Books About Children with Special Needs
Armstrong, Thomas, Nuerodiversity: Discovering the Extraordinary Gifts of Autism, ADHD, Dyslexia, and Other Brain Differences. I recommend all of Armstonrg;'s books. His latest on nuerodiversity is a must read and is groundbreaking for promoting seeing past the labels we give children to their strengths. Our brains are all different and exist on a continuum and all are needed in this nuerodiverse world.
Beck, Martha; Expecting Adam: A True Story of Birth, Rebirth, and Everyday Magic
This is a wonderful book of spiritual discovery that describes what happens to Beck's life when she conceives and raises a child with Down syndrome. This is a must read for every parent exploring the spiritual meaning of raising a child with special needs.
Bolduc, Kathleen Deyer; His Name is Joel: Searching for God in a Son's Disability
This is a moving account by Bolduc who is a deeply religious Christian. She describes her journey from pain and despair to the regaining of faith while coping with her son with severe limitations. Her new book Autism and Alleluias is also a wonderful book from a Christian perspective of the daily challenges parenting a childre with autism.
Carroll, Lee and Jan Tober; The Indigo Children
Indigo children are bright, intuitive, strong-willed and sometime self destructive. They are thought to be here to help with human spiritual evolution. They are often misdiagnosed as ADD. This is the first book to explore what is needed to raise these children with balance and harmony.
Dacey, John S. and Lisa B. Fiore; Your Anxious Child: How Parents and Teachers Can Relieve Anxiety in Children
Dacey and Firoe describe a method of treating children with severe anxiety that is grounded in spiritual connection and the fostering of self worth. This is an excellent book for parenting and working with all children.
Gill, Barbara; Changed by a Child: Companion Notes for Parents of a Child with a Disability
This is a must read for all parents and anyone caring for a child with a disability. This is an intensely thoughtful and hopeful series of essays. Gill is compassionate and insightful about the feelings, stress, pain, and joy of caring for a child with special needs.
Greene, Ross and Stuart Ablon, Treating Explosive Kids: The Collaborative Problem-Solving Approach. I highly recommend all of Green's books expecially if you have a behaviorally challenging child. He provides a compassionate and practical approach to parenting and working with children with difficult behavior. In fact his approach works well for all relationships. He has wonderful videos on his web site to help you master the approach of hleping childre understand their own behavior and change themselves. www.livesinthebalance.org
Hartmann, Thom; The Edison Gene: ADHD and the Gift of the Hunter Child
Starting with Attention Deficit Disorder: A Different Perception, Hartmann has written many wonderful books describing his spiritual and freeing theory about the origins of ADD and the gifts of children and adults with ADD. The Edison Gene is his latest book that updates his theory.
Kaufman, Barry Neil; Son Rise The Miracle Continues
This is a beautiful and compelling story of the Kaufman's bringing their son out of autism through a loving and accepting approach of their son's autism which eventually led to the creation of the Son Rise program for children with autism.
Kaufman, Barry Neil; A Miracle to Believe In
This book continues to chronicle the success of the Son-Rise method in treating children with autism. It is another compelling story of a boy brought out of autism.
Klien, Stanley D. and Kim Schive; You Will Dream New Dreams: Inspiring Personal Stories By Parents of Children with Disabilities
This book contains an inspiring collection of writings by parents of children with disabilities. These stories provide messages of coping, surviving, healing and joy during the tough times as well as the good times. The strong message is, "you are not alone."
Levine, Mel; A Mind at a Time
Levine is a compassionate and brilliant pediatrician that has challenged the prevailing beliefs about the ways children learn. He is strong advocate for recognizing that all minds are different and every child can succeed and learn.
Mooney, Jonathan, The Short Bus A Journey Beyond Normal. This is a heartfelt, irreverant book on Jonathans' journey around the country talking to people labeled with a disability. He travels in a short bus which is his symbol of what it means to be labeled with a disability. In Jonathan's search to free himself from feeling "less" because of his differences, he discovers that threre is no such thing as "normal" and everyone has gifts to offer the world.
Stillman, William, Autism and the God Connection; The Soul of Autism: Looking Beyond Labels to Unveil Spiritual Secrets of the Heart Savants, and The Autism Prophjecies: How An Evolution of Healers and Intuitives is Influencing Our Sprirtual Future. These books provide a campasionate and insightful explanation of the children we label within the autism spectrum. Instead of seeing these children as defective, Stillman writes about their spiritual purpose in the world.
Tobin, L, What Do You Do with a Child Like This? Inside the Lives of Troubled Children. This is a compassionate and inspiring book written by a long-time teacher of special education. He explores the inner life of children with sensitivity and an immense understanding of troubled children's feelings and fears. Through poetic descriptions, he encourages adults to compassion and understanding when working with troubled children.
Virtue, Doreen; The Care and Feeding of Indigo Children
Virtue explores the psyche of these special children so often labeled as ADD and explores alternatives to the use of medications based on interviews with child-care experts, teachers, parents and Indigo children themselves.
West, Thomas G.; In The Mind's Eye: Visual Thinkers, Gifted People with Learning Difficulties, Computer Images, and the Ironies of Creativity
This book changed my entire way of viewing my son and people labeled as dyslexic. This is a must read for any parent who has a child with learning differences.
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