parents of children with disabilities

Presents a guide for parents raising a visually impaired child, and discusses subjects which may concern the parent, including diagnosis and treatment, the child's development, special education, literacy, and mobility.

Examines the impact of diversity on families, focusing on parenting children with physical and mental disabilities, child prodigies, children conceived in rape, children who become criminals, and transgender children.

Ian Brown describes his son Walker's rare genetic disorder and how it affects his life and the lives of the people who care for him, and details his journey around the world for answers about its cause and possible treatments and his final acceptance of his son's condition.

Jane Bernstein describes the challenges of raising a child with Optic Nerve Hypoplasia, a disorder that results in visual impairment, as well as physical and intellectual retardation, discusses her realization that she could no longer care for her daughter by herself, and tells of her struggles trying to find the now twenty-two-year-old Rachel a home and measure of independence.

The author describes the sometimes incredible details of her second pregnancy, telling how she and her husband, both driven Harvard academics, came to the decision to have their son after the fetus was diagnosed with Down syndrome, and sharing the extraordinary events that helped them know they had made the right decision.

When Charlotte and Sean O'Keefe learn about their daughter's illness, they wonder if they should have known about it sooner and begin to question what constitutes the value of even the most fragile life.

Dana Buchman recounts her family's struggle to help her daughter deal with the neurological, spatial, and motor-skill disabilities she was diagnosed with as a toddler, tracing her daughter's development and sharing how she learned to cope with the unique challenges of having a child with special needs.