Special Needs Parenting

As you pour your energy and resources into raising a special child, it's easy to struggle with feelings of isolation, competition, guilt, and overwhelm. Here's the encouragement and practical help to navigate the emotional reality of your situation. In The Other Side of Special, three mothers raising children with physical, medical, mental, and emotional special needs have joined forces and pooled their experience and expertise to provide such a resource. They take a deep dive into the most common emotions felt by special needs moms.

Rex Forehand, PhD, and Nicholas Long, PhD, have helped thousands of parents achieve discipline using positive reinforcement, without yelling or harming the child's self-esteem. Their clinically proven, five-week program gives you the tools you need to successfully manage your child's behavior, giving specific factors that cause or contribute to disruptive behavior, ways to develop a more positive atmosphere in your family and home, and strategies for managing specific behavior problems.

This audiobook is meant to be an easy listen about Dyslexia and to help you gain a better understanding of the three Ds: Dyslexia, dysgraphia, and dyscalculia. Jess Arce is the CEO of I am Not Dumb, Inc. and Program Director of Lexia Learners, a tutoring company specializing in online private tutoring and small group homeschool classes for students of all ages with dyslexia, dyscalculia, dysgraphia, and similar learning differences.

Parenting is hard work. Throw in something like ADHD, and it can seem impossible. Do you often feel stressed, frustrated, disrespected, and just plain tired? Don’t worry: You’re not alone. Nearly 6.2 million children in the United States have been diagnosed with ADHD–you share the faith of all those parents. When you think about the difficulties you face in parenting an ADHD child, you should also think about the difficulties they face navigating a world that wasn’t created with them in mind.

If you have a child with an autism spectrum disorder (ASD), your journey together through the teenage years to adulthood may be complicated—not to mention confusing, rewarding, and financially challenging. This book offers scientifically validated guidance to help you raise your tween, teen, or young adult on the autism spectrum. It contains supportive advice for finding good medical and psychiatric care, helping your teen learn executive functioning and social skills to navigate middle and high school, and talking to your teen about sexual development and sexual activity.

Have you felt you are going around in circles trying to help your child's behavior, causing you a lot of frustration and anxiety? By understanding the unique challenges and strengths associated with ADHD, you'll be equipped with the knowledge to provide targeted support and create an environment conducive to your child's well-being and success. This book emphasizes the importance of personalized approaches, recognizing that every child with ADHD is different and requires an individualized parenting style.

This audiobook may be especially useful for those parents that have special-needs children. We have learned that special-needs children are just children like other children but have special needs above and beyond most children. We have applied this point view in the training of our two children.

“I love my child to death but he/she is driving me crazy!” “You named it. Time-out, bribery, punishment, reward charts…Nothing works.” Sound familiar? So you are wondering: Why are there constant power struggles? What can you do to minimize tantrums while empowering your child to be confident and cooperative? Discover smart and easy solutions to avoid everyday conflict with your child and WHEN one arises, be ready to solve those tantrum episodes and prevent them from happening again.

Do you ever feel like you’re all alone in this huge blob of chaos, looking for someone to save you? This is how many feel as parents to children who were diagnosed with ADHD. If there’s anything a parent in this situation needs, it’s a strong supportive network of individuals ready to jump in whenever they need them to. Listening to this book will help you create a web of people you can go to when you’ve found yourself in the middle of mayhem.

Be ready to have your child potty trained in just three days! This book is the only complete guide to potty training that you will need. In this book, you will learn the secret to potty training in three days, how to deal with hurdles such as when they won't poop on the potty, or when they were using the potty, but now they are having accidents all of the time! You will not be going back and forth between diapers, pull-ups, and underwear anymore.

Special Needs Child Parenting: How to Raise Your Child with Wisdom is a bundle of two of our best audiobooks to help you as best we can. The books are Parenting Special Needs Children: A Christian Guide to Parenting Children with ADHD, Autism, Asperger’s, and other Psychological, Behavioral, or Physiological Disorders and Wisdom from Your Elders: Learning From Your Parents, Grandparents, and the Older People in Your Church.

Therapeutic parenting is a deeply nurturing parenting style, and is especially effective for children with attachment difficulties, or who experienced childhood trauma. This book provides everything you need to know in order to be able to effectively therapeutically parent. Providing a model of intervention, The A-Z of Therapeutic Parenting gives parents or caregivers an easy to follow process to use when responding to issues with their children.

Every person—whether baby, child, teenager, or adult—interacts with the world in their own unique way. Yet some have a harder time than others due to a variety of sensory processing issues, which can lead to motor delays, learning differences, frustration, anxiety, and emotional, behavioral, and social challenges as well as diagnoses like ADHD and “autism spectrum.” As sensory integration expert Sally Fryer Dietz reveals, these children are not “broken.”

It's time to embrace the uniqueness of your child, nurture their strengths, and create a harmonious environment that promotes both their well-being and your own. Guide your son in conquering their ADHD battles and transform your stress into success.

Learn the best way to talk to your kids and how to empower them to believe in themselves. Is your child afraid of going out of the house? Is he having first school day jitters far too long? Does he cry whenever you drop him off at school? Does he clam up during recitations? Is he afraid of situations where there are a lot of other people? Your child may be experiencing separation and social anxiety symptoms. These children may also experience a lot of stress when they are thinking of engaging in situations where they have to interact with other people.

Do you want to figure out how to control ADHD? ADHD is a genuine issue, but guess what? There is a solution. It doesn't matter where you stand on the issue; whether you have received a professional diagnosis of ADHD or a caregiver for someone who has this disorder, you may find it really beneficial to listen to the contents of this audiobook. At the very least, you will have learned how to effectively handle some of the most frequent and unpleasant symptoms by the time you have finished listening to this article.

Help your son thrive, even with the challenges of ADHD. Are you looking for ways to connect with your son and inspire productive behavior amidst daily struggles? You are not alone; many parents share these challenges. "Parenting Boys with ADHD" offers practical insights to transform your home into a supportive space for your son’s growth.

Build the confidence, resilience, and skills your daughter needs to succeed in every area of her life, no matter the challenges ADHD brings. You see the brilliance, creativity, and endless potential in your child, but getting her to focus, follow through with routines, or manage friendships sometimes feels like a constant battle. And with the emotional ups and downs that often come with ADHD, it’s easy for your daughter to feel like she doesn’t fit in. But here’s the thing—ADHD doesn’t have to hold her back.

Fully updated with the latest American Academy of Pediatrics recommendations for the treatment and care of individuals with ADHD, this award-winning guide offers parents balanced, reassuring information to help them understand and manage this challenging and often misunderstood condition.

Written by autistic advocate Sarah O'Brien, this book gives a much-needed introduction into what autism is and removes the myths, stereotypes and stigma that surround it. Sarah provides insights into what to do after diagnosis and how to approach and navigate the process of informing those in your life, from your family and friends to your teachers or manager at work. Utilising her own experience of feeling lost after diagnosis and navigating all of the 'firsts' of adolescence and young adulthood Sarah provides an honest and friendly voice to guide you through it all.