Special Needs category: 986 books
Calm your hyperactive child
Coping with ADHD and other behavioural problems
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2008
Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) is the most commonly diagnosed childhood psychiatric condition. It is generally agreed that 25% of the school age population is affected by ADHD, a condition characterized by excessive hyperactivity, inattention and impulsivity. Children with ADHD, and...
Parenting the Children of Now
Practicing Health, Spirit, and Awareness to Transcent Generations
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2009
Parenting the Children of Now offers a refreshing change in perspective about parenting that aims at recognizing adult attributes and belief systems that ultimately lead to dysfunction. It then teaches healthy life skills to overcome these belief systems. It shows parents how to mine for their own...
by Jennifer Watson
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2011
Have you thought about signing with your baby or toddler? Parents and caregivers are discovering the benefits of using American Sign Language (ASL) to communicate with children long before they can speak. Some studies show that signing babies talk sooner, have larger vocabularies, and have fewer tantrums!
Baby...
Healing Young Brains
The Neurofeedback Solution
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2009
Neurofeedback is a scientifically proven form of brainwave feedback that trains the child's brain to overcome slow brainwave activity, and increase and maintain its speed permanently. Neurofeedback is quick, noninvasive and cost effective. In fact, 80 percent of the time, neurofeedback is effective...
It's Nobody's Fault
New Hope and Help for Difficult Children and Their Parents
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2010
People who wouldn't dream of blaming parents for a child's asthma or diabetes are often quick to blame bad parenting for a child's hyperactivity, depression, or school phobia. The parents, in turn, often blame their children, believing that they're lazy or rebellious. Even worse, the children...
by Jeff Strong, Michael O. Flanagan
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2011
Sound advice for parents whose kids have trouble concentrating
According to the National Institutes of Health, an estimated five to ten percent of children suffer from Attention Deficit Disorder (ADD) or Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD). This book provides answers for parents...
by Danielle Torres
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2013
My Sister, My Friend is an endearing tale of two sisters, one who has Williams syndrome and one who does not. It is meant to be used as a tool for parents/teachers to read with their children. It will take you on a journey through the youngest child’s questions about why her older sister is a little...
by Lois Prislovsky, PhD, Barb Rentenbach
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2012
Did you hear the severe autism alert sirens wailing? Did that storm luckily miss you and yours? Not us. Our family took a direct hit. I Might Be...You is a fresh look at the damage and emerging sun as told by an adult with autism who is "disguised as a poor thinker" but has much to say...
Understanding the Highly Sensitive Child
Seeing an Overwhelming World through Their Eyes
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2014
It’s not easy to be a highly sensitive child. Nor is it always easy to raise, care for, guide and teach a highly sensitive child. Because the highly sensitive child experiences the world a little differently, and that can be difficult to understand.
This book aims to help you experience the...
by Sylvia Fraser
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2014
As a society we’ve become all too familiar with horrific tales of child abuse. Yet, in 2001 a legal case in a rural community near Toronto proved so bizarre that it gained international attention. It concerned two teenage boys kept locked in cages and forced to wear diapers. Unbelievably, their...
Healing Without Hurting
Treating ADHD, Apraxia, and Autism Spectrum Disorders Naturally
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2014
Jennifer Giustra-Kozek is a therapist who practices in Connecticut, and is also the mother of a son with Autism Spectrum disorders. After treating Evan bio-medically, along with other healing practices, Jennifer witnessed the kind of improvements that every parent of a similarly diagnosed child dreams...
by Julian Scott
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2017
For the first time, a clear description of the unique perspective of Chinese medicine on autism, how it develops, and how (and when) it can be helped. The unusual ideas are presented in a way that parents can easily understand, while, at the same time providing enough detail for the experienced practitioner.
This...
Raising Boys With ADHD
Secrets for Parenting Healthy, Happy Sons
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2012
Written by two professionals who have "been there and done that" with their own sons with ADHD, "Raising Boys With ADHD" empowers parents to help their sons with ADHD find success in school and beyond. The book covers topics not often found in other parenting guides such as the...
ADHD & Teens
A Parent's Guide to Making it through the Tough Years
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 1995
ADHD and Teens is a manual of practical advice to help parents cope with the problems that can arise during these years. A crash course is offered on parenting styles that really work with teens with ADHD and how these styles allow the teen to safely move from dependence to independence.