Written in a positive, upbeat, and often humorous style, this book provides readers with a comprehensive understanding of issues related to mental retardation. It dispels the many myths regarding what mental retardation is and how it affects the individual's future. It also explores topics related to education, residential programs, vocational options, social skills, trust funds, sexuality, the rights of parents, and numerous other issues that are paramount to raising a happy, healthy child with cognitive difficulties. In addition to supplying hundreds of practical teaching strategies, Mental Retardation Doesn't Mean 'Stupid'! also furnishes readers with scores of useful resources, including websites, professional organizations, and support groups. It is an essential tool for parents, teachers, and other individuals involved in the life of someone is developmentally developed

Set in a still raw post 9/11 New York City, A Bite From The Apple is an edgy, captivating drama about a man who feels compelled to create more adventure in his life. Successful Wall Street executive and family man, R. Wyche Farthing, finds that his quest to fill the perceived void will lead him down a dangerous, deadly road that turns his entire life chaotic. Just as the terrorists have taken their bite from the glorious Big Apple, Wyche finds that, he too, will suffer great sacrifice as a result of his daring foray towards its seedy, unforgiving core. Fueled by post-trauma discontent, Wyche hooks up with Melissa Hill, a young, alluring beauty with a secret. She has come to New York with the hope of satisfying an unusual sexual idiosyncrasy derived from a bizarre childhood experience. Their liaison leads the couple into erotic experimentation, eventually being drawn into an exclusive and surreptitious Manhattan sex club. A killing occurs that propels Wyche into the orbit of a powerful and ruthless German billionaire. This sends him spiraling into additional murder and mayhem, until the only person who can save him is the one he has been betraying throughout; his loyal wife, Jessica.

Written in a positive, upbeat, and often humorous style, this book provides readers with a comprehensive understanding of issues related to mental retardation. It dispels the many myths regarding what mental retardation is and how it affects the individual's future. It also explores topics related to education, residential programs, vocational options, social skills, trust funds, sexuality, the rights of parents, and numerous other issues that are paramount to raising a happy, healthy child with cognitive difficulties. In addition to supplying hundreds of practical teaching strategies, Mental Retardation Doesn't Mean "Stupid"! also furnishes readers with scores of useful resources, including websites, professional organizations, and support groups. It is an essential tool for parents, teachers, and other individuals involved in the life of someone is developmentally developed