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November December 2008 Articles include: Mental Illness Recognized as Basis for Seeking Asylum; Driving is Not Major Life Activity under ADA; Mentally Ill Offender Treatment and Crime Reduction Reauthorization and Improvement Act of 2008 ... Read more

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This digital document is an article from Journal of Disability Policy Studies, published by Pro-Ed on December 22, 2004. The length of the article is 4172 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Developing issues in the classification of mental and physical disabilities.
Author: Bruce H. Gross
Publication: Journal of Disability Policy Studies (Refereed)
Date: December 22, 2004
Publisher: Pro-Ed
Volume: 15Issue: 3Page: 130(5)

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This digital document is an article from Utah Business, published by American Diversified Publishing Company, Inc. on November 1, 1991. The length of the article is 2285 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Americans with Disabilities Act: one in ten Utahns has a physical or mental disability. (outline of Utah's Americans with Disability Act regulations)
Author: Cheryl Smith
Publication: Utah Business (Magazine/Journal)
Date: November 1, 1991
Publisher: American Diversified Publishing Company, Inc.
Volume: v4Issue: n10Page: p60(2)

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Family-Centred Assessment and Intervention in Pediatric Rehabilitation analyzes the effectiveness of Family-Centred Services (FCS) for children with disabilities or chronic illnesses. This text provides you with the exact definition of FCS and offers proof that parent involvement in children's treatment greatly enhances therapy. You can use the suggestions and methods to integrate parents into therapy, maximizing the family's intervention experiences and making your work more successful and effective.

Many clinicians agree that families play a crucial part in deciding what intervention strategies are best for their children. From this text, you will learn that listening to parents and valuing parental input will give you insight into the goals, needs, and ambitions families have for their children. This enables you to choose, with the parent, the interventions that best suit your patients’needs and the needs of their families.

In addition to information on how to integrate parents and families into intervention, Family-Centred Assessment and Intervention in Pediatric Rehabilitation offers suggestions that will improve your existing FCS or help you implement a family- centred approach, including:

• performing therapy in natural settings, such as school or home, to make changes in the children's social and physical environments
  
• acknowledging the grieving and adaptation process of families while being compassionate and understanding
  
• letting parents describe what they would like their child to be able to do and accomplish in the future
  
• putting the parents’concerns and requests first, enabling parents to deal with caring for their child
  
• supporting parents and reinforcing them when they have innovative and helpful ideas
  
• informing parents on the progress of their children and educating parents on methodologies and strategies used in FCS
  
  Many of the suggestions derived from the analysis of current data and original research in Family-Centred Assessment and Intervention in Pediatric Rehabilitation have immediate clinical applicability, allowing you to quickly adapt methods into your intervention processes. This text also provides you with information on types of evaluative methods, such as Measure of Processes of Care (MPOC) and Family-Centred Program Rating Scale (Fam PRS), that will help you determine if your FCS program is working efficiently.
  
  Emphasizing the goal of parent interaction in FCS services, Family-Centred Assessment and Intervention in Pediatric Rehabilitation offers methods that will improve your work with families and patients, making services more beneficial and relevant to the child and to their families.

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This digital document is an article from Medical Law's Regan Report, published by Medica Press, Inc. on February 1, 2004. The length of the article is 473 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: IA: caveat in authorizing commitment of patients: patient's physical handicap alone is insufficient.(Medical Malpractice Cases)
Author: A. David Tammelleo
Publication: Medical Law's Regan Report (Magazine/Journal)
Date: February 1, 2004
Publisher: Medica Press, Inc.
Volume: 37Issue: 2Page: 3(1)

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Macy grew up unwanted, unloved, and alone. By his teens he had quit school and begun stealing. In and out of juvie, Macy is a shoplifter, a car thief, and, by age eighteen, a murderer.

Danny grew up physically disabled, raised by his grandmother, and a loner. Now sixteen, he finds solace in taking photographs, particularly of monarch butterflies, and thinking about Leah, the most beautiful girl in town.

It is Leah who unwittingly causes these two very different boys, who share some startling similarities, to meet in a first and final terrifying encounter.

The outcome of this hard-hitting and spellbinding novel from an exciting new author will rivet readers and leave them thinking about nature, nurture, justice, and the remarkable power of human kindness. ... Read more

Customer Reviews (8)

Stereotype characters in a stereotypical conflict
I was surprised that this book was so bad since it was on the eighth grade AP English reading list.It has a soulless monster created by his environment; a beautiful, rich, and nice girl; the dumb, mean high school jock; hardworking Hispanic parents whose lives are centered around their beautiful and smart daughter who is (of course) murdered; and the poor,ugly, handicapped but very sensitive guy as main characters.I'm sure you can figure out the plot just based on the characters since it is as obvious as they are.The ending tried to start a discussion about the death penalty but with these cardboard caricatures, I don't see how anyone could get involved in the issue.I don't recommend this book for anyone - reading is supposed to be interesting.

Page-turner, yet empty
This book keeps you reading at warp speed to see how Macy turns out and what other trouble he can possibly get into.However, the writing was simple, lacking description, at times unconnected, and choppy.Often times, there should have been detail added and more reason given for putting something into the plot (i.e. many of the "gold nuggets" sections).It felt like there were parts missing.This is not a great piece of literature, but it is a can't-put-down story.It would be good for reluctant readers.

Teenage serial killer
The lives of six teens converge one Sunday morning on hill in Shiloh. One is shot dead. This is the gripping tale of the events leading up to that disastrous day.

Macy is 18 -- and a serial killer. But he wasn't born to kill. The reader is introduced to an innocent toddler, raised by an abusive mother who left him alone outside in the rain for hours, tied by the ankle to an old swing set. Then she came home drunk. By the end of middle school, he was sent to juvie for stealing. When he got out, he stole a car and was sent back. For Macy, the food, accommodations, and attention at juvie were more than he ever got at home. As a rebellious teen, he bought a gun and killed store clerk, Mohammed Aziz. And got away with it. That's how the killing started. After spending a year in prison for attempted robbery, he steals a car, buys a gun and heads off on a killing spree that winds up in Shiloh.

Danny is a disabled 16 year-old who lives with his grandmother. He loves monarch butterflies and Leah, the most beautiful girl in Shiloh. He works at The Store with her younger sister, Sally. Leah's boyfriend, Chad is the star athlete and he hates Danny. The Saturday afternoon Macy drives into town, he sees Leah jogging. He chooses her for his next victim and abducts her. In the search for her, the six teens end up on the hill that Sunday morning. One is a killer, one is a victim, and everyone's life changes forever.

Told in a third-person, easy-to-read, almost journalistic style, the narrative flits -- like a monarch -- in and out of the lives of the people who cross paths with Macy, those he victimizes and those who victimize him. "Shooting Monarchs" is an excellent teaching aid for any class or discussion about justice or social issues. In the end the reader must decide Macy's fate. Does he deserve the death penalty?

No easy answers
Just like real life, there are no easy answers found in "Shooting Monarchs". While one or two characters may seem cliche, the message of the book is that people are a complex blend of their environment and their determination. It is an excellent book for sparking debate on the death penalty. Should someone who has committed murder be forgiven if he is the victim of horrific abuse that has rendered him insane? Again, there are no easy answers.

Disappointing, but still OK
Although Shooting Monarchs takes a different approach to making teens think about what they read (on capital punishment and the judicial system), I would prefer a book with some nice closure.

I found it difficult to care about Macy, the main character, when all I had was contempt for him. The other characters were almost likeable, but it felt like something was missing.

The sentence structure of this book seemed simplistic and undeveloped. I wouldn't recommend it to people looking for a fun or exciting read. ... Read more