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- Critical links : learning in the arts and student academic and social development / by Deasy, Richard.(CARDINAL)292814; Catterall, James S.(CARDINAL)292813; Hetland, Lois,1953-(CARDINAL)287264; Winner, Ellen.(CARDINAL)292812; Arts Education Partnership (U.S.)(CARDINAL)292811;
Includes bibliographical references.[Part 1.] Dance -- Teaching cognitive skill through dance: evidence for near but not far transfer -- The effects of creative dance instruction on creative and critical thinking of seventh grade female students in Seoul, Korea -- Effects of movement poetry program on creativity of children with behavioral disorders -- Assessment of high school students' creative thinking skills: a comparison of the effects of dance and non-dance classes -- The impact of Whirlwind's Basic Reading Through Dance program on first grade students' basic reading skills: study II -- Art and community: creating knowledge through service in dance -- Motor imagery and athletic expertise: exploring the role of imagery in kinesthetic intelligence -- Informing and reforming dance education research -- [Part 2.] Drama -- The effects of creative drama on the social and oral language skills of children with learning disabilities -- The effectiveness of creative drama as an instructional strategy to enhance the reading comprehension skills of fifth-grade remedial readers -- Role of imaginative play in cognitive development -- A naturalistic study of the relationship between literacy development and dramatic play in five-year-old children -- An exploration into the writing of original scripts by inner-city high school drama students -- A poetic/dramatic approach to facilitate oral communication -- Drama and drawing for narrative writing in primary grades -- Children's story comprehension as a result of storytelling and story dramatization: a study of the child as spectator and as participant -- The impact of Whirlwind's Reading Comprehension Through Drama program on 4th grade students' reading skills and standardized test scores -- The effects of thematic-fantasy play training on the development of children's story comprehension -- Symbolic functioning and children's early writing: relations between kindergarteners' play and isolated word writing fluency -- Identifying causal elements in the thematic-fantasy play paradigm -- The effect of dramatic play on children's generation of cohesive text -- Strengthening verbal skills through the use of classroom drama: a clear link -- "Stand and unfold yourself": a monograph on the Shakespeare & Company research study -- Nadie papers no. 1, drama, language, and learning: reports of the Drama and Language Research Project, Speech and Drama Center, Education Department of Tasmania -- The effects of role playing on written persuasion: an age and channel comparison of fourth and eighth graders -- "You can't be Grandma, you're a boy": events within the thematic fantasy play context that contribute to story comprehension -- The flight of reading: shifts in instruction, orchestration, and attitudes through classroom theatre -- Research on drama and theater in education -- [Part 3]. Multi-Arts -- Using art processes to enhance academic self-regulation -- Learning in and through the arts: the question of transfer -- Involvement in the arts and success in secondary school -- Involvement in the arts and human development: extending an analysis of general associations and introducing the special cases of intensive involvement in music and in theatre arts -- Chicago Arts Partnerships in Education (CAPE): evaluation summary -- The role of the fine and performing arts in high school dropout prevention -- Arts education secondary schools: effects and effectiveness -- Living the arts through language and learning: a report on community-based youth organizations -- Do extracurricular activities protect against early school dropout? -- Does studying the arts engender creative thinking?: evidence for near but not far transfer -- The arts and education reform: lessons from a four-year evaluation of the A+ Schools Program, 1995-1999 -- Placing A+ in a national context: a comparison to promising practices for comprehensive school reform -- The A+ Schools Program: school, community, teacher, and student effects -- The Arts In the Basic Curriculum Project: looking at the past and preparing for the future -- Mute those claims: no evidence (yet) for a causal link between arts study and academic achievement -- Why the arts matter in education, or Just what do children learn when they create an opera? -- SAT scores of students who study the arts: what we can and cannot conclude about the association -- Promising signs of positive effects: lessons from multi-arts studies -- [Part 4.] Music -- Effects of an integrated reading and music instructional approach on fifth-grade students' reading achievement, reading attitude, music achievement, and music attitude -- The effect of early music training on child cognitive development -- Can music be used to teach reading? -- The effects of three years of piano instruction on children's cognitive development -- Enhanced learning of proportional math through music training and spatial-temporal training -- The effects of background music on studying -- Learning to make music enhances spatial reasoning -- Listening to music enhances spatial-temporal reasoning: evidence for the "Mozart effect" -- An investigation of the effects of music on two emotionally disturbed students' writing motivations and writing skills -- The effects of musical performance, rational emotive therapy and vicarious experience on the self-efficacy and self-esteem of juvenile delinquents and disadvantaged children -- The effect of the incorporation of music learning into the second-language classroom on the mutual reinforcement of music and language -- Music training causes long-term enhancement of preschool children's spatial-temporal reasoning -- Classroom keyboard instruction improves kindergarten children's spatial-temporal performance: a field experiment -- A meta-analysis on the effects of music as reinforcement for education/therapy objectives -- Music and mathematics: modest support for the oft-claimed relationship -- An overview of research on music and learning -- [Part 5.] Visual arts -- Instruction in visual art: can it help children learn to read? -- The arts, language, and knowing: an experimental study of the potential of the visual arts for assessing academic learning by language minority students -- Investigating the educational impact and potential of the Museum of Modern Art's visual thinking curriculum: final report -- Reading is seeing: using visual response to improve the literary reading of reluctant readers -- Reflections on visual arts education studies -- [Part 6.] Overview -- The arts and the transfer of learning.- Subjects: Arts; Art; Academic achievement.; Cognition.;
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- The 36-hour day : a family guide to caring for people with Alzheimer disease, other dementias, and memory loss in later life / by Mace, Nancy L.(CARDINAL)341698; Rabins, Peter V.(CARDINAL)341701;
1. Dementia -- What is dementia? -- The person with dementia -- Where do you go from here? -- 2. Getting medical help for the person with dementia -- The evaluation of the person with a suspected dementia -- Finding someone to do an evaluation -- The medical treatment and management of dementia -- The physician -- The nurse -- The social worker -- The geriatric care manager -- The pharmacist -- 3. Characteristic behavioral symptoms of dementia -- The brain, behavior, and personality : why people with dementia do the things they do -- Caregiving : some general suggestions -- Memory problems -- Overreacting, or catastrophic reactions -- Combativeness -- Problems with speech and communication -- Problems the person with dementia has in making himself understood -- Problems the person with dementia has in understanding others -- Loss of coordination -- Loss of sense of time -- Symptoms that are better sometimes and worse at other times -- 4. Problems in independent living -- Mild cognitive impairment -- When a person must give up a job -- When a person can no longer manage money -- When a person can no longer drive safely -- When a person can no longer live alone -- When you suspect that someone living alone is getting confused -- What you can do -- Moving to a new residence --5. Problems arising in daily care -- Hazards to watch for -- In the house -- Outdoors -- In the car -- Highways and parking lots -- Smoking -- Hunting -- Nutrition and mealtimes -- Meal preparation -- Mealtimes -- Problem eating behaviors -- Malnutrition -- Weight loss -- Choking -- When to consider tube feeding -- Exercise -- Recreation -- Meaningful activity -- Personal hygiene -- Bathing -- Locating care supplies -- Dressing -- Grooming -- Oral hygiene -- Incontinence (wetting or soiling) -- Urinary incontinence -- Bowel incontinence -- Cleaning up -- Problems with walking and balance ; falling -- Becoming chairbound or bedbound -- Wheelchairs -- Changes you can make at home -- Should environments be cluttered or bare? -- 6. Medical problems -- Pain -- Falls and injuries -- Pressure sores -- Dehydration -- Pneumonia -- Constipation -- Medications -- Dental problems -- Vision problems -- Hearing problems -- Dizziness -- Visiting the doctor -- If the ill person must enter the hospital -- Seizures, fits, or convulsions -- Jerking movements (myoclonus) -- The death of the person with dementia -- The cause of death -- Dying at home -- Hospice -- Dying in the hospital or nursing home -- When should treatment end? -- What kind of care can be given at the end of life? --7. Behavioral symptoms of dementia -- The six R's of behavior management -- Concealing memory loss -- Wandering -- Reasons why people wander -- The management of wandering -- Sleep disturbances and night wandering -- Worsening in the evening ("sundowning") -- Losing, hoarding, or hiding things -- Rummaging in drawers and closets -- Inappropriate sexual behavior -- Repeating the question -- Repetitious actions -- Distractibility -- Clinging or persistently following you around -- Complaints and insults -- Taking things -- Forgetting telephone calls -- Demands -- Stubbornness and uncooperativeness -- When the person with dementia insults the sitter -- Using medication to manage behavior -- 8. Symptoms that appear as changes in mood -- Depression -- Complaints about health -- Suicide -- Alcohol or drug abuse -- Apathy and listlessness -- Remembering feelings -- Anger and irritability -- Anxiety, nervousness, and restlessness -- False ideas, suspiciousness, paranoia, and hallucinations -- Misinterpretation -- Failure to recognize people or things (agnosia) -- "You are not my husband" -- "My mother is coming for me" -- Suspiciousness -- Hiding things -- Delusions and hallucinations -- Having nothing to do -- 9. Special arrangements if you become ill -- In the event of your death --10. Getting outside help -- Help from friends and neighbors -- Finding information and services -- Kinds of services -- Having someone come into your home -- Adult day care -- Short-stay residential care -- Planning in advance for home care or day care -- When the person with dementia rejects the care -- Your own feelings about getting respite for yourself -- Locating resources -- Paying for care -- Should respite programs mix people who have different problems? -- Determining the quality of services -- Research and demonstration programs -- 11. You and the person with dementia as parts of a family -- Changes in roles -- Understanding family conflicts -- Division of responsibility -- Your marriage -- Coping with role changes and family conflict -- A family conference -- When you live out of town -- When you are not the primary caregiver, what can you do to help? -- Caregiving and your job -- Your children -- Teenagers -- 12. How caring for a person with dementia affects you -- Emotional reactions -- Anger -- Embarrassment -- Helplessness -- Guilt -- Laughter, love, and joy -- Grief -- Depression -- Isolation and feeling alone -- Worry -- Being hopeful and being realistic -- Mistreating the person with dementia -- Physical reactions -- Fatigue -- Illness -- Sexuality -- If your spouse is impaired -- If your impaired parent lives with you -- The future -- You as a spouse alone -- When the person you have cared for dies --13. Caring for yourself -- Take time out -- Give yourself a present -- Friends -- Avoid isolation -- Find additional help if you need it -- Recognize the warning signs -- Counseling -- Joining with other families : The Alzheimer's Association -- Support groups -- Excuses -- Advocacy -- 14. For children and teenagers -- 15. Financial and legal issues -- Your Financial assessment -- Potential expenses -- Potential resources -- Where to look for the forgetful person's resources -- Legal matters -- 16. Nursing homes and other living arrangements -- Types of living arrangements -- Moving with the person with dementia -- Finding a nursing home or other residential care setting -- Paying for care -- Guidelines for selecting a nursing home or other residential care facility -- Moving to a nursing home or other residential care facility -- Adjusting to a new life -- Visiting -- Your own adjustment -- When problems occur in the nursing home or other residential care facility -- Sexual issues in nursing homes or other care facilities -- 17. Brain disorders and the causes of dementia -- Dementia -- Dementia associated with alcohol abuse -- Alzheimer disease -- Vascular (multi-infarct) dementia -- Lewy body dementia -- The frontotemporal dementias, including Pick disease -- Depression -- Binswanger disease -- HIV-AIDS -- Other brain disorders -- Delirium -- Senility, chronic organic brain syndrome, acute or reversible organic brain syndromes -- TIA -- Localized brain injuries -- Head injuries (head trauma) -- Anoxia or hypoxia -- Mild Cognitive impairment --18. Research in dementia -- Understanding research -- Bogus cures -- Research in vascular (multi-infarct) dementia and stroke -- Research in Alzheimer disease -- Structural changes in the brain -- Brain cells -- Neurotransmitters -- Abnormal proteins -- Nerve growth factors -- Transplants of brain tissue -- Drug studies -- Metals -- Prions -- Immunological defects -- Head trauma -- Epidemiology -- Down syndrome -- Old Age -- Heredity -- Gender -- Promising clinical and research tools -- Keeping active -- The effect of acute illness on dementia -- Research into the delivery of services -- Protective factors -- Appendix 1. Using the Internet -- Appendix 2. Organizations.- Available copies: 2 / Total copies: 2
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- The 36-hour day [large print] : a family guide to caring for people who have Alzheimer disease, related dementias, and memory loss / by Mace, Nancy L.,author.(CARDINAL)341698; Rabins, Peter V.,author.(CARDINAL)341701;
1. Dementia. What is dementia? -- The person who has dementia -- Where do you go from here? -- 2. Getting medical help for the person who has dementia. The evaluation of the person with a suspected dimentia -- Finding someone to do an evaluation -- The medical treatment and management of dimentia : The physician ; The nurse ; The social worker ; The geriatric care manager ; The pharmacist -- 3. Characteristic behavioral symptoms in people who have dementia. The brain, behavior, and personality: why people who have dementia do the things they do -- Caregiving: some general suggestions -- Menory problems -- Overreacting, or catastrophic reactions -- Combativeness -- Problems with speech and communication : Problems the person with dementia has in making himself understood ; Problems the person with dementia has in understanding others -- Loss of coordination -- Loss of sense of time -- Symptoms that are better sometimes and worse at other times -- 4. Problems in independent living. Mild cognitive impairment : Managing the early stages of dementia -- When a person must give up a job -- when a person can no longer manage money -- When a person can no longer drive safely -- When a person can no longer live alone : When you suspect that someone living alone is developing dementia ; What you can do ; Moving to a new residence -- 5. Problems arising in daily care. Hazards to watch for : In the house ; Outdoors ; In the car ; Highways and parking lots ; Smoking ; Hunting -- Nutrition and mealtimes : Meal preparation ; Mealtimes ; Problem eating behaviors ; Malnutrition ; Weight loss ; Choking ; When to consider tube feeding -- Exercise -- Recreation : Meaningful activity -- Personal hygiene : Bathing ; Locating care supplies ; Dressing ; Grooming ; Oral hygiene -- Incontinence (wetting or soiling) : Urinary incontinence ; Bowel incontinence ; Cleaning up -- Problems with walking and balance; falling : Becoming chairbound or bedfast ; Wheelchairs -- Changes you can make at home : Should environments be cluttered or bare?11. You and the person who has dementia as parts of a family. Changes in roles -- Understanding family conflicts : Division of responsibility -- Your marriage -- Coping with role changes and family conflict : A family conference -- When you live out of town -- When you are not the primary caregiver, what can you do to help? -- Caregiving and your job -- Your children : Teenagers -- 12. How caring for a person who has dementia affects you. Emotional reactions : Anger ; Embarrassment ; Helplessness ; Guilt ; Laughter, love, and joy -- Grief -- Depression -- Isolation and feeling alone -- Worry -- Being hopeful and being realistic -- Mistreating the person with dementia -- Physical reactions : Fatigue ; Illness -- Sexuality : If your spouse has dementia ; If your impaired parent lives with you -- The future : You as a spouse alone -- When the person you have cared for dies -- 13. Caring for yourself. Take time out : Give yourself a present ; Friends ; Avoid isolation -- Find additional help if you need it : Recognize the warning signs ; Counseling -- Joining with other families: the Alzheimer's Association : Support groups ; Excuses -- Advocacy -- 14. For children and teenagers -- 15. Financial and legal issues : Your financial assessment : Potential expenses ; Potential resources -- Where to look for the forgetful person's resources -- Legal matters.16. Nursing homes and other living arrangements. Types of living arrangements -- Moving with the person who has dementia -- Finding a nursing home or other residential care setting : Paying for care ; Guidelines for selecting a nursing home or other residential care facility -- Moving to a nursing home or other residential care facility -- Adjusting to a new life : Visiting ; Your own adjustment -- When problems occur in the nursing home or other residential care facility -- Sexual issues in nursing homes or other care facilities -- 17. Preventing or delaying cognitive decline. Normal changes : General mental and physical health -- Lifestyle factors : Physical exercise ; Diet -- Potential treatments and cures ; Mental exercise ; Medications and vitamins -- Limiting exposure to toxic chemicals : Aluminum -- Head injury -- 18. Brain disorders and the causes of dementia. Mild cognitive impairment -- Dementia : Alcohol abuse associated dementia ; Alzheimer disease ; Cortical basal ganglionic degeneration ; Depression ; The frontotemporal dementias ; HIV-AIDS ; Lewy body dementia ; Primary progressive aphasia ; Progressive supranuclear palsy ; Traumatic brain injury (TBI or head trauma) ; Vascular dementia ; Young or early onset dementia -- Other brain disorders : Delirium ; Korsakoff syndrome ; Stroke and other localized brain injury ; Transient ischemic attack -- 19. Research in dementia. Understanding research : Bogus cures -- Research in vascular dementia and stroke -- Research in Alzheimer disease : Structural changes in the brain ; Brain cells ; Neuroplasticity ; Neurotransmitters ; Abnormal proteins ; Protein abnormalities within brain cells ; Nerve growth factors ; Transplants of brain tissue ; Drug studies ; Metals ; Prions ; Immunological defects ; Head trauma -- Epidemiology -- Down syndrome -- Old age -- Heredity -- Gender -- Neuropsychological testing -- Brain imaging -- Keeping active -- The effect of acute illness on dementia -- Research into the delivery of services -- Protective factors -- Appendixes. 1. Using the Internet ; 2. Organizations.6. Medical problems. Pain -- Falls and injuries -- Pressure sores -- Dehydration -- Pneumonia -- Constipation -- Medications -- Dental problems -- Vision problems -- Hearing problems -- Dizziness -- Visiting the doctor -- If the ill person must enter the hospital -- Seizures, fits, or convulsions -- Jerking movements (myoclonus) -- The death of the person with dementia : The cause of death ; Dying at home ; Hospice ; Dying in the hospital or nursing home ; When should treatment end? ; What kind of care can be given at the end of life? -- 7. Behavioral symptoms of dementia. The six R's of behavior management -- Concealing memory loss -- Wandering : Reasons that people wander ; The management of wandering -- Sleep disturbances and night wandering -- Worsening in the evening ("sundowning") -- Losing, hoarding, or hiding things -- Rummaging in drawers and closets -- Inappropriate sexual behavior -- Repeating the question -- Repetitious actions -- Distractibility -- Clinging or persistently following you around ("shadowing") -- Complaints and insults -- Taking things -- Forgetting telephone calls -- Demands -- Stubbornness and uncooperativeness -- When the person with dementia insults the sitter -- Using medication to manage behavior -- 8. Symptoms that appear as changes in mood. Depression -- Complaints about health -- Suicide -- Alcohol or drug abuse -- Apathy and listlessness -- Remembering feelings -- Anger and irritability -- Anxiety, nervousness, and restlessness -- False ideas, suspiciousness, paranoia, and hallucinations : Misinterpretation ; Failure to recognize people or things (agnosia) ; "You are not my husband" ; "My mother is coming for me" ; Suspiciousness ; Hiding things ; Delusions and hallucinations -- Having nothing to do -- 9. Special arrangements if you become ill. In the event of your death -- 10. Getting outside help. Help from friends and neighbors -- Finding information and services -- Kinds of services : Having someone come into your home ; Adult day care ; Short-stay residential care -- Planning in advance for home care or day care -- When the person with dementia rejects the care -- Your own feelings about getting respite for yourself -- Locating resources -- Paying for care -- Should respite programs mix people who have different problems? -- Determining the quality of services -- Research and demonstration programs.Dementia -- Getting medical help for the person who has dementia -- Characteristic behavioral symptoms in people who have dementia -- Problems in independent living -- Problems arising in daily care -- Medical problems -- Behavioral symptoms of dementia -- Symptoms that appear as changes in mood -- Special arrangements if you become ill -- Getting outside help -- You and the person who has dementia as parts of a family -- How caring for a person who has dementia affects you -- Caring for yourself -- For children and teenagers -- Financial and legal issues -- Nursing homes and other living arrangements -- Preventing or delaying cognitive decline -- Brain disorders and the causes of dementia -- Research in dementia.- Subjects: Large print books.; Alzheimer's disease; Senile dementia;
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- How to care for aging parents : a complete guide / by Morris, Virginia.;
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- Subjects: Handbooks and manuals.; Aging parents; Aging parents;
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