"Transitions for Students with Severe Disabilities" presents transition programs for students with moderate and severe disabilities from school to community life. Taking the position that the most effective transition programs are those that cumulatively build on the capacity of students for employment, community living, and citizenship, the authors address the full range of curricular and instructional issues that face professionals working in middle school, high school, and post-high school programs.

A heartwarming story set in the Great Depression, with a message for these hard economic times. A doll named Constance, who lives in a mansion in Philadelphia, is stolen by a raggedy street urchin named Sarah. Constance and Sarah travel across the America of the 1930s with a group of hobos, riding freight trains and looking for work. It is a very different life than Constance had in the mansion in Philadelphia, and she learns a valuable lesson about opening her heart and learning to love. The Christmas Gift is a story of separation, love, and the true meaning of Christmas toys.

When John McDonnell began his coaching career at the University of Arkansas at Fayetteville--choosing it over Norman, Oklahoma, because Fayetteville reminded him of his native Ireland--he could hardly have imagined that he would become the most successful coach in the history of American collegiate athletics. But, in thirty-six years at the university, he amassed a staggering resume of accomplishments, including forty national championships (eleven cross country, nineteen indoor track, and ten outdoor track), the most by any coach in any sport in NCAA history. His teams at Arkansas won the...