Kay is very excited to start school in her new African home. She is sure she will make lots of new friends and learn many new things. However, it isnt long before Kays excitement becomes loneliness. Kay is different. She comes from a different country, speaks a different language and is profoundly deaf. Kays classmates dont understand what it means to be deaf. Because they dont understand, some of her classmates mistake her behavior as weird or rude. There must be some way to make them understand! In todays world, more and more special needs children are being main-streamed into regular classrooms. All of the students in the classroom must learn to tolerate and accept each other, work together, and become friends. When Kayour deaf heroinemakes the exciting transition to a new school in a new country, she and all her new classmates must learn to communicate in different ways.

Eloise introduces the reader to all of her friends.

Making friends can be a challenge for all children, but those with autistic spectrum disorder (ASD) can struggle more than most. This collection of ten fully-illustrated stories explores friendship issues encountered by children with ASD aged four to eight and looks at how they can be overcome successfully. Key problem areas are addressed, including sharing, taking turns, being a tattletale, obsessions, winning and losing, jealousy, personal space, tact and diplomacy, and defining friendship. The lively and entertaining stories depersonalize issues, allowing children to see situations from the perspective of others and enabling them to recognize themselves in the characters. This opens the door to discussion, which in turn leads to useful insight and strategies they can practise and implement in the future. Each story has a separate introduction for adults which explains the main strategies within it. This book will be a valuable resource for all parents and teachers of children with ASD, along with their friends and families, and anybody else looking to help children on the spectrum to understand, make and maintain friendships.

A little girl approximately eight years of age who becomes cognizant of differences and similarities among her friends and classmates.

Compelling,core-shaking and uplifting,"n-Sparayshonz by Kay", paints the wisdom sought by the author as she travelled through the righteous path of God. A compilation of inspirational poems created by Kay Carson,this book shares her personal life experiences and the symbolic insights that have molded her into becoming the person she is today. Stirred by her immense faith in God, Carson reveals her profound understanding of the workings of the Holy Spirit as it gave her the encouragement she needed to stand strong amidst the tumultuous struggles and adversities that came her way. She hopes that her readers will be uplifted by this soul-enriching and spiritually enhancing poetry book with as much power and impact as the way her life has been touched and transformed.

She was nineteen years old, just finished her first year of college, and her future was overflowing with possibilities. That's what she thought until that tragic night, the night when her future came to a screeching halt and her car was struck by a drunk driver. Nothing could have prepared her for the turn of events that quickly followed. Excruciating pain, paralysis, emergency surgery, and then the fateful words she had to hear. "I'm sorry, you will never walk again."Kay Loy Avers was now a paraplegic. Despair, anguish, fear, anger. Kay Loy was experiencing all these emotions. These emotions could have overcome her. However, she had an incredible Comforter by her side, and His love was unfailing. Read and experience the miraculous true life story of Kay Loy and see how time and again God showed His extraordinary power. Journey with her and be inspired by her faith in Jesus; be overwhelmed by God's miracles. If you're faith needs strengthened, Kay Loy's story will encourage you that God hears and answers ours prayers. This is the true life story of Kay Loy Avers Smith written through the eyes of her daughter, Kim Smith Davis. "Her Unfailing Faith, God's Unfailing Love", chronicles the physical, spiritual and emotional battles and victories that Kay Loy endured throughout her life beginning with a drunk driver paralyzing her at the age of 19. Kim Smith Davis shares intimate details of Kay Loy's life and how through a tragic accident, Kay Loy's spiritual walk with the Lord became closer as the Lord began to perform one miracle after another and how God's love was unfailing. Although Kay Loy faced paralysis, multiple back surgeries, Rheumatoid Arthritis, Pulmonary Embolism, Crohn's Disease, and much more, her faith never failed. Kay Loy Avers Smith clung to 2 Corinthians 4:16. "Therefore we do not lose heart. Though outwardly we are wasting away yet inwardly we are being renewed day by day."(NIV)