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Record Nr.

UNINA9910782318103321

Autore

Lawrence Clare

Titolo

How to make school make sense [[electronic resource] ] : a parents' guide to helping the child with Asperger syndrome / / Clare Lawrence

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; Philadelphia, : Jessica Kingsley Publishers, 2008

ISBN

1-283-90486-1

1-4356-8608-X

1-84642-834-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (130 p.)

Disciplina

371.94

Soggetti

Autistic children - Education

Education - Parent participation

Asperger's syndrome in children

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di contenuto

FRONT COVER; How to Make School Make Sense: A Parents' Guide to Helping the Child with Asperger Syndrome; Contents; Foreword; Preface; Chapter 1 Where Do We Start? What You Can Doby Yourself as Parent(s); 1.1 Get involved; 1.2 Provide organization help for your child; 1.3 Make the school aware of your child's home-based strengths; 1.4 Make the teacher aware of what motivates your child; 1.5 Form a group with other parents of pupils with AS -within school or in your area; 1.6 Involve specialists; 1.7 Share responsibility for your child's learning; 1.8 Be involved fully in reviews

1.9 Share home or school information 1.10 Find out about visits (both to school and out of school); 1.11 Discuss the issue of homework; 1.12 Provide continuity during holiday times; 1.13 Invite members of staff home, especially the class teacher; 1.14 Be aware of the school's anti-bullying policies,and be prepared to become involved quickly if issues arise; Chapter 2 Looking for Help Within the Classroom; 2.1 Talk to the teacher about classroom look and layout; 2.2 Provide specifics that already work; 2.3 Be imaginative about TA support; 2.4 Provide or suggest a whole range of visual cues and clues

2.5 Ask that break-time rules be made explicit 2.6 Agree on rules of



etiquette to avoid 'rudeness'; 2.7 Request differentiation to avoid problems; 2.8 Reproduce work to be done in a more accessible format; 2.9 Provide a laptop; 2.10 Discuss provision of a workstation; 2.11 Build a quiet area in class; 2.12 Work with the teacher on the use of language; 2.13 Ask that the learning goals of each session be made explicit, preferably in visual form; 2.14 Encourage peer support; 2.15 Value the work done by the class teacher and the TA; Chapter 3 Whole-school Solution; 3.1 Request explicit rules

3.2 Create a quiet space 3.3 Create break-time zones; 3.4 Draw together shared expertise and work on transitions; 3.5 Request a pupil 'incident log'; 3.6 Bells!; 3.7 Create occupational therapy sessions before ordering school; 3.8 Look at identification or directions around school; 3.9 Request social skills groups; 3.10 Have a whole-staff philosophy (including non-teaching staff); 3.11 Look at representation of pupils with AS; 3.12 Ask the school to provide a forum to put parents in touch with one another; 3.13 Educate or inform peers and peers' parents; 3.14 Consider siblings

3.15 Review sex education policy 3.16 Consider teacher personality; 3.17 Facilitate school-wide communication; Chapter 4 Quick Reference: What to Do when Things go Wrong; 4.1 Provide 'space'; 4.2 Do not punish the behaviour; 4.3 Treat the cause, not the effect, and provide an alternative response; 4.4 Don't reinforce the wrong behaviour; 4.5 Be your child's 'AS interpreter'; 4.6 Locate the trigger; 4.7 Check level of understanding; 4.8 Check that you are clear about what you want; 4.9 Consider giving up...; INDEX

Sommario/riassunto

Every child's education relies on a partnership between parents, professionals and, of course, the child. This book gives parents of children with Asperger syndrome (AS) practical advice on how to make the most of this important partnership and work with schools to ensure their child's needs are being met.



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Record Nr.

UNINA9910887983903321

Titolo

Musicality of a Literary Work

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften

ISBN

9783631709252

3631709250

Edizione

[1st edition]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (1 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

Lindsay DavidsonDavidson

Andrzej HejmejHejmej

Disciplina

780/.08

Soggetti

Music and literature

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Sommario/riassunto

This book represents an attempt to capture different links between modern literature and music. The author examines strict intertextual correlations, the phenomena of musicality and musicality of literary works, the musical structure in literature, so-called musical literary texts. He focuses on the novel Le Coeur absolu by Philippe Sollers, the poem Todesfuge by Paul Celan, the Preludio e Fughe by Umberto Saba and the drama Judasz z Kariothu [Judas Iscariot] by Karol Hubert Rostworowski. The analysis also includes Stanislaw Baranczak's cycle of poems Podróz zimowa: Wiersze do muzyki Franza Schuberta [Winter Journey: Poems to the Music of Franz Schubert] and a fragment of Scène from Hérodiade by Stéphane Mallarmé in Paul Hindemith's composition (S0(BHérodiade(S1(B de Stéphane Mallarmé.