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Developmental Disabilities Resource GuideSummary: "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...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sundance Selects 2019
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC FARBrown, Amy J.
Summary: "Join three mothers of special needs children as they share tools to help you move from isolation to connection-even while you continue navigating the hard, emotional reality of parenting a child with special needs"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Revell, a division of Baker Publishing Group 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 649 BROColeman, Kelley
Summary: "The honest, relatable, actionable roadmap to the practicalities of parenting a disabled child, featuring personal stories, expert interviews, and the foundational information parents need to know about topics including diagnosis, school, doctors, insurance, financial planning, disability rights, and what life looks like as a parent caregiver. For parents of disabled children, navigating the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hachette Go 2024
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 649.8 COLSullivan, Teresa
Summary: When Mikey is young, the Sullivans are a closely knit unit, all of them devoted to caring for her. But as Mikey grows older, she also grows increasingly violent. By the time she's twelve, institutionalization is the only available option--and without the shared purpose of caring for Mikey, the family begins to unravel. As her family falls apart, Teresa searches for relief and connection during...
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Publisher / Publication Date: She Writes Press 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 920 SULUrbatsch, Kevin
Summary: Presents advice on setting up and managing a special needs trust, covering trust benefits, funding, duties of trustees, pooled trusts, taxes, wills, and death of beneficiaries.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Nolo 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 346.05 URBFranklin, Daniel
Summary: "Based in cutting-edge research in neuroscience, education, and the principles of attachment-based teaching, this important guide for parents offers tools and practices to help children transcend language-based learning difficulties, do better in school, and gain self-confidence and self-esteem. If your child has a language-based learning difficulty--such as dyscalculia, dyslexia, and auditory...
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Publisher / Publication Date: New Harbinger Publications, Inc. 2018
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Place a hold to request this item.Clark, Zion
Summary: "Zion Clark has always had big dreams for himself despite the many hardships he faced growing up as a Black disabled child in the foster care system of Ohio. His childhood years were marked by instability as he moved from home to home, experiencing abuse and neglect. And yet his determination and grit pushed him to become an elite wrestler and wheelchair racer. His constant reinvention led him...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Candlewick Press 2023
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1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 921 CLASummary: Documentary film sharing the efforts of two American organizations providing medical aid after the catastrophic 2010 Haiti Earthquake: Project Medishare, which set up clinics for victims, and the Knights of Columbus, which provided prosthetic limbs for the many young people who suffered amputations. The film also follows a small group of earthquake victims who form Team Zaryen, an amputee...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Janson Media 2014
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC UNBRajput, Minoti
Summary: Rajput, a certified financial planner, has spent the last thirty years helping parents of children with special needs to plan for their retirement and the long-term care of their children. This book shares stories from her experiences and offers advice to families in similar circumstances.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Mission Point Press 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 649.151 RAJEstreich, George.
Summary: The author discusses the raising of his daughter, Laura Estreich, with Down syndrome.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Jeremy P. Tarcher/Penguin 2013
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 ESTREICH, GEORGE ESTMarcus, Amy Dockser
Summary: "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...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Riverhead Books 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 618.92 MARSaltz, Gail
Summary: "A powerful and inspiring examination of the connection between potential for great talent and conditions commonly thought to be "disabilities""--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Flatiron Books 2017
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 305.9 SALBrodey, Denise.
Contents: What's not for lunch / Nadine -- You can't rush a good thing / Lorie Bricker -- Musical beds / Nicole Lynch -- Impacting the bottom line / Rose Walker -- My other half / Lisa Carver -- Hysterical blindness / Ellen Glaser -- Private session in progress / Richard Ellenson -- Mother's helpers / Dawn Mitten -- Only human / Marla Davishoff -- Crash landings / Laura Cichoracki -- Danger : do not...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hudson Street Press 2007
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 306.8740 BRONix, Megan
Summary: "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,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 NIX, MEGAN NIXO'Hair, Margaret
Summary: Sofia Sanchez, a girl with Down syndrome, shares her message of perseverance and bravery with kids everywhere.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Press 2024
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JE Social Emo O'HairWilson, Ruth
Summary: "In this inspiring book, Dr. Ruth Wilson explores the great potential of connecting young children with special needs to the natural world. Drawing on her knowledge of research and her decades of work with children in nature, she weaves together advice, real-life examples, and testimonies from educators and families on the healing, nurturing power of nature in the lives of young children with...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Gryphon House 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Parent-Teacher Collection, Call number: JPT 371.9 WILEichenstein, Rita.
Summary: A developmental psychologist presents strategies to help parents of special-needs children navigate the emotional challenges they face.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Group 2015
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 649 EICHarris, Taylor
Summary: "One morning, Tophs, Taylor Harris's round-cheeked, lively twenty-two-month-old, wakes up listless and unresponsive. At the hospital, her maternal instincts are confirmed: something is wrong with her boy, and Taylor's life will never be the same. With every question the doctors answer about Tophs's increasingly troubling symptoms, more arise, and Taylor dives into the search for a diagnosis....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Catapult 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 HARRIS, TAYLOR HARSolomon, Andrew
Summary: Solomon tells the stories of parents who not only learn to deal with their exceptional children but also find profound meaning in doing so.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2012
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 362.40 SOLCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: 362.4083 SOLBlum, Linda M.
Summary: Recent years have seen an explosion in the number of children diagnosed with “invisible disabilities” such as ADHD, mood and conduct disorders, and high-functioning autism spectrum disorders. Whether they are viewed as biological problems in brain wiring or as results of the increasing medicalization of childhood, the burden of dealing with the day-to-day trials and complex medical and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: New York University Press 2015
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 649 BLUHampton, Kelle.
Summary: "The author of the popular blog Enjoying the Small Things interweaves lyrical prose and stunning four-color photography as she recounts the story of the first year of her daughter Nella--who has Down syndrome--and celebrates the beauty found in the unexpected, the strength of a mother's love, and, ultimately, the amazing power of perspective"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow 2012
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Summary: "Robert Hoge was born with a tumor the size of a tennis ball in the middle of his face and short, twisted legs, but he refused to let what made him different stand in the way of leading a happy, successful life. This is the true story of how he embraced his circumstances and never let his "ugly" stop him from focusing on what truly mattered."--
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Publisher / Publication Date: VIKING, Published by Penguin Group 2016
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 HOGCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in JT Non-Fiction, Call number: JT People HogeRamesh, Jaya
Summary: 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...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Parenting Press 2024