A developmental psychologist presents strategies to help parents of special-needs children navigate the emotional challenges they face.
As diagnosis rates continue to rise for autism, ADHD, learning disabilities, and other developmental differences, parents face a maze of medical, psychological, and educational choices - and a great deal of emotional stress. Many books address children's learning or behavior problems and advise parents what they can do to help their kids, but util Not What I Expected: Help and Hope for Parents of Atypical Children there was no books that explain what the parents are going through - and how they can cope with their own emotional upheaval - for their own sake, and for the wellbeing of the whole family.
With compassion, clarity, and an emphasis on practical solutions, Dr. Rita Eichenstein's Not What I Expected: Help and Hope for Parents of Atypical Children walks readers through the five stages of acceptance (similar to the stages of grief, but modified for parents of special-needs kids). Using vivid anecdotes and suggestions, she helps readers understand their own emotional experience, nurture themselves in addition to their kids, identify and address relationship wounds including tension in a marriage and struggles with children (special-needs and neurotypical), and embrace their child with acceptance, compassion and joy.

Whatever your health condition or age, we can help you understand your rights and 'take charge' of the services and support that can help you lead an independent life. Our new guide explains what you have a right to expect and is full of information about how to access the resources that can provide you with more choice and control in many areas of your life: It includes inspiring stories from people in similar situations who have made their rights work in practice and taken the opportunities available to live with dignity and freedom of choice.

Within How To Improve Your Vision Naturally: Strategies and Exercises to Restore Your Eyesight, you will discover and learn about effective ways to regain your vision with natural and permanent solutions. It is an amazingly simple program that provides completely detailed ways to improve your eyesight, you could even throw away your glasses. By just applying the exercises and tips inside Improve Vision Naturally, you can start seeing clearly from just a few minutes of practice. Get better eyesight to see clearly.. Avoid costly eye surgeries, eyeglasses and contact lenses that only mask the real problem.. Grab your copy of this book today to start seeing things much better

Can parents change, or are they saddled with their present attitudes and habits? Does understanding of a child and his problems of growing up make any real difference in what parents actually do, or in how the child matures? Many people today take a negative, defeatist attitude toward those questions. However, there is a positive way of thinking about child growth and development. We have sound psychological evidence that children learn under certain conditions, when they feel a need for learning, when the task is meaningful and appropriate to their ability, when they can see results, and when they experience satisfaction in the process and the product. Parents can consciously help to create these conditions. This is especially true in helping the child learn to read. Parents not only can avoid creating situations in which the child becomes bored, frustrated, or resentful about reading; they can also create situations in which the child can succeed with reasonable effort, whatever his ability may be; situations in which he can get some satisfaction from reading, whether he reads a book of riddles, an adventure story, or fascinating facts about history or science.In this book we have tried not to be prescriptive. We do not want to sound like the voice of authority telling parents what to do about their child's reading. Our aim is to give parents a background of understanding that will help them to determine their own role in the reading development of their child. Many specific suggestions will be given, as a reservoir of ideas from which parents may select any pattern or combination of patterns that seems appropriate to their child. Thus they will become more competent and confident in their rightful role as co-workers with teachers in the formal aspects of their child's education

" THERE ARE SIMPLE AND EFFECTIVE WAYS, WHEN APPLIED EVERYDAY, HELP PREVENT MENIERE'S VERTIGO FROM TAKING OVER YOUR LIFE." - M.M This is a practical direct-action plan that you can use everyday. The aim is to have greater control over vertigo attacks. The purpose of this book is to share practical, effective, helpful advice you can use to: * Predict an oncoming vertigo attack. * Take positive immediate action to help prevent an attack happening. * Manage any Meniere attack with less stress and reduced anxiety. * Recover quickly after a vertigo attack. * Find out what works to help prevent and lessen the intensity of vertigo attacks. This unique perspective, based on personal experience, delivers an inherent understanding of the physical, emotional and mental effects of Meniere's vertigo and what you can do to help yourself.

Hearing is one of our most precious senses, essential for survival, communication and the enjoyment of music and sound. Yet, its loss is common, and often results in lowering of confidence, isolation, depression and anxiety. This book explores different forms and causes of impairment and what can be done to treat and prevent it.

During the last ten years so many works have accumulated in the domain of Physics, and so many new theories have been propounded, that those who follow with interest the progress of science, and even some professed scholars, absorbed as they are in their own special studies, find themselves at sea in a confusion more apparent than real. It has therefore occurred to me that it might be useful to write a book which, while avoiding too great insistence on purely technical details, should try to make known the general results at which physicists have lately arrived, and to indicate the direction and import which should be ascribed to those speculations on the constitution of matter, and the discussions on the nature of first principles, to which it has become, so to speak, the fashion of the present day to devote oneself. I have endeavored throughout to rely only on the experiments in which we can place the most confidence, and, above all, to show how the ideas prevailing at the present day have been formed, by tracing their evolution, and rapidly examining the successive transformations which have brought them to their present condition. In order to understand the text, the reader will have no need to consult any treatise on physics, for I have throughout given the necessary definitions and set forth the fundamental facts. Moreover, while strictly employing exact expressions, I have avoided the use of mathematical language. Algebra is an admirable tongue, but there are many occasions where it can only be used with much discretion.

Fifteen stories written by deaf/hard of hearing individuals who have had cochlear implants are told within the context of unique histories that are intimate, personal and moving. Readers will gain insight into the personal struggles and challenges for those who made the decision to get a cochlear implant. The writers share their process over the decision to obtain an implant as well as the delights and disappointments in hearing with one. Many of the book's contributors noted how their involvement in the deaf community and Deaf culture influenced their perceptions of cochlear implants.

Shea is a girl who is dyslexic. She finds herself spending the summer retaking a history class because she failed it during school. She doesn't want anyone to find out that reading is very hard for her, but she soon realizes that this may be an opportunity for her to share what she experiences every day.