Books on Parenting Children with Special Needs
Reading about your child's disability, or about how others have handled the challenge of special-needs parenting, can give you much-needed information and inspiration. Hitting the books is also something you can do, right now, to start helping your child.
Harried Parents Book Club
Reading up on your child's special needs and staying informed is important, but it's hard to know sometimes whether those parenting primers and medical tomes will actually help or just make you feel more confused and incompetent. Check these book reviews to see if that book you've heard about is really worth your precious free time.
Reading up on your child's special needs and staying informed is important, but it's hard to know sometimes whether those parenting primers and medical tomes will actually help or just make you feel more confused and incompetent. Check these book reviews to see if that book you've heard about is really worth your precious free time.
Book Excerpts Let You Read More About It
Learn more about the books in the Harried Parent's Book Club and about the subjects they discuss with these book excerpts taken directly from the texts.
Learn more about the books in the Harried Parent's Book Club and about the subjects they discuss with these book excerpts taken directly from the texts.
What Do the Star Ratings Mean?
Each book review in the Harried Parent's Book Club bears a rating of one to five stars that gives a general idea of the book's effectiveness. Quick ratings are useful, but they don't tell the whole story. Find out what the ratings mean, and why you shouldn't let them stop you from reading the full review.
Each book review in the Harried Parent's Book Club bears a rating of one to five stars that gives a general idea of the book's effectiveness. Quick ratings are useful, but they don't tell the whole story. Find out what the ratings mean, and why you shouldn't let them stop you from reading the full review.
Before You Buy a Parenting Book
Seven things to check and consider before buying a book on parenting.
Seven things to check and consider before buying a book on parenting.
Dad's Toolbox: Books By and For Fathers
Fathers share their experience of parenting children with special needs in this gallery of books.
Fathers share their experience of parenting children with special needs in this gallery of books.
Moms Speak!: Books By and For Mothers
Mothers share their experience of parenting children with special needs in this gallery of books.
Mothers share their experience of parenting children with special needs in this gallery of books.
Children's Books on Special Needs
Explaining a disability to your child or his classmates, friends and young relatives can be a challenge for parents. These five books discuss special needs in a kid-friendly way that can shine a positive light on a tricky topic.
Explaining a disability to your child or his classmates, friends and young relatives can be a challenge for parents. These five books discuss special needs in a kid-friendly way that can shine a positive light on a tricky topic.
Special-Needs Beach Reads
Looking for something that will thrill you, inspire you, keep you guessing, make you swoon, and still teach you a little something about disabilities? Here's a round-up of memoirs on special-needs subjects that combine the page-turning interest of a good "beach read" with information that will stay with you long after.
Looking for something that will thrill you, inspire you, keep you guessing, make you swoon, and still teach you a little something about disabilities? Here's a round-up of memoirs on special-needs subjects that combine the page-turning interest of a good "beach read" with information that will stay with you long after.