Special Needs category: 986 books
Parenting Your Stressed Child
10 Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction Practices to Help Your Child Manage Stress and Build Essential
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2011
Kids may have fewer responsibilities than mom and dad, but childhood can still be one of the most stressful periods in life. The stresses of school, extracurricular activities, and even day-to-day family living can make kids feel overwhelmed and distracted. To make matters worse, children have very...
by The Organization for Autism Research
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2008
The formal assessment process can be a daunting experience for parents of children newly diagnosed with autism. By using highly technical language and focusing on “deficit performance,” assessments can often overwhelm and dishearten parents. In addition, autism and medical professionals rarely...
by win c. kelly
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2017
Kelly is a woman who has faced many challenges in her life, including the many obstacles presented as a result of Cerebral Palsy, but that hasn't stopped her from climbing the professional ladder. The driving force, for so many years, has been the young children who enter the school with smiles...
The Boy from Baby House 10
From the Nightmare of a Russian Orphanage to a New Life in America
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2011
In 1990, a young boy afflicted with cerebral palsy was born, prematurely, in Russia. His name was Vanya. His mother abandoned him to the state childcare system and he was sent to a bleak orphanage called Baby House 10. Once there, he entered a nightmare world he was not to leave for more than eight...
Broken Glass
A Family's Journey Through Mental Illness
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2006
When Robert Hine's daughter, Elene, first showed signs of unhappiness as a little girl, no one dreamed she would grow up to have a serious personality disorder. As an early "baby boomer," Elene reached adolescence and young womanhood in the midst of the counterculture years. Her father, a respected...
The Beauty of What Remains
Family Lost, Family Found
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2015
• More than 189,000 Americans lost a father in WWII and more than 200,00 lost a parent in the Vietnam War. • Data from the US Census Bureau show that there are 76.4 million baby boomers alive today, and scores are turning to genealogy, many hoping to trace and locate lost members of their family....
by Linnet McMahon, Peter Wilson
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2003
Tackling the difficult issues facing those who work with traumatized and sometimes dangerous young people and their families, this new volume shows how professionals can bring about positive change and growth through the creation of "holding" and healing therapeutic environments. This collection...
by TommyTom
Language: English
Release Date: January 17, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 17, 2013
Written from the perspective of his big sister Rebecca, The Amazing TommyTom will entertain and educate the reader. Our life with Autism is very interesting and should be shared. Please join Thomas and our family as we experience life. God has richly blessed us with Thomas, and we love him dearly. You will too!
by Desirée Gallimore
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2017
For those growing up with an intellectual disability or autism, comfortable, safe and independent travel will prove an invaluable life skill. The key to pursuing fulfilling work and leisure activities and developing as an individual, it also brings a liberating level of self-sufficiency and reassurance...
Family Trouble
Middle-Class Parents, Children's Problems, and the Disruption of Everyday Life
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2015
Our children mean the world to us. They are so central to our hopes and dreams that we will do almost anything to keep them healthy, happy, and safe. What happens, then, when a child has serious problems? In Family Trouble, a compelling portrait of upheaval in family life, sociologist Ara Francis...
by Dorothy Fickenscher
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2017
An upbeat account of a mother’s journey parenting twins with different disabilities. It is a tale of advocacy outlining the strategies used when working with doctors, teachers and neighbors.
It describes how a mother explored options available to her family, looking for the right “fit”...
The Match
Savior Siblings and One Family's Battle to Heal Their Daughter
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2010
My Sister’s Keeper in nonfiction: a family’s real-life struggle to cure their daughter by creating her genetic match
Katie Trebing was diagnosed at three months oldwith Diamond Blackfan anemia, a rare form of anemia that prevents bone marrow from producing red blood cells. Even with a lifetime...
by Juliet Alva
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2016
Does your child struggle with sleeping through the night?
For many parents, having their child sleep soundly and easily can be a far-off dream for them. It can be quite the struggle and hard if you don’t know how to create the best environment for them. However, this book can help with this,...
by Doris Rapp M.D.
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2010
IS THIS YOUR CHILD?
These are the major symptoms of potentially unrecognized allergies. Does your child suffer from any of the following?
• Allergic Nose Rub • Eye Circles • Red Ears • Red Cheeks • Eye Wrinkles • Aggression • Lack of Alertness • Mottled Tongue •
In...