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Title: No Matter What

Author : Sandy Howarth

Publisher: Chipmunkapublishing

ISBN: 97818474477491

Steven is now 15 years of age. Having done my utmost to support Steven with his educational needs, I have recognized that the only progress he made was during the time he was taught at home by myself. It was intensive but extremely rewarding. However, allowing him to be placed in an environment, without adequate support, has meant that there has been no progress made. I have retained the teaching material from 7 years ago, when I last taught Steven at home, with the hope of gaining the energy to continue that level of commitment towards teaching him again. I find that Steven's time is wasted, in addition to the LEA's resources being wasted, in offering provision which doesn’t meet Steven's needs.

Living with Autism is a challenge to most families, but living in our world is a greater challenge to an individual with Autism. Help them in their journey through life.

Title: Sucking Up Yellow jackets

Author: Jeanne Denault

Publisher: O Books

ISBN 978-1-846943843

Obsessed with explosives and motorcycles, Max spent more time in police stations and court than an incompetent bank robber. ER doctors knew him by name. Sucking Up Yellow Jackets is a touching, bizarre, sometimes funny story about the toll undiagnosed Aspbergers Syndrome took on Max and his family before the syndrome was recognized. Not much frightens his mother now. Not even big hairy spiders.

Jeanne Denault is a writer who raised an undiagnosed Aspbergers child to adulthood. A member of the Rebel Writers, she lives in Pennsylvania.

Title: I Want to be Like You  Life With Asperger's Syndrome

Author: Travis E. Breeding

Publisher: Tate Publishing

ISBN: 978-1-61663-918-1

Travis Breeding has never been like others. Growing up, he noticed some of the differences-he had a bed-wetting issue; he had difficulty with fine motor skills; he became obsessed with his special interest, trombone; and most troubling for him, he had trouble making friends. He just couldn't seem to fit in with anyone and didn't understand how socializing worked. He couldn't understand why people didn't like him. Why didn't everyone think he was so weird or creepy or psycho? Was he?

Travis hit a low point in his college days and began making suicide attempts. When he finally learned he has Asperger's, it wasn't quite the solution he longed for. He didn't want to accept it. But once he embraced it, he realized he could begin making changes that could someday lead to living the life he wants-one that includes a family and good friends. And even more, he could help others just like him.

Now Travis is on a mission to help us all understand what Asperger's is and how we can help those around us who seem a little, or a lot, different. With a combination or personal experiences, information about Asperger's and the autism spectrum, and Travis's observation and advise, I Want to be Like You proves to be a perfect tool to help readers who are on the spectrum, are helping someone, or just want to understand what this relatively new diagnosis is to bridge the gap between autistic and neurotypical individuals.

Title: The Best kind of Different: Our family's Journey with Asperger's Syndrome

Author: Shonda & Curt Schilling

Publisher: Harper Collins

ISBN: 978-0-06-198683-3

Until the summer of 2007, the word Asperger's was not part of Shonda Schilling's vocabulary, but that summer changed everything. By then, her household was in chaos as her son Grant spiraled out of control. His acting out and refusal to listen had grown to epic proportions, but even worse was his apparent inability to relate to the people around him. None of the Schilling's other three kids ever acted like Grant; his behavior wasn't unruly, it was irrational.

Complicating matters was the fact that Shonda's husband, Curt, was constantly on then road pitching for the Boston Red Sox, so he wasn't always around to see Grant's behavior firsthand. Seemingly everyone Shonda encountered had an opinion-"he’s too spoiled," "he needs a good spanking," "he needs more discipline"-but it was a disastrous first attempt at summer camp that told Shonda something was definitely wrong. It was then that a neurologist diagnosed Grant with Asperger's syndrome-a form of high-functioning autism that, in recent years , has been found in children who at first glance appear to be disruptive and difficult.

Now in The Best Kind of Different, Shonda details every step of her family's journey with Asperger's, offering a parent's perspective on this complicated and increasingly common condition. Looking back on Grant's early years, she describes the signals she missed in his behavior and confronts the guilt that engulfed her after she came to understand just how misguided her parenting had been before the diagnosis. In addition, she talks about the harsh judgment she’s faced from people who don't buy into the diagnosis and how she's used passion and information to fight the ignorance of others.

Celebrating Grant's success and learning from his setbacks, Shonda demonstrates how Asperger's forced her and her husband to reconsider everything they thought they knew about their son and each other, but in the end, it has made their marriage and their family stronger and happier. A tribute to Grant's strength and a candid glimpse into a family coming to terms with its differences, The Best Kind of Different is an intimate portrait of two parents struggling to understand the complex beauty of their son.

Title: Making Sense of Autistic Spectrum Disorders

Author: James Coplan, M.D.

Publisher: Bantam Books

ISBN:  978-0-553-80681-6

In this authoritative and empowering book, one of the world's leading experts on early child development gives caregivers of children on the autistic spectrum the knowledge they need to navigate the complex maze of symptoms, diagnoses, tests, and treatment options that await them.

For more than thirty years, James Coplan, M.D., has been helping families cope with the challenges posed by autistic spectrum disorders (ASD). Each family that walks into his office, he knows, is about to begin a journey. With this book, he lays out the steps of that journey. Dr. Coplan brings you into the treatment rooms and along for the tests and evaluators, and provides the kind of practical hands-on guidance that will help you help your child with ASD through every phase of life.

At the same time when ASD has become the subject of wild theories and uninformed speculation, Dr. Coplan grounds his recommendations in reality. He helps you understand for yourself where your child may be on the spectrum that includes autism, Asperger's syndrome and pervasive developmental disorder, not otherwise specified. His clear, comprehensive, and compassionate advice prepares you to make informed medical decisions, evaluate the various educational and therapeutic alternatives, and find answers to such fundamental questions as

-How do I optimize my child's long-term potential?

-Which interventions will best serve my child?

-How do the various therapies work, and what is the evidence to support them?

-What is the best way to teach my child?

This book empowers you to be an expert advocate for your child, so that you'll know when to say no to an ill-advised therapy or medication and can make with confidence the hundreds of important decisions you will face in the years ahead. For every parent who has made the painful transition from "Why did this happen?" to "What can we do to help our child?" here is the indispensable guidebook you've been waiting for.

Title: Preventing Litigation in Special Education Workbook

Author: Dr. Jacque Phillips, Esq. & Randy Chapman, Esq.

Publisher: The Legal Center for People with Disabilities and Older People

ISBN: 978-0-9770179-3-5

The authors of the workbook are Dr. Jacque Phillips, an experienced special education teacher and recently licensed attorney, and Randy Chapman, the author of The Everyday Guide to Special Education Law and an attorney with more that thirty-three years experience in special education and disability law.

The authors have joined forces to develop a guide to help parents and teachers predict the likely outcome of case examples. Their goal is to help parents and school districts avoid unnecessary legal entanglements in special education, and to use the time and energy involved in disagreements to meet the needs of children.

Parents and educators want to do what is best for students with disabilities. But the law can be confusing, and sometimes disagreements arise over how best to meet a child's needs. Most disagreements can and should be resolved without formal complaints, due process hearings, litigation and, yes, without lawyers.

The authors give readers understandable tools to help overcome disagreements and keep the focus on the student’s success in school. Parents and educators have welcomed this resource.

Dr. Jacque Phillips and Randy Chapman have acquired reputations for their straightforward, practical and reassuring approach to special education law.

Title: The Everyday Guide to Special Education Law Second Edition

Author: Randy Chapman, Esq.

Publisher: The Legal Center for People with Disabilities and Older People

ISBN: 978-09770179-4-2

The Everyday Guide to Special Education Law is an essential tool for parents to help them get the best education possible for their child with disabilities. Updated to include recent changes in federal law, this handbook is so useful to parents, they call it "The Special Ed Bible." The book is also a great resource for teachers and school administrators.

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Title: Maintenance and Reliability Best Practices

Author: Ramesh Gulati

Publisher: Industrial Press

ISBN: 978-0-8311-3311-5

Drawing upon the author’s many years of shop floor and management experience in a variety of industries, this book is designed to provide a basic yet thorough understanding of Maintenance and Reliability ‘Best Practices.’  It will be helpful to both the novice and seasoned professional alike, and the contents are presented in an easy-to-understand style and format.  This book recognizes that to implement best practices requires a workforce with a thorough understanding and knowledge of Maintenance and Reliability principles and available technologies.  But implementation is not as simple as just putting something new into effect.  To truly implement a best practice requires learning, relearning, benchmarking, and realizing better ways of ensuring high reliability and availability of equipment and systems.  This book explains and supports this ongoing process, and is an essential guide and reference for everyone who wants to ensure that their company’s assets are operating as and when needed and at a reasonable cost.

Title: Asset Data Integrity is Serious Business

Author(s): Robert S. DiStefano and Stephen J. Thomas

Publisher: Industrial Press

ISBN: 978-0-8311-3422-8

Written by an author team with an extraordinary combination of experience and know-how, this groundbreaking book provides a road map for maximizing the value that your company can obtain by ensuring the integrity of the data it maintains on its physical assets.  Data integrity is unquestionably an essential need of every business, yet it is often overlooked and underappreciated.  Accurate and complete data collectively creates actionable information, provides for exacting analysis, and facilitates sound business decisions.  In contast, faulty data creates the strong posibility of misguided decisions with negative consequences for your business likely to follow.

Since physical assets may well be the most valuable item on your company’s balance sheet, the benefits of effectively managing physical asset data can be compelling:

Ø      Your workforce will have information it needs to work more productively

Ø      Your middle managers and supervisors will be able to aquire asset information without wasted effort and use this information with the confidence that it is accurate and reliable

Ø      Your senior managers will be able to make enterprise-level, multi-site decisions that will directly support the optimization of asset value throughout your organization

Ø      Your CEO will be better able to optimize return on assets and shareholder value because the entire asset management process will function in a more efficient, effective, and predictable manner

With data integrity a critical need wherever physical plant assets exist, you will find Asset Data Integrity is Serious Business an invaluable reference and ‘how to do it’ guide no matter your job function, level, or industry – most of all, if you are working in the manufacturing and process industries.

Robert S. DiStefano is Chairman of the Board and CEO of Management Resources Group, Inc.  He has spent over 30 years working in physical asset management, including over 20 years focused on asset data integrity, spanning 14 industries and across many enterprises.

Title: Smart Inventory Solutions: Second Edition

Author: Phillip Slater

Publisher: Industrial Press

ISBN: 978-0-8311-3401-3

Virtually a brand new book, this new and much larger edition features a tighter focus on engineering materials and maintenance spare inventory, while providing a broader coverage of the issues faced in managing this inventory.  It will be useful to anyone in any industry who needs or wants to optimize inventory and increase cash flow.  Among the most important changes:

Ø      New chapters on The Mechanics of Inventory Management, People and Processes, Policies and Procedures, and Case Studies, with an expanded chapter on the Financial Impact of Inventory that includes a discussion of the key reports that everyone must understand

Ø      Expanded discussion of key issues and how to address them, such as: four ‘inventory home truths’ that will help you crack the inventory code; and examination of ‘squirrel’ stores and why you would be nuts to keep them; a review of the application of ‘lean’ principles for storeroom management

Ø      The transformation of the central process presented in the first edition into a much more comprehensive review process: The Inventory Process Optimization™ Method, which combines knowledge of parts usage, procurement, and supply chain issues with a review of behaviors and the management processes that drive them.  Implementing this process leads to increased inventory reduction, longer-lasting solutions, and reduced risk

Ø      A much larger illustration program, with many more figures and diagrams, six new tables, eight new checklists, and an expanded glossary

Title: TPM Reloaded

Author: Joel Levitt

Publisher: Industrial Press

ISBN: 978-0-8311-3426-6

When practiced appropriately, Total Productive Maintenance (TPM) can tilt the playing field in your company’s favor.  It makes similar machines turn out significantly more product with less scrap or waste more efficiently.  The work force is more motivated, more engaged, more flexible and more aggressive in seeking improvements.  TPM adds the worker’s creativity to the equation.  TPM recognizes that the employee is the secret weapon.  TPM helps unleash their talent, attention and team spirit.  You will also see that TPM is a production/operations effort as much as Lean Manufacturing, Total Quality, or any other company-wide production program.

TPM Reloaded is a challenging, innovative and timely new look at implementing TPM by one of the field’s leading trainers and authors.  It takes into account the economic upheavals of recent years and demonstrates that TPM is less about moving maintenance tasks to operations than moving accountability for aggregate output of the plant to operators.  The book goes on to show that effective TPM – TPM reloaded – requires a radical change in management’s view of the worker and even more daunting, a radical change in the way workers view their own role.

Joel Levitt wrote this book for managers and supervisors of all types of operations and production, from traditional manufacturing and assembly to mining, refining, smelting, chemical production, as well as for service industries such as trucking and facility maintenance.  The concepts of TPM can be applied to any productive effort, as varied as a bus driver or a control room operator aboard a ship or in a refinery.  Regardless of where you work, this book can be an invaluable guide for implementing TPM and helping your company achieve greater success.

Title: Turtle: David Bushnell’s Revolutionary Vessel

Author(s): Roy R. Manstan and Frederic J. Frese

Publisher: Westholme Publishing

ISBN: 978-1-59416-105-6

At the onset of the American Revolution, the British expected to quell the rebellion quickly with a show of overwhelming force.  In an experiment in asymmetric warefare, David Bushnell created the first submarine vessel designed specifcally ‘for the destruction of vessels of war.’  On a quiet September night in 1776, sergeant Ezra Lee maneuvered Bushnell’s strange little craft out from Manhattan and into the midst of the greatest naval fleet ever assembled in the Americas.  Lee’s goal was to sink the British flagship HMS Eagle by attaching a powerful explosive to its hull.  Although the mission was unsuccessful, Bushnell’s concept of submarine warfare was considered by George Washington to have been ‘an effort of genius.’

David Bushnell was raised in the town of Saybrook at the mouth of the Connecticut River.  More than two centuries later, another Turtle would be launched into the same river within sight of Bushnell’s first forays with his vessel during the summer of 1775.  Under the direction of technical arts teacher Frederic J. Frese, students at Old Saybrook High School created a working replica of Bushnell’s submarine, facilitated through an education partnership with the Naval Undersea Warfare Center in Newport, Rhode Island, where Roy R. Manstan was a mechanical engineer and Navy trained diver.  With twenty-first century submariners at the helm, the Turtle replica was subjected to a series of operational tests at the Mystic Seaport Museum in Mystic, Connecticut.

In Turtle: David Bushnell’s Revolutionary Vessel, the authors provide new insight into Bushnell’s ‘engine of devastation,’ tracing the history of undersea warfare before Bushnell and the origin of many innovations Bushnell understood would be necessary for conducting a covert submarine attack.  The knowledge gained from testing the Turtle replica enabled the authors to speculate as to what America’s first submariner Ezra Lee experienced that September night and what may have caused the attack to fail.

Roy R Manstan is a mechanical engineer and former Command Diving Officer of the NUWC.  He has degrees from Lafayette College, the University of Connecticut, and Connecticut College.