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Acquired Speech and Language Disorders 2nd ed
123053
Bruce E. Murdoch

It is vital to have knowledge of the neuroanatomical structures and functional neurological mechanisms, which are disrupted in neurogenic speech/language, disordered persons in order to understand the speech/language deficits themselves.

2009

Ages: -

$73.00



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Building Language Word Meanings. Book
286
Robyn Dower, Jan Mackey

Australian Authors
206 Pages
A manual of exercises to build understanding and recall of words by strengthening semantic processing.

2006

Ages: 18 - Adult

$109.00


Building Language: Word Sounds.
122263
Robyn Dower, Jan Mackey

Australian Authors
A manual of exercises to build recognition and production of speech sounds and letters within words

1998

Ages: -

$109.00






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ChIPPA Child Initiated Pretend Play Assessment Kit
121532
Dr Karen Stagnitti

Assesses the spontaneous ability of children to organise their play and to pretend in play. Ages 3-7.11. Takes 30 mins for 4-7 year olds, 18 mins for 3 year olds. Kit contains Manual, Scoring CD ROM, Instructional DVD, all test toys and materials. Suitable for children who are developmentally delayed, are at risk of learning problems, have a specific diagnosis such as Downs Syndrome, Autism Spectrum Disorder, or ATtention Deficit Hyperactive Disorder. Also suitable for children who have a physical disability and children who have been traumatized/ neglected. Can be used in clinical settings, preschools, schools, early childhood settings and home. ALSO avaialable to order Learn to Play Program Manual to teacah imaginative play skills 120.00 The dev of play Poster 20.00

2007

Ages: 3 - 7

$880.00


Clinical Reasoning in the Health Professions 3rd Ed Australian Author
123139
Joy Higgs Mark Jones Stephen Loftus Nicole Christiansen

Clinical reasoning is the foundation of professional clinical practice. This book provides the useful text on the theoretical basis of clinical reasoning in the health professions and examines strategies for assisting learners, scholars and clinicians develop their reasoning expertise.

2008

Ages: -

$99.00



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Communicate with Confidence
122062
Sue Sloan, Jan Mackey and Sue Chamberlain

Communicate with confidence is a practical guide for anyone wanting to improve or refresh their communication skills.
Written in plan language, communicate with confidence provides information, hints and practical exercises in five key everyday communication skills. Listening. Talking, Greetings and Partings, Manners and extending social networks. Suits adolescnts and adults.

2006

Ages: -

$109.25


Employment Kit
121631
Ylana Bloom and Dolly Bhargava

The manual provides information on how to make the disability employment service standards meaningful and accessible for individuals with disabilities. It outlines how a individual employment plan should be designed.

Ages: -

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Essentials of Law for Health Professionals Australian Authors
120580
Forrester & Griffiths

2001

Ages: -

$69.58


Friendly Kids Friendly Classrooms
121046

A book for every teacher! Here is the key to a happy classroom:

1991

Ages: 5 - 12

$74.75



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Insights: Behind early childhood pedagogical documentation.
121069
edited by Alma Fleet, Catherine Patterson and Janet Robertson

Paperback Publication Date: January 2006
Insights is a major contribution to understandings about early childhood education in Australia and new Zealand. it is notable for the respect it shows to teachers' perspectives and life worlds, and to the highly complex and interpretive work of teaching with young children.

Ages: -

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Let's Read Together Part 1 Using Commercially available Books to Promote Literacy
6785
Ylana Bloom, Dolly Bhargava

This literacy package has been created specifically for children with intellectual as well as additional disabilities (such as hearing impairments, physical disabilities, Down syndrome and Autism).

2003

Ages: 0 - 18

$151.80



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Let's Read Together Part 11 Creating Personalised material to Promote Literacy
6799
Ylana Bloom, Dolly Bhargava

ACC ideas for children and adults with communication difficulties. This user-friendly package provides many ideas for utilising commercially available books to help your child develop literacy

2003

Ages: 2 - Adult

$151.80


Let's Talk Together The Great Ideas Update Manual
120924
Ylana Bloom Dolly Bhargava

This book would be a useful practical resource for people wanting ideas about using and teaching AAC skills to people with disabilities.

Ages: 0 - 200

$149.50



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Let's Talk Together, The Assessment Manual and CD ROM
6801
Ylana Bloom, Dolly Bhargava

Another resource for people with severe communication impairments and intellectual challenges.This is a comprehensive step by step guide to assist anyone carry out a communication assessment to dtermine approximate AAC.

2003

Ages: 0 - Adult

$126.50


Let's Talk Together, The Great Ideas Original and Update Manuals Package of 2
6800
Ylana Bloom, Sue Treloar

Creating augmentative communication opportunities. Another resource for people with severe communication impairments and intellectual challenges.

2003

Ages: 0 - Adult

$316.25



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Mates Traits Stickers
122607

A set of 32 colourful stickers providing creative and fun ways of show mates traites to the children.
5 sets of 32 stickers (10 full A4 pages (16 per sheet) in total)

Ages: -

$19.49


Mosbys Medical, Nursing & Allied Health Dictionary Autralian N/Z 2nd Edition Oct 2009
10927
Dictionary

2009

Ages: - Adult

$93.00






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Multisensory Rooms and Environments
122554
Susan Fowler

This unique, fully photocopiable resource offers guidance and materials to aid those developing multisensory environments - artificially engineered spaces that encourage relaxation, social skills and learning by stimulating the five senses.

2008

Ages: 5 - 99

$63.00


Participation Through Communication Guide
6803
Ylana Bloom, Dolly Bhargava

Communication partner strategies for providing communication opportunities for people who are pre-intentional communicators

2003

Ages: 0 - 18

$151.80



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Pharmacology for Health Professionals (Australian Authors)
120566
Bryant & Knights

2002

Ages: -

$112.58


Questioning the Future Methods and Tools for Organizational and Societal Transformation
121696
Sohail Inaytullah

How can anticipatory action learning help organizations create desired futures? What are the limits to strategic planning and scenario planning? How can causual layered analysis unveil the future and create more effective public policy. How can the study of grand patterns of social change help in uinderstadning the future?

2005

Ages: -

$45.94



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STOP and THINK Friendship DVD Package
122462
Lindy Petersen, Mark Le Messurier

Mark and Lindy Petersen's 'STOP and THINK Friendship DVD Package,' first released in 2000, has been revised and reprinted due to popular demand from schools. This acclaimed social skills resource is distributed to schools, educators and clinicians throughout Australia, New Zealand and Europe.
In response to the serious concerns about the pervasive effects of poor peer friendships and also the high incidence of social problems in our community, programs specifically designed for training social skills in children have proliferated over the past decades.

Ages: -

$113.85


Schedules Kit
121630
Ylana Bloom and Dolly Bhargava

Schedules can be used to inform the individual of upcoming events it will help them attend, anticipate upcoming events, make transitions, understand abstract concepts such as time in a more concrete and manageable form, develop social interaction skills etc. Examples of a variety of schedules have been provided for various settings (e.g. home, school, group home, community).

Ages: -

$34.44






School Readiness Kit Phonics Frenzy 2 Word Families
124904

Designed by an Australian Preschool teacher the Phonics Frenzy 2 contains: * Playing Cards - teaching children to blend sounds together to read simple words * A2 Poster - a fun and colourful visual aid of common word families * Whiteboard game - a fun game to see how many word families could be thought of in 3 minutes * Whiteboard marker - to write the word families. Use the special rubber on the end of the pen to clean the board and start again. * Plastic Carry Case - to store and protect your kit.

2010

Ages: 4 -

$20.00


School Readiness Kits - Phonics Frenzy Alphabet
124903

Designed by an Australian Pre-school teacher, the Phonics Frenzy Kit contains: * Playing cards - teaching children the sounds of the alphabet through a fun game of matching * A2 Poster - a fun and colourful visual aid of the alphabet * Writing Workbook - teaches children to write using the foundation font used in schools * CD - to reprint the workbook time and time again. * Plastic Carry Case - to store and protect your kit.

Ages: -

$20.00






School readiness kit Ready to read Kit 2 - Vowel Adventures
124905

Designed by an Australian preschool teacher, Vowel Adventures teaches children both long and short vowels. The kit contains: * Playing cards - a fun game of matching that teaches children both long and short vowels. * A2 poster - a fun and colourful visual aid of long and short vowels * Magnet Board - teaches children the difference between long and short vowels and also introduces the bossy "e" and how it affects the sound when placed at the end of a word. * Magnets - Children are to sort the magnets into the correct column on the magnet board. * Plastic Carry Case - to store and protect your kit.

Ages: -

$20.00


Sing and Sign with Me
121368
Aileen Ryan

Combining 26 favourite nursery rhymes and songs with melodies sign language and natural gesture for use in early childhood settings

2002

Ages: -

$52.84






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Social Skills Empowering Kids Secondary Manual
122447
Sue Berne

Good communication is the most important skill in relating to others and it is a skill that is learned. Listening is connected with communication and is also essential to building good relationships. Assertiveness is a skill that few of us have mastered. Teaching our children to be assertive will encourage them to take personal responsibility.

2001

Ages: 11 - 18

$74.75


Softpics Professional and Fantasticpics
53
Ylana Bloom Dolly Bhargava

An Augmentative Communication Designer 2500 images

2001

Ages: -

$450.00






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Speech and Language Disorders Associated with Subcortical Pathology
122781
Bruce E Murdoch Brooke Mai Whelan

This book provides comprehensive coverage of speech and language disorders arising from pathological processes involving the subcortical structures of the brain. It gives an understanding of these disorders in terms of their neuropathological basis, clinical symptomatology and prognosis.

2008

Ages: -

$85.00


Stop Think Do Social Skills Training Supplement for Middle Years of Schooling Ages 12-15
120516
Lindy Petersen, Phil Lewis

This manual contains a personal and social skills training program for pre and young adolescents in their middle years of schoooling, transitioning from primary to secondary school. Posters not included with this item

2004

Ages: 12 - 15

$73.95






Stop Think Learning: A teacher's guide to motivating children to learn
120518
Petersen

Individual learning plans for motivating any child, including the child with dyslexia, attention deficit disorder,difficult, personality, asperger syndrome (autism spectrum), the gifted underachiever or the slow learner

1995

Ages: -

$37.89


Success at Work Looking Good.
6805
Carolyn McMurtrie

The importance of personal appearance and presentation

2003

Ages: -

$63.25



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Talking Photo Album Low Tech Communication Device
125253

Put your favourite Photos in each sleeve and record your voice to learn words with each photo. Turn the page and push the button to produce the voice saying what the photo is or describing what the photo is

Ages: -

$49.00


The Crucible of Consciousness An Integrated Theory of Mind and Brain
123886
Zoltan Torey

Offers a theory of the mind and its central role in evolution. This book traces the evolutionary breakthrough that rendered the brain accessible to itself and shows how the mind-boosted brain works. It also identifies what it is that separates the human's self-reflective consciousness from mere animal awareness.

2009

Ages: -

$77.00



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The Development of Imaginative Play Poster
10438
Karen Stagnitti

Development from 0-5 years, includes play things, social interaction, sequences of imaginative play actions and object use

1998

Ages: 0 - 5

$20.00


Thematic AAC Communication: Using Visual Connectors and Question Maps in the Classroom
6804
Ylana Bloom, Dolly Bhargava

This manual provides explanations and examples on how to use the two processes of Visual Connectors and Question Maps for identifying AAC systems in the classroom environment.

2004

Ages: 1 - 18

$101.20



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Things That Go Bump in the Day A Story about a boy with co-ordination difficulties
6700
Jennifer Reed

BUMP can be used by parents, carers and teachers, occupational therapists, psychologists, speech pathologists and early childhood workers to discuss Co-ordination difficulties in an entertaining and positive way.

2005

Ages: 5 - 12

$19.95


Understanding the Australian Health Care System
123356
Eileen Willis, Louise Reynolds, Helen Keleher

The text provides an overview of the Australian Health Care System at a level suitable for 1st year undergraduate students. It describes the 'architecture' of the system and its key components (public hospital sector, private hospital and health insurance, GPs and primary care, community health, public health), some of the things that shape the system and introduces key concepts that underpin it such as the idea of the welfare state or a universal health system.

2008

Ages: -

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Using AAC Strategies for Positive Behaviour Support to Manage Challanging Behaviour
121145
Ylana Bloom Dolly Bhargava

Many people use behaviour to communicate because their current communication skills are not effective. As communication partners it is our challenge to identify the underlying communication function of the behaviour of concern. This book addresses the issue of challenging behaviour from a positive behaviour support perspective by discussing the possible causes of communication breakdown. Examples of practical augmentative communication strategies are also provided to assist the person to effectively and efficiently communicate a range of messages without having to resort to using the behaviour of concern.

Ages: 2 - Adult

$101.20


Using AAC to Develop Emotions and Problem Solving Skills
6802
Ylana Bloom, Dolly Bhargava

2004

Ages: 0 - Adult

$101.20



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Your Special Friend A Book for Peers of Children Diagnosed with Asperger Syndrome
123545
Josie Santomauro

This book offers a fun and accessible introduction for the friend of a child diagnosed with Asperger Syndrome (AS).

2009

Ages: -

$15.50