Keeping Families at the Center of Health Care
The incarceration of a loved one can be very overwhelming for both children and caregivers. It can bring about big changes and transitions. In simple everyday ways, you can comfort your child and guide her through these tough moments. With your love and support she can get through anything that comes her way. Here are… More Little Children Big Challenges: Incarceration
This is the true story of the Hetzel family and their struggles with their adoptive daughter, Nadya. While living in the Russian adoption system, Nadya experienced severe neglect and trauma, leading to a diagnosis of reactive attachment disorder, attention deficit disorder, and post-traumatic stress disorder. Lori shares her family’s darkest days, hoping to reach families… More Loving Harder
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 book looks at the ways in which having a child with special needs can make it more difficult for a marriage to thrive and how a child’s intensive needs can change the structure of a marriage. The authors describe what makes a marriage strong, such as continuing to share connections outside of parenting roles,… More Married with Special-Needs Children: A Couples Guide to Keeping Connected
The stories in this collection provide parents of kids with special needs a dose of both laughter and reality. Featuring works by so-called alternative parents who have attempted to move away from mainstream thought, this anthology carefully considers the implications of raising children with disabilities.
Written by a Mom in Canada, this book profiles one family’s challenges, and joys, while raising a child with special health care needs. Edelson poses some tough questions: How do parents cope with a child who has special needs? Are we failing, as a society, to care for children with disabilities? Whatever happened to the… More My Journey With Jake: A Memoir Of Parenting And Disability
Everyone knows that it isn’t always easy having a working mom, but this girl’s mom has a job that keeps her whole family jumping! After all, when your mom is always flying off to meetings or mixing strange potions in her laboratory, life can be both trying and exciting. And even through Mom throws birthday… More My Working Mom
This book explains that while it is good to have high expectations for yourself, it is not possible to always be perfect. It teaches children that if they fail at accomplishments one of their goals, they should try again and not give up. Ages 5 and up.
As diagnosis rates continue to rise for autism, ADHD, learning disabilities, and other developmental differences, parents face a maze of medical, psychological, and educational choices – and a great deal of emotional stress. Many books address children’s learning or behavior problems and advise parents what they can do to help their kids, but this book… More Not What I Expected: Help and Hope for Parents of Atypical Children
Written for parents, and caregivers of challenging children, this book shows how to develop more positive thoughts and perceptions when dealing with challenging behavior. With keen insight, gentle humor, and practical tools and strategies, Dr. Durand guides parents step by step through the process of pinpointing the “why” behind challenging behavior, tuning in to their… More Optimistic Parenting: Hope and Help for You and Your Challenging Child
Every parent of a child with disabilities knows just how overwhelming and frustrating it can be. When these children enter adulthood, the difficulties can become even greater. Many parents are tempted to keep their children at home, believing that they will be safer and happier under their care. But adults with special needs deserve the… More Parenting An Adult With Disabilities Or Special Needs: Everything You Need To Know to Plan for and Protect Your Child’s Future
A book on reactive attachment disorder and more, in that it explores the underlying causes and includes help for children that might not be so badly damaged psychologically as to be classified as having reactive attachment disorder. The book will help any parent who is challenged with raising an oppositional defiant or “difficult” child. The… More Parenting Other People’s Children: Understanding And Repairing Reactive Attachment Disorder
Parenting Pandora explores what motivates children with RAD, and how to use it to gain positive changes. It explains why standard parenting recommendations do not work and how the child perceives them. Practical tips and unconventional strategies for approaching common issues are described, as well as techniques to neutralize controlling behavior. Written by a mom… More Parenting Pandora: Understanding Your Child With Reactive Attachment Disorder
In this book, Brenda Dater draws on her extensive experience as a support group leader and parent of a child on the spectrum to offer trusted advice and tried-and-tested solutions to parents’ top concerns, all in an accessible and easy-to-read format. Filled with the voices of other parents in the same situation, the book covers… More Parenting Without Panic: A Pocket Support Group for Parents of Children and Teens on the Autism Spectrum
For all the parents out there at their wits’ end, author Dr. Kevin Leman offers the fail-safe action plan to redirecting power surges into positive traits that will prepare the powerful child for a successful, happy, productive adult life. Parents will learn how powerful children are created, what makes them tick, what makes them explode,… More Parenting Your Powerful Child
You’re probably reading this because your teenager shared something important about themselves. You want to be supportive, but what does “supportive” mean to transgender, nonbinary, or gender nonconforming teens? This parenting book provides positive parenting tools to support your teen on their journey of self-discovery plus strategies to help you build a stronger relationship with… More Parenting Your Transgender Teen: Positive Parenting Strategies for Raising Transgender, Nonbinary, and Gender Nonconforming Teens
This book is an easy to read book for parents who are entering into the world of having a child with a disability or for those who are struggling with being a parent of one. Written by an experienced father and mother who have been there, done that in a straight shooting, parent-to-parent way with… More Parents of Children with Disabilities: A Survival Guide for Fathers & Mothers
This publication ffers unique activities to help parents deal with a wide range of behavior problems. Uses proven techniques based on the principle that children learn best through play. Fun and games also address day-to-day discipline issues that disrupt family harmony.
Janet Morel provides the parent or professional dealing with differently-abled children a wealth of experience, ideas for developmental “toys”, instructions, and support in helping families help their child reach her or his full potential. At once a tender, emotive, fact filled practical how-to book.
This book addresses the specific challenges that parents and teachers of children with special needs face, and offers them straightforward advice for supporting them in positive ways. In these pages are practical solutions to challenges. The book gives information in a clear and succinct way which arms parents with logical tools for common problems. Learning… More Positive Discipline for children with Special Needs: Raising and Teaching All Children to Become Resilient, Responsible, and Respectful