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Breakthrough
Parenting for Children with Special Needs: Raising the Bar of Expectations.
Judy Winter, $17.99
Breakthrough Parenting for Children
with Special Needs challenges families and professionals to
help children with special needs to reach their full potential by
using a proven motivational, how-to approach. This groundbreaking
and inspiring book provides detailed information on how to let go
of the “perfect-baby” dream, face and resolve grief, avoid the no-false-hope
syndrome, access early intervention services, and avoid the use
of limiting and outdated labels. Also included are specific guidelines
for working with professionals, understanding the law and inclusion
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Out of My Mind. Sharon Draper, $21.99
Eleven-year-old Melody has a photographic memory. Her head is like a video camera that is always recording. Always. And there's no delete button. She's the smartest kid in her whole school—but no one knows it. Most people—her teachers and doctors included—don't think she's capable of learning, and up until recently her school days consisted of listening to the same preschool-level alphabet lessons again and again and again. If only she could speak up, if only she could tell people what she thinks and knows...but she can't, because Melody can't talk. She can't walk. She can't write.
Being stuck inside her head is making Melody go out of her mind—that is, until she discovers something that will allow her to speak for the first time ever. At last Melody has a voice...but not everyone around her is ready to hear it. |
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Taking
Cerebral Palsy To School. Mary Elizabeth Anderson, $13.75
School freinds learn about cerbral palsy.
Ages 5-9. |
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Teaching
Motor Skills to Children with Cerebral Palsy and Similar Movement
Disorders: a Guide for Parents and Professionals. Sieglinde
Martin, $24.95
Written by an experienced physical therapist who is also the mother
of a child with cerebral palsy, this comprehensive guide examines
the physical characteristics of cerebral palsy and similar conditions
- muscle tightness and weakness, increased or decreased flexibility,
abnormal reflexes, impaired sensory perception - that affect a child's
ability to sit, crawl, stand, and walk. Teaching Motor Skills offers dozen of easy-to-follow exercises with accompanying photos
that parents may incorporate into many daily routines at home with
the guidance and support of their child's physical therapist. This
user-friendly guide helps parents and professionals coordinate their
efforts to achieve the best possible outcome for the child.
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Yoga Therapy for Every Special Child: Meeting Needs in a Natural Setting. Nancy Williams, Illustrated by Leslie White, $19.95
Yoga therapy is gaining rapid recognition as a form of treatment that can improve the physical and mental wellbeing of children with a variety of complex needs. This book contains a specially-designed yoga program for use with children of all abilities, and provides both parents and professionals with the knowledge they need to carry out the therapy themselves.
The program consists of a series of postures, each of which is explained and accompanied by an illustration. The postures are designed to help children understand and use their bodies, and work towards positive changes such as realigning the spine, encouraging eye-contact, and promoting calm and steady breathing. Consideration is given to creating the right setting for carrying out the therapy, assessing an individual child's particular needs, and making the sessions fun using games and props. Sections on yoga therapy for specific conditions such as autistic spectrum disorder, Down syndrome, and cerebral palsy are included, and the book concludes with child and parent reports on how the program has worked for them, and a list of useful contacts and resources.
This practical book is a must for parents, teachers, therapists and other professionals, and anybody else who wants to help a child to develop through enjoyable and therapeutic yoga sessions. |
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Resources
for Families & Professionals
Breakthrough Parenting for Children with Special
Needs: Raising the Bar of Expectations. Judy Winter, $17.99
The Cerebral Palsy Handbook: a Practical Guide
for Parents and Carers. Marion Stanton, $34.95
Cerebral Palsy: a Complete Guide for Caregiving.
Freeman Miller, $19.95
Children and Cerebral Palsy: a Manual for Therapists,
Parents and Community Workers. Hinchcliffe, Price & Rogers, $38.95
Children with Cerebral Palsy: a Parent's Guide.
Elaine Geralis (ed), $37.95
Coping When Your Child Has Cerebral Palsy.
Jill Eckersley (Publication due November 2009)
Educating Children with Multiple Handicaps:
a Transdisciplinary Approach, 3rd Edition. Orelove & Sobsey, $59.95
It Isn't Fair: Siblings of Children with Disabilities.
Stanley Klein & Maxwell Schleifer, $30.95
Lifeskills Activities for Special Children
Grades K-5, 2nd Edition. Darlene Mannix, $35.99 – Secondary Students,
$31.25
PECS Starter Kit. Pyramid Educational Products,
Inc. $175.95
Relaxation: a Comprehensive Manual for Adults,
Children and Children with Special Needs. J. Cautela & J. Groden,
$22.95
Special Education in Ontario Schools, 6th
Edition. Sheila Bennett & Don Dworet with Ken Weber, $39.95
Teaching Motor Skills to Children with Cerebral
Palsy and Similar Movement Disorders: a Guide for Parents and Professionals.
Sieglinde Martin, $24.95
Visual Strategies for Improving Communication:
Volume 1 Practical Supports for School and Home. Linda Hodgdon, $47.95
Yoga Therapy for Every Special Child: Meeting Needs in a Natural Setting. Nancy Williams, Illustrated by Leslie White, $19.95
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Books
for Kids & Teens
Arnie and the New Kid. Nancy Carlson, $6.99
(4-8)
Can't You Be Still? Sarah Yates & Darlene
Toews, $8.95 (4-6)
Easy for You to Say: Q & As for Teens
Living with Chronic Illness or Disability. Miriam Kaufman, $19.95
Living with a Brother or Sister with Special
Needs: a Book for Sibs. Donald Meyer & Patricia Vadasy, $24.95
Mama Zooms. Jane Cowen Fletcher, $6.99 (3-5)
Nathan’s Wish: a Story about Cerebral
Palsy. Laurie Lears, $23.95 (5-9)
Out of My Mind. Sharon Draper, $21.99
Taking Cerebral Palsy to School. Mary Elizabeth
Anderson, $13.75 (5-9)
Views from Our Shoes: Growing Up with a Brother
or Sister with Special Needs. Donald Meyer, $19.95
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