If you like reading books about special needs, or finding workbooks and games to use with your child, professional book clubs can be a great resource. When you join, you'll receive mailings every three weeks filled with offerings you might not be able to find in regular bookstores. Like any book-of-the-month-type club, you'll have to return the order card with your selection or no selection by a deadline to avoid being sent a book you don't want, but if you keep on top of it you can get some very interesting and useful material at a nice discount. You don't actually have to be a teacher or a therapist or a nurse to join these groups, but your membership may put you on mailing lists that will yield other professional-oriented catalogs and mailings. Take a look at these clubs' book lists and see if they interest you:
The Library of Speech-Language Pathology
Early Childhood Teachers' Book Club
Behavioral Science Book Service
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