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Home Extension Design

Home Extension Design

This book is a practical guide for homeowners with checklists and guidance on how to make their project successful. Most people considering a significant alteration to their home have no experience or knowledge of the process that has to be followed to make their project successful and the consequences of things going wrong are serious. As with the first edition this fully-revised guide distils all of the practical information needed to run a project from dream to reality highlighting the pitfalls along the way and suggesting ways to avoid them. Peppered with inspirational case studies and giving indications of costs and timescales Home Extension Design 2e demystifies both the building process and all the surrounding issues to do with design sustainability budgeting planning regulations and the use of building contracts. This book is the essential go-to resource for reliable independent advice on how to set up and run a building project.

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Transforming Early Head Start Home Visiting A Family Life Education Approach

Transforming Early Head Start Home Visiting A Family Life Education Approach

Research on home visiting shows that Early Head Start (EHS) home-based programs benefit from additional training and resources that streamline philosophy and content. In this essential guide Walsh and Mortensen propose that alignment with Family Life Education’s (FLE) strengths-based methodology results in greater consistency through a model of prevention education and collaboration with families. This text is the first to outline linkages between FLE and EHS home visiting. It explores a qualitative study of FLE integrated in a current EHS home-based program and application of FLE methodology to home visiting topics. This approach will influence professional practice and provide a foundation for developing evidence-based home visiting practices. Online content accompanies the text with videos demonstrating the FLE approach in action and discussion questions to encourage engagement with and understanding of the core material. Transforming Early Head Start Home Visiting: A Family Life Education Approach is essential reading for upper-level undergraduate and masters students in family studies and early childhood education as well as practitioners working with children and families. | Transforming Early Head Start Home Visiting A Family Life Education Approach

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Blood and Home in Early Modern Drama Domestic Identity on the Renaissance Stage

Blood and Home in Early Modern Drama Domestic Identity on the Renaissance Stage

In this volume the author argues that blood was crucially a means by which dramatists negotiated shifting contours of domesticity in 16th and 17th century England. Early modern English drama vividly addressed contemporary debates over an expanding idea of the domestic which encompassed the domus as well as sex parenthood household order the relationship between home and state and the connections between family honor and national identity. The author contends that the domestic ideology expressed by theatrical depictions of marriage and household order is one built on the simultaneous familiarity and violence inherent to blood. The theatrical relation between blood and home is far more intricate than the idealized language of the familial bloodline; the home was itself a bloody place with domestic bloodstains signifying a range of experiences including religious worship sex murder birth healing and holy justice. Focusing on four bleeding figures—the Bleeding Bride Bleeding Husband Bleeding Child and Bleeding Patient—the author argues that the household blood of the early modern stage not only expressed the violence and conflict occasioned by domestic ideology but also established the home as a site that alternately reified and challenged patriarchal authority. | Blood and Home in Early Modern Drama Domestic Identity on the Renaissance Stage

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Design for Dementia Living Well at Home

Design for Dementia Living Well at Home

Design for Dementia is written by an interdisciplinary team of professionals and academics whose aim is to present lessons learnt from the Dementia Demonstration House at the Building Research Establishment’s Innovation Park. Known as Chris and Sally’s House the project represents a unique opportunity to show in practice what can be done to assist people living with dementia to continue to live at home and as part of the community with as much independence as possible. This book presents evidence based practical design guidance backed up by over 15 combined years of research by experienced professional designers. Beginning with an introduction which provides the background to the global dementia epidemic to allow readers to gain a better understanding of the issues they must consider the book then discusses how good design principles planning and construction standards can be used to effectively respond to the dementia crisis. The detailed findings from research using Chris and Sally’s House are presented and discussed along with practical examples and success stories ranging from simple design features to the more complex use of sensors and automated ventilation. The hope is that readers can apply the lessons learnt from Chris and Sally’s House to successfully integrate solutions into the design of new or refurbished housing for the elderly and also that the tools and insights shared will inform the wider context of good housing design as well as the spectrum of constraints and design standards which often apply. This book is important reading for architects designers engineers and project managers but also anyone with an interest in learning about practical solutions to aid those with dementia to live well at home. | Design for Dementia Living Well at Home

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Self-build How to design and build your own home

Self-build How to design and build your own home

If you’ve ever dreamt of designing and building your own home this book is for you. Becoming a ‘self-builder’ doesn’t necessarily mean learning to build a house physically from scratch. Anyone can be a self-builder – you can do so without ever having to lay a brick yourself. Self-built homes can also be more individual better designed and more economical than buying from a developer. This book is designed for homeowners and self-builders whether aspiring or on the brink of starting a project. It provides a jargon-free step-by-step guide to the process of designing and building your own home distilling all of the practical information needed to make your dream house a reality. Carefully crafted to offer friendly easy-to-understand practical guidance and packed with watch points hints and tips it also highlights the potential pitfalls and suggests ways of avoiding them. Including indications of costs and timescales Self-build demystifies the process of budgeting finding a site gaining planning permission designing your home and all of the surrounding issues to do with sustainability planning regulations procurement and the use of building contracts. Beautifully illustrated with over 230-colour photos diagrams and plans it provides all the inspiration and ideas you need to bring your own project to life. Featured houses include: Amphibious House by Baca Architects Corten Courtyard House by Barefoot Architects Haringey Brick House by Satish Jassal Architects Shawm House by Mawson Kerr Architects Sussex House by Wilkinson King Architects The Pocket House by Tikari Works Architects. | Self-build How to design and build your own home

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Outpatient Nutrition Care: GI Metabolic and Home Nutrition Support Practical Guidelines for Assessment and Management

Outpatient Nutrition Care: GI Metabolic and Home Nutrition Support Practical Guidelines for Assessment and Management

As the number of patients receiving home care nutrition support increases proper assessment and management of this therapy is crucial and clinicians need to practice at an advanced level. This second edition provides practical nutrition care information for professionals working with individuals outside of the hospital including registered dietitians nurses pharmacists and physicians. It covers screening assessing and treating malnutrition; outpatient nutrition care in diabetes cardiovascular disease gastrointestinal disease and home enteral and parenteral nutrition. Each chapter describes the disease process as well as the management of the disease or therapy. Key Features Presents practical information on proper nutrition care of individuals in the outpatient setting and those receiving home nutrition support New information on GI tests and procedures; gastroparesis/pancreatitis parenteral lipids and bariatric surgery Expanded chapter on short bowel syndrome and malabsorptive disorders Additional information on feeding options including an overview of oral oral supplements and enteral and parenteral nutrition Teaches the user additional information on disease processes as well as the management of the disease or therapy | Outpatient Nutrition Care: GI Metabolic and Home Nutrition Support Practical Guidelines for Assessment and Management

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Learning Begins at Home A Study of a Junior School and its Parents

Learning Begins at Home A Study of a Junior School and its Parents

First published in 1968 Learning Begins at Home records an attempt by two researchers to initiate and assess an innovation in a school in a working-class neighbourhood. The influence of parents upon children’s achievement is a platitude of education. The vital question is whether schools can become centres for education for adults as well as children influencing the parents directly and the children indirectly through the parents. The research reported in this book suggests that it would be worthwhile for teachers to give more of their time to cooperation with parents. This book will be of interest to students of education and sociology. | Learning Begins at Home A Study of a Junior School and its Parents

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New Chinese Migrations Mobility Home and Inspirations

New Chinese Migrations Mobility Home and Inspirations

With the rapid economic development of China and the overall shift in the global political economy there is now the emergence of new Chinese on the move. These new Chinese migrants and diasporas are pioneers in the establishment of multiple homes in new geographical locations the development of new (global and hybrid) Chinese identities and the creation of new (political economic and social) inspirations through their mobile lives. This book identifies and examines new forms and paths of Chinese migration since the 1980s. It provides updated trends of migration movements of the Chinese including their emergent geographies. With chapters highlighting the diversities and complexities of these new waves of Chinese migration this volume offers novel insights to enrich our understanding of Asian mobility in the late 20th and early 21st centuries. The book will be of interest to academics examining migration mobility diaspora Chinese identity overseas Chinese studies and Asian diaspora studies. | New Chinese Migrations Mobility Home and Inspirations

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Protracted Displacement in Asia No Place to Call Home

Protracted Displacement in Asia No Place to Call Home

In a protracted displacement situation refugees are sequestered in camps without right of mobility or employment; their lives remain on hold and stagnate in a state of limbo for a long period. This book reviews the situation and results of research and policies that have left refugees as a forgotten group in protracted situations. The work features case studies by experts who conducted field work examining long-term protracted refugee situations in Nepal Thailand and Bangladesh the protracted internally displaced (IDP) situation in Sri Lanka and the refugee and IDP situation in Afghanistan. Also discussed is an emerging protracted refugee and IDP problem in Iraq. The volume concludes with an analysis of the lessons learned and the applications for policy and incorporates a valuable bibliography detailing research in this hugely important area. This is a critical resource for academics and policy makers concerned with migration and governance issues. | Protracted Displacement in Asia No Place to Call Home

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Hydroponic Food Production A Definitive Guidebook for the Advanced Home Gardener and the Commercial Hydroponic Grower

Hydroponic Food Production A Definitive Guidebook for the Advanced Home Gardener and the Commercial Hydroponic Grower

The eighth edition of Hydroponic Food Production: A Definitive Guidebook for the Advanced Home Gardener and the Commercial Hydroponic Grower serves as a comprehensive guide to soilless culture (hydroponics) for hobby and commercial growers. Extensively updated from the seventh edition published in 2013 this bestseller is a methods book to show the reader how to set up a hydroponic operation with the options of using any of many hydroponic cultures presently used in the industry to grow vegetable crops. Written by Dr Howard M. Resh a recognized authority worldwide on hydroponics the book presents detailed information on hydroponic growing systems and features more than 600 photographs (200 in full color) drawings and tables. New to this edition: Presents greenhouse environmental control systems and examples of sustainable greenhouse technology and demonstrates uses of automation and robotics in harvesting grading and packing. Introduces indoor vertical farming and vertical growing systems as well as the expansion of tropical hydroponics and rooftop greenhouses. Provides information on automation in large-scale raft culture and nutrient film technique (NFT) operations in the growing of lettuce leafy greens and herbs. A new chapter 12 discusses control of environmental factors in greenhouses. It covers information on systems to regulate temperature relative humidity carbon dioxide enrichment lighting and fertigation with examples of sustainable greenhouse technology. This chapter demonstrates automation in the regulation of the greenhouse environment to crop production methods with emphasis on robotics in harvesting to transporting grading and packing equipment. The use of retractable roof structures in tropical humid climates is an alternative for growing greenhouse crops. A new chapter 14 describes vertical indoor farming. It presents background information on early vertical greenhouses and sack culture systems to present vertical systems used by greenhouses and existing vertical greenhouses and future concepts. Vertical indoor farming reviews systems of vertical tiers of shelving growing lettuce leafy greens and herbs under LED lighting in large warehouses. The chapter exemplifies automation in these vertical farms with each specific system and it contains information on vertical growing in containers and/or modular units. Chapter 15 contains new information on tropical hydroponics describing hydroponics in Peru. Expansions of rooftop greenhouses with new locations in New York Chicago and Montreal display updated facilities and crops. | Hydroponic Food Production A Definitive Guidebook for the Advanced Home Gardener and the Commercial Hydroponic Grower

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21st Century Houses RIBA Award-Winning Homes

21st Century Houses RIBA Award-Winning Homes

Many people dream of commissioning an architect to design their perfect home. It is a commitment that takes time and money but having a bespoke space built around your specific needs interests and desires can be life-changing. So what makes an award-winning 21st-century house? The Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) has been championing outstanding work for over 180 years and the internationally recognised RIBA awards celebrate the very best in British architecture. The winning houses featured here showcase truly innovative design contemporary materials and techniques and inspired responses to historical and urban settings as well as areas of natural beauty. By working closely with clients every step of the way the architects’ extraordinary buildings redefine what ‘home’ looks like. This compilation of some of the best RIBA award-winning houses from the last ten years offers an essential source of ideas and inspiration for the contemporary British home. From a sustainable townhouse to a modern cottage a hillside home to a lakeside escape these houses are show-stopping examples of architects surpassing their clients’ loftiest dreams. Featuring: The best RIBA award-winning houses from the last decade Houses from each region of the UK A rich variety of projects – from new builds to conversions to extensions Case studies from esteemed practices including: Alison Brooks Architects Chris Dyson Architects Foster Lomas Henning Stummel Architects Mole Architects and Tonkin Liu Guidance for working with architects. | 21st Century Houses RIBA Award-Winning Homes

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Family and School

Family and School

Originally published in 1983 this book offers a perspective on the secondary school years from the standpoint at home. In the early 1980s as now there was no shortage of advice to parents on how they should bring up their children and what their relationship should be with the schools their children attended. More rarely heard was the parent’s voice of experience on the stages of family life and how the children’s school life is seen from the family point of view. The purpose of this book was to urge reconsideration of taken-for-granted assumptions about the appropriate relationship between home and secondary school. It can be read today in its historical context. | Family and School

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Demons of Domesticity Women and the English Gas Industry 1889–1939

Demons of Domesticity Women and the English Gas Industry 1889–1939

Demons of Domesticity offers a social history of the English gas industry from the 1880s to the late 1930s with an emphasis on the corporations that served London and the Home Counties. It documents the hitherto unexamined role that women played in the development of the industry by considering two major interlocking themes: the expansion of sales occupations for women in the English gas industry and the parallel growth and diversification of the industry's marketing strategies. During the late-nineteenth century the home became the focal point for a number of debates concerning female employment and gender roles. As an increasing number of labour saving domestic devices came onto the market women found themselves targeted by manufacturing companies and utility suppliers both as consumers and advocates. Foremost among these companies were representatives of the gas industry who actively addressed domestic issues. As the promoters purveyors and consumers of domestic technology Demons of Domesticity suggests that English female employees and consumers were not the hapless dupes of corporate marketing but instead had clear ideas about how domestic technology could and should be used to reconfigure the public and private spaces of work and home. | Demons of Domesticity Women and the English Gas Industry 1889–1939

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Indigenous Language Revitalization in the Americas

Indigenous Language Revitalization in the Americas

Focusing on the Americas – home to 40 to 50 million Indigenous people – this book explores the history and current state of Indigenous language revitalization across this vast region. Complementary chapters on the USA and Canada and Latin America and the Caribbean offer a panoramic view while tracing nuanced trajectories of top down (official) and bottom up (grass roots) language planning and policy initiatives. Authored by leading Indigenous and non-Indigenous scholars the book is organized around seven overarching themes: Policy and Politics; Processes of Language Shift and Revitalization; The Home-School-Community Interface; Local and Global Perspectives; Linguistic Human Rights; Revitalization Programs and Impacts; New Domains for Indigenous Languages Providing a comprehensive hemisphere-wide scholarly and practical source this singular collection simultaneously fills a gap in the language revitalization literature and contributes to Indigenous language revitalization efforts. | Indigenous Language Revitalization in the Americas

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Anthropometry Human Body Measurements and How to Use Them

Anthropometry Human Body Measurements and How to Use Them

Today human factors and ergonomics professionals worldwide contribute to the design and evaluation of tasks jobs products environments and systems in order to make them compatible with the needs abilities and limitations of people. By understanding anthropometry professionals can ensure that our home and working environments are comfortable and designed with the human in mind. This book aims to show how an understanding of anthropometrics can influence workspace design ergonomics in the office ergonomics in the home and health and safety at work. This book discusses the measurement of the human body and human variability. Anthropometry may seem to be relatively simple but the reality is that it focuses on very sophisticated aspects of how to make the products tailor-made to suit specific requirements. As a study it is useful for a variety of purposes such as workspace design ergonomics in the office ergonomics in the home and health and safety at work. These eleven chapters investigate anthropometrics and bridge the gap between theory and practice. Each chapter is supported by tables charts and illustrations and a wide list of bibliographic references. The reader will develop new insights into the principles and practice of anthropometrics with this book bringing the topic right up to date. Anthropometry: Human Body Measurements and How to Use Them will be of interest to students graduates teachers researchers and general workers in industrial design ergonomics rehabilitation safety and health. | Anthropometry Human Body Measurements and How to Use Them

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Sport Policy Across the United Kingdom A Comparative Analysis

Sport Policy Across the United Kingdom A Comparative Analysis

This book provides a comparative analysis of sport and physical activity policies processes and practices across the home nations (England Scotland Wales and Northern Ireland) of the United Kingdom. Drawing upon in-depth analysis by internationally recognised experts within the sport policy and management field and applying a novel analytical framework this book offers the first comprehensive intra-country comparison of the most significant features of the sporting infrastructure across the home nations. With chapters focusing on each of the four nations in detail followed by a comparative chapter that identifies themes regarding the evolution of sport policy across the UK the book examines the differences and similarities across elite community and school sport policy. It provides an important insight into how sport policy interacts with national and devolved political structures and with sociocultural factors to drive both elite sporting success and community sport development. This book is essential reading for any student researcher policymaker or sport practitioner with an interest in sport policy sport development sport management public policy or politics. | Sport Policy Across the United Kingdom A Comparative Analysis

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The Expert Witness Forensic Science and the Criminal Justice Systems of the UK

The Expert Witness Forensic Science and the Criminal Justice Systems of the UK

The global nature of crime often requires expert witnesses to work and present their conclusions in courts outside their home jurisdiction with the corresponding need for them to have an understanding of the different structures and systems operating in other jurisdictions. This book will be a resource for UK professionals as well as those from overseas testifying internationally as to the workings of all UK jurisdictions. It also will help researchers and students to better understand the UK legal system. | The Expert Witness Forensic Science and the Criminal Justice Systems of the UK

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Contested Spatialities Lifestyle Migration and Residential Tourism

Contested Spatialities Lifestyle Migration and Residential Tourism

Lifestyle Migration and Residential Tourism represent a major trend in individualized societies worldwide which is attracting a rapidly growing interest from the academic community. This volume for the first time critically analyses the spatial social and political consequences of such leisure-oriented mobilities and migrations. The book approaches the topic from a multidisciplinary and international perspective unifying different branches of research such as lifestyle migration amenity migration retirement migration and second home tourism. By covering a variety of regions and landscapes such as mountain and coastal areas rural and inland communities this volume productively engages with the formal and analytical variations of the phenomenon resulting in an enriching debate at the intersection of different areas of research. Amongst others topics like political contest and civic participation of lifestyle migrants their impacts on local communities social tensions and inequalities induced by the phenomenon as well as modes of transnational living home and belonging will be thoroughly explored. This thought provoking volume will provide deep analytical and conceptual insights into the contested geographies of lifestyle migration and further knowledge into the spatial social and political consequences of leisure-oriented mobilities. It will be valuable reading for students researchers and academics from a plethora of academic disciplines. | Contested Spatialities Lifestyle Migration and Residential Tourism

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Routledge Handbook of Diaspora Studies

Routledge Handbook of Diaspora Studies

The word ‘diaspora’ has leapt from its previously confined use – mainly concerned with the dispersion of Jews Greeks Armenians and Africans away from their natal homelands – to cover the cases of many other ethnic groups nationalities and religions. But this ‘horizontal’ scattering of the word to cover the mobility of many groups to many destinations has been paralleled also by ‘vertical’ leaps with the word diaspora being deployed to cover more and more phenomena and serve more and more objectives of different actors. With sections on ‘debating the concept’ ‘complexity’ ‘home and home-making’ ‘connections’ and ‘critiques’ the Routledge Handbook of Diaspora Studies is likely to remain an authoritative reference for some time. Each contribution includes a targeted list of references for further reading. The editors have carefully blended established scholars of diaspora with younger scholars looking at how diasporas are constructed ‘from below’. The adoption of a variety of conceptual perspectives allows for generalization contrasts and comparisons between cases. In this exciting and authoritative collection over 40 scholars from many countries have explored the evolving use of the concept of diaspora its possibilities as well as its limitations. This Handbook will be indispensable for students undertaking essays debates and dissertations in the field.

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The Speech and Language Activity Resource Book Themed Therapy Sessions for Adults

The Speech and Language Activity Resource Book Themed Therapy Sessions for Adults

The Speech and Language Activity Resource Book offers a flexible and readily available set of activities and worksheets designed to support speech and language therapists as they deliver personalised and engaging therapy sessions. With topics based on seasons hobbies sports and celebrations etc the worksheets can be selected to suit a client’s interests as well as targeting specific skills and needs. The engaging activities encourage conversation and participation promoting skill development in a way that is easily translated into everyday communication. Key features of this book include: A range of activities arranged by level of difficulty that can be selected based on the client’s individual need A person-centred approach to therapy enabling the time-poor practitioner the opportunity to personalise their care with ease Photocopiable and downloadable sheets that can be completed during therapy sessions or sent out to the client for home practice as well as blank worksheets that can be used to create new appropriate activities Easily adaptable for group sessions one-on-one therapy sessions and home activities this is an essential tool for speech and language therapists and occupational therapists as well as families and other practitioners supporting adults with a range of acquired communication difficulties. | The Speech and Language Activity Resource Book Themed Therapy Sessions for Adults

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Creative Representations of Place

Creative Representations of Place

Cultural geography and the social sciences have seen a rise in the use of creative methods with which to understand and represent everyday life and place. Conversely many artists are producing work that centres on ideas of place and space and utilising empirical research methods that have a resonance with geographers. This book contributes to the body of literature emerging from such creative approaches to place. Drawing together theory and practice from cultural geography anthropology and graphic design this book proposes an interdisciplinary geo/graphic process for interrogating and re/presenting everyday life and place. A diverse set of research projects highlights participatory and autoethnographic approaches to the research. The sites of the projects are varied encompassing the commercial space of grocery shops cafés and restaurants the private domestic space of the home and a Scottish World Heritage site. The theoretical context of each project highlights the transferability of the geo/graphic process with place being variously framed within discussions of food multi-culturalism and belonging; home collecting and meaningful possessions; and materiality memory and affect. Themes in the book will appeal to researchers working in the creative methods field. This book will also be essential supplementary reading for postgraduate students studying Cultural Geography Experimental Geographies Visual Anthropology Art and Design. | Creative Representations of Place

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Early Listening Skills for Children with a Hearing Loss A Resource for Professionals in Health and Education

Early Listening Skills for Children with a Hearing Loss A Resource for Professionals in Health and Education

Now in a revised and updated second edition Early Listening Skills is a practical manual for use with children and young people with underdeveloped listening skills related to hearing loss. Thirteen clear and easy to follow sections focus on skills such as auditory detection discrimination recognition sequencing and memory. Each one is filled with a series of carefully designed activities to stimulate and develop auditory awareness and discrimination skills in children with a range of developmental levels and abilities. Features include: A wide range of activities suited to both the early years and home settings Links to the Early Years Foundation Stage (EYFS) framework and topics reflecting the EYFS and Key Stage 1 curriculum Photocopiable material designed to document the child’s development over time As most of the activities are non-verbal they are well suited for children with limited spoken language as well as children with special educational needs and disability and English as an additional language (EAL) learners. Whilst primarily designed for early years practitioners special educational needs co-ordinators (SENCOs) specialist teachers therapists and other professionals the activity sheets and guidance also make it an invaluable tool for parents and caregivers looking to stimulate listening skills at home. | Early Listening Skills for Children with a Hearing Loss A Resource for Professionals in Health and Education

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Weatherization and Energy Efficiency Improvement for Existing Homes An Engineering Approach

Weatherization and Energy Efficiency Improvement for Existing Homes An Engineering Approach

Providing a proven set of energy efficiency measures and opportunities for saving energy and reducing operating costs for existing homes this volume presents general tools and procedures for performing home weatherization such as insulation improvements as well as methods to reduce air leakage. The author describes several techniques and technologies that can reduce energy use or operating costs including methods to retrofit existing homes to be net-zero energy buildings. Each chapter contains simplified calculation methods used to evaluate the effectiveness of various efficiency measures. The final chapter offers a series of case studies including examples of weatherized homes. | Weatherization and Energy Efficiency Improvement for Existing Homes An Engineering Approach

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Universal Design Principles and Models

Universal Design Principles and Models

As the baby boom generation ages it is crucial that designers understand all they can about bringing this group as well as all others design that will offer function aesthetics and quality of life. Full of examples and illustrated with pictures of good design Universal Design: Principles and Models details how the principles of universal design (UD) can be used to evaluate all products and places. Universal design is ubiquitous; therefore good examples are essential to understanding. This book includes more than 50 case studies that demonstrate successful applications of UD principles and helps professors develop curriculum and teaching strategies. More than 300 color photographs and drawings further illustrate the principles and best practices. The book includes topics ranging from the development of ergonomic chairs for home and office to the unique environmental concerns of those sensitive to electronic and chemical emissions. The examples illustrate a variety of user/groups in different situations and clearly demonstrate the design directives for meeting their needs. The author explores the many definitions of UD enabling readers to identify those most meaningful to large portions of the population. Universal design (UD) facilitates the comfort and navigation of those with failing eyesight or restricted mobility and the family members and professionals who care for them. Whether at home work or a public place people appreciate the beautiful and the practical. This book takes a vital and meaningful approach going beyond the basics and delving into details. It gets to the heart of UD and supplies an understanding of design from a greater perspective. | Universal Design Principles and Models

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Language and Learning in a Post-Colonial Context A Critical Ethnographic Study in Schools in Haiti

Language and Learning in a Post-Colonial Context A Critical Ethnographic Study in Schools in Haiti

This book explores the social political and historical forces that mediate language ideology and practices in post-colonial education and how such ideology and practices influence students’ academic achievement. Jean-Pierre provides empirical evidence that a relationship exists between language practices and school underperformance. He takes Haiti as the focus of study finding that students and teachers experience difficulty constructing knowledge in a setting in which the language they speak at home (Creole) differs from the language of instruction (French). The research is based on ethnographic data collected in classrooms in both private and public school settings in addition to different sectors of the society (e. g. state and private institutions). | Language and Learning in a Post-Colonial Context A Critical Ethnographic Study in Schools in Haiti

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