The Common Sense Guide to Your Child's Special Needs: When to Worry, When to Wait, What To Do

“With reassuring warmth, good humor, and candor, Dr. Pellegrino offers practical guidance on what it means and what to do next when a child struggles with various developmental milestones.”

 

 

 

This is the for solo parents whether widowed, separated, divorced, single by choice, adoptive or foster parents, or military spouses with deployed partners. The author skillfully weaves together interviews, survey results and coping strategies learned and used in her 25 years as a practicing psychologist and specialist in disability adjustment. She presents information for parents of children with a range of disabilities be they physical, neurodevelopmental, and mental health.

 

 

 

A look at the past and the present -- Taking inventory -- Making the most of your current situation -- Making life better for your son or daughter -- Beginning the planning process -- Finding a good place to live -- Building a busy and productive life -- Finding good caregivers -- Working with community agencies -- Creating a plan for the future. (Overdrive)

 

“Augie enjoys the company of his dog, Daisy, and using his imagination, but painfully endures the taunts of his peers because of his facial deformity.”

 

 

 

 

“A deaf child tells how he uses sign language, hearing aids, and his other senses to communicate, how his friends help him, and how he goes to public school with an interpreter.”

 

 

 

“Sixteen-year-old Jemma, who has severe cerebral palsy, must grapple with dark truths that only she knows, and is unable to communicate.”

 

 

 

 

 

“Considered by many to be mentally retarded, a brilliant, impatient fifth-grader with cerebral palsy discovers a technological device that will allow her to speak for the first time.”

 

 

 

A story of Izzy, a child with sensory overload at home and at school. The story presents symptoms and tools for lessening them and enabling children to better live and learn.

“Teaching yoga to children with Autism Spectrum Disorder and other special needs is easy using this visual how-to handbook. Breaking down yoga instruction pose by pose, body part by body part, breath by breath, this book uses easy-to-understand language and clear photographs to show parents, teachers, yoga instructors, and other professionals how to introduce the life-long benefits of yoga to a child with special needs.”

 

 

 

“Differently Wired will help parents of children who think differently to accept their child for who they are and facilitate their successful development.”—Temple Grandin, author of Thinking in Pictures and The Autistic Brain

 

 

 

“With the publication of The Highly Sensitive Person, Elaine Aron became the first person to identify the inborn trait of "high sensitivity" and to show how it affects the lives of those who possess it. Up to 20 percent of the population is born highly sensitive, and now in The Highly Sensitive Child, Aron shifts her focus to highly sensitive children, who share the same characteristics as highly sensitive adults and thus face unique challenges as they grow up.”

 

 

 

“With compassion, clarity, and an emphasis on practical solutions, Dr. Rita Eichenstein walks readers through the five stages of acceptance (similar to the stages of grief, but modified for parents of special-needs kids). Using vivid anecdotes and suggestions, she helps readers understand their own emotional experience, nurture themselves in addition to their kids, identify and address relationship wounds including tension in a marriage and struggles with children (special-needs and neurotypical), and embrace their child with acceptance, compassion and joy.”

“Going to school and making new friends can be tough. But going to school and making new friends while wearing a bulky hearing aid strapped to your chest? That requires superpowers! In this funny, poignant graphic novel memoir, author/illustrator Cece Bell chronicles her hearing loss at a young age and her subsequent experiences with the Phonic Ear, a very powerful—and very awkward—hearing aid.”

 

 

“This heartwarming picture book about being perfectly loved, no matter what, tells of a brother's love for his sister. He is so enthusiastic about just how loving and special she is, and delights in telling us about all the fun things they do together. Only as his tale unfolds does the reader begin to realize that his sister has special needs.”

 

 

“Describes what it is like to live with cerebral palsy, what its symptoms are, and how it is treated.”

 

 

 

“For a teen diagnosed with a learning disability or difference, schoolwork can be an enormous challenge. The first-person accounts in this compelling book offer real-life stories about struggling with attention-deficit disorder, dyslexia, Asperger's, and other issues. Whether searching for a school where they can succeed or finding their creative voice, the teens move forward with grit and determination. Told in engaging and accessible prose, this book provides young adults with a road map as they learn to advocate for themselves so they can receive the education they deserve.”

 

The Goldfish Boy – audiobook

"In this riveting debut, a boy struggling with OCD is uniquely qualified to solve a kidnapping. Lisa Thompson's debut novel is a page-turning mystery with an emotionally-driven, complex character study at its core—like Rear Window meets The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time.”