Special Needs category: 986 books
The Everything Parent's Guide To Sensory Integration Disorder
Get the Right Diagnosis, Understand Treatments, And Advocate for Your Child
Language: English
Release Date: August 9, 2006
For kids living with Sensory Integration Disorder, the world can be a scary place, full of potentially stressful experiences. Kids with Sensory Integration Disorder can howl in discomfort over the feel of a shirt tag or a sock seam on bare skin. They may find the sound of a whisper to be as loud and...
Why Does He Do That?
A Parent's Guide to ASD
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2013
Part One of the Positive Approaches series this is a short, concise and informative book is aimed at parents. It details the many difficulties that face children with Autistic Spectrum Disorder (ASD). These range from the well known differences in communication and sociability to lesser known aspects...
The Autism Answer Book
More Than 300 of the Top Questions Parents Ask
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2007
It is currently estimated that 1 in 150 kids are affected by autism-and that number is increasing at an alarming rate.
In a time when parents are overwhelmed with confusing, and often conflicting, information, The Autism Answer Book provides them clear and confident counsel by providing straightforward...
The Everything Parent's Guide To Children With Bipolar Disorder
Professional, Reassuring Advice to Help You Understand And Cope
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2005
What does it mean for your child to be diagnosed with bipolar disorder? Where can you go to understand mood disorders, depression, and the highs and lows associated with this condition? The Everything Parent’s Guide to Children with Bipolar Disorder is an authoritative handbook designed specifically...
Superparenting for ADD
An Innovative Approach to Raising Your Distracted Child
Language: English
Release Date: December 30, 2008
With decades of experience working with ADD children, Dr. Edward Hallowell has long argued that ADD is too often misunderstood, mistreated, and mislabeled as a “disability.” Now he teams up with top academic ADD researcher Peter S. Jensen, M.D., to bring you an invaluable new approach to helping...
Your Hyperactive Child
A Parent's Guide to Coping with Attention Deficit Disorder
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2011
The authoritative handbook provides a wealth of urgently needed information to help parents of a hyperactive child understand and cope with their child's baffling behavior.
Grace, Under Pressure
A Girl with Asperger's and Her Marathon Mom
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2013
When Sophie Walker's daughter Grace was diagnosed with Asperger Syndrome, her world unravelled. Her high-powered job was in disarray, she couldn't sleep, often woke in tears and felt hopeless and useless in her role as a mother. One day she realized she hadn't done any exercise for months, and had...
Amelia & Me
On deafness, and parenting by the seat of my pants
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2017
Perhaps in a moment of compromise – of forgiveness and flexibility – we might arrive at the same destination from separate points of departure and find that it was the journey itself that made it all worthwhile.
She was born under the sign of Capricorn. Bonny and pink and perfectly formed....
by Ken Siri, Tony Lyons, Teri Arranga
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2014
The parents of children with autism know that learning about treatments is a full-time job. For parents with limited time, ability, or resources, Ken Siri and Tony Lyons have compiled the latest in autism research and treatment. Exploring the possible causes of autism and presenting novel therapies,...
by Dennis E. Adonis
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2015
Confident that his experiment and solution is workable; - the pages of this book, provides a listing of recommendations by a parent, who used a self discovered psychological solution to set his own son free from autism. Enlisted as a parent to parent solution, noted author and social researcher...
A Mind Apart
Understanding Children with Autism and Asperger Syndrome
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2011
Why would a child refuse to talk about anything but wasp wings-or the color of subway train doors? What does it mean when a nine-year-old asks questions about death hundreds of times a day? And how can parents build a close relationship with a little girl who hates to be touched? In this compassionate...
Down Syndrome
An Introduction for Parents and Carers
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2011
Already established as the author of the standard work for parents of Down Syndrome children, Cliff Cunningham has now produced the definitive study in this field. Practical and helpful, its sympathetic and understanding approach covers all the questions parents ask about the causes, characteristics...
What to Do about Smearing
A Practical Guide for Parents and Caregivers of People with Autism, Developmental and Intellectual Disabilities
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2017
Addressing the often hidden, yet not uncommon, behaviour of faecal smearing among children and adults with autism and developmental and intellectual disabilities, this practical handbook shows how to tackle this often embarrassing and difficult issue in a positive way.
Informing parents and...
The ADHD-Autism Connection
A Step Toward More Accurate Diagnoses and Effective Treatments
Language: English
Release Date: January 21, 2009
At last, long-awaited answers to the questions you’ve been asking. Help for frustrated ADHD patients and their families. (As well as those with autism, PDD, Asperger’s syndrome, and other related conditions.)
Attention deficit/hyperactive disorder (ADHD) is one of the most rapidly growing...