children with disabilities

Weaves her personal experience with useful advice for parents, service providers, and siblings themselves.

Step-by-step guidance on the most effective approaches to the pyschological and educational assessment of children. Assessment of perceptual-motor skills, social skills, autistic disorders, and mental retardation.

For families and caregivers of preterm and handicapped children in their first three years, here are more than 100 tips on adjusting and coping, nursing, feeding, and dressing, social skills, games and activities, discipline, decision making, and much more.

Arnie, a young boy with sensory modulation difficulties, learns about the different tools and techniques he can use to help him keep his restless body calm so he can do his work at school and at home.

Profiles five young people from around the world who have overcome personal challenges, and discusses their projects that make the world a better place and what they have inspired others to do.

Relates the author's personal experiences with bullying, describing how she was harassed as a child because of her degenerative muscle disease and eventually appeared with her similarly disabled dog, Izzy, on Animal Planet before launching a public speaking career.

Arlene leads a student movement to reduce the carbon footprint of her classmates and finds opposition from the school principal.

Seventeen-year-old Marek feels alienated from the disabled kids in the support group he attends because of the physical disfigurement he suffered from an encounter with a dog, except for a beautiful girl in a wheelchair named Janne.

The author of the popular blog Enjoying the Small Things interweaves lyrical prose and stunning four-color photography as she recounts the story of the first year of her daughter Nella--who has Down syndrome--and celebrates the beauty found in the unexpected, the strength of a mother's love, and, ultimately, the amazing power of perspective.