A THENCE Publication
A THENCE Publication
By Michelle A. Duffy, Literacy Instruction for Students with Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities is shared under a CC BY-NC-SA license and was authored, remixed, and/or curated by Kristen A. Munger (OpenSUNY) Abstract This chapter addresses…
Learning Objectives: By the end of this section, you will be able to:
Identify and avoid problematic language choices related to disability.
Articulate why word choices in general should be deliberate and considered.
New Jersey Public Schools recognize many days in the month of October, and you can see the List of Religious Holidays Permitting Pupil Absence From School here however, the high…
This year International Literacy Day fell on a Sunday, and we celebrated at home with… you guessed it… books! International Literacy Day is important to me because I think about…
Instructional Strategies, Teacher Education, Teaching Science in Rural Aboriginal and Urban Multicultural Schools by Gloria Snively and Wanosts’a7 Lorna Williams is shared under a CC BY-NC-SA license and was authored, remixed, and/or…
Are you in the market for more children’s books that carry meaningful stories and introduce the children in your care to new concepts, ideas, people and situations that make them…
Two of our wonderful THENCE collaborators have deep personal ties to the Deaf and hard of hearing community and so we led a conversation about topics important to them this…
Let’s discuss book curation, classroom pedagogy, and children’s literature from some of the most amazing women voices this Women’s History Month. Here we highlight amazing female scholars, Louise Derman-Sparks, Rudine…
One of the first things that Louise Derman-Sparks asked library curators to watch out for is books containing stereotypes which are unfair mischaracterizations and generalizations about a group. These two…
Look closely at popular contemporary media, cartoons and many made for TV shows for our youngest viewers. Have you noticed that many shows feature four to six young heroes, all…
