Dana Johnson

A means by which thousands, and soon millions, of people are being freed from their lives of silence. The Spellers Guidebook is the first of its kind--a comprehensive guidebook that every family should take along for their Spelling journey. From the moment you first learn about spelled communication through working with a practitioner, developing fluency, and everything in between, this book serves as a blueprint to follow while you build the skills to spell openly with your child. The Spellers Guidebook is informative not only for parents and caregivers but for practitioners and professionals as well. It answers questions from the most basic--what to expect during the first spelling session, to more clinical--what is apraxia, and how does it affect my speller? It even discusses the importance of regulation and how the interpersonal dynamic between the speller and their communication partner can impact flow. The journey toward open communication differs for every family, and this handbook is here to help remove any guesswork. Whether your path seems straight and easy to navigate or the road ahead appears winding and twisting, Dana and DM are here to guide you. If you walk away with nothing more than the confidence that you can do this with your nonspeaker (because you CAN), The Spellers Guidebook has done its job

Has there been any movement? Or are you stuck on excuses and not quite satisfied with how things are flowing? Decrees and affirmations are authoritative power tools and the divine technology spoken to reshape the thought process and bring my total being in alignment with biblical truths. This is a 23-day journey for the stagnate to ignite the word of Truth and season the seed planted within. The decrees and affirmations in this book are heavenly downloads that energize and empower women to rise and push. Believing by faith that the evidence of things hoped, and the things not seen will manifest. It empowers and tears down the strongman that keeps you from moving forward and releases the JEWEL for purpose. About the Author Dr. Dana Johnson is a retired veteran, cybersecurity professional, motivator and inspirational speaker, and life coach. She found inHer2rise to help women rise from places of stagnation and move forward to living a self-sufficient life depending on God. Website: www.drdanaj.com

In Break Any Woman Down, Dana Johnson explores race, identity, and alienation with unflinching honesty and vibrant language. Hip and seductive, her stories often feature women discovering their identities through sexual and emotional intimacy with the men in their lives. In the title story, La Donna is a black stripper whose white boyfriend, an actor in adult movies, insists that she stop stripping. In "Melvin in the Sixth Grade," eleven-year-old Avery has a crush on a white boy from Oklahoma who, like Avery, is an outsider in their suburban Los Angeles school. "Markers" is as much about a woman's relationship with her mother as it is about the dissolution of her relationship with an older Italian man. Dana Johnson has an intuitive sense of character and a gift for creating authentic voices. She effortlessly captures the rhythmic vernaculars of Los Angeles, the American South, and various immigrant communities as she brings to life the sometimes heavyhearted, but always persevering, souls who live there.

We first met Avery in two of the stories featured in Dana Johnson's award winning collection Break Any Woman Down. As a young girl, she and her family escape the violent streets of Los Angeles to a more gentrified existence in suburban West Covina. This average life, filled with school, trips to 7 Eleven to gawk at Tiger Beat magazine, and family outings to Dodger Stadium, is soon interrupted by a past she cannot escape, personified in the guise of her violent cousin Keith. When Keith moves in with her family, he triggers a series of events that will follow Avery throughout her life: to her studies at USC, to her burgeoning career as a painter and artist, and into her relationship with a wealthy Italian who sequesters her in his glass walled house in the Hollywood Hills. The past will intrude upon Avery's first gallery show, proving her mother's adage: Every goodbye aint gone. The dual narrative of Elsewhere, California illustrates the complicated history of African Americans across the rolling basin of Los Angeles.

Today's security environment and rethinking of military doctrine are affected by the growing availability of advanced commercial technologies. These proceedings address aspects of international air and space activities, such as how they affect global and national security, application of commercial technologies and systems to Operational exercises, and interoperability among coalition partners with differing technological capabilities.