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1) The dyslexia empowerment plan: a blueprint for renewing your child's confidence and love of learning
Author
Publisher
Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
"Finally, a groundbreaking book that reveals what your dyslexic child is experiencing--and what you can do so that he or she can thrive More than thirty million people in the United States are dyslexic--a brain-based genetic trait, often labeled as a "learning disability" or "learning difference," that makes interpreting text and reading difficult. Yet even though children with dyslexia may have trouble reading, they don't have any problems learning;...
Author
Publisher
TarcherPerigee
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"Born Extraordinary helps parents of children with differences and disabilities to relinquish their instinctive anxieties, embrace their new normal, and ultimately find joy in watching their children thrive. Often the subjects of unwanted attention-ranging from pitying stares to bullying-Zucker and her sons have learned to ignore what others think and live fearlessly. Also incorporating the stories of other families with visible and invisible differences...
Author
Publisher
Blackstone Publishing
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"No one said motherhood would be easy. For Adiba Nelson, the journey to parenthood started with a big bang and continues with a breakdown (or two) and several "why?" questions for God. Witty and bold, Afro-Latina Adiba grew up in survival mode. Her sometimes complicated relationship with her strong-willed, vibrant, religious mother marked her views of mothering and love. When a chance encounter with a tall-ish, brown-skinned brotha at Ruby Tuesday's...
Author
Publisher
Riverhead Books
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter Amy Dockser Marcus shows what happened when a group of parents joined forces with doctors and researchers to try to save children's lives. Parents whose children had been diagnosed with the rare and fatal genetic condition Niemann-Pick Type C disease recognized there would never be a treatment in time to save their children if things stayed the same, so the parents set up a collaboration with researchers and doctors...
Author
Publisher
William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
©2015.
Language
English
Description
In a love letter to his daughter, who was born with Down syndrome, a sports columnist for the Cincinnati Enquirer chronicles her childhood and her journey to find happiness and purpose in her adult life, showing how she inspires those around her to live better and more fully.
12) A Christmas home
Author
Series
McCray Family novels volume 2
Publisher
Crown Pub
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
Todd has been working for years at the local animal shelter when he learns that it's being shut down. With his best friend, Laura, he struggles to place the animals in homes before the shelter closes.
Author
Publisher
Parenting Press
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
What if parenting were an act of social justice? In this part story-telling, part self-inquiry book, authors and therapists Jaya Ramesh and Priya Saaral situate parenting children of color with neurodivergence within the context of various interlocking systems of oppression including settler colonialism, White supremacy, ableism, and capitalism. These intersections engender isolation and loneliness. Using the voices of parents on the front lines and...
Author
Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"An inspiring memoir and work of fierce advocacy by a mother whose child is born deaf, leading her to investigate and expose a preventable virus that causes more childhood disabilities than any other--but is kept quiet by the medical community. One virus causes more birth defects and disabilities in children than any other infectious disease, yet 93% of Americans don't know it exists. In 2015, after an outwardly uneventful pregnancy, Megan Nix's second...
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
Ian Brown's son, Walker, was born with a rare genetic mutation, cardiofaciocutaneous syndrome. In this book that owes its beginnings to Brown's original Globe and Mail series, he sets out to answer his own questions. As he writes: "What is the value of a life like Walker's -- a life lived in the twilight, and often in pain? What is the cost of his life to those around him?".
17) Bloom: a memoir
Author
Publisher
William Morrow
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
Recounts the story of the first year of Kelle Hampton's daughter Nella who has Down syndrome and celebrates the beauty found in the unexpected, the strength of a mother's love and the power of perspective.
Author
Publisher
Tyndale House Publishers, Inc
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
From his early childhood, Nathan was bursting with creativity and energy, while struggling with learning issues as well as anxiety and OCD problems. He was often labeled "bad," or as being in need of "fixing." Sally dared to believe that Nathan's differences could be part of an intentional design from a loving Creator with a plan for his life. She trusted that the things that made him different were the very things that could make him great. Now she...
Publisher
IFC Films
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"FAR FROM THE TREE follows families meeting extraordinary challenges through love, empathy, and understanding. This life-affirming documentary encourages us to cherish loved ones for all they are, not who they might have been. Based on Andrew Solomon's award-winning, critically acclaimed, New York Times bestselling non-fiction book "Far From the Tree: Parents, Children and the Search for Identity."--Container.
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