BABY BJORN STEP

The Child With Special Needs: Encouraging Intellectual and Emotional Growth (A Merloyd Lawrence Book)

Stanley Greenspan, internationally known for his work with infants, young children, and their families, and his colleague, nationally recognized child psychologist Serena Wieder, have for the first time integrated their award-winning research and clinical experience into a definitive guide to raising children with special needs. In this essential work they lay out a complete, step-by-step approach for parents, educators, and others who work with developmental problems. Covering all kinds of disabilities?including autism, PPD, language and speech problems, Down syndrome, cerebral palsy, and ADD?the authors offer a new understanding of the nature of these challenges and also specific ways of helping children extend their intellectual and emotional potential.The authors first show how to move beyond labels to observe the unique profile?strengths and problems?of the individual child. Next, they demonstrate the techniques necessary to help the child not only reach key milestones but also develop new emotional and intellectual capacities. Greenspan’s well-known ”floortime” approach enables parents, as well as clinicians, to use seemingly playful interactions that help children actually move up the development ladder and often master creative and abstract thinking formerly thought beyond their reach. Including vivid case histories, the book also offers deep and compassionate understanding of the stresses and rewards involved in raising a child with special needs.whose amazing work with autistic and other special needs children is nationally known, and his colleague, child psychologist Serena Wieder, have integrated a lifetime of research and clinical practice into a single, comprehensive guide for parents. Covering all kinds of disabilities?including cerebral palsy, autism, retardation, ADD, PDD, and language problems?the book offers specific ways of helping all children reach their full intellectual and emotional potential.First the authors show how to move beyond the label and observe the strengths and problems of the particular child and the key milestones that must be reached. Next, they move step by step through the techniques necessary to help the child reach these milestones and show how to tailor these to each child. Finally, with a deep and compassionate understanding they outline the marital, educational, and social stresses and rewards in raising a special needs child.

Chloe is just about the most affectionate cat I've ever met. She's about 1.5 years old and a total charmer. Her people had to return her to us after they became casualties of the recession and had to move back in with family--in Iceland. They wanted to take her, but Iceland has some of the world's toughest policies on importing pets--and it would have meant an inhumane stay of nearly a year in quarantine. So the expat life was not going to work for this Brooklyn homegirl. Chloe is fine with kids, dogs and (most) other cats. Chloe could be considered a "special needs" cat because of a sensitive stomach. Happy to share details with anyone interested in adopting her.

A SCAMPer poses with an old fire engine during a tour of the Independence Township Fire Department. Clarkston SCAMP is a nonprofit, five-week summer day camp in southeastern Michigan for children and young adults with special needs.

What if you had a simple book that hit the most important high points that commonly get missed?

What if it was able to straight-forwardly tell you about:

* How to keep balance in your family, when special needs seem overwhelming

* 5 tips for getting more quality sleep - and the single most dangerous "sleep trap" to avoid

* 2 mundane evils of the special needs world - and why both of them can actually help your family

* The secret of being able to have fun, no matter what life throws at you

* The 5 stages of grief - and why they affect you so much

* 6 simple ways to make sure your deepest needs (and your family's) are always met

* The 1943 breakthrough that can still help you ensure that your children (and you) experience the highest quality of life - no matter what challenges you face

* The single most important fact you may or may not have realized yet (it's truly liberating!)

and much more !

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