Böcker av Susan Dodd

Sally Brown found herself sitting alone in an old familiar armchair, in a small room she knew so well. Closing her eyes, she wandered off into the echoes of the past. The overwhelming smell of cigarette smoke drifted back, loud chatter and noisy children filled the room. Sally had first arrived in the Parents' Room over twenty years ago as a newly appointed Community Teacher. The Room was based in the Meadows Infant and Nursery School, on the sprawling , mainly council Meadows Estate. The role of Community Teacher carried a wide range of duties, the main one being the running of the Parents' Room within the school. After teaching four to eight year olds for fifteen years, Sally realised that working with adults was going to be a very different experience.The Room was mainly used by the parents of the children from the school, who came in for a cuppa before the children went to their respective classrooms. Others came to join in the adult education classes, talks and various activities, and some who needed help and support from difficult lives.Greta, who was an older lady and a stalwart of the Room who had many ties to the school and was well respected throughout, and was rarely seen without a cigarette. Then there was Carol who had no self-confidence, Sara, who had agoraphobia, Casey who realised she had a problem with alcohol, and many other complex characters.Sally's other duties included home visiting, where she encountered a dead guinea pig, and the affects of "waccy baccy".Sally was to go on many journeys with the main occupants of the Room, developing a unique close bond and friendships that last to this day. There was fun and laughter along the way, with Christmas pantomimes, Christmas dinners, carnival parades, a wedding, a baptism in school and Greta's epic coach trips.There was a fair share of emotional traumas that tugged at the heart strings, but usually resolved one way or the other.Sally watched with pride as self-confidence grew and individuals began to have belief in themselves. The role of Community Teacher could command a yo-yo of emotions, from being driven to the brink of despair, to a feeling of pride, joy and achievement.

A Festschrift in honour of the Reverend Dr. Thomas Curran on the occasion of his 70th birthday from various friends, colleagues, and former students from his work at the University of King's College, Halifax.

Reflecting on Canada's worst sea disaster since World War II, this chronicle captures the 1982 sinking of the oil rig Ocean Ranger, which took the entire crew of 84 men--including the author's brother--down with it. The memory of this tragic event gradually faded into a sad story about a terrible storm, relegated to the "Extreme Weather" section of the news archives. Resurrecting this disaster from the realm of history, this study maps the sociopolitical processes of its aftermath, when power, money, and collective hopes for the future transformed a story of corporate indifference and betrayal of public trust into a "lesson learned" by a heroic industry. This book acts as a navigational resource for other disaster aftermaths--including that of the Deepwater Horizon in the Gulf of Mexico--as well as a call for vigilant government regulation of industry in all its forms.

Weather they are on the lookout or on the lam, love is what maps their migration.An eccentric endodontist repairs a patient's freshly broken heart while performing a root canal.A Haitian woman charms snakes into keeping her company in an urban cave as she safeguards her grandchildren's sleep.A shy illustrator subsists through a long Vermont winter on occasional glimpses of a man in a blue pickup truck.Susan Dodd, the acclaimed author of The Mourners' Bench explores the multifarious and otherworldly nature of love's in this shimmering collection of short stories.In settings ranging from a desolate island in winter to a broken-down city bus at rush hour, Dodd shows us love's unlikely -- and often inconvenient -- landings 'in these ten diverse and uncommon stories.

Je nach Diagnosekriterium werden pro Jahr 200 bis 4000 Kinder mit Autismus geboren, die - mehr oder weniger - intensive Betreuung im Alltag benötigen. Die Schulung von Eltern und Betreuern in den praktischen Alltagsroutinen zwischen Zähneputzen und Zubettgehen, insbesondere im Bereich der Kommunikation über gemeinsames Tun, gelingt Susan Dodd in ihrem kompetenten und mit vielen praktischen Hilfsmitteln gespickten Buch auf nachgerade mitreißende Weise. Das Buch wird jedem, der im Umfeld einem autistischen Menschen begegnet, einen Schlüssel liefern, um die kommunikativen Probleme integrativ und wirksam zu lösen - und anhand der Lernhilfen überraschende Erfahrungen mit dem emotionalen Verstehen bis hin zum Lesen im Gesichtsausdruck machen.