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This lesson was selected from a broader, comprehensive course, Public Speaking. This course and others are available from Thinkwell, Inc. The full course can be found at http://www.thinkwell.com/student/product/publicspeaking. The full course covers getting started, preparing a speech, presenting the speech, audience considerations, types of speeches, small group communication, and more. The course features three renowned professors: Jess K. Alberts of Arizona State University, Brenda J, Allen of the University of Colorado at Denver, and Dan West of Ohio State University.

Jess K. Alberts is a professor of communication at the Hugh Downs School of Human Communication at Arizona State University, where she was Director from 1995 until 2004. She currently serves as Director of the Conflict Transformation Project and is an associate with Project for Wellness and Work-life. Her research appears regularly in academic journals, and she recently co-authored Human Communication in Society. Undergraduates at Arizona State honored her classroom teaching skills with a “Last Lecture Award,” and she has twice been a finalist for Professor of the Year at ASU. A nationally known speaker on interpersonal communication, Prof. Alberts has given numerous presentations across the country on humor, conflict, and developing and maintaining a passionate life.

Brenda J. Allen is departmental chair and a professor of communication at the University of Colorado at Denver and Health Sciences Center, where she teaches organizational communication. She has published numerous articles and book chapters on organizational communication and diversity and she serves on the editorial boards of several communication journals. In 2004, she authored the book Difference Matters: Communicating Social Identity. While at the University of Colorado at Denver and Health Sciences Center, she has been recognized with the First Annual Award for Outstanding Achievement for Commitment to Diversity and she received the Francine Meritt Award for Outstanding Contributions to the Lives of Women in Communication from the Womens Caucus of the National Communication Association. Prof. Allen is frequently invited to speak at community and professional events.

Dan West is the John A. Cassese Director of Forensics at Ohio University. Previously, he was a distinguished lecturer at Rice University, where he also acted as Director of Forensics. Under his direction, the team consistently placed in the top ten at national debate tournaments. While at Rice, Prof. West won the Outstanding Faculty Associate for Brown College (1999) and the award for Outstanding Teaching in the Humanities and Social Sciences (four times). He is well known for using his engaging speaking style in a variety of settings; his annual presentation of the Rice University Alcohol Policy to the freshman class was always a hit.

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How do you like to be talked to? Do you find you want to get something done but your colleague isn’t feeling the urgency? Stuart Gelles explains the three types of ways we relate and how to make ourselves heard.

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There are several new cognitive-behavioral types of intervention. They are not quite as dramatic and drastic as the original sort of Johnson formulation now available. One is called the Arise method, one is called the Kraft method. These are acronyms, and you could probably look them up on the internet and find out further information. They approach it from a very different standpoint. It’s not all about them being diseased, or about them being bad, but rather approaching them from a much more gentle, softer approach where there’s much more cooperation. For example, in the Kraft method, between the husband and wife, there’s more focus on getting a job and using a certain sort of pharmacological intervention. It’s not all about running off and getting fixed in that place called rehab only to return to the same place. It’s a much more integrative approach. There may be certain communities and community hospitals that have a very distinct method that fosters more communication that comes from a really loving position where they want the relationship to continue.For more information visit http://aaalternatives.com

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History

The idea behind Infant Swimming Resource (ISR) was born in 1966 when its founder, Dr. Harvey Barnett, was just 18 years old. As an active lifeguard with a passion for water safety, Barnett witnessed the tragic aftermath when a neighbor child drowned. At that moment, he vowed to do everything possible to ensure
not one more child drowns.

Barnett began teaching young children in his neighborhood how to swim. As he taught the children to swim, Barnett observed how they responded to certain types of instruction, how quickly they learned some techniques, and what types of communication they responded to most effectively. He took miles of Super 8 movie film and began to develop a specific technique that could be used even for non-verbal infants. This was the beginning research phase for what is now Infant Swimming Resource’s proprietary and proven methodology to teach babies 6 months to 6 years old to swim, to save themselves in an accidental water encounter.

With a PhD and 41 years experience, Barnett developed the first and only drowning prevention strategy that has earned a 100% safety record. ISR is a truly comprehensive infant swimming education and self-rescue skill instruction method that is well established in the fields of health care, psychology/behavioral sciences, anatomy and physiology.

Since 1966, ISR has safely delivered over 6 million lessons to teach water self-rescue skills to more than 160,000 babies and has educated parents and medical experts nationwide on water safety techniques and proven instruction methods. To date, ISR has 784 documented cases of children using ISR techniques to save themselves from drowning.

Giving back is part of our organization’s culture. At ISR we desire to work with you and families all across the country to bring about a time when drowning is a rare occurrence rather than an every day tragedy.

ISR has established a scholarship fund designed to ist our Instructor efforts so that no family is denied the peace of mind and the opportunities ISR provides. Funds are set aside by ISR on an annual basis for families in need to apply for financial istance to cover a portion of the cost of program participation.

Click here to see how the ISR Community of Caring responded to a tragedy in Homestead, Florida. http://www.infantswim.com/Communityofcaring.html

You can help too: Please visit the Infant Swimming Resource SEAL STORE. We have designed this store with you in mind, keeping comfort and versatility at the forefront of our product selection. Portions of the proceeds from sales on the Seal Store will go to our Community of Caring Scholarship Program, which ists under privileged families in providing their children the potentially lifesaving skills learned in ISR lessons. Thank you for your support!

http://www.isrsealstore.com

Contact Us

Have a question for ISR? The answer to your question can most likely be found in our F.A.Q. Section. Take a look there first to see if that helps you with your question.

If you need further istance please proceed to http://www.isrhelp.com to submit a help request.

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