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"In this important book, a pediatric occupational therapist and founder of TimberNook shows how outdoor play and unstructured freedom of movement are vital for children's cognitive development and growth, and offers tons of fun, engaging ways to help ensure that kids grow into healthy, balanced, and resilient adults. Today's kids have adopted sedentary lifestyles filled with television, video games, and computer screens. But more and more, studies...
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New Harbinger Publications, Inc
Pub. Date
[2016]
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English
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"Parenting a teen isn't easy, but parenting an anxious teen is especially challenging. Written by a psychologist and expert on adolescent anxiety, this essential book will show you what really works to overcome all types of teen anxiety and how to apply specific skills to support your teen. Most parents find it frustrating when common sense and logical methods such as reassurance don't seem to work to allay their teen's anxiety. They want to know:...
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New Harbinger Publications, Inc
Pub. Date
c2012
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English
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"Parenting Your Child with Autism takes a revolutionary approach to helping parents find and implement the most effective and powerful treatments for children with autism, a condition that still baffles many mental health professionals. Autism expert M. Anjali Sastry and dialectical behavior therapy (DBT) psychiatrist Blaise Aguirre offer practical tips and guidance parents can use to track the effects of treatment on their children and draw from...
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Skyhorse Publishing
Pub. Date
[2014]
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English
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"What a father will do to fight the mental illness that has destroyed his son. What does a father do when hope is gone that his only son can ever lead anything close to a 'normal' life? That's the question that haunted Dick Russell in the fall of 2011, when his son, Franklin, was thirty-two. At the age of seventeen, Franklin had been diagnosed with schizophrenia. For years he spent time in and out of various hospitals, and even went through periods...
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Rowman & Littlefield
Pub. Date
[2016]
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English
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"Speech and language issues are among the most common disorders among children. This book introduces families to the variety of speech and language disorders, available treatments, and potential outcomes, and will help families learn to better cope with the issues that often arise surrounding the child and the disorder,"--Baker & Taylor.
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Do you want to help your child with a disability live a more happy and fulfilling life?
Raising kids with disabilities is hard…
...but this book makes it a lot easier.
There are many different kinds of disabilities. There are physical and mental disabilities...
Some disabilities are more visible and disabling than others but all require an extra amount of attention and action, which can be very overwhelming for parents of a kid with a disability…
This...
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"An investigation into the science of hearing, child language acquisition, neuroplasticity, brain development, and Deaf culture spurred by Lydia Denworth's discovery that her son couldn't hear her lullabies and the family's life-altering decision to give him a cochlear implant. Lydia Denworth's third son, Alex, was almost two when he was diagnosed with profound and progressive hearing loss. As both a science writer and the mother of young children,...
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Cortical visual impairment (CVI), the leading cause of visual impairment in children today, is caused by damage to visual centers of the brain. Unfortunately, CVI is very often misdiagnosed or undiagnosed because many doctors, therapists, and educators simply do not know about it. What we want you to know, first and foremost, is that there is hope! Children with CVI can learn to see, and their vision can get better! As parents of a child with CVI,...
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Savor the sweetness of new love with Bliss's new romance...
She could never trust a cop...
Teacher Kate Abbott's fresh start in Still Harbor was the beginning of the life that she and her two best friends always imagined for themselves. Still, being a working single parent of a special needs daughter hasn't exactly improved Kate's love life. But Kate's preference for nachos over men quickly disappears when she meets the oh-so-sexy Matt Lane.
Until...
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Recorded Books, Inc.
Pub. Date
2023
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English
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Brimming with insight, compassion, and spirited humor, Ellen Notbohm's timeless book describes ten characteristics that help illuminate-not define-children with autism. This updated edition delves into expanded thought and deeper discussion of communication issues, social processing skills, and the critical role adult perspectives play in guiding the child with autism to a meaningful, self-sufficient, productive life. An all-new section explores ten...
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Workman Publishing
Pub. Date
2018.
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English
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"Today millions of kids are stuck in a world that doesn't respect, support, or embrace who they really are--these are what Deborah Reber is calling the "differently wired" kids, the one in five children with ADHD, dyslexia, Asperger's, giftedness, anxiety, sensory processing disorder, and other neurodifferences. Their challenges are many. But for the parents who love them, the challenges are just as hard--struggling to find the right school, the right...
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Does your child get angry easily, throw tantrums or resist every rule?
Do you feel you are losing control over your child and parenting?
Do you want to understand your child's behavior better and help him or her regain serenity?
If you have already tried everything and you still do not know what to do, and your child with ODD is constantly fighting, it is time you get to know my Oppositional Defiant Disorder guide, where I'll tell you about the nature...
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St Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2012
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1st ed.
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English
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A bitchin' love letter to sand and sea, and a spirited inside account of life with the "first family" of American surfing
In 1956, Dorian "Doc" Paskowitz stepped away from a successful medical practice and began a lifelong surfing odyssey that grew to include his wife Juliette, and their nine children. Together, the Paskowitz clan lived a vagabonding bohemian existence, eschewing material possessions in favor of intangible riches like health and...
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American Academy of Pediatrics
Pub. Date
[2021]
Edition
Updated Edition.
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English
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An updated guide for parents of kids who have trouble socializing or who are developing inconsistently, and discusses lists of diagnoses applied to unusual children, outlining various therapy options and coping strategies.
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"Like all mothers, Emily Rapp had ambitious plans for her first and only child, Ronan. He would be smart, loyal, physically fearless, and level-headed, but fun. He would be good at crossword puzzles like his father. He would be an avid skier like his mother. Rapp would speak to him in foreign languages and give him the best education. But all of these plans changed when Ronan was diagnosed at nine months old with Tay-Sachs disease, a rare and always-fatal...
16) Parenting Young Toddlers: The Simplified Childrens Book with Perfect Ways of Caring for Your Baby
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Do you know that discovering and understanding how to flow perfectly with your toddlers and how to assist the youngster walk while pressing the wheel during playtime is important in parenting?
This book is centered on how to simply help parents understand what is expected of them while parenting toddlers which begins with;
• understanding how to improve a child behaviour,
• how to positively raise a child,
• how to enjoy parenting,
•...
17) Raising and Caring For Your Child: Parenting Your Young Toddlers of age 12 months to 5 years (Baby M
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Do you know that understanding how to flow perfectly with your toddlers and how to assist your baby walk while pressing the wheel during playtime is crucial in toddler parenting?
This book focuses on how to simply help parents understand what is expected of them while parenting toddlers which begins with:
• Understanding how to improve a child behaviour,
• How to positively raise a child,
• how to enjoy parenting,
• Methods of raising...
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Don't you wish children really did come with instructions? Caregivers of children with attachment difficulties, who have experienced childhood trauma, often don't know that they need to parent differently to meet their child's specific needs and help them to start making sense of the world. Seeing the Unseen is a one-stop-shop for families who are besieged.
Learn the founding principles of attachment and trauma theory.
Understand why it's important...
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English
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This book is a highly informative, easy-to-read, clear and simple summary of what parents need to know about Autism, Autism Spectrum Disorder, Asperger's, and the behavioral and emotional challenges that come along with them
Autism awareness is at an all-time high, and the concepts presented in major works are summarized and discussed here. There are many challenges involved in raising a child with autism, including obsessive behaviors, lack of social...
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The day I found Ben swinging from the chandelier, I knew two things - being his mom was going to be a wild ride, and if I ever decided to write a book about it, I had my title. This book started as a way to cope, a reminder to breathe as I raised three boys, including Ben, who was diagnosed with autism at age 2. It tells our story - from experiencing the complex emotions of fear and guilt at hearing the diagnosis, to fighting tooth-and-nail with the...
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