Special Needs category: 986 books
Knack Baby Sign Language
A Step-by-Step Guide to Communicating with Your Little One
Language: English
Release Date: December 28, 2009
Few children can communicate effectively before eighteen months of age, but sign language can allow baby and parent to reduce the frustration up to a year earlier. With more than 450 full-color photos, text, and sidebars, Knack Baby Sign Language provides a user-friendly, efficient method to learn and...
Smart Kids with Learning Difficulties
Overcoming Obstacles and Realizing Potential
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2013
The second edition of Smart Kids With Learning Difficulties is an updated and comprehensive must-read for parents, teachers, counselors, and other support professionals of bright kids who face learning challenges every day. This practical book discusses who these students are; how to identify them;...
The Boy's Guide to Growing Up
Choices & Changes during Puberty
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2012
Written at a third-grade reading level for boys ages 9-16 with Down syndrome, autism, cerebral palsy, mental retardation, fragile X, or other special needs. The author, a certified sexuality educator, draws on more than 20 years experience conducting workshops on puberty and sexuality issues with boys,...
Growing Up with Jessica, Second Edition
Blessed by the Unexpected Parenting of a Special Needs Child.
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2015
This award winning true story, told clearly and passionately by Jessica’s father is moving as well as inspiring. Highly recommended and endorsed by international author and speaker, Josh McDowell.
“I encourage you to read this book because it will touch you,
minister to you and my hope...
by Ali Howard
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2016
Do you want your church to be a place of belonging? Do you want your church to be Irresistible? An Irresistible Church is an authentic community built on the hope of Christ that compels people affected by disability to fully belong. Your ministry’s impact depends on the volunteers you recruit—the...
The Socially Included Child
A Parent's Guide to Successful Playdates, Recreation, and Family Events for Children with Autism
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2009
An indispensable step-by-step guide for socializing any child on the autism spectrum.
Parents of children with autism often end up skipping family functions, playdates, and social outings for fear that their children will be unsafe, behave inappropriately, or feel overwhelmed. Now, no matter...
by Kate Brueck
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2016
For the ministry leader who desires to include people of all ages with special needs in the life of the church, this practical guide to buddy ministry provides clear, concise direction on how to organize and implement this effective ministry model. Leaders will discover how buddies provide discipleship,...
by Patrick Baldwin, Maria Cruz
Language: English
Release Date: February 8, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: February 8, 2018
Embrace Parenthood with Wisdom and Prayer: A Parenting Guide Book
This book is a bundle of 4 of our Best Books to help you as Best we can. This Bundle Set Includes the Following Books:
Embracing Pregnancy, Your Child, and Parenting: Your Guide Book to Learn How to Unlock the Secrets of...
by Rob Errera
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2014
The adventures of Autism Dad and Boy Rocco continue through the pre-pubescent years (age 8-12), leaping over autism’s ever-changing obstacles, while stumbling through life’s major milestones. Autism Dad and Rocco—along with Precocious Little Sister and Super Mom—tackle everything autism, from...
A Different Kind of Perfect
Writings by Parents on Raising a Child with Special Needs
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2006
Every parent dreams of having a happy, healthy child. What happens when these dreams are shattered by a physical or cognitive disability? A Different Kind of Perfect offers comfort, consolation, and wisdom from parents who have been there—and are finding their way through.
The writings collected...
Knack Baby Sign Language
A Step-by-Step Guide to Communicating with Your Little One
Language: English
Release Date: December 28, 2009
Few children can communicate effectively before eighteen months of age, but sign language can allow baby and parent to reduce the frustration up to a year earlier. With more than 450 full-color photos, text, and sidebars, Knack Baby Sign Language provides a user-friendly, efficient method to learn...
Second Time Foster Child
One Family's Fight for Their Son's Mental Healthcare and Preservation of Their Family
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2012
“Toni walks us through the experience of having foster children with undiagnosed mental illness . . . moving and heart-wrenching” (Marcia Stein, PHR, CA, author of Strained Relations).
As an infant, Daniel entered the foster care system as a result of severe neglect, which manifested in...
Road Map to Holland
How I Found My Way Through My Son's First Two Years With Down Symdrome
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2008
An exceptional memoir that provides emotional insight and practical advice.
It's like planning a trip to Italy, only to get off the plane and discover you're actually in Holland. You need a new road map, and fast...
When Jennifer Groneberg and her husband learned they'd be having twin...
Keeping Katherine
A Mother's Journey to Acceptance
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2007
Katherine was a beautiful, perfect baby for the first year of her life. Then, without warning, she changed forever. She started crossing her eyes. She cried at night for hours at a time and could not be soothed. She stopped saying words, stopped crawling, and began what would become a lifelong habit...