Special Needs Parenting

Transform ADHD parenting challenges into opportunities for connection and growth. This audiobook offers a compassionate, evidence-based guide to understanding and supporting your ADHD child while strengthening your relationship. Packed with real-life examples and actionable strategies, this audiobook empowers parents to transform struggles into strengths and celebrate their child’s unique journey.

Descubre los secretos de la crianza de niños con TDAH: Desata Habilidades de Crianza Tranquilas y Competentes, Aunque las Luchas Diarias Parezcan Abrumadoras.

Sensory processing disorder (SPD) is a medical condition which affects how your brain processes sensory information, or stimuli. Sensory information includes things you can touch, hear, taste, or smell. SPD can affect all of your senses, just one of your senses, or somewhere in between. In Parenting the SPD Child: Strategies for Helping Your Child With Sensory Processing Disorder, we will cover a lot of ground. We will start by looking at exactly what SPD looks like in children.

Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) is one of the most common childhood conditions, and for a majority of affected individuals, symptoms and impairment associated with this disorder persist into adolescence and adulthood. Although rates of college entry and college completion among individuals with ADHD are lower than in peers without ADHD, ADHD is the most common disability reported among first-year college students.

Durante más de treinta años, The Silent Garden les ha ofrecido a los padres de niños sordos todo el apoyo y la información imparcial que necesitan para que sus hijos desarrollen su pleno potencial. Esta nueva edición en español, que contiene los cinco primeros capítulos de la tercera edición actualizada en inglés, aporta ayuda a los padres para afrontar aquellos retos tan únicos y complejos a los que se enfrentan.

The moving true story of a little girl with Asperger syndrome, controlled and abused by the one person she called her friend. Taylor had always struggled to make friends - she felt 'different'. Taylor never knew her father, and her mother wasn't around much. She just didn't understand people and was alone and scared most of the time. That was until, aged just 11, an older married man called Tom befriended her. She loved having someone who would talk to her, listen to her - a protector. But when he moved away a few months later, she was easy prey.

When her daughters are born deaf, Rosner is stunned. Then she discovers a hidden history of deafness in her family, going back generations to the Jewish enclaves of Eastern Europe. Traveling back in time, she imagines her silent relatives, who showed surprising creativity in dealing with a world that preferred to ignore them. Rosner shares her journey into the modern world of deafness, and the controversial decisions she and her husband have made about hearing aids, cochlear implants, and sign language.

Attention deficit hyperactive disorder (ADHD) affects nearly one in ten children. Yet, many parents do not recognize the symptoms in their child and continue to struggle with managing their child. Other parents have had their child diagnosed with ADHD but are unsure what they can do to help. If you are like this, there's a new book that can dramatically change your life.

Thriving Together Raising an Autistic Child provides an informative and comprehensive guide for parents of autistic children, delivering specific solutions and achievable outcomes that address their unique needs and challenges.

Written by an experienced ADHD and Executive Functioning coach, teacher and parent, this book provides a wealth of practical tips, tools, and techniques that can be easily implemented at home to support your child's success.

Parenting ADHD with Empathy and Effectiveness provides parents with practical techniques to improve emotional regulation, social skills, focus and self-control in children with ADHD - empowering compassionate yet effective parenting. Written by Sierra Nice, a dedicated ADHD parenting strategist, this judgment-free guide leads with empathy while arming you with evidence-based tools.

The 9-L model illustrated in Blended Families--Special Children explores the dynamics of stepfamilies caring for children with special needs and disabilities and presents the information in digestible nuggets ready for consumption by quintessential blended families juggling the demands of parenthood with caring for children with special needs.

A late bloomer’s coming-of-age memoir asks how does one accept and free themselves from visible and invisible disabilities and still retain their sense of connection and humor? Nothing Special is a disarmingly candid tale of two sisters growing up in the 1970s in rural Connecticut. Older sister Chris, who has Down syndrome, is an extrovert, while the author, her younger, typically developing sister, shoulders the burdens and grief of her parents.

Imagine a life where your child with ADHD can excel academically, socially, and emotionally – even if you’ve tried everything else! Are you constantly searching for effective strategies to manage your child’s ADHD? Do you feel overwhelmed by juggling behavior management, academic achievement, social skills, and emotional stability? These struggles are real, but you don’t have to face them alone. Parents, teachers, and mental health experts all wrestle with finding the best ways to support children with ADHD effectively and compassionately.

For parents of kids who are either nonverbal or verbally limited, if you’ve been searching for answer as to why your child can’t talk and need guidance on how to change that, look no further. Welcome to Autism – How To Help My Child Talk which is a parent-centered program designed specifically for you.

Brashness, tantrums and short attention spans are every parent’s nightmare. In my practice, I get a lot of parents who can’t even remember the last time they had some peace around the house, uninterrupted conversations with guests, or even a seamless family night out together, without the fits of rage coming from their otherwise little angels. Because of this, many are tempted to go to the doctor to find some kind of medication or pill that could make their troubles go away.

Welcome to My Life shares the 14-year journey of a true warrior mom advocating for her nonverbal, severely autistic son, from diagnosis through his teenage years. This brutally honest and heartwarming account details the daily struggles and often lack of social understanding that families face when raising a child who relies on parental assistance for every need.

Written by an expert with over 15 years of experience in treating adult ADHD and ADHD in children, Focused offers essential information to empower parents and provide immediate assistance. Learn to uncover your child's considerable strengths and work around their obstacles with concrete, actionable strategies that improve executive functioning, support emotional development, and promote positive behavior.

Children with ADHD are no strangers to frustration – and neither are their parents. Raising kids with ADHD is a true struggle, especially when we can’t seem to “fix” the traits that we sometimes see as “broken.” However, when we praise focus, organization, and academic abilities as the most important skills, we lose sight of equally important things like intelligence, curiosity, and creativity. Our children need to focus on success, not on failure, and these are exactly the qualities that are the blessing of ADHD.

Most of us are used to tantrums and tears. But what happens when your child’s behavior gets out of hand to the point where you can’t cope? Children’s bad behavior can have a horrendous impact on parents – filling them with self-doubt, feelings of failure, and even more stress and anxiety than normal. The cycle continues. Parents are tense and determined to punish their children. Children engage in power struggles and their behavior becomes even more damaging. The longer this occurs, the harder it is to right the wrong.