Special thanks to Web stars Jenny Horsman, Janet Isserlis, and Mev Miller who comb through resources and highlight the unusual, the practical, and the stunning.

Articles

"African Americans and Self-Help Education: The Missing Link in Adult Education" (2000)
ERIC Digest No. 222
www.ericave.org/docs/dig222.pdf

"Culturally Sensitive Career Assessment: A Quandary" (1999)
ERIC Digest No. 210
www.ericave.org/docs/dig210.pdf

"Adults with Learning Disabilities" (1998)
ERIC Digest No. 189
www.ericave.org/digests.asp

"Creating Self-Portraits" (1995)
Creating Self-Portraits is an individual and/or group career development tool designed to assess without testing.
www.ericfacility.net/ericdigests/ed404586.html

"Mental Health and the Adult Refugee: The Role of the ESL Teacher" (1999)
M. Atkins, B. Sample, & D. Birman
www.cal.org/ncle/digests/mental.htm

"Trauma and the Adult English Language Learner" (2000)
Janet Isserlis
www.cal.org/ncle/digests/trauma2.htm

"Adult Education and Gay, Lesbian, and Transgendered Communities" (2001)
S. Kerka
www.ericacve.org/docs/tia00089.pdf

"A Guide to Learning Disabilities for the ESL Classroom Practitioner" (1994)
C. Root, Harvard University
www.kyoto-su.ac.jp/information/tesl-ej/ej01/a.4.html

Online Discussion Groups

The National Institute for Literacy (NIFL) has several online discussion groups (forums/listservs) to deal with issues critical to the literacy field. NIFL sees this as the beginning of an information exchange network that will allow the field to share more easily and extensively about major issues in the field. Many of these discussion groups are relevant to counselors in ABE programs, including:

• NIFL-LD: Forum on Learning Disabilities
• NIFL-POVRACELIT: Poverty, Race, & Literacy Discussion List
• NIFL-HEALTH: Forum on Health Issues
• NIFL-HOMELESS: Forum on Literacy and the Homeless

To subscribe to any NIFL-sponsored listserv, go to the following Web page: www.nifl.gov/lincs/discussions/subscribe_all.html

Books

Stress (2000)
L. Gould. Syracuse, NY: New Readers Press.

Cultural Adjustment, Mental Health, and ESL: The Refugee Experience, the Role of the Teacher, and ESL Activities (1999)
M. Atkins, B. Sampole, & D. Birman. Denver: Spring Institute for International Studies.

Mentor: Guiding the Journey of Adult Learners (1999)
L.A. Daloz. San Francisco: Jossey Bass.

How to Feel Good: Learning to Relax and Exercise: An Invitation (1998)
W.M. Chan, R. Torres, M. Villalta, M. Campos, V. Guzman and L. Hewitt.
www.alri.org/feelgood
When you are a new arrival in a country, you may feel strange because it is a place that you don't know very well and everything is different! This can make you feel sad or depressed. We know how that feels because it happened to us. On these pages we want to share our experiences and how we overcame those bad moments. We found ways to relax by doing things that we enjoy like exercising, crocheting, reading, and fishing.

Where There Is Life, There is Hope (1995)
The Samaritan House PAR Group. Toll free: 800-262-3930
www.nald.ca/CLR/lifehope/cover.htm
Available online in PDF format, this workbook written by women literacy students describes how they used participatory action research to discuss discrimination and to write this book. 43 p., Level: 5-8.

Conquering the Beast Within: How I Fought Depression and Won... And How You Can, Too (1998)
C. Irwin. New York: Times Books.

The Woman's Comfort Book: A Self-Nurturing Guide for Restoring Balance in Your Life (1992)
J. Louden. New York: HarperCollins.

Managing Stress (1994)
The American Institute of Preventive Medicine. Syracuse, NY: New Readers Press.

Too Scared to Learn (2000)
Jenny Horsman. Mahwah, NJ: L. Erlbaum.

Drawing the Line: Dealing with Affective Issues in Literacy (2001)
Jenny Horsman. Saskatoon: Saskatchewan Literacy Network. Toll free: 888-511-2111

The Relationship Book: A Resource of Social and Legal Information (2003)
L.A. McCardle and Women's Network PEI. Edmonton, Alberta: Grass Roots Press. Toll free: 888-303-3213
www.literacyservices.com
Topics include: different kinds of relationships; the difference between healthy and unhealthy relationships; how to handle disagreements or conflict in relationships; what you can do if you are in an abusive relationship. Spiral bound, 71 p., $8.00 US.

De Madre a Madre/ From Mother to Mother Photonovels, "Stories for Life" series (2001)
S. Auger. Durham, NC: Aprendo Press.
www.aprendopress.com
The booklets use simple language, large print, and has Spanish on one side and English on the other. They are well suited to ESOL classes and low-literacy audiences.

Videos and Tapes

Together We Bloom: Women Speaking Out Against Domestic Violence [video and guide} (1998)
The Literacy Project. Greenfield, MA: The Literacy Project.
Order from: The Literacy Project, PO Box 1461, Greenfield, MA 01302, 413-774-3934.