Manuals and Books
Children of Divorce Intervention Program (CODIP): Manuals for Conducting Support Groups
Early Literacy Project (ELP) Manual
Primary Project: Program Development Manual
Unmet Needs: Child Care for Children with Autism in the United States
Children of Divorce Intervention Program (CODIP): Manuals for Conducting Support Groups
Kindergarten-First Grade Manual • $125.00
(or $225.00 for grades K-1 & 2-3 package)
Curriculum provides strategies for program implementation, recruitment and selection of participants, group leader training, and group facilitation techniques. Outlines for twelve sessions include goals, procedures, and materials needed. Includes Daring Dinosaurs board game.
Second-Third Grade Manual • $125.00
Curriculum provides strategies for program implementation, recruitment and selection of participants, group leader training, and group facilitation techniques. Outlines for fifteen sessions include age-appropriate techniques and activities along with goals, procedures, and materials needed. Includes Daring Dinosaurs board game.
Fourth-Sixth Grade Manual • $125.00
(or $225.00 for grades 4-6 & 7-8 package)
Curriculum provides strategies for group leader training, group facilitation techniques, and group process issues. Outlines for twelve sessions include age-appropriate activities and role-playing along with goals, procedures, and materials needed.
Seventh-Eighth Grade Manual • $125.00
Curriculum for early adolescents is a 14-session group intervention designed to address the specific issues faced by seventh- and eighth-grade students as they adjust to the inevitable changes and challenges associated with parental divorce. The curriculum fosters a supportive group environment in which feelings and experiences can be shared in a safe confidential setting. Participants learn important skills, including social problem solving, constructive ways of dealing with anger, and communication skills. Group activities focus on the developmental needs and interests of early adolescents.
Daring Dinosaurs Board Game • $50.00
Board game initiates discussion of important topics such as feelings, family concepts, and divorce-related issues, to reinforce communication and problem-solving skills.
Early Literacy Project (ELP) Manual • $225.00
This curriculum is designed for parents, child care providers, and others who work with young children under the age of six. 12 workshops focus on how young children learn to listen, speak, and develop the social and self-discipline skills related to success in learning to read. Workshops incorporate research-based adult/child activities that match the developmental level of the child and the learning level and style of the adult. Participants will increase their understanding of the development of early literacy while they develop skills to increase the quantity and quality of literacy related interactions between adults and children so that children develop confidence and excitement about literacy and language. An instructional video is included with the curriculum and each workshop includes a CD and list of additional resources. ELP was developed by Children’s Institute in partnership Syracuse University.
Primary Project: Program Development Manual • $90.00
Manual outlines Primary Project program goals and explains how to achieve them in your school. The in-depth information and guidelines included have been proven successful in a variety of implemented programs. Designed for decision makers and project coordinators, the manual is useful in establishing a program that best meets district mental health programming needs. Topics include program preparedness, program personnel and training, screening and selection, services, and program evaluation.
Unmet Needs: Child Care for Children with Autism in the United States • $27.33
Guillermo Montes, Ph.D.
This monograph is the most comprehensive study of child care for families of children with autism spectrum disorders (ASD) in the United States. It shows that families with children with ASD are very much like other families but have much higher levels of unmet needs. The study describes how the lack of trained supply of child care providers results in severe impacts on parental employment and high levels of child care related stress both at home and at work. The study explores child care policy making in the context of the US liberal welfare state model and calls for a fuller implementation of the Americans with Disabilities Act on behalf of children with ASD in all child care environments.