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The Heath and Wellness Program: A Parenting Curriculum for Families at Risk by Alexander Tymchuk

Prevention: The Science and Art of Promoting Healthy Child and Adolescent Development, edited by John Borkowski & Chelsea Weaver

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We know what it takes to raise socially and emotionally healthy children, but how do we get the word out to parents who are struggling? Try the Pathways to Competence for Young Children parenting program, which breaks the principles down into steps parents can understand (and manage!).

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10 Steps to Parenting Competence

You may already be familiar with Sarah Landy's highly regarded text Pathways to Competence. Now, a corresponding manual shows professionals how to help parents take an active role in guiding their children's social and emotional development.

The parenting program comes complete with 140 parent handouts (on a CD-ROM you can copy from again and again), a quick explanation of the research behind the practices, and group discussion prompts that encourage parents to recognize the influence of their own early family life.

See how the program works.

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Sign up for our webinar on group assessments

Don't miss our free webinar on "How to Conduct an Assessment on Multiple Children," on Thursday, November 2, at 2 pm ET.

Jennifer Grisham-Brown, author of Blended Practices for Teaching Young Children in Inclusive Settings and director of the Early Childhood Laboratory School at the University of Kentucky, will offer tips on ways to efficiently conduct group assessments. Plus, she'll talk about the time-saving benefits of the new assessment activities available to AEPSi subscribers (see the AEPSi announcement below).

We will also be hearing from C.J. Thomas, an educational psychologist with the University of Washington, who will share his experience conducting play-based assessments for children with autism.

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Learn about "Recognition and Response" for young children at risk of LD

Virginia Buysse, author of Consultation in Early Childhood Settings, is joining Mary Ruth Coleman in an online chat for the National Center for Learning Disabilities on October 24 at 3 pm ET. Dr. Buysse and Dr. Coleman, both of the FPG Child Development Institute, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, will discuss "Recognition and Response," an early intervention system for children in pre-K who may be at risk for learning disabilities.

According to LDtalk.org, "recognition" refers to the methods used to recognize young children who exhibit early learning difficulties, and "response" refers to the ways teachers and parents respond to children with LD as well as the ways in which children respond to specific interventions. (For a full overview of this emerging approach, don't miss NCLD's newly unveiled web site.)

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Sign up for a free 30-day trial of AEPSi™!

We're pleased to announce the official launch of AEPSinteractive™ (AEPSi), our new web-based version of AEPS, at this week's DEC conference. If you're in Little Rock, stop by our booth (#42-#45) for a live demo or just sign up for a free trial now.

If you didn't make it to DEC but want to keep up on what's happening with AEPSi, we invite you to sign up for our AEPS newsletter. You'll get the latest updates on which states can use AEPS to determine eligibility, which state learning standards AEPS has been aligned to, and profiles of programs using AEPS.

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