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  Excerpt from  Choice and Structure for Children with Autism  (McNeil) -  Chapter 1 Some Simple Strategies Some Simple Strategies I would like to offer some simple strategies that could be helpful. Don’t worry! I am not going to attempt to teach you how to make your home a strict Applied Behavioral Analysis (ABA) program. I simply hope to offer some ideas to organize your day and offer a better outcome than the dismal portrait described above. These strategies will assist parents in developing simple and safe routines and choices that will make long days at home more engaging, cooperative, and positively stimulating for children with autism, their parents and siblings.   Ideas that will help decrease boredom, protesting, and isolation, while increasing, engagement, interaction, and cooperation will be shared throughout this book. The chapters will have relatable life stories included. These stories will demonstrate the chapter topic and provide a foundation for a discussion of the inf

  Today's publisher's pride is  RV Oopsies   by Larry MacDonald, which reached #125 on Amazon's bestseller list for travel humor. (This book has been in the Amazon top 100 several times.) Book Description: Every year thousands of RVers hit the road for fun and adventure, but RVing has built in misadventures-backing into a tree, bending a jack stand, and more-spoiling an otherwise perfect outing. For the past ten years, the author has asked RVers the same question: "What's the dumbest thing you've done while RVing?" Each year, he has given an award for the dumbest mishap. In this funny and helpful handbook, 101 of these mishaps come together so the reader can learn from other people's mistakes, saving them unnecessary grief and cash. - Always use a spotter when entering or departing a campsite. - Do a walk-around inspection before moving your rig. - Never flush out your blackwater tank after dressing for church. Practical and comical, this a great read

Excerpt from  Think Yourself into Becoming a Language Learning Super Star Doing Well on Classroom Tests Classroom Tests The better you know the language, the better you will do on the test. Period. It does not really matter what type of test it is. Classroom tests can take many different shapes. Most, though, they will usually fit into one of three types of tests: achievement, prochievement (pro-achievement), or proficiency. Each has a format; each has a content. These differ somewhat among the test types.   Achievement tests Achievement tests are a check of your knowledge. They may try also to test your language skills, but generally that can only be accomplished by a proficiency test. Format of achievement tests The format of an achievement test takes a limited number of forms. Sometimes the forms are combined. The test might have multiple choice answer, fill=ins, or matching items. Sometimes, they will have questions requiring short answers, but all the short answers must be the sam