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Breakfast with Grandma Ruthie is an engaging story of a little girl, Alizah who is faced with a change in her peaceful home life when her great grandmother who has dementia moves into her home. With the support of an occupational therapist and her parents, Alizah learns that she can help Grandma Ruthie, too.

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Soaring With Jimmy brings to life the story of a young boy with autism who attends a summer day camp, called Camp Quest. With the help of his "shadow, " an Occupational Therapy student and camp counselor, Jimmy's character and courage are able to shine through to his fellow campers. Join Jimmy in his summer adventure to find out how he reveals his spirit at Camp Quest. He does so despite some setbacks that often come with a diagnosis of autism.

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Jacobs and Miller present a handy guide to selecting and loading a child's backpack, and they also discuss how the backpack should be worn.

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The Pacific 'grass skirt' has provoked debates about the demeaning and sexualised depiction of Pacific bodies. While these stereotypical portrayals associated with 'nakedness' are challenged in this book, the complex uses and meanings of the garments themselves are examined, including their link to other body adornments and modifications. In nineteenth-century Fiji, beautiful fibre skirts (liku) in a great variety of shapes and colours were li...

The Pacific 'grass skirt' has provoked debates about the demeaning and sexualised depiction of Pacific bodies. While these stereotypical portrayals associated with 'nakedness' are challenged in this book, the complex uses and meanings of the garments themselves are examined, including their link to other body adornments and modifications. In nineteenth-century Fiji, beautiful fibre skirts (liku) in a great variety of shapes and colours were li...

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Helps occupational therapy practitioners become capable, effective leaders across all practice settings. This edition includes 37 new and updated chapters, discussing the how-to aspects of creating evidence-based practices, effectively leading and motivating staff, ensuring ethical service delivery, and important day-do-day items such as budgeting, documentation, and reimbursement.

Comprehensive skills in management, administration, and leadership are essential for occupational therapy assistants (OTA) in their daily interactions with their clients in various health care environments. Dr. Karen Jacobs has gathered an expert team of 11 contributors to address each of the ACOTE Standards with a focus on evidence-based literature and examples of the leadership and management skills needed as an OTA.

Occupation, theory-driven, evidence-based, and client-centred practice continue to be the core of the profession and is the central focus of Occupational Therapy Essentials for Clinical Competence, Third Edition. The third edition contains updated and enriched chapters which incorporate new perspectives and evidence-based information important to entry-level practitioners.

The Eye's Mind significantly alters our understanding of modernist literature by showing how changing visual discourses, techniques, and technologies affected the novels of that period. In readings that bring philosophies of vision into dialogue with photography and film as well as the methods of observation used by the social sciences, Karen Jacobs identifies distinctly modernist kinds of observers and visual relationships.This important reco...

The story of ethnographic collecting is one of cross-cultural encounters. This book focuses on collecting encounters in the Kamoro region of Papua from the earliest collections made in 1828 until 2011. Exploring the links between representation and collecting, the author focuses on the creative and pragmatic agency of Kamoro people in these collecting encounters. In early European encounters, the Kamoro people were described as producers of ...

The British Missionary movement, which began in earnest in the early 19th century, was one of the most extraordinary movements of the last two centuries, radically transforming the lives of people in large parts of the globe, including in Europe itself. By exploring a range of artefacts, photographs and archival documents that have survived, or emerged from, these transformations, this volume sheds an oblique light on the histories of Britis...

Now revised and updated into a sixth edition, this pocket-size resource includes the latest information in the field of occupational therapy. It remains the only comprehensive dictionary available specifically for occupational therapy. Conveniently sized, this dictionary provides a quick reference to words, their definitions, and important resources used in daily practice and academic training.

Discusses the various species of dinosaurs discovered in Texas and where their fossil remains were found.