Special Needs category: 986 books
Just Take a Bite
Easy, Effective Answers to Food Aversions and Eating Challenges!
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2012
Winner of an iParenting Media Award! Is your child a picky eater or a full-fledged resistant eater? Does he or she eat only 3-20 foods, refusing all others? Eat from only one food group? Gag, tantrum, or become anxious if you introduce new foods? If so, you have a resistant eater. Learn the possible...
All About ADHD
A Family Resource for Helping Your Child Succeed with ADHD
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2017
By the author of the bestselling parent book 1-2-3 Magic
For the estimated 20 million Americans with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder comes the third edition of All About ADHD by Dr. Thomas W. Phelan, an internationally renowned expert and lecturer on child discipline and ADHD. Completely...
If a Tree Falls
A Family's Quest to Hear and Be Heard
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2010
A revealing memoir of a family and a “wrenching journey into deafness from the standpoint of a mother, a wife, a daughter, a philosopher, and a Jew” (Ilan Stavans, author of On Borrowed Words: A Memoir of Language).
When her daughters were born deaf, Jennifer Rosner was stunned. Then she discovered...
The Magic Castle
A Mother's Harrowing True Story Of Her Adoptive Son's Multiple Personalities-- And The Triumph Of Healing
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2014
Alex Smith and his eight personalities were trapped in a world of unfathomable evil...until he entered the "magic castle" and found the key to his freedom.
When Carole Smith and her husband decided to take in a foster child that no one else would have, they knew ten-year-old Alex...
by Jonathan Levy
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2007
"All children with autism have ways of dropping into their own world, leaving us behind for a minute, an hour, a day."
This is the essence of autism: a disorder that is, at its heart, about interaction. Many of the symptoms associated with autism come from either a lack of paying...
Raising Blaze
A Mother and Son's Long, Strange Journey into Autism
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2009
When you have a child that doesn't fit in, what do you do? Debra Ginsberg knew that her son, Blaze, was unique from the moment he was born in 1987. What she didn't know was that Blaze's differences would be regarded by the outside world not as gifts, but as impediments to social and academic success....
ADHD in the Young Child: Driven to Redirection
A Guide for Parents and Teachers of Young Children with ADHD
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 1999
Divided into two sections, this resource provides solutions to common ADHD issues, such as behavior modification and medication control. The first section offers an overview of ADHD and helps clarify the common behaviors associated with it, while the second section provides one-page guides for specific problem areas both at home and in the classroom.
by Sara Park
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2013
“Clever Carter” is a story about a young boy with Autism Spectrum Disorder. It is a picture book that was written for children, to provide an understanding about the disorder. The book teaches about some of the common behaviors of ASD. Though initially geared towards young children, it grants...
by Cameron Davis
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2013
Most people look at Autism as a disability because they only see someone who isn’t acting “normal” and they haven’t learned about Autism. I think of Autism as just another type of person who does things a little differently.
You might be wondering why I think of Autism differently...
by Herb Marlow
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2011
Oppositional Defiant Disorder and Conduct Disorder create havoc in families and classrooms in our society today. In this book, Dr. Marlow addresses these problems in a case study format, outlining therapy techniques and problem solutions for children, teachers and parents. The case studies are taken...
by Nathan Ory
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2013
Case studies of persons with developmental disabilities, autism, fetal alcohol syndrome, mental handicaps with practical approaches.
The Four Walls of My Freedom
Lessons I've Learned from a Life of Caregiving
Language: English
Release Date: January 13, 2014
A riveting and redemptive family memoir, The Four Walls of My Freedom is Donna Thomson’s account of raising a son with cerebral palsy and a passionate appeal to change the way we think about “the good life.”
Donna Thomson’s life was forever changed when her son Nicholas was born with...
by Jackie Durnin
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2012
Learn how to communicate with your preverbal baby using baby sign language.
The gift of communication between parents and their babies is one of life's true joys. With this exciting book, the process of communicating with your baby could happen sooner than you think!
By introducing simple...
Finding Matthew
A Child with Brain Damage, a Young Man with Mental Illness, a Son and Brother with Extraordinary Spirit
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2012
During the first few weeks after Matthew Kirk was born -- brain-damaged as a result of oxygen deprivation during delivery -- the doctors advised his parents, Donna and Ed Kirk, to put him in an institution, have another baby as soon as possible, and get on with their life. But what the doctors didn't...