Special Needs category: 986 books
Children and Autism
Stories of Triumph and Hope
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2010
Children and Autism presents seven heartwarming and compelling stories of children who have triumphed over the challenge of autism. These are not stories of easy or simple remedies but in the end in each instance the child is indistinguishable from their same-age peers. Parents can draw hope and inspiration...
by Sheila Hollins, Valerie Sinason
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2018
This is a story about what can happen to a girl when she starts her period. People do not need to be able to read in order to understand the story. Susan does not understand what is happening to her when she finds blood on her sheets and clothes. She does not tell her mother, but goes straight to...
by Sheila Hollins, Lester Sireling
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2018
When Mum Died takes a gentle, honest and straightforward approach to death in the family. The pictures tell the story of the death of a parent in a simple but moving way. The approach is non-denominational. This book will be helpful to adolescents and adults with intellectual disabilities as well...
Alone Together
Making an Asperger Marriage Work
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2007
Communication is one of the biggest challenges faced by people with Asperger's Syndrome (AS), yet an Asperger marriage requires communication more than any other relationship. Thousands of people live in Asperger marriages without knowing the answers to important questions such as `What behaviours...
Raising Teens with Diabetes
A Survival Guide for Parents
Language: English
Release Date: June 4, 2013
2013 Mom's Choice Awards® Winner
Hormones. Growth spurts. Mood swings. All combined with blood sugars.
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The teen years with diabetes on board are a challenging time for parents and anyone who cares about a child with diabetes. Raising Teens with Diabetes: A Survival Guide for Parents,...
This Lovely Life
A Memoir of Premature Motherhood
Language: English
Release Date: July 23, 2009
One woman’s true story of raising a child born three months premature—“propulsive, startling, and vivid, like motherhood itself” (Meg Wolitzer, New York Times–bestselling author of The Female Persuasion).
Vicki Forman gave birth to Evan and Ellie, weighing only one pound each, at twenty-three...
Just for Matt
A Story About Life, Love, and Down syndrome
Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 1992
The story of the Breitling family continues as Matthew Breitling has grown up! He is now 31 years old, some of his sisters have married, and he is Uncle Matthew to four nieces and nine nephews! It is the Breitling's wish to continue to share their very personal story to help others. Matthew was diagnosed...
by Jean Betschart Roemer
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2011
The American Diabetes Association Guide to Raising a Child with Diabetes, 3rd edition features the latest advances in diabetes care to help your child have a healthy active childhood. Full of problem-solving examples and easy-to-use tables, you will learn how:To adjust insulin to allow for the foods...
An Exceptional Pupil
Teaching Aspergers and High-Functioning Autistic Children
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
In an entertaining synthesis of personal experience and scientific investigation, Angel Griffin describes effective methods for teaching the exceptional pupil, the Aspergers child. As she and her son travel his road to actualization through home education, her understanding grows with every problem...
Journeys of Gold
An Uplifting Story Of Two Families Raising Children With Aspergers Syndrome
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2012
Journeys of Gold is a positive, uplifting book about raising a child on the Autism Spectrum. Much of the information available on ASD, or in our case, Aspergers Syndrome, is quite overwhelming as it is normally read at a time when you are facing the thought of your child being ‘different’ or going...
by Hugh Grant, Sheila Hollins
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2018
Dean goes to the theatre with his family. He enjoys it so much, his friend James encourages him to go to a drama group. He's very nervous and finds it hard to join in at first. But once he gets to know people he has a really good time, doing both backstage roles and acting. Drama groups are a good...
Life Through Sam's Eyes
How Our Blind Son Helped Us See
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2016
A journey from devastation to inspiration.
International authors and parents Jim and Lisa Valavanis share their inspirational story of what they went through and how they coped and survived when a family crisis struck down their son Sam.
Sam was diagnosed with Retinoblastoma at just...
by Judi Willis
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2017
All parents want the best for their children and most are aware of the value of the 'early learning' years, but aren't sure where to begin when it comes to helping their own children develop as a toddler. This book aims to act as a simple guide for parents that will introduce you to some simple and creative...
by Cristina Liberati
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2014
Answers From Andrew takes readers on the author's personal journey of raising a son with autism. From diagnosis through present day, the reader can explore a heartfelt, intimate, personal narrative of one mother's experience. The author takes the reader from diagnosis, a place of desperation and despair,...