Keeping Families at the Center of Health Care
Learning to manage money is an important skill for teens and adults with Down syndrome, autism, and other intellectual disabilities. This book has clear instructions broken down into small steps, practice opportunities, color-coded forms, and large scale graphics to make abstract money managing concepts concrete. Anyone whose math and writing skills are at a first-grade… More Managing My Money: Banking and Budgeting Basics
This story follows Hailey as she goes through her first day of kindergarten. Hailey shows her new friends how to sign the alphabet, and her new friends help her find her glasses when she misplaces them. Ages 5-7.
Emily was born with Down syndrome, and at the age of two, developed Leukemia. This is the beautiful story of the all too brief life of one little girl, had great meaning.
Isabelle and Charlie are friends. They both like to draw, dance, read, and play at the park. They both like to eat Cheerios. They both cry if their feelings are hurt. And, like most friends, they are also different from each other. Isabelle has Down syndrome. Charlie doesn’t. Written by Isabelle’s mother, this charming tale… More My Friend Isabelle
Journalist, blogger, and NPR contributor Amy Silverman, bravely looks at her life, before and after her daughter Sophie was born, and reflects on her transformation from a spoiled, self-centered brat, who used words like retard and switched lines at the Safeway to avoid a bagger with special needs, into the mother of a kid with… More My Heart Can’t Even Believe It: A Story of Science, Love, and Down Syndrome
Nathan shows us that God made everyone different and special, including his sister Rachel who has Down syndrome. Ages 3 and up.
Based on the lives of two sisters, this story expresses the challenges and joys of growing up with a sibling who has special needs. In many ways, Rachel and Alicia are like any sisters, but Rachel knows her sister is very different and very special because she has Down syndrome. Though Rachel occasionally feels frustrations and… More My Sister, Alicia May
A moving memoir about finding and adopting a son from the foster care system with Down syndrome and realizing that life is best lived by expecting the unplanned. As time passes, the author and her husband become less aware they are raising an atypical or adopted child. They are raising their child, no different than… More Not Always Happy: An Unusual Parenting Journey
An inspirational account of the first six years in the life of a little girl born with Down’s syndrome and a heart problem, written in the style of a personal diary. The book is humorous, touching and upbeat. The author has recently updated the diary so readers can follow the life of Ophelia as she… More Ophelia Blue Eyes: My Life So Far
In a simple language, and illustrated with photographs three sisters describe the ways in which little brother Jai, is different from other children, and what the family does to help him get along. Ages 4 and up.
Rachel Adams’s life had always gone according to plan. She had an adoring husband, a beautiful two-year-old son, a sunny Manhattan apartment, and a position as a tenured professor at Columbia University. Everything changed with the birth of her second child, Henry. Just minutes after he was born, doctors told her that Henry had Down… More Raising Henry: A Memoir of Motherhood, Disability & Discovery
How do we show our children that they CAN make their dreams a reality? This is the true story of Sofia Sanchez, a little girl with Down syndrome, who learned how to surf by riding the waves in the Pacific Ocean with Haole the Surf Dog. Sofia takes you on her personal journey of dreaming… More Ride the Wave Love Sofia and Haole the Surf Dog
When Jennifer Groneberg and her husband learned they’d be having twin boys, their main concern was whether they’d need an addition on their house. Then, five days after Avery and Bennett were born, Avery was diagnosed with Down syndrome. Here, Jennifer shares the story of what followed. She dealt with doctors-some who helped, and some… More Road Map To Holland: How I Found My Way Through My Son’s First Two Years With Down Syndrome
Russ is having an excellent day — his Mom makes his favorite breakfast; he gets ready for school in time to catch the end of his favorite TV show; and he finds a 5-dollar bill on the way to school. It doesn’t take long for Russ to decide to keep the money and treat himself… More Russ And The Almost Perfect Day
Russ, a five-year-old boy with Down syndrome, tags along with his Uncle Jerry, a fireman, during a day of work at a real firehouse. Captured in detail with vivid color photographs, this story begins as Russ goes ‘on duty’ for the day. He helps inspect the fire equipment — the axe, fire hydrant, flashlight, ladders,… More Russ And The Firehouse
A child doesn’t want to leave the toy store, so he stops and flops. Another bolts across a busy parking lot, turns and smiles at his mom. An eighteen-year-old student bursts into tears when asked to change activities at school. Sound familiar? These and other common behavior issues in children with Down syndrome can quickly… More Supporting Positive Behavior in Children and Teens with Down Syndrome
This beautifully illustrated and fun-to-read storybook simplifies and normalizes complicated childhood conditions, like Down syndrome. When read aloud, other children can identify why a peer may be treated differently and begin to empathize with them. In Taking Down Syndrome to School, Nick’s story explains what Down Syndrome is and how it affects children born with it.… More Taking Down Syndrome To School
Parents of children with Down syndrome and other intellectual disabilities are accustomed to paying close attention to their child’s physical, cognitive, and emotional development. This proactive approach should also include their child’s sexual development, which for many parents may not seem as obvious or urgent, especially to those with young children. Drawing on her unique… More Teaching Children With Down Syndrome About Their Bodies, Boundaries, And Sexuality
The author, an experienced educator, was inspired to write ‘Teaching Math’ to meet the needs of hands-on learners after observing the difficulty her adult son with Down Syndrome and his peers had in applying math skills to everyday life. ‘Teaching Math’ gives parents and teachers high-interest, hands-on strategies and ideas for teaching math to learners… More Teaching Math To People With Down Syndrome And Other Hands On Learners Basic Survival Skills
Children and adults with Down syndrome need math for the real world–counting with meaning, adding the scores in a game, and tracking time in order to keep to a schedule.Written in a straightforward and user-friendly style, the new second edition of Teaching Math to People with Down Syndrome provides strategies and activities that are relevant… More Teaching Math to People with Down Syndrome and Other Hands-on Learners (2nd Edition)