhood development. "Doomed from birth" was how psychologist Harold Skeels described two toddler girls at the Orphans' Home in Davenport, Iowa, in 1934. Following prevailing eugenic beliefs, Skeels and his colleague Marie Skodak assumed that the girls had inherited their parents' low intelligence and sent...
Author
Publisher
W.W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"Empowering strategies for anyone who works with children and teens on the spectrum. International best-selling writer and autist Temple Grandin joins psychologist Debra Moore in presenting nine strengths-based mindsets necessary to successfully work with young people on the autism spectrum. Examples and stories bring the approaches to life, and detailed suggestions and checklists help readers put them to practical use. Temple Grandin shares personal...
Author
Publisher
Crown Pub
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
"Todd has been working for years at the local animal shelter when he learns that it's being shut down. With his best friend, Laura, he struggles to place the animals in homes before the shelter closes, and Todd becomes torn between a dairy job close to home and a dog-trainer job three hours away, a decision that is further complicated when he realizes that he and Laura may be more than friends."--Publishers Weekly.
Author
Series
Mayborn literary nonfiction volume no. 6
Publisher
University of North Texas Press
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
[2018]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 6
Lexile measure
710L
Language
English
Description
Since her father's death, Cora, twelve, longs for a permanent home for herself, her special-needs sister, and their mother while navigating middle school and studying trees using her father's field notes.