Special Needs category: 986 books
Bright Not Broken
Gifted Kids, ADHD, and Autism
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2011
The future of our society depends on our gifted children—the population in which we’ll find our next Isaac Newton, Albert Einstein, or Virginia Woolf. Yet the gifts and talents of some of our most brilliant kids may never be recognized because these children fall into a group known as twice exceptional,...
Visual Supports for People with Autism
A Guide for Parents and Professionals
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2016
Visual supports—any pictorial, graphic, or scheduling aid—are excellent tools for teaching academic, daily living, and self-help skills to people with autism. This reader-friendly and practical book shows teachers, parents, and service providers how to make low-tech visual supports, and offers strategies...
Why Smart Kids Worry
And What Parents Can Do to Help
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2013
"Therapist Edwards brings profound insight into the minds of gifted, anxious children in this parent-friendly handbook" — Publishers Weekly, STARRED
Being the parent of a smart child is great?until your son or daughter starts asking whether global warming is real, if you are going...
When Your Child is Cutting
A Parent's Guide to Helping Children Overcome Self-Injury
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2006
A Compassionate Guide for Parents
As a parent, what's harder to deal with than seeing your child in pain? It's especially frustrating when you feel like you've exhausted the resources you could use to help him or her stop hurting. And if your child is cutting or engaging in another form of...
The Myth of the ADHD Child, Revised Edition
101 Ways to Improve Your Child's Behavior and Attention Span Without Drugs, Labels, or Coercion
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2017
A fully revised and updated edition of the groundbreaking book on tackling the root causes of children’s attention and behavior problems rather than masking the symptoms with medication.
More than twenty years after Dr. Thomas Armstrong's Myth of the A.D.D. Child first published, he presents...
by Carol Kranowitz, Lucy Jane Miller
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2006
The groundbreaking book that explains Sensory Processing Disorder (SPD)--and presents a drug-free approach that offers hope for parents--now revised and updated.
Does your child exhibit...
Over-responsivity--or under-responsivity--to touch or movement? A child with SPD may be a "sensory...
Don't Blink
What the Little Boy Nobody Expected to Live Is Teaching the World about Life
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2016
Not long into their pregnancy, Brandon and Brittany Buell were given the heartbreaking news that their son, whom they had already named Jaxon, had a rare condition called Microhydranencephaly (meaning that he was missing part of his skull and most of his brain), and that he would likely die in utero...
January First
A Child's Descent into Madness and Her Father's Struggle to Save Her
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2012
Michael Schofield’s daughter January is at the mercy of her imaginary friends, except they aren’t the imaginary friends that most young children have; they are hallucinations. And January is caught in the conflict between our world and their world, a place she calls Calalini. Some of these hallucinations,...
Expecting Adam
A True Story of Birth, Rebirth, and Everyday Magic
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2011
"He says you'll never be hurt as much by being open as you have been by remaining closed."
The messenger is a school janitor with a master's in art history who claims to be channeling "from both sides of the veil." "He" is Adam, a three-year-old who has never spoken...
The Autism & ADHD Diet
A Step-by-Step Guide to Hope and Healing by Living Gluten Free and Casein Free (GFCF) and Other Interventions
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2009
"Huge changes"| "A different child"| "A miracle" | "Vast improvements"
This is what parents are saying about an amazing diet that is showing extraordinary results in helping children eliminate many traits and symptoms associated with autism spectrum disorders,...
In the Meantime
Finding Yourself and the Love You Want
Language: English
Release Date: July 14, 1999
“The most powerful spiritual healer, fixer, teacher on the planet.” —Oprah Winfrey
The #1 national bestseller from the host of IYANLA: Fix My Life that answers the question: What’s love got to do with it in the meantime?
You know where you want to be, but you have no clue how...
The Horse Boy
A Father's Quest to Heal His Son
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2009
When his son Rowan was diagnosed with autism, Rupert Isaacson was devastated, afraid he might never be able to communicate with his child. But when Isaacson, a lifelong horseman, rode their neighbor's horse with Rowan, Rowan improved immeasurably. He was struck with a crazy idea: why not take Rowan...
Child's Journey Out of Autism
One Family's Story of Living in Hope and Finding a Cure
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2009
Told with the intensity of a medical thriller, the extraordinary story of how Clay Whiffen and his family conquered autism.
"Leeann Whiffen's fight for her son is a poignant, intimate story of perseverance and love - a reminder to all of us that a mother is the greatest ally a child with...
Overcoming Dyslexia
A New and Complete Science-Based Program for Reading Problems at Any Level
Language: English
Release Date: December 24, 2008