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Overview
Parents of children with special needs face unique emotional and practical challenges everyday. These issues are seldom addressed by the medical community—and parents’ most compelling questions remain unanswered. Judith Loseff Lavin was thrust into the world of children’s hospitals and special needs when her daughter was born with a cleft lip and palate. In Special Kids Need Special Parents, she draws on interviews with health care professionals, nationally recognized authorities, and other parents of children with special needs to give readers the advice, encouragement, and comfort they crave. Raising a child with special needs can be a daunting task, but it can also be a meaningful journey—helping parents uncover reserves of strength, wisdom and love they never knew they had.
Boosting your child’s self-esteem
Coping with chronic pain, sleep problems and frequent hospitalizations
Dealing with your feelings of grief and anger
Choosing a therapist
Finding suitable, reliable childcare
How to cope with teasing
The impact a child with special needs can have on a marriage, siblings, and grandparents
Finding cosmetic help, including hair replacement
Prosthetic and orthotic options
Synopsis
Parents of children with special needs face unique emotional and practical challenges that are seldom addressed by the medical community. In Special Kids Need Special Parents, Judith Loseff Lavin-herself the parent of a child with special needs-draws on interviews with health care professionals, nationally recognized authorities, and other parents to give readers the answers, advice, and comfort they crave.
* Coping with chronic pain, sleep problems, and frequent hospitalizations
* Dealing with feelings of grief and anger
* Choosing a therapist
* Finding suitable, reliable childcare
* How to cope with teasing
* The impact a child with special needs can have on a marriage, siblings, and grandparents
* Finding cosmetic, prosthetic, and orthotic help
* and more
An unflinching look at the multiple challenges of raising a child with special needs...a wealth of useful information. (Adele Faber, co-author of How to Talk So Kids Will Listen and Listen So Kids Will Talk)
A wise and helpful book written by someone who knows what needs to be said and has earned the right to say it. (Rabbi Harold S. Kushner, author of When Bad Things Happen to Good People)
Author Bio: Judith Loseff Lavin has written for the Chicago Sun-Times and many magazines. A graduate of Northwestern University with a degree in secondary teaching, Ms. Lavin is involved with several organizations that promote the welfare and progress of children with special needs.