Special Needs category: 986 books
Strange Son
Two Mothers, Two Sons, and the Quest to Unlock the Hidden World of Autism
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2007
Strange Son is the powerful tale of two mothers from opposite sides of the world who, united by their fierce determination to help their severely autistic sons, have challenged everything we thought we knew about autism.
Tito Mukhopadhyay, an autistic boy from India who spends most of his time...
The Shape of the Eye
A Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2013
**"[An] elegantly written, unsentimental memoir."—PEOPLE MAGAZINE [PEOPLE's Pick of the Week]
Winner of the 2014 Nautilus Award represents “Better Books for a Better World”—the Silver Award in the category of Parenting /Family.**
When Laura Estreich is born, her appearance...
Problem Solver Guide for Students with ADHD
Ready-to-Use Interventions for Elementary and Secondary Students
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2001
Parents and teachers need strategies for helping children with ADHD who have problems in organization, behavior, study habits, reading, written language, and socialization. The hundreds of solutions offered in this quick-reference guide offer nuts and bolts ideas that work with ADHD kids in both elementary...
Parenting Your Child with Autism
Practical Solutions, Strategies, and Advice for Helping Your Family
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2012
Amid a bewildering range of treatments that promise to alleviate or even cure autism, even the leading researchers can’t predict what will work for your child. As a parent, you are in a unique position to become the practical expert on your child’s needs and strengths. Parenting Your Child with...
Autism Handbook for Parents
Facts and Strategies for Parenting Success
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2009
The concise, authoritative guide for parents new to the subject of autism.
Autism Handbook for Parents: Facts and Strategies for Parenting Success is written specifically for parents of children recently diagnosed with autism. Although it is a relief to know there is a name for their child's...
Questions from Those Who Know
Sensory Processing Disorder
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2013
As a mother of a child with sensory processing disorder, I know you can have many unanswered questions about your child's or loved one's diagnosis. That is where the idea of "Questions From Those Who Know" came from. I teamed up with Jeanette Baker, founder of the popular Sensory Processing...
Parenting Gifted Kids
Tips for Raising Happy and Successful Gifted Children
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2006
Parenting Gifted Kids: Tips for Raising Happy and Successful Children provides a humorous, engaging, and encouraging look at raising gifted children today. James R. Delisle, Ph.D., offers practical, down-to-earth advice that will cause parents to reexamine the ways they perceive and relate to their...
Early Intervention Every Day!
Embedding Activities in Daily Routines for Young Children and Their Families
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2014
Effective early intervention doesn’t stop when the provider leaves the family’s home. That’s why every interventionist needs this practical sourcebook, packed with research-based strategies for helping parents and caregivers take a consistent, active role in supporting young children’s...
by Marcy White
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2014
When Jacob Trossman was born with Pelizaeus-Merzbacher disease (PMD), a rare and incurable neurodegenerative disease, his prognosis was grim. The doctors warned his parents that he would never speak, sit or eat independently. The medical professionals were not optimistic that Jacob would have the ability...
Gifted Children
So Intelligent, But They Struggled What Parents Can Do When Their Kids are Vulnerable
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2018
Do you have a gifted child?
If you do, you would've understand that having gifted children is not as easy as most parent thinks.
You hear people who keep on judging you and your parenting style saying, ***"What can be so hard about raising a smart kid? They always do well in school"***.
They...
Loving Someone with Asperger's Syndrome
Understanding and Connecting with your Partner
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2012
If you’re in a relationship with someone who has Asperger’s syndrome, it’s likely that your partner sometimes seems cold and insensitive. Other times, he or she may have emotional outbursts for no apparent reason. And in those moments when you can’t understand each other at all, you both feel...
Raising a Left-Brain Child in a Right-Brain World
Strategies for Helping Bright, Quirky, Socially Awkward Children to Thrive at Ho me and at School
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2009
Does your child:
• Have impressive intellectual abilities but seem puzzled by ordinary interactions with other children?
• Have deep, all-absorbing interests or seemingly encyclopedic knowledge of certain subjects?
• Bring home mediocre report cards, or seem disengaged...
by Carol Fertig
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2008
From the author of the nation's most popular blog on parenting gifted children comes the definitive how-to handbook for parents. This book offers a large menu of strategies, resources, organizations, tips and suggestions for parents to find optimal learning opportunities for their kids, covering the...
Train the Brain to Hear
Understanding and Treating Auditory Processing Disorder, Dyslexia, Dysgraphia, Dyspraxia, Short Term Memory, Executive Function, Comprehension, and ADD/ADHD (Second Edition)
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2017
Train the Brain to Hear was written by a parent and teacher for parents and teachers. The book provides explanations of the learning disabilities dysgraphia, dyslexia, dyscalculia, dyslexia and auditory processing disorder as well as the common areas that are affected by learning disabilities including...