Children with Social, Emotional and Behavioural Difficulties and Communication Problems
Автор: Melanie Cross
Год издания: 0000
Children and young people with social, emotional and behavioural difficulties (SEBD) are far more likely to have communication problems than their peers, yet these problems are under-recognised, under-researched, and most importantly, often unaddressed. Melanie Cross considers the reasons why behavioural and communication difficulties so often occur together, and examines the social, educational and mental health implications of this. She shows that improving the communication skills of children and young people with SEBD can contribute to better outcomes, and that speech and language therapy is an important, yet often absent, service for this group. She provides practical guidelines for assessing communication, as well as useful strategies to help children and young people with SEBD to develop their communication skills. This second edition also contains information on unidentified and unmet communication needs in vulnerable young people, including young offenders and those at risk of social exclusion. This book will be an invaluable resource for speech and language therapists, social workers, teachers and other professionals working with children with emotional, behavioural and communication difficulties.
Детям о звёздах. Star Stories for Children
Автор: Наталия Пенькова
Год издания:
Первой книгой «Детям о звёздах» автор открывает захватывающую серию развивающих сказок для детей 3-7 лет. Строго контролируемый словарь и элементарная грамматика, используемые в этой книге, делают её легкой для чтения и понимания. Параллельные тексты и два словаря в конце книги: англо-русский и русско-английский – позволяют использовать её для обучения маленьких детей обоим языкам. Сказки помогут развить воображение ребёнка и создать атмосферу доброжелательности, которая особенно важна в воспитании детей. Книга представляет интерес для родителей, которые хотят помочь детям освоить русский и английский языки с раннего возраста. By Star Stories for Children the author launches an exciting series of developing tales for young children of 3-7 years old. The book is based on strictly controlled vocabulary and elementary grammar that makes it easy for comprehension. Parallel texts and two vocabularies at the end of the book: English-Russian and Russian-English– make the tales suitable for teaching little children both languages. The tales help unlock the imagination and create an atmosphere of goodwill which is especially valuable in the upbringing of children. The book is of interest to those parents who want to help their children to master both Russian and English languages from the early age.
Social Capital and Strategy Effectiveness: An Empirical Study of Entrepreneurial Ventures in a Transition Economy
Автор: I. Manev
Год издания:
Although new ventures’ competitive positioning and their founders’ social networks are both recognized as important in the context of transition economies, not much is known about their multiplicative effect on performance. We build on the strategic management literature and social network theory to develop theoretical predictions about the role of competitive strategies and social capital for entrepreneurial performance. These are tested with survey data from Bulgaria. We find that both the venture’s competitive strategic positioning and the founder’s networking positively influence performance. The hypothesized moderating effect of networking for the relationship between differentiation strategy and performance received only tentative support. Contrary to expectations, we find a negative moderating effect of networking for the relationship of cost leadership with performance. These results suggest that the entrepreneur’s network plays a role in shaping how strategies influence performance by possibly upholding differentiation and deemphasizing cost leadership strategy. Implications for managerial practice and public policy are discussed.