Celebrating All Abilities


Book Description

Our communities are stronger when we come together and take time to understand, support, and celebrate one another. In Celebrating All Abilities, readers will learn the importance of acceptance and empathy as they relate to abilities and disabilities and how to practice these in their daily lives. Social and emotional learning (SEL) concepts support growth mindset throughout, while "Grow with Goals" activities and "Mindfulness Exercises" at the end of the book further reinforce the content. Vibrant, full-color photos and carefully leveled text engage young readers as they learn more about empathy and inclusion. Also includes sidebars, a table of contents, glossary, index, and tips for educators and caregivers. Celebrating All Abilities is part of Jump 's Celebrating Our Communities series.




Different Abilities


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In Different Abilities, beginning readers will learn to celebrate diversity by appreciating the variety of abilities people have. Vibrant, full-color photos and carefully leveled text engage young readers as they draw inferences about how diversity makes our society stronger and more interesting.




Every Body


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Join this photographic celebration of differing physical and neurological abilities from a National Geographic photographer. We have different ways to move around. Celebrating children of different abilities, this photographic book presents large, clear images of children moving around their community, using scooters, wheelchairs, walkers, and more. The text presents their experiences navigating the world, from the park to the beach, in simple relatable language. Every Body celebrates children with varying abilities, covering neurological differences, physical differences, and health challenges. The book includes contributions from internationally-known disabilities activist Judith Heumann whose work is profiled in the oscar-nominated Netflix documentary Crip Camp. Shelley Rotner, a National Geographic photographer and prolific children's author, applies her trained eye for crisp details in this latest book for young readers.




We All Have Different Abilities


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What can you do? Tie your shoes? Play piano? Everyone has different talents and abilities. Let's share and celebrate our many talents!




Celebrate Our Differences: A Story About Different Abilities, Special Needs, and Inclusion


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A Story About Different Abilities, Special Needs, and Inclusion (My Dragon Books - Volume 50) Having a pet dragon is very fun! He can sit, roll over, and play... He can candle a birthday cake, lit a campfire, or so many other cool things... But what if your dragon is diagnosed with ADHD? What if he's worried, scared? What if he wonders what is wrong with him? What should you do? You teach him that being different is A-OK! You tell him that he's not the only one who is different. You talk to him about all his friends with different abilities such as physical disability, hearing and vision impart, autism, Down syndrome, ADHD, nut allergies, asthma, diabetes, and more... You teach him the awareness of having all different challenges and different abilities and powers kids have! You help him understand that each person is a work of art, beautiful and rare, and he can learn to appreciate and celebrate our differences. How do you do that? Get this book now and learn how! Fun, cute, and entertaining with beautiful illustrations, this book is a wonderful tool for parents and educators to teach kids to foster the different abilities awareness and celebrate differences. GET THIS BOOK NOW!




Celebrating All Appearances


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"In [this book], readers will learn the importance of acceptance and empathy as they relate to appearances, both chosen and genetic, and how to practice these in their daily lives"--Provided by publisher.




Celebrating Our Differences


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The road to educating students with disabilities has been a long, uphill road with many twists, turns, and bumps along the way. One positive turn this road has taken is the movement of an including students with disabilities in the general education classroom to benefit from learning with their non-disabled peers, known as inclusion. Successful inclusion requires an inclusive school environment, supportive administration, collaboration among staff, and training of both general and special education teachers. This research project is to provide a brief history behind inclusion, and to create a professional development strand to train general education teachers on different types of disabilities, strategies and best practices for including students with disabilities in the general education classroom as well as provide lesson plans for grades Kindergarten through fifth grade to teach students awareness about people with disabilities. These trainings and lesson plans are a guide to eliminate the roadblocks to inclusion and make including all abilities as easy and successful as possible.




My Church


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This book engages the reader in the spiritual lives and gifts of persons with disabilities in congregation and community. Its invitation is to full inclusion, not just accessibility into the physical structure of churches and community centers, but inclusion using the gifts and talents of the person with and for the community. It offers resources for groups and congregations (most of these are Christian resources) to begin to study and work toward full inclusion and celebration of every person. A theology of hope is offered.




Celebrating Every Learner


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Howard Gardner's groundbreaking theory applied for classroom use This important book offers a practical guide to understanding how Howard Gardner's theory of Multiple Intelligences (MI) can be used in the classroom. Gardner identified eight different types of intelligence: linguistic, logical, spatial, musical, bodily-kinesthetic, naturalist, interpersonal, and intrapersonal. Celebrating Every Learner describes the characteristics of each type of intelligence and follows up with ready-to-use lesson plans and activities that teachers can use to incorporate MI in their pre-K through 6 classrooms. Offers a treasury of easily implemented activities for engaging all students' multiple intelligences, from the New City School, a leading elementary school at the forefront of MI education Provides ready-to-use lesson plans that teachers can use to incorporate MI in any elementary classroom Includes valuable essays on how and why to integrate MI in the classroom Hoerr is the author of a bi-monthly column for Educational Leadership as well as the editor of the "Intelligence Connections" e-newsletter




We Are All Different


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Meet the children from one school, and their teachers, parents, and guardians. They have different kinds of families, likes and dislikes, cultures, ethnicities, abilities, and disabilities. . . and A LOT in common! There are BILLIONS of wonderful ways to be human—as many ways as there are people on planet Earth. We Are All Different is an inspiring celebration of the fact that all of us are individuals. Written by Tracey Turner, it has been created in collaboration with several Inclusion Ambassadors from the Inclusive Minds organization. Vibrant and diverse, We Are All Different is both a beautiful gift book and a highly accessible home reference. It reinforces that everyone has something to offer, that diversity enriches our lives, and it also considers what all human beings have in common—that there is more that unites us than divides us.