Special Needs Parenting

If you feel lost without a roadmap, rewrite your story! Learn to empower your child, enrich your life, and master Autism.

His name was Kevin but his keepers called him Zoo Boy. He didn't talk. He hid under tables and surrounded himself with a cage of chairs. He hadn't been out of the building in the four years since he'd come in. He was afraid of water and wouldn't take a shower. He was afraid to be naked, to change his clothes. He was nearly 16. Desperate to see change in the boy, the staff of Kevin's adolescent treatment center hired Hayden. As Hayden read to him and encouraged him to read, crawling down into his cage of chairs with him, Kevin talked.

You may have received judgmental looks from others when your child had emotional outbursts and angry tantrums. Your child may have been considered unruly and bad when they were just being hyperactive. You may have felt like a bad parent because you couldn’t control your child. But it’s not your fault, and it certainly isn’t your child’s fault. Your child can flourish and excel not despite, but because of their ADHD. As a parent, it’s your role to help them manage their symptoms and harness their powerful abilities. This book will show you how.

Keeping children bodies, minds, and emotions on task just got easier with this new book from self-regulation expert Teresa Garland. Featuring more than 200 practical and proven interventions, strategies, and adaptations for helping children gain more control over their lives. Each chapter provides rich background and theoretical material to help the listener better understand the issues our children face.

Packed full of practical strategies and daily habits for understanding anxiety and ADHD, this compilation of books will empower you and your child. With the right awareness and some simple and straightforward practices and methodologies for navigating anxiety and ADHD, you and your child can work together to move past all the avoidance, unnecessary tears and stress. With these professional insights, you and your child can both relax into a whole new way of living—with more joy, more smiles, and a whole new understanding.

This book masterfully blends what you must know, what you need to know, and what you should know, all the while gently walking you down the path towards a more neuro-affirming and inclusive approach to home and school life. You will finish listening with a better understanding of autistic identity, culture and how you can help shape a better future for the ladybug in your life.

Give Them The Words is a must-listen for anyone who is seeking practical advice and actionable strategies to improve communication for exceptional kids. Written by Speech Language Pathologist and mother Kim Gallo, this thought-provoking, easy-to-follow, and pragmatic guide draws upon Gallo's expertise in early intervention and her previous published works.

Jadie never spoke. She never laughed, or cried, or uttered any sound. Despite efforts to reach her, Jadie remained locked in her own troubled world - until one remarkable teacher persuaded her to break her self-imposed silence. Nothing in all of Torey Hayden's experience could have prepared her for the shock of what Jadie told her - a story too horrendous for Torey's professional colleagues to acknowledge.

All teens need help preparing for the adult world. For parents of an ADHD teen, additional navigation is essential. The average human brain isn’t fully developed until around the age of 25. That’s already seven years into adult life. When you consider the neuro differences between a typical brain and an ADHD brain, your teen may have greater developmental challenges.

Unleash Calm, Competent Parenting Skills, Even if the Daily Struggles Seem Overwhelming. Do you lie awake at night, questioning if your parenting approach is helping your child or contributing to their stress? Do you frequently ask, "How can I help my child navigate educational challenges, relationships, and emotional highs and lows while managing my own stress?" Are you desperate for practical, compassionate guidance you can implement immediately? This book is designed to support parents like you who face the daily challenges of raising a child with ADHD.

In Life Skills for Autistic Teens, two parents who’ve been on the same turbulent and challenging journey share insights and strategies to help you find hope again and regain your confidence. We have raised a beautiful child with ASD, and have turned our experiences and hard-learned lessons into a practical blueprint for independence. Through mindset changes, comprehensive systems, and practical strategies, we show how persistency and dedication can lead to life-changing results no matter your starting point.

ADHD is a disorder that continues to be researched, but as an adult, you don’t have the time to wait for the perfect cure. You need real and proven strategies and coping mechanisms before your life spirals out of control because of ADHD.

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.

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.

Your Baby Can Self-Feed, Too, is the inclusive guide to introducing solids. Over 25 percent of children experience challenges with this big step—both typically developing babies and those with (known or unknown) physical or neurological differences. Resources on how to help babies who face obstacles in making the move to solid foods are scarce. That’s where this audiobook comes in.

Discover the life-changing guidance you've been seeking. Are you longing for a deeper understanding of autism, practical strategies to foster your child's development, and effective communication techniques? Do you yearn for the knowledge and tools to be a steadfast advocate for your child's unique needs? This isn't just another book on autism – it's your essential roadmap to raising a child with autism, filled with empathy, relatability, and real-world strategies.

Many mothers only learn they have been living with ADHD after their child begins to have symptoms. Once the parent addresses the diagnosis with the child, the mother will often realize that she has been living with the same exact symptoms for her entire life too. The mother will then be diagnosed with the condition herself. In this audiobook, we are going to take a look at exactly what parenting with ADHD looks like, specifically for moms who have ADHD.

Misfit, truant, delinquent. John Robison was never a model child, and he wasn’t a model dad either. Diagnosed with Asperger’s syndrome at the age of 40, he approached fatherhood as a series of logic puzzles and practical jokes. When his son, Cubby, asked, “Where did I come from?” John said he’d bought him at the Kid Store and that the salesman had cheated him by promising Cubby would “do all chores”. He read electrical engineering manuals to Cubby at bedtime.

Andee Martineau unflinchingly exposes the misconceptions that hold you back from being the calm, connected parent you want to be for your kids. She unpacks why the traditional corrective parenting methods of timeouts, punishments, and bribes don't work and what to do about it. Andee reveals the background, science, and practical strategies she's taught to over 10,000 parents to help them move past corrective parenting and into a new world of Connect Method Parenting. You already have everything you need inside of you to change your home.

Do you know what it takes to raise well a highly sensitive child? Are you confident that you can help your child reach their maximum potential, while also keeping them healthy and happy? If you are not quite sure about how to do so, then this book is the right choice for you. Highly sensitive children are often misunderstood not just by their peers, but also by their families, teachers, and caretakers.