How to Handle Hard-to-Handle Preschoolers

Discover the key to better management of children’s challenging behaviors! This book provides educators of children ages 2 to 5 with strategies, tips, and techniques for managing various behavioral challenges and learning disabilities. Packed with hundreds of easy-to-implement ideas, this user-friendly resource provides a comprehensive overview of disorders from ADHD to Tourette’s syndrome and offers guidelines for meeting students’ needs within an inclusive environment. The author illustrates ways to help young children learn how to: Regulate their own behavior Solve problems Use alternatives to negative behaviors Handle their emotions appropriately Succeed in the classroom and in everyday life

Maryln Appelbaum is well-known internationally as an outstanding authority on children, education, and families. She has worked as a teacher, an administrator, and a therapist and has been a consultant throughout the United States. She has written more than 30 how-to books geared exclusively for educators and parents. She has been interviewed on television and radio talks shows and has been quoted in newspapers including USA Today. She owns a seminar training company, Appelbaum Training Institute, with her son, Marty Appelbaum, and they and their speakers train educators all over the world. She has master's degrees in both psychology and education and completed her doctoral studies in both education and psychology.
Appelbaum-s influence impacts the entire globe with her thoughts for the day that go out to thousands of educators via e-mail daily. Her strategies have been implemented in schools across the world successfully. There is not a day that goes by that someone does not contact her at Appelbaum Training Institute to tell her "thank you." Those "thank you's" come from teachers, administrators, parents, and students whose lives have been impacted by Maryln.
Appelbaum-s books and her talks are always packed with strategies for success. She is a positive, motivational, dynamic, caring, one-of-a-kind difference maker for the world.

List of Figures
Foreword by Marty Appelbaum
Preface
Acknowledgments
About the Author
1. How to Handle Children Who Are Disruptive
Skill One: How to Handle Tattling
Skill Two: How to Handle Complaining
Skill Three: How to Handle Constant Chatter
Skill Four: How to Handle Blurting Out
Skill Five: How to Handle Talking Back
Skill Six: How to Handle Power Struggles
Skill Seven: How to Handle Student Conflicts
2. How to Handle Children With Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder
ADHD Inattentive Type
ADHD Hyperactive-Impulsive Type
Both ADHD Inattentive and ADHD Hyperactive-Impulsive Types
3. How to Handle Children With Learning Disabilities
Strategies for Succeeding With Children With LD
A Concluding Story
4. How to Handle Anger and Oppositional Defiant Disorder
The Stages of Anger and Strategies for Each Stage
Oppositional Defiant Disorder (ODD)
5. How to Handle Bullying
Recognizing Bullying
Strategies for Understanding and Handling Bullying
6. How to Handle Children With Bipolar Disorder
What Is Bipolar Disorder?
Strategies for Succeeding With Children With Bipolar Disorder
7. How to Handle Children With Autism Spectrum Disorder
What Is Autism Spectrum Disorder?
Strategies for Succeeding With Children With ASD
8. How to Handle Children With Asperger Syndrome
Characteristics of Asperger Syndrome
Strategies for Succeeding With Children With AS
9. How to Handle Children With Tourette Syndrome and Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder
Characteristics of Tourette Syndrome (TS)
Characteristics of Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD)
Psychological Consequences of TS and OCD
Strategies for Succeeding With Children With TS and OCD
Conclusion
References
Index