Haiti’s children record personal struggles, successes
Human Development
Down Syndrome and Medical Care
Report on Children with Down Syndrome and Medical Care (GAO-11-57)
Full report- http://www.gao.gov/new.items/d1157.pdf
Summary- http://www.gao.gov/products/GAO-11-57
Caring for the Developmentally Disabled
Resources: Care of the Developmentally Disabled
American Association on Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities (AAIDD)
http://www.aaidd.org
National Association of Councils on Developmental Disabilities (NACDD)
http://www.nacdd.org
National Association for the Dually Diagnosed
http://www.thenadd.org
National Down Syndrome Society (NDSS)
http://www.ndss.org
The President’s Committee for People with Intellectual Disabilities
http://www.acf.hhs.gov/programs/pcpid
Why Old Dogs Are The Best Dogs
The last word: Why old dogs are the best dogs
They can be eccentric, slow afoot, even grouchy. But dogs live out their final days, says The Washington Post’s Gene Weingarten, with a humility and grace we all could learn from.
http://theweek.com/article/index/89914/the-last-word-why-old-dogs-are-the-best-dogs
Communicating with Hard of Hearing Clients
Tips for Communicating with Hard of Hearing Clients
- Get your subject’s attention first
- Spotlight your face (no backlighting)
- Avoid noisy backgrounds
- Ask how you can facilitate communication
- Don’t shout
- Speak clearly, at a moderate pace
- Use facial expressions, gestures
- Give clues when changing subject
- Talk to a hard of hearing person, not about him or her
- Offer respect
In the hospital setting-
- Make sure that there is a protocol for caring for the hard of hearing or deaf client
- Make sure a hard of hearing person has his or her hearing device on when going to the OR
- Keep extra hearing aid batteries on the unit
- Ask if he or she needs an amplifier for the telephone
- Don’t use the intercom
Wider-Kolberg, M. (1999). I’m Listening, But I Can’t Hear You. Nursing Spectrum. http://community.nursingspectrum.com/MagazineArticles/article.cfm?AID=53
Counseling Children of Deployed Family Members
Collins, K. & Chandler, G. (2008). Counseling children of deployed family members (ACAPCD-15). Alexandria, VA: American Counseling Association.
http://counselingoutfitters.com/vistas/ACAPCD/ACAPCD-15.pdf
Truth Serum?
“There is one survivor among the terrorists that attacked Mumbai. The authorities are keen to find out as much about him and his accomplices as possible. Reports say they are ready to inject a truth serum into him to extract information. Mark Wheelis, a retired professor of microbiology at the University of California, discusses whether this sort of technology is still science fiction. ”
http://news.bbc.co.uk/today/hi/today/newsid_7766000/7766516.stm
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The psychology of leaking
“WikiLeaks and the psychology of leaking”
http://blogs.reuters.com/great-debate/2010/08/02/wikileaks-and-the-psychology-of-leaking/
Summer Reading Keeps Students From Falling Behind
http://www.ajc.com/news/summer-reading-pushed-to-567829.html
What if you could TRIPLE your reading speed in under 60 minutes?
That was the question Michael Masterman asked me to consider — when he sent me a review copy of his new speed reading audio course three months ago. And you won’t be surprised to hear that I didn’t believe it!
Now, I’ve always avoided learning how to speed read.
Why? Because I always believed it’d take hours of training to really “work properly.” And I’d heard a couple of horror stories too. (One very well-known six-CD course essentially suggests listening to fast music while reading. Now that’s incredibly draining – and not exactly suited to a slow-paced romance!)
Michael promised I would literally triple my reading speed in well under an hour (without fast music or other gimmicks!) — and said that his audio course included tests to prove it. He also said I’d be able to maintain that super-fast reading speed, even weeks later.
I took the course. It worked. And I’m STILL reading at lightening speeds!
That’s exactly why I wanted to write and tell you about Michael’s “Speed Reading Secret” course today!
But don’t listen to me chat about it. If you want to blast through e-mail messages, Web pages, revision, books or reports (and pick up an amazing new vocabulary along the way), then check out his site.
The course includes tests, so you can literally see just how well you’ve improved. And if you don’t improve enough, claim your money back through his guarantee!
Michael predicts the average American could save one day a week following his advice. I think he’s probably right.
Enjoy!
