Explore the role that Positive Goal-Oriented Relationships play in effective parent, family,
and community engagement. This guide offers definitions, tools, and reflective practice
and supervision strategies to help program staff develop positive, ongoing, and goaloriented relationships.

This resource is intended for the entire Head Start and Early Head Start community and
professionals in the early childhood field. Individuals, groups of staff, and supervisors
can use this tool as part of training and reflective practice and supervision. This guide
is aligned with the Head Start Parent, Family, and Community Engagement (PFCE)
Framework.

Students can sometimes have emotional outbursts in school settings. This fact will not surprise many teachers, who have had repeated experience in responding to serious classroom episodes of student agitation. Such outbursts can be attributed in part to the relatively high incidence of mental health issues among children and youth. It is estimated, for example, that at least one in five students in American schools will experience a mental health disorder by adolescence (U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, 1999). But even students not identified as having behavioral or emotional disorders may occasionally have episodes of agitation triggered by situational factors such as peer bullying, frustration over poor academic performance, stressful family relationships, or perceived mistreatment by educators.

This course informs participants about new laws that impact child welfare practice in the dependency court system. Presented by David Myers, J.D. for the Nor...

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Explore how understanding the cultural perspectives of families can positively impact relationship-building and family engagement efforts. Use this resource to review the following:
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- Reflective Practice Opportunities
- Practice Scenario: Aisha’s Family
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This guide is intended for professionals in the early childhood field. Individuals, groups of staff, and supervisors can use this tool as part of training and reflective practice and supervision.

The Head Start Forward campaign supports grantees in reaching more children and families and moving toward fully in-person comprehensive services, as local health conditions allow. Listen to the fourth webinar in the series for guidance around important health and safety considerations, including recommended risk reduction strategies, updates on toothbrushing, family style meals, masks, and screening, introduction of a new Head Start Forward: COVID-19 Health and Safety Operational Checklist, and more! Keep the conversation going on social media using #HeadStartForward.

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This suite describes how education staff can implement a responsive curriculum. It also highlights the importance of understanding children's development and learning. Explore the ways a curriculum guides the learning environment, learning experiences, and adult-child interactions. Consider ways to use a curriculum's guidance to support children's development and learning and promote positive child outcomes.

Medicines By Design aims to explain how scientists unravel the many different ways medicines work in the body and how this information guides the hunt for drugs of the future. Pharmacology is a broad discipline encompassing every aspect of the study of drugs, including their discovery and development and the testing of their action in the body. Much of the most promising pharmacological research going on at universities across the country is sponsored by the National Institute of General Medical Sciences (NIGMS), a component of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. Working at the crossroads of chemistry, genetics, cell biology, physiology, and engineering, pharmacologists are fighting disease in the laboratory and at the bedside.

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This document provides distance learning adaptations for the My Future-My Choice program lessons.

Previous lessons in this program stress the importance of setting boundaries, sticking to them and respecting the boundaries of others. This helps create a culture of consent. It also lays the groundwork for an examination of consent in general, and sexual consent specifically. In defining sexual consent, this lesson emphasizes the importance of paying attention to both a person’s words and actions. This helps young people recognize when full consent is present. It is also critical for young people to learn how to accept being told no and figure out how to handle rejection, a universal life experience, in a way that is healthy and respectful to themselves and others. Students will explore this important skill through group discussion.

This lesson helps explain to students the most common sexual identity terms. It also explores how culture plays a part in our attitudes about gender roles and expectations. An understanding of these concepts is vital in any discussion about sexual feelings, attractions, relationships, behaviors and decision-making. This lesson sets the tone for an inclusive environment and affirms all young people. It also acknowledges the range of ways that people experience their sexuality.

This lesson contributes to anti-bullying and anti-harassment efforts by teaching about respect and support. There is a particular need to address these topics for those whose identities have been historically oppressed, such as: LGBTQIA+ (Lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer or questioning, intersex, asexual and (+) other sexual and gender minorities), BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, and other People Of Color), and people with disabilities. The Oregon Health Education Standards require respect and support to be covered.
This lesson provides an opportunity for students to:
• Consider identity specific harassment and bullying among their peers.
• Reflect on how they felt when they were disrespected.
• Examine the school’s climate of safety and support.
Working together in small groups, students are asked to suggest ideas for change and improvement to promote a safe and inclusive environment for all.

Puberty brings a natural curiosity and growing sexual interest. Yet, young people are bombarded with various and often conflicting messages about sex and sexual behaviors. Some of the messages likely come from parents, guardians, schools and other responsible sources. However, they can often be drowned out by competing messages from media, peers and society. These often inaccurate, unrealistic and, in many cases, developmentally inappropriate views of sex can create pressure on young people to become sexually involved
with another person before they are ready. This lesson helps students differentiate among the many competing messages and messengers. It helps them become critical media and popular culture consumers. It also considers both the positive and negative impact social media can have on relationships and examines the risks of sexting.

Peers take on a growing importance in a young person’s life during adolescence. Young teens feel an increasing need to fit in, have friends, be liked and appear grown-up. All these developmental qualities put this age group at risk of succumbing to peer pressure to engage in behaviors that may not be healthy or align with their values. This lesson explores the influence of positive and negative peer pressure and helps students develop skills to resist pressure to engage in sexual behaviors for which they are not ready. Teen Leaders enact role-plays to help students identify the effectiveness of assertive communication. The students then practice using assertive communication skills and techniques to resist pressure to engage in unhealthy behaviors.

Being able to identify characteristics of healthy and unhealthy relationships and recognize when someone might be in an unhealthy situation are important. This helps young people sustain good and nourishing friendships, family relationships, and romantic and sexual relationships. This lesson asks students to identify traits they look for in a relationship and qualities they can bring to a healthy relationship. It uses age-appropriate examples they may recognize from their own and their peers’ experiences to help them differentiate the sometimes blurry lines between healthy and unhealthy relationship traits. Finally, the lesson identifies different kinds of abuse. It encourages students to identify trusted adults they might turn to for help if they are in an unhealthy or abusive relationship, or if they are unsure if their relationship is healthy.

Preface

Neural Pathways of Communication was designed for the first neurology course (known as "Neuro-1") in the master's level graduate study of Speech-Language Pathology. Our first open educational resource (OER) textbook was developed in 2020, shortly after the COVID-19 Pandemic began. Reducing the costs of study materials helps rising Speech-Language Pathologists (SLPs) progress toward their licensure and certification without interruptions due to financial setbacks. Developing the Open Education Resource (OER) resources is our ongoing effort to support rising SLPs.

A large part of this book is from various OpenStax textbook series. OpenStax is a nonprofit organization based out of Rice University in Houston, Texas. Its open resource textbooks cover a vast amount of information for two-semester core curriculum courses in various disciplines. OpenStax generously permits educators to use their books' content in part or in whole to develop textbooks customized for each instructor's course structure. The present textbook's OpenStax content is color-coded in black ink. Supplementary information concerning speech-language pathology appears in blue ink. The original OpenStax texts are accessible free of charge at https://openstax.org/subjects. This textbook incorporates applicable content from the OpenStax books, Anatomy and Physiology, Psychology, and Biology for AP® Course.

This textbook additionally contains various images produced by the renowned Dr. Willard R. Zemlin (1929-1998) with permission. Dr. Zemlin was one of the leading scholars in anatomy and physiology concerning communication sciences and disorders. Dr. Zemlin's son, Mr. Karl Zemlin, kindly sharpened numerous images to provide high-resolution pictures. Mr. Zemlin expressed gratitude for the generosity of those who donated their bodies to science throughout his father's studies. A comprehensive collection of Dr. Zemlin's work is accessible at his memorial website http://zemlin.shs.uiuc.edu/zemlinBio.htm, which Mr. Zemlin manages.

This textbook also includes additional information from Wikimedia Commons, and various information from the agencies of the United States Department of Health and Human Services. Wiki Common offers various information under Creative Common (CC) licenses, allowing the use and remix of the materials. The images and information from the U.S. federal government are in the public domain. This textbook would not have been possible without the contributions of OpenStax, Mr. Karl Zemlin, and the generous providers of Wiki Common resources. We sincerely appreciate their support. We have made this textbook available for our future colleagues to gain entry-level scientific knowledge applicable for serving individuals with communication disorders.

June S. Levitt, Ph.D., LDT, CCC-SLP
Sarah L. Guigneaux, M.S., CCC-SLP

August 2021
Contact: OpenResource2020@gmail.com

Preface
Neural Pathways of Communication was designed for the first neurology course (known as "Neuro-1") in the master's level graduate study of Speech-Language Pathology. Our first open educational resource (OER) textbook was developed in 2020, shortly after the COVID-19 Pandemic began. Reducing the costs of study materials helps rising Speech-Language Pathologists (SLPs) progress toward their licensure and certification without interruptions due to financial setbacks. Developing the Open Education Resource (OER) resources is our ongoing effort to support rising SLPs.
A large part of this book is from various OpenStax textbook series. OpenStax is a nonprofit organization based out of Rice University in Houston, Texas. Its open resource textbooks cover a vast amount of information for two-semester core curriculum courses in various disciplines. OpenStax generously permits educators to use their books' content in part or in whole to develop textbooks customized for each instructor's course structure. The present textbook's OpenStax content is color- coded in black ink. Supplementary information concerning speech-language pathology appears in blue ink. The original OpenStax texts are accessible free of charge at https://openstax.org/subjects. This textbook incorporates applicable content from the OpenStax books, Anatomy and Physiology, Psychology, and Biology for AP® Course.
This textbook additionally contains various images produced by the renowned Dr. Willard R. Zemlin (1929-1998) with permission. Dr. Zemlin was one of the leading scholars in anatomy and physiology concerning communication sciences and disorders. Dr. Zemlin's son, Mr. Karl Zemlin, kindly sharpened numerous images to provide high-resolution pictures. Mr. Zemlin expressed gratitude for the generosity of those who donated their bodies to science throughout his father's studies. A comprehensive collection of Dr. Zemlin's work is accessible at his memorial website http://zemlin.shs.uiuc.edu/zemlinBio.htm, which Mr. Zemlin manages.
This textbook also includes additional information from Wikimedia Commons, and various information from the agencies of the United States Department of Health and Human Services. Wiki Common offers various information under Creative Common (CC) licenses, allowing the use and remix of the materials. The images and information from the U.S. federal government are in the public domain. This textbook would not have been possible without the contributions of OpenStax, Mr. Karl Zemlin, and the generous providers of Wiki Common resources. We sincerely appreciate their support. We have made this textbook available for our future colleagues to gain entry-level scientific knowledge applicable for serving individuals with communication disorders.

June S. Levitt, Ph.D., LDT, CCC-SLP
Sarah L. Guigneaux, M.S., CCC-SLP

Contact: OpenResource2020@gmail.com