Keeping Families at the Center of Health Care
This book show parents how they can support and encourage their child’s speech and language development from birth to age 6 (or when a child can form 2- to 3-word sentences). Parents and teachers learn how to work through characteristic challenges, including hearing loss, intelligibility issues, apraxia (difficulty planning oral-motor movements), or a slower pace… More Early Communication Skills For Children With Down Syndrome
The use of American Sign Language (ASL) can open up the world of communication for children who have Down syndrome because it supports the development of expressive language, functional communication, and social skills. In this guide, you will learn how signing supports language development, easy tips for signing at home, strategies for signing in the… More Everyone Can Sign: Special Needs Series Quick Guide: Down Syndrome
John and Martha Beck had two Harvard degrees apiece when they conceived their second child. Further graduate studies, budding careers, and a growing family meant major stress–not that they’d have admitted it to anyone (or themselves). As the pregnancy progressed, Martha battled constant nausea and dehydration. And when she learned her unborn son had Down… More Expecting Adam
Even the closest brothers and sisters don’t always get along or understand each other. Add a disability like Down syndrome to the mix, and that sibling relationship gets even more complicated, especially for teenagers. This is the first book written exclusively for teens with a brother or sister with Down syndrome. In an easy-to-read, question… More Fasten Your Seatbelt – A Crash Course on Down Syndrome for Brothers and Sisters
The author, an occupational therapist who has worked extensively with children with Down syndrome, is also the parent of a teenager with Down syndrome. She offers parents and professionals dozens of easy, home-and school-based activities, illustrated with black and white photos, which help children gradually acquire the skills they need for fine motor development. Readers… More Fine Motor Skills For Children With Down Syndrome (Third Edition)
Author Anne Tucker Roberts spent nearly 20 years teaching adolescents with developmental delays. Anne thought she understood Down’s syndrome until she learned the extraordinary backstory of one remarkable student. After his birth, his parents were urged to institutionalize him. Instead, they took him home. It is this mom’s astonishing story of creativity and perseverance that… More Five Courageous Mothers: Raising Children with Down Syndrome
It’s Freddie’s very first time at summer camp and he’s certain he won’t enjoy it or make friends. It isn’t long before a boy called Jerry helps him to see otherwise! When a child with Down syndrome joins a mainstream school many children can find it difficult to understand a student that is somewhat different… More Freddie’s Super Summer
Having a baby with Down syndrome is not something most parents would willingly choose. Yet many who travel this path discover rich, unexpected rewards along the way. In this candid and poignant collection of personal stories, sixty-three mothers describe the gifts of respect, strength, delight, perspective, and love, which their child with Down syndrome has… More Gifts: Mothers Reflect on How Children with Down Syndrome Enrich Their Lives
In this thoroughly updated second edition, the author explains in parent-friendly language the many physiological reasons that children with Down syndrome experience delays in their gross motor development. It presents a physical therapy treatment plan from birth to age 6. Over 400 photos accompany step-by-step instructions to help readers assess a child’s gross motor readiness… More Gross Motor Skills in Children with Down Syndrome: a Guide for Parents and Professionals
As children with Down syndrome reach age 6 they encounter more complex speech and language demands in their learning and relationships with others. This is when gaps in communication abilities between children with Down syndrome and their typically developing peers begin to widen. Helping Children with Down Syndrome Communicate Better provides parents and professionals with… More Helping Children with Down Syndrome Communicate Better: Speech and Language Skills for Ages 6-14
A young girl with Down syndrome works hard at all her daily activities at home and school. She receives hugs for completing her tasks and learns “hug etiquette”.
As your child sits on your lap and you read to him, he’ll see other children with Down syndrome modeling some things he can do and some which he will soon do. Reinforce your child’s abilities (Look at the boy going down the slide. You can do that!) and encourage the possibilities (Do you see… More I Can, Can You?
This lighthearted board book features wonderful photographs of young children with Down syndrome enjoying a wide selection of healthful foods, from fruits and veggies to meats and snacks. Simple, singsong questions–I like broccoli, do you?–invite participation by little ones (ages birth-4) as they anticipate and say the word for the food in each photograph. And… More I Like Berries, Do You?
I’m Down with You will take you on an inspired journey with the people of the Down syndrome community. With the gift of an extra chromosome, they are in fact not disabled but abled with the ability to love without hierarchy, have strong self-esteem and impact everyone they touch with an uplifting spirit found too… More I’m Down With You: An Inspired Journey
This DVD brings together parents and professionals from all over the world to explore the many milestones of childhood with Down syndrome and takes a look at the everyday challenges– such as toilet training and behavior issues, medical conditions, IEP preparation and working with health care professionals.
Gabriel was born with Down syndrome and then, as a toddler, was diagnosed with autism as well. For a period of two years Gabriel lost the night, waking at all hours and requiring continuous attention. The author writes of nights filled with confusion and chaos, and deep, unfulfilled wishes to understand her son. Saving Gabriel,… More Know the Night: A Memoir of Survival in the Small Hours
By stressing that children with Down syndrome are wonderful, viable members of society, this book removes many stigmas attached.
New parents who find out they’re going to have a child with intellectual challenges are faced with many questions: Will she be able to function in the world? Will she have the same hopes and dreams as other children? Will her life be happy or filled with sadness and failure? Along with the Brown family,… More Living with a Special Need: Intellectual Disabilities
This little book is a tribute to the author’s beautiful granddaughter, Lyndara, who is now a teenager, walking and going to school and riding horses and shining her light upon the world. There was a time when those of us who love her were so saddened by her condition that we could hardly bear to… More Lyndara And The Zeespot
Written for both individuals with Down syndrome and parents this book addresses families foals of education, money, housing and other issues in futures planning.