Thanks to a generous grant received in January 2005 from Autism Advocates of

Indiana, The God Made Me Ministry at Church at the Crossing is pleased to offer
families and volunteers serving children with Special Needs this resource library.

Software Titles Available: System requirements for all software titles are: Windows PC
with 133 MHz processor and CD-ROM drive; Windows 95, 98, ME, or XP; 64 MB RAM; and
250 MB free hard drive space.

Boardmaker for Windows: Mayer-Johnson: An incredibly flexible and powerful tool to

create and print symbol-based materials. Boardmaker is a communication and learning
tool containing over 3,000 Picture Communication Symbols (PCS). It was designed by the
staff at Erinoak of Mississauga, Ontario, Canada to enhance the language and learning
process for students of all levels. This graphic database is a great tool for educators and
speech and language pathologists. It also is a great aid to parents supporting Picture
Exchange Communication (PECS) in the home. It includes over 100 templates for creating
schedules, worksheets, custom-made games and activities, and much more.

Boardmaker Symbol Addendum Library Bundle: Mayer-Johnson: Bundle includes

addendums for 1998, 2000, 2002, and 2004 including unique symbols not found in the core
Boardmaker or Writing With Symbols Libraries, many of which were requested specifically
by users. These addendum libraries are translated into all 40 languages included in
Boardmaker and contain a printed picture index. The four addendums include over 4,000
additional symbols covering U.S. states, animals, history, entertainment, public signs,
country symbols, country flags, bathroom skills, behavioral problems, science categories,
behavior, food, health, school and grooming categories.

PCS Sign Language Library Bundle: Three volumes of sign language symbols by Sally
Long are available to add to Writing With Symbols and Boardmaker. Each volume
includes: 1. an American Sign Language library (ASL), a Signed Exact English library
(SEE), and a combination SEE/ASL library, 2. ethnic/gender selections for many symbols
and tow skin-tone libraries (light and dark), 3. a set of the sign language libraries in
metafile format that can be used with Writing with symbols, and 4. a picture index.
Make-A-Face Library: Design your own faces, people, emotions, characters, and more!
This entertaining library of facial features allows you to quickly and easily create
personalized faces and store them with your other Boardmaker symbols. Make a symbol for
each person in the class, the characters in a story, or create one from you imaginations.
Anyone can be "symbolized" with this library of facial components. Select from the
following features: 5 skin tones, 8 hair colors, 170 hairstyles, 11 face shapes, 50 eye shapes,
50 mouth shapes, plus noses, necks, hats, sunglasses and more!

AAC Devices Available:

Go Talk 9+: The GoTalk Series of devices are lightweight, portable and durable
communicators, which are ideal for taking into the community. They are easy to record and
have good voice quality with adjustable volume control. The also feature record and level-
lock. GoTalk 9+ features include: a 23 oz. weight, 15 minutes of memory, new core message
section with 5 keys at 17 seconds each, and 20 message keys with 5 levels at 18 seconds
each. It is 9" X 12" X 1 1/8", including a built-in handle. Overlays slide in and out and may
be stored inside, runs on two AA batteries.

Book Titles Available:

The Myth of the ADD Child: 50 Ways to Improve Your Child's Behavior and
Attention Span without Drugs, Labels, or Coercion: Thomas Armstrong: Myth of
the ADD. Child is the first book of its kind to squarely challenge the mislabeling of millions
of children as ADD., and to question the overuse of psychoactive drugs in treating children's
hyperactivity. Not long ago, children who behaved in certain ways were called "bundles of
energy," "daydreamers," or "fireballs." Now they're considered "hyperactive," "distractible,"
or "impulsive" - victims of the ubiquitous Attention Deficit Disorder. Tragically, such
labeling can follow a child through life. Worse, the medications prescribed for ADD. may
not only be unnecessary - they could be harmful. With this in mind, Dr. Armstrong provides
fifty innovative, proven, and safe ways to help a child develop lifelong internal controls. His
strategies involve every aspect of a child's development, from education and cognition to
biology and culture. He also includes an easy-to-follow checklist to pinpoint the
interventions that are best suited for a particular child, and hundreds of resources - books
and organizations - that support the fifty strategies. This provocative book offers much
needed practical help to both parents and professionals.

Asperger Syndrome: Teresa Bolick, Ph. D.: Ten-to-eighteen year olds face many
challenges, and adolescents with AS can have special difficulty navigating through the
changes they encounter when they reach middle school. Friends, crushes, schoolwork-the
day-to-day lives of teens present complicated issues. Child psychologist and AS specialist
Teresa Bolick has solutions for overcoming the obstacles kids with AS face. Packed with
practical advice and full of inspiring stories, Asperger Syndrome and Adolescence will be
your guidebook as you help a teen with AS down the path toward happiness and success.
You'll learn effective techniques for raising a self-sufficient, self-confident teen, and will
find inspiration in the dozens of success stories Dr. Bolick shares.

Autism, Now What? The Primer for Parents: Abby Ward Collins and Sibley J.
Collins: This book provides basic information parents need to start advocating for their
children quickly with confidence. It also provides educators a solid understanding of
autism in one quick and easy to understand resource. The authors are parents to a son
with autism and understand on a personal level because the live and work with autism
every day.

Transforming The Difficult Child. The Nurtured Heart Approach: Howard

Glasser, MA and Jennifer Easley, MA: This book describes the nurtured heart
approach which has had astounding results in help challenging children to use their
intensity successfully... without medication. Through his first book, Transforming the
Difficult Child: The Nurtured Heart Approach, Glasser offers advice on accentuating the
positives while setting firm boundaries. The nurtured heart approach is about how to
energize successes.

Special Needs - Special Ministry: Group Publishing: Jesus told us to reach out to
everyone and that includes children with special needs and their families but where do
churches start? Ho can they become a welcome place for families whose children have
special needs? How can you reach this under-served and sometimes, sadly, unwanted
group of God's children? This book is a practical, real-world guide to help laypersons think
through, step-by-step, the strategy, scope and purpose involved in developing a special
needs ministry. With this book, churches will be prepared to build, launch, expand, or
deepen a ministry to those with special needs.

Caring for a Child with Autism. A Practical Guide for Parents: Martine Ives and
Nell Munro: A comprehensive and readable guide answers the questions commonly asked
by parents and caregivers following a diagnosis of autism, and discusses the challenges that
can arise in home life, education and socializing. The authors cover a wide variety of
therapies and approaches to autism, providing clear, unbiased information so that families
will be able to evaluate different options for themselves. Throughout, the emphasis is on
home and family life, and the everyday difficulties encountered by families of autistic
children. Caring for a Child with Autism is an informative handbook written in association
with the National Autistic Society, written for parents with a recently diagnosed autistic
child. This is a thorough introduction to autistic spectrum disorders, to be consulted time
and time again as new questions arise.

It's So Much Work to Be Your Friend: Helping Children with Learning

Disabilities Find Social Success: Richard Lavoie: Children with learning disabilities
are socially out of step with their peers and often teased because of their differences. This
groundbreaking book provides practical, expert advice to help learning-disabled children
ages six to 17 achieve social success. Lavoie, who has taught children with learning
disabilities for over 30 years and has appeared in three PBS videos, discusses social issues
common to children with ADD, attention disorders, anxiety, and visual spatial disorders.
Then he provides proven methods to help these children through almost any social
situation, including overcoming shyness and low self-esteem and adjusting to new
situations. The intensity with which these children long for friends and acceptance, the
exasperation they cause in others, the joy they feel in social connection, and the author's
compassion are clearly evident throughout.

Widening the Circle: Including Children with Disabilities in Preschool Programs:

Samuel L. Odom: In this book, a distinguished group of early childhood special educators
and researchers explores the barriers to and influences on inclusive education setting for
young children. The chapters cover such timely topics as individualized instruction, social
relationships of children with disabilities, collaborative relationships among adults, family
perceptions of inclusion, classroom ecology and child participation, community
participations, social policy, and cultural and linguistic diversity. Expert contributors,
addressing each of these topics, draw useful implications for practitioners - providing
helpful suggestions for modifying activities, materials, environmental supports, and
teaching strategies. Based on a groundbreaking 5-year research study conducted by the
Early Childhood Research Institute on Inclusion, this book is a must read for all
professionals working in inclusive settings.

Right-Brained Children in a Left-Brained World: Unlocking the Potential of Your

ADD Child: Laurie Parsons: Requiring only ten minutes a day, the program revealed in
this groundbreaking book provides an effective, step-by-step method for helping children
with Attention Deficit Disorder develop their special skills and individual learning styles
and excel in a classroom setting.

Exceptional Teaching. A Comprehensive Guide for Including Students with

Disabilities: Jim Pierson: "Of course these children are able to learn. The only question
is, are we able to teach?" -Jim Pierson. Helping children with special needs reach their full
potential has been the lifework of Jim Pierson. In exceptional teaching, he shares his
knowledge so that others can become exceptional teachers. Since a national count began in
1976, the number of students in special education has grown by 51 percent, to a total of 11
percent of the public school population. With the right information and with administrative
support, Pierson asserts that the needs of children with disabilities can be easily met. This
book is a valuable tool aimed at enabling teachers, Pierson explains the characteristics of
seventy-seven diagnoses so that teachers can identify the challenges, learn how to approach
that child, know what teaching and discipline methods work best, and understand what can
be expected for that child to accomplish.

No Disabled Souls. How to Welcome People with Disabilities into Your Life and
Your Church: Jim Pierson: A very personal book, Jim Pierson relates the stories of 14
different individuals with disabilities and explains how each of these has enriched his own
life.
Children with Autism. A Parents' Guide: Michael D. Powers Psy. D.: When
parents learn that their child has autism, they often feel helpless and bewildered. Their
child appears to live in an isolated, almost impenetrable world which may seem impossible
to bridge. To understand autism and overcome their fears, parents need both information
and hope. Recommended as the first book on autism that parents and family should read,
Children With Autism covers areas that are of special concern to parents. By providing up-
to-date information about autism, this comprehensive book will ease the fears and concerns
of many parents struggling to understand and cope with their child's disorder.

What's Wrong with Timmy?: Maria Shriver: Young Kate (now eight years old) and her
mother, who first appeared in What's Heaven? return in this companion volume as Kate
questions her mother about Timmy, a boy at the park who is mentally disabled and looks
and acts differently from the other kids. Once again, journalist Shriver uses the narrative
to model a difficult conversation between parent and child. In a calm tone Kate's mother
delivers information, insight rooted in her Christian faith ("We all have to realize that God
loves us just as we are") and anecdotes about children with disabilities and why it's "so
important to treat Timmy like any other kid." Kate's uneasiness and curiosity allayed, she
begins to build a friendship with Timmy and subtly invites her other pals to be equally
accepting of him.

Upside-Down Brilliance: The Visual Spatial Learner: Linda Kreger Silverman:

This is a fascinating book that parents and all educators should read. The author includes
descriptions of different types of learners and offers suggestions and strategies for visual-
spatial learners, as well as, parents and teachers.

Delicate Threads. Friendships between Children with and without Special Needs
in Inclusive Settings: Debbie Staub Ph. D.: This book provides an insider's view of the
social lives of children with and without disabilities. It successfully weaves the voices of
children with critical information from the developmental literature. It reveals
characteristics and patterns of these complex relationships and provides useful suggestions
for families, teachers, and others interested in supporting children's relationships.

Disability Awareness. 24 Lessons for the Inclusive Classroom: Kimberly A.

Williams: This book presents many lesson plans for teaching regular education students
about students with special needs. The author explains how to establish a peer support
program and provides lesson plans covering a wide variety of topics. Inclusion at its best!

Wrightslaw: From Emotions to Advocacy: The Special Education Survival Guide:

Pam and Pete Wright: In this book, Pam and Pete Wright teach how to plan, prepare,
organize and get quality special education services. This practical, user-friendly book
includes hundreds of strategies, tips, references, warnings, and Internet resources. Use the
appendices to find contact information for hundreds of disabilities information groups,
parent training and information groups, state departments of education, and legal and
advocacy organizations.

Wrightslaw: Special Education Law: Pam and Pete Wright: An invaluable resource
for parents, advocates, educators, and attorneys. Never again will parents have to go to
IEP meetings, mediation or due process without being fully informed and prepared. This
book includes actual text of the laws and regulations along with The Wright's insightful
and succinct explanations, observations, and guidance.