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Breakthrough Parenting for Children with Special Needs: Raising the Bar of Expectations

Winter, Judy

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Breakthrough Parenting for Children with Special Needs: Raising the Bar of Expectations

Breakthrough Parenting for Children with Special Needs challenges families and professionals to help children with special needs to reach their full potential by using a proven motivational, how-to approach. This groundbreaking and inspiring book provides detailed information on how to let go of the perfect-baby dream, face and resolve grief, avoid the no-false-hope syndrome, access early intervention services, and avoid the use of limiting and outdated labels. Also included are specific guidelines for working with professionals, understanding the law and inclusion, planning for the future, and insightful interviews with Dana Reeve of the Christopher Reeve Foundation, Tim Shriver of Special Olympics, and Diane Bubel of the Bubel/Aiken Foundation.

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Title of ebook: Breakthrough Parenting for Children with Special Needs: Raising the Bar of Expectations
ISBN: 9780787983918
Publisher: Jossey-Bass
Internet download file size: 1262 kb
Pages: 288
Released online for download: 03-20-2006
Author of eBook: Winter, Judy

Breakthrough Parenting for Children with Special Needs

Raising the Bar of Expectations

Chapter One

THE PERFECT-BABY DREAM

Some men see things as they are and ask why. Others dream things that never were and ask why not. -George Bernard Shaw

Welcome to Chapter One: The Perfect-Baby Dream.

You are beginning an amazing journey filled with unexpected challenges and incredible rewards-gifts you cannot begin to understand when you first start walking down this demanding road. Parenting a child with special needs will be the greatest challenge of your life, and if you make good choices, it may also prove one of the most rewarding.

Unfortunately, too many people feel sorry for these families and believe their children lack value or need to be fixed. Prevalent and outdated stereotypes of special needs families are fuele ... read full excerpt from Breakthrough Parenting for Children with Special Needs: Raising the Bar of Expectations ebook


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