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Books and Videos by Dr. Thomas Armstrong
Books
(For foreign language editions of these books, go to Translations Page)
Neurodiversity in the Classroom: Strength-Based
Strategies to Help Students with Special Needs Achieve Success in School and
Life
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A revolutionary new book that promises to transform special education. Suggests that we use a "diversity" model for students with special needs, rather than a "disability'' paradigm. Explores the strengths, talents, and abilities of students with special needs (autism, learning disabilities, ADD/ADHD, intellectual disabilities, and emotional and behavioral disorders). Shows how to construct a positive day-to-day learning experience that fits the unique needs of each child, using key learning strategies, assistive technologies/Universal Design for Learning, human resources, role models, environmental modifications, and affirmative career aspirations. Explains why applying these strength-based concepts makes it easier to align instruction of special needs students with the Common Core State Standards. Provides examples of how to teach and assess specific English language arts and mathematics standards for students with different special needs. Even if you rarely deal with special needs students, taking account of your students' neurodiversity is an essential new insight for your practice. Publisher: ASCD. ISBN-10: 1416614834 ISBN-13: 978-14166148.
The Power of Neurodiversity: Unleashing
the Advantages of Your Differently Wired Brain
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A new term has emerged from the disability movement in the past decade to help change the way we think about neurological disorders: Neurodiversity. The number of categories of illnesses listed by the American Psychiatric Association has tripled in the past fifty years. With so many people affected by our growing “culture of disabilities,” it no longer makes sense to hold on to the deficit-ridden idea of neuropsychological illness.With the sensibility of Oliver Sacks and Kay Redfield Jamison, psychologist Thomas Armstrong offers a revolutionary perspective that reframes many neuropsychological disorders as part of the natural diversity of the human brain rather than as definitive illnesses. The Power of Neurodiversity emphasizes their positive dimensions, showing how people with ADHD, bipolar disorder, and other conditions have inherent evolutionary advantages that, matched with the appropriate environment or ecological niche, can help them achieve dignity and wholeness in their lives. Publisher: DaCapo Lifelong/Perseus. ISBN-10: 0738215244 ISBN-13: 978-0738215242
The
Best Schools: How Human Development Research Should Inform Educational
Practice
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Explains how the real aims of education have been lost in the current push to raise test scores through what Dr. Armstrong calls "the academic achievement discourse.". Recommends that we return to the great developmental thinkers of the past, including Piaget, Montessori, Dewey, Steiner, to create a new discourse based on how children develop through the stages of life, rather than how they perform academically. Suggests that early childhood development focus on play, elementary school gear the curriculum toward learning how the world works, middle schools create programs that develop the young adolescent's social, emotional, and meta-cognitive growth, and high schools emphasize preparing students to live independently in the real world. Foreword by David Elkind. Publisher: Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development. ISBN-10: 141660457X; ISBN-13: 978
Multiple
Intelligences in the Classroom, 3rd Ed.
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A nuts-and-bolts teacher's guide to the theory of multiple intelligences, includes chapters on lesson planning, teaching strategies, assessment, special education, cognitive skills, and more. Appendices provide comprehensive reading lists and lesson plans. This revised edition provides additional information about the naturalist and existential intelligences. Preface by Dr. Howard Gardner. Publisher: Association of Supervision and Curriculum Development - ISBN 0-87120-376-6
7 Kinds of Smart:
Identifying and Developing Your Multiple
Intelligences, Revised and Updated with Information on 2 New Kinds of Smart
A self-help book for adults and older students; includes checklists for identifying one's multiple intelligences, exercises and tips for developing them, and ideas on using one's intelligences to overcome learning difficulties, enhance relationships, and improve work satisfaction. Publisher: Plume (Penguin-Putnam). ISBN 0-452-28137-7.
In Their Own Way:
Discovering and Encouraging Your Child's Multiple Intelligences, Revised and
Updated.
A practical book for both parents and teachers on multiple intelligences. Includes chapters on using the imagination, the body, and the feelings in learning, as well as chapters on holding positive expectations, having a patient attitude, and helping children with homework using multiple intelligences. This revised edition includes a special resource guide with games, software, organizations, books, learning materials, and internet sites geared toward each of the eight intelligences. Publisher: Jeremy P. Tarcher/Putnam (Penguin-Putnam). ISBN 1-58542-051-4.
You're
Smarter Than You Think: A Kid's Guide to Multiple Intelligences
This book for upper elementary and middle school kids explains the basics of multiple intelligences theory in easy to understand language that empowers them to make the most of their learning potential in school and in life. Provides quick quizzes to help identify the many ways of being smart (word smart, picture smart, self smart, music smart, people smart, body smart, nature smart, and logic smart), provides hundreds of ways to develop all eight kinds of smarts, and offers tips and resources for making the most of one's strongest intelligences and strengthening the others. An excellent book for helping kids understand how they learn best. Publisher: Free Spirit - ISBN 1-57542-113-5.
The
Multiple Intelligences of Reading and Writing: Making the Words Come
Alive
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Shows teachers and parents how to use the theory of multiple intelligences to help kids become more effective readers and writers by connecting words to images, feelings, logic, physical expression, music, social interaction, oral language, and nature. Provides hundreds of ideas, strategies, tips and resources for teaching everything from grammar and spelling to word decoding and reading comprehension. Useful for pre-kindergarten through college level. Publisher: Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development. ISBN 0-87120-718-4.
ADD/ADHD
Alternatives in the Classroom
Provides a broad critique of the ADD/ADHD paradigm, examines alternative ways of viewing children with attention and behavior difficulties, and explores specific learning strategies teachers and parents can use to help kids with this label achieve success in the classroom, and realize their full potential in life. Publisher: Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development - ISBN 0-87120-359-6.
The
Myth of the
A.D.D.
Child:
50 Ways to Improve Your Child’s Behavior and
Attention Span without Drugs, Labels, or Coercion
Criticizes the currently popular label attention deficit disorder as being too simplistic and negative, and provides instead a wellness perspective with 50 solid strategies to help parents, teachers, and health care professionals deal with children’s difficult behavior. Publisher: Plume (Penguin-Putnam). IBSN 0-452275474.
Awakening Genius in the
Classroom
A book for educators that focuses on twelve qualities of genius that are at the heart of the learning process: curiosity, playfulness, imagination, creativity, wonder, wisdom, inventiveness, vitality, sensitivity, flexibility, humor, and joy. Shows how to recognize these qualities, what shuts them down in the home, school, and in the popular culture, and how to reawaken these qualities in the classroom. Publisher: Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development. ISBN 0-87120-302-2
The
Human Odyssey: Navigating the 12 Stages of Life
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The core of this book consists of twelve chapters, each describing of a different period of life, with its own unique changes, struggles, and growth: prebirth, birth, infancy, early childhood, middle childhood, late childhood, adolescence, early adulthood, midlife, mature adulthood, late adulthood, and death & dying. Each chapter includes practical activities showing how to apply the knowledge about that stage of life to oneself, to friends and family, and to the community, and it also includes a special "gift" which that stage of life brings to humanity (e.g. the gift of early childhood is playfulness, the gift of late adulthood is wisdom). The book concludes with a comprehensive bibliography of further reading, lists of organizations, and a filmography of movies that focus on each of the 12 stages of life. Publisher: Sterling Publishing Co.. ISBN-10: 1402739966 ISBN-13: 978-1402739965
A guide to the "higher realms of human nature" in childhood. Includes descriptions of peak experiences, archetypal dreams, and other transpersonal experiences of children and a look at the implications for educators, parents, and mental health practitioners. Publisher: Quest Books. ISBN 0-8356-0600-7.
Awakening Your Child’s Natural Genius: Enhancing Curiosity, Creativity, and Learning Ability
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This inspirational and practical guide includes chapters on whole language, hands-on-math and science, music, drawing, giftedness, testing, the role of the home in learning, technology, cooperative learning, and Montessori and Waldorf education. Publisher: Jeremy P. Tarcher/Putnam (Penguin-Putnam). ISBN - 0-87477-608-2.
Videos
Multiple
Intelligences: Discovering the Giftedness in ALL
(VHS, 44 minutes)
Dr. Armstrong presents an overview of multiple intelligences and discusses its implications for inclusion, cultural diversity, and special education. He is joined by educators at the Greentree East Elementary School in Victorville, California. (Order online at www.nprinc.com). Available with Spanish subtitles. Producer: National Professional Resources, Inc. ISBN 1-887943-10-2.
The
Genius in Every Child (Early Childhood Version)
(VHS, 34 minutes))
Dr. Armstrong challenges the notion that only a few children are geniuses, arguing that the earliest meaning of "genius" is "to give birth to the joy within." He explores qualities of genius in all young children such as playfulness, creativity, wonder, and wisdom, and is joined by teachers and administrators of the Association Montessori International/USA in celebrating the young child's innate love of learning. Producer: National Professional Resources, Inc. ISBN 1-887943-56-0..
The
Genius in Every Child (Elementary School Version)The
Genius in Every Child (Elementary School Version)
(VHS, 34 minutes)
Dr. Armstrong challenges the notion that only a few children are geniuses, arguing that the earliest meaning of "genius" is "to give birth to the joy within." He explores qualities of genius in all schoolchildren such as playfulness, creativity, wonder, and wisdom, and is joined by teachers and administrators of the Association Montessori International/USA in celebrating the young child's innate love of learning. Producer: National Professional Resources, Inc. ISBN 1-887943-55-2.
Beyond
the ADD Myth: Classroom Strategies and TechniquesBeyond
the ADD Myth: Classroom Strategies and Techniques
(VHS, 36 minutes)
Dr. Armstrong examines the shortcomings of the current ADD/ADHD paradigm, and shares specific strategies that can help students with attention and behavior problems without labeling and segregating them. He is joined by educators from the Huntington Woods Elementary School in Wyoming, Michigan.. Available with Spanish subtitles. Producer: National Professional Resources Inc. IBSN 1-887943-09-9.Producer: National Professional Resources Inc. IBSN 1-887943-09-9.
To order multiple quantities of Dr. Armstrong's books and videos at a discount:
- Penguin USA books (In Their Own Way, 7 Kinds of Smart, The Myth of the A.D.D. Child, Awakening Your Child's Natural Genius) - (for author appearances at schools, libraries, and institutions only), call 1-866-206-5865.
- ASCD books (Multiple Intelligences in the Classroom, 2nd Ed., The Multiple Intelligences of Reading and Writing, Awakening Genius in the Classroom, ADD/ADHD Alternatives in the Classroom) http://www.ascd.org/cms/index.cfm?TheViewID=466&showsubs=0,546,357#faq1
- Free Spirit (You're Smarter Than You Think) http://www.freespirit.com/company/faq.cfm#faq15http://www.freespirit.com/company/faq.cfm#faq15
- Sterling Publishing (The Human Odyssey) - (for author appearances at schools, libraries, and institutions only), email: specialsales@sterlingpublishing.com
- National Professional Resources Inc. (Videos: Multiple Intelligences, Beyond the ADD Myth, The Genius in Every Child). info@nprinc.com
To get permission to use material from Dr. Armstrong's books and videos in other publications, for academic courses, or for other uses:
- Penguin USA books (In Their Own Way, 7 Kinds of Smart, The Myth of the A.D.D. Child, Awakening Your Child's Natural Genius) - http://www.penguinputnam.com/static/html/us/permissions/PermissionsFront.html
- ASCD books (Multiple Intelligences in the Classroom, 2nd Ed., The Multiple Intelligences of Reading and Writing, Awakening Genius in the Classroom, ADD/ADHD Alternatives in the Classroom): Contact: Christine Richards, Rights and Permissions Specialist, ASCD 1704 North Beauregard, Alexandria, VA 23311 703-575-5749; 800-933-2723 (ext. 5749). 703-757-5405 (fax). E-mail> Crichard@ascd.org.
- Free Spirit (You're Smarter Than You Think) http://www.freespirit.com/html/c_permissions_nf.html
- Sterling Publishing (The Human Odyssey): permissions@sterlingpublishing.com
- National Professional Resources Inc. (Videos: Multiple Intelligences, Beyond the ADD Myth, The Genius in Every Child). info@nprinc.com