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Most Complete Allergy Book Out There
As a mother of a child with severe food allergy and a food allergy support group leader, I am so thank ful for this book. I look at it almost every day for tips and guidance. I also recommend it to friends and family. It is the most complete allergy book out there.

From Helplessness to Empowerment
My toddler grandson was diagnosed with severe peanut allergies, after a very frightening "first" experience with peanut butter. Since I am involved in his care, I've listened carefully to his parents as they've explained the use of the EpiPen, and how to manage an anaphylactic reaction. I must admit that I once felt a sense of confusion and helplessness. Since reading this book, I feel much more empowered and confident that I will be able to properly manage an emergency situation with him. We now have a family plan, should an emergency arise, as well as signed consent forms, and a step-by-step checklist.
Better Late Than Never
Wow!I wish that I would have found this book 4 years ago when my son was first diagnosed with anaphylaxis to milk! Filled with lots of great strategies and idea...even a couple of new ones I hadn't thought of.Great resource to add to your allergy library. ... Read more

Subjects:  1. Allergies    2. Child Care/Parenting    3. Children with Special Needs    4. Critically ill    5. Family & Relationships    6. Family & Relationships / Children with Special Needs    7. Food allergy in children    8. Health & Fitness / Allergies    9. Medical / Nursing    10. Nutrition    11. Parenting - General    12. Pediatrics    13. Health & Fitness   

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A book for parents who want to help their children
As a mother of a child with selective mutism, I can tell how helpful this book can be. Practical and comprehensive, it helps you rate your child's level of selective mutism and gives hints on how to work your way up the ladder of a child's social relationships. Feels good to see the progress. If your child is well described by the first chapter, then get a copy of this book for the teachers.

What a find!
What a find!! Helping Your Child with Selective Mutism is a well-researched and organized resource that is a must read for educators and parents alike.

Exceptional resource for parents and professionals
As a clinician that has worked extensively in the area of selective mutism, I have read most of the available resources on the topic, and Dr. McHolm's well written and comprehensive book is by far the most valuable.Based upon research findings and the author's years of experience, the book includes information about selective mutism and a detailed, practical description of strategies that can help children become more comfortable speaking.I would strongly recommend this resource to both parents and professionals that are supporting a child with selective mutism.
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BP in children definitely exists
I didn't have to read the book to know that BP can be a correct diagnosis in children.During my childhood I had intense emotions and fluidity of thoughts.Standardized tests could not measure creativity in science -- I blew them away.History; forget it.Regardless, the same emotion and thought issues that existed throughout childhood translated to adulthood.Anger became extreme and dangerous in adulthood.This is when I extensively researched psychiatric diagnoses and discovered that BP fit me perfectly.Kay Jamisons book confirmed my research.Many years and much medication later, I'm more normal than normal people.
The first resource I recommend to parents of newly dxd kids
As I was reading this book, I wondered how the authors were able to witness what was going on in my family.It was like they were flies on the wall - they described my family to a T.
Bi-polar Child hard cover book review
This book was exactly as described.It was informative and yet not too medically explicit that I couldn't understand the information being explained.It also held a lot of examples from real families which was also helpful and made me feel like this wasn't just a medical book, it was a tool to help me understand that my child wasn't alone in the world which was comforting to know.
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very helpful book
I found this a very helpful book but the format is a little too "dumb" (short chapters, star boxes, illustrations). I preferred "Guiding the Gifted Child".

An excellent primer for parents of exceptional children
Now in a substantially revised & updated edition, The Survival Guide For Parents Of Gifted Kids: How To Understand, Live With, And Stick Up For Your Gifted Child by parental consultant, educator and gifted children advocate Sally Yahnke Walker is a straightforward, sensible guide to parenting and advocating in behalf of a gifted child, especially when dealing with local schools and school boards. Individual chapters address discovering and living with gifted talents, handling problems such as sensitivity and a smart mouth, and working for improvement in the local school curriculum. The Survival Guide For Parents Of Gifted Kids is highly recommended for non-specialist general readers as being an excellent primer for parents of exceptional children everywhere.

Good, but slim in some areas
At this point, I don't need much of the information in this book, since my children are in a school that caters to the (Gardener's) multiple intelligences of all children.All children will be challenged and not allowed to fall into the underachievment cracks.Read more

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A Book About The Gift of A Child With Asperger's
Jeffrey Cohen's book came at exactly the right moment for me--just as our oldest was getting ready to enter high school.I laughed when I needed to, and I saw our family (at its best and its worst) all over the pages of this book.
Very well written and insightful.
From the very first page, I could tell that this book spoke directly to me. I have read other books about Asperger's Syndrome in an attempt to better understand my son. I never considered the toll that it was taking on both my wife and I as parents, as well as people. This book, as he so aptly phrases it, is NOT about my son. It's about me and my wife. Mr. Cohen writes in a very matter of fact way, getting to the point with insight and humor that really puts things into a new perspective. We had looked for support groups, but hadn't found any within a reasonable distance. Reading this book made me feel like we weren't alone in the world, and that what I had looked at as "failed parenting" was actually a natural human reaction to what were at times overwhelming situations.

Simply Great Advice
Having a "special needs" child is an incredibly stressful ongoing event and something author Jeff Cohen knows well as the father of a child with Asperger Syndrome. In its simplest terms, Asperger Syndrome (AS) is a form of higher functioning autism. Instead of another book on how to help the child, Jeff Cohen looked at the often forgotten group in such situations: the parents. Parents, regardless of the child's disability, are often blamed by society for their child's problems and may not have the local support needed to deal with the issues. This book, as he notes in the first chapter, is designed to be a sort of portable support group for those days and times it all gets to be too much.
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A must have for bio-medical approach
The author of this book is the grandmother of an autistic little girl and a doctor.
A Must Have Book!
If you have a child who is pdd, on the autistic spectrum, add or adhd, has Rett's etc. this book is a must have. It will guide you in the treatment of many neurological disorders. This is information that most m.d.'s don't have the time or inclination to learn. This book is based on years of intensive research in the area of neuroligical toxicity and how to treat it using natural and prescription medications. Many children are being healed of diseases that are thought to be incurable based on this research!

Children with starving brains
I don't know why I waited so long to purchase this book.It is really great. ... Read more

Subjects:  1. Autism in children    2. Autistic Disorder    3. Autistic children    4. Children with Special Needs    5. Diseases - Nervous System (incl. Brain)    6. Family & Relationships    7. Family / Parenting / Childbirth    8. Family/Marriage    9. Healing    10. Parent and child    11. Pediatrics    12. Rehabilitation   

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Great Introduction to Sensory Integration!
This book is a great introduction to sensory integration and how our senses effect our learning.As A professional who works with individuals who have sensory difficulties, I feel that this book would be helpful for new teacher trainings, as an introduction to sensory integration, or as a guide to help individuals (such as parents) who do not work in an education or medically based industry that need to gain a better understanding of sensory integration.All teachers should use these basic techniques in their classrooms; for individuals who are interested in a deeper understanding of sensory integration dysfunction and other related difficulties, perhaps a book with a deeper explanation of the CNS and sensory systems would better suit their needs.Overall, it's a good quick read!

sensory secrets how to jump start learning in children
Of everything that I've read this is the best book.Its a fairly quick read.It's broken down into very specific catigories.It gives you warning signs.It tells you how to work on a problem with professionals.It shows you hundreds of ways to work on each specific sensory motor problem.It also helps you to evaluate your own child and explains how certain holes in the learning foundation could quickly lead to learning diviculties later on in life (early grade school).If you feel that there is a problem with your child and you can't put your finger on it - this is the book that will give you invaluable stepping stones.

Great "Intro" Book
I found this to be a wonderful book for parents just entering the world of Sensory Integration Dysfunction.I explains so many of the terms and theories used by Occupational Therapists.However, this truly is an introduction, and not very helpful to anyone who has been working with an OT for any length of time. ... Read more

Subjects:  1. Behavior Management    2. Child Development    3. Education    4. Education / Special Education / General    5. Education / Teaching    6. Educational Psychology    7. Family & Relationships / Children with Special Needs    8. Teaching Methods & Materials - Social Science    9. Children with Special Needs    10. Family & Relationships    11. Learning disabilities    12. Psychological tests for childr    13. Senses and sensation in childr    14. Sensorimotor integration    15. Special Education - General   

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A How to Book
I like the direct "how to" advice in this book.My husband and I have promised one another we will not medicate our daughter and this book has given us more faith that we can keep that committment.This book has given us ideas that are simple to use and practical.Our daughter has a 504 but after reading Dr. Ashley's book we requested another IEP meeting and revised her entire plan based upon the ideas in this book.She is doing much better in school now and homework is not the torture we all used to suffer.The 504 ideas in the back of the book are worth it alone. our school is now using dr. ashley's checklist to help design IEP and 504s for all their add and adhd kids.

Brilliant
After reading this book I have a better understanding of children with ADD & ADHD and what parents are faced with on a regular basis.Extremely well written and I am looking for to more books from Dr. Ashley.
Very Helpful
As a parent with a special needs child, this book provides information to help with the day to day problems we face.
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Hartmann and Drugs
Hartmann is a successful multitasker: not only does he write popular books on ADD/ADHD, he has published numerous books of poetry, has opened four hospitals in Third World countries, and so on. His point is that ADD/ADHD is a curse if it is not channeled properly, but can be a great blessing, and an enormous goad (and even key) to success if the "sufferer" learns to handle it, learns to cope with it.
Best book I've read on the subject!
This is the first product I've ever written a review about--that should tell you something!
I Owe This to the Author
Your reviewers experience: a few short years ago my youngest son was in real trouble. Skipping school and failing I had him tested at his therapist's request. Near genius IQ. In eight grade his math aptitude (which he failed through most of school) was above 12th grade. He was miserable and so was our family. In search of answers he was diagnosed as ADD. It was a dark dark time for me to the point I believed I might lose this child.
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An interesting and useful read
I found this book very interesting and useful from many different perspectives.
Stop-- This is a "must not" read.
You really need to be careful when reading this book.Understandingly, people facing the challenges of ADD/ADHD are stressed out and overly receptive to a voice like Hartmann's.Strangely unprofessional, Hartmann offers a "soft ball" lob to those looking for a feel good camp-fire-like discussion of the challenges of ADD/ADHD.This is not a productive way to approach these challenges.Overcoming these challenges takes discipline, a manner of thinking totally absent in Harmann's writing.I would go so far as to say that the author's writing style, the manner in which he presents his ideas, and the thinking behind those ideas represents the worst, rather than the most optimal aspects, of traits associated with ADD. Beware.

Don't have a cue what to do!!!Read the book!
Thom Hartmann has written a series of books related to ADD/ADHD.
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A must-have for parents of new preemies!
When our daughter was born 9 weeks premature, we immediately began looking for a source of accurate medical and practical information. When we found this book, we asked the director of neo-natal medicine at our child's hospital to look over the book. She immediately bought two copies for herself. The information is thorough and detailed without containing unnecesary detail. The medical information is presented understandably. A very good resource for worried parents of preemies.
Excellent book, needs updating
This is a great overview of just about everything a preemie parents needs to know. However, as the mother of a 370-grammer (26 weeks, doing great at 17 months) I would have liked to see a much larger amount of the book devoted to micro-preemies. Progress with micro-preemie survival is happening quickly and standards have changed a lot in five years.

occupational therapist
This is an excellent resource book for both parents and health care professionals. With the recent trend towards family centered care, this book is truly an "essential guide". It has chapters on the medical procedures and medical nomenclature that is so foreign to those outside the medical community. There are also sections on the sociological implications and how a premature birth can affect the entire family. Healthcare professionals would benefit from a better understanding of the implications to the parents and families of these babies.I highly recommend that this book become a standard for neonatal intensive care nurseries. ... Read more

Subjects:  1. Birth weight, Low    2. Care    3. Child Care/Parenting    4. Children with Special Needs    5. Complications    6. Family & Relationships    7. Family / Parenting / Childbirth    8. Infants (Premature)    9. Life Stages - Infants & Toddlers/Infants    10. Nursing - Pediatric & Neonatal    11. Parenting - General    12. Pediatric Nursing    13. Pediatric Nutrition    14. Pediatrics    15. Pregnancy    16. Family & Relationships / Parenting   

Editorial Review

Do you know a child who plays too rough, is uncoordinated, hates being touched, is ultra-sensitive (or unusually insensitive) to noise or sensations of heat and cold? Many pediatricians and other experts are beginning to recognize a link between some of these apparently unrelated behavior patterns.Children with perfectly normal "far senses" (such as sight and hearing) may have, because of a poorly integrated nervous system, serious problems with their "near senses," including touch, balance, and internal muscle sensation. It's called Sensory Integration Dysfunction, or SI. The announcement of yet another new syndrome is bound to raise skeptical eyebrows--and with good reason. (How do we know which child Read more

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Scarey Cover
I just had my two and a half year old son evaluated as having SI.The therapist recommended this book.I found other reviews interesting and was immediately put off by the cover I am looking for whatever positive help I can get.I wish more was known about this condition.Or that I knew of a support group as I don't have any family who live anywhere close around me.My son has an amazing memory and is very lively and outgoing.He also has extreme tantrums and throws things and seemed to get really fustrated so some of the SI checklist definetly applyed and made sense.He also is very keyed into me and I can't even get in the shower or go to the bathroom without him getting upset.Some of what they state didn't seem to fit him though like he crawled and walked early and seemed to have good co-ordination eating with a spoon or fork?
The Out of Sinc Child
This is the best book. I was writing a book about my son who has SI Dysfunction. He is 23 years old now. I was in Barnes and Noble looking for another book when I found this. I was blown away. I never knew there was a book like this. I could have really used this book when Marcus was little. It is so wonderful. I opened it and started reading about my son. My book is called What's Wrong With My Child? Struggling With Sensory Integration Dysfunction. It is only a mother's story of how my child coped with this thing. It is not meant to be a book like Carol Stock Kranowitz's. Her book is wonderful. Anyone who has any questions about their child who has SI Dysfunction. This book is it. Shelly R. Wilson

Good book, but more research is needed
I have mixed feelings on this book. The book itself is well written and accessible, explaining new concepts in a clear, reader-friendly way. It's the actual content that I'm on the fence about.
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Recommended Reading!
This would be a good book for all parents. If you read this while your child is still an infant, you will save a lot of frustration for yourself as well as your child.

Temperamental Difficulties
The Difficult Child is a self-help book for the parents of children with difficult temperaments. While all children have characteristic behavioral quirks, temperaments are so deep-seated that they manifest in infancy and are usually retained for a lifetime. Since temperaments can be inherited, they are probably linked to specific genes. In fact, one behavioral trait -- high activity level -- in mice seems to be associated with a specific gene (along with other characteristics), but such traits have not yet been genetically identified in humans.
Good info but discriminatory
Firstly, I found his assumption that there is one type of "difficult" child annoying. One person might find a high activity level child difficult whereas another is more likely to find a low activity level child difficult. He mentions "goodness of fit" but doesn't seem to fully grasp how that concept means the term difficult is relative. A personal example: many people say autistic kids are difficult, but as an autistic child, I find NT kids more difficult.
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A True Blessing for my Family!
After my 11 yr old was diagnosed with Asperger's our doctor loaned me her copy of this book.By chapter two I had ordered my own copy.
Excellent
I was so impressed after reading this book, I am still in awe.It is absolutely excellent.When I saw the title, I knew it would be a book I'd likely be interested in as autism is a subject which is very near and dear to me.However, this has far exceeded any hopes I had.If anybody remotely has any interest in autism, this is an absolutely must read.I have been to many workshops and conferences on autism, and this has touched base with somethings I've noticed about from what I have seen at some of these workshops as well as some events I have attended geared to those with autism as well as family members, however, before this, nothing I have read has really touched base on the subject.
Great Book on AS
This is a must read book if your child has been diagnosed with Asperger's Syndrome.I found it very informative and helpful. The author not only understands how AS kids think he gives wonderful advice about how to deal with just about any problem that they might face from childhood through college.
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Wonderful, insightful, and helpful for a clinician
I loved William Stillman's book.I find that I communicate much more effectively with the children I work with as this book has widened my scope of understanding.We are participating in an event which supports Autism research and we are borrowing William's motto:"Presume Intellect" (with full credit to the author, of course) in order to help educate the local population.Wonderful job, William!My clients' parents have all loved the book too!

Presume Intellect and More!
A friend recommended this book to me. We had recently met and spent time at a conference in Upstate NY. Both of us have independently met hundreds, if not thousands of people in the course of our working lives, but there was something very unique that we mirrored to each other, like no other person we had met. It wasn't something that we could put into words, but the similarity in the ways in which we operated or 'coped' in the world were uncanny. Shortly upon my return to Hawaii, I received an excited e-mail from her. Eileen, you MUST read this book! It's about us!!!!
More information needed
Thank you for dispelling meaningless ways of thinking about the behaviors and presentation of our children with autism.If you were here right now I would give you a big hug and kiss.I would proudly introduce you to my children as one who has crossed over from the autism spectrum to fullness of life.
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Should Get6 Stars...
... since this is the *definitive* book for people like me who've been through this life-changing experience. And as an avid reader who's already bought many other Preemie books, I sure don't say WOW lightly.
Good therapy
This book was very helpful to me and my husband. We had a long NICU stay of 9 weeks and felt like we were the only ones in the unit who wasn't in and out. This book caters to people like us who had to deal with the on-going, never-ending days of procedures, tests, emotional ups and downs, and disappointments. I was really able to prepare myself for discharge with the chapters about homecoming. The best part of this book was that we didn't feel so alone.

Well-rounded and thorough compendium of vital information
A 902-page compendium of information, Parenting Your Premature Baby And Child: The Emotional Journey by developmental psychologist Deborah L. Davis and clinical psychologist Mara Tesler Stein addresses dealing with powerful and painful emotions associated with being the parent of a premature child, physical recovery from difficult childbirth, forming bonds with one's baby when it must be kept in the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU), dealing with the difficulties of discharge, homecoming, and settling in, observing one's child for evidence of disabilities and coping with them, and also, how to deal with the loss of a child. Parenting Your Premature Baby And Child presents the wisdom of experts in no-nonsense terms for lay people and parents. An extensive index allows for quick reference, in this well-rounded and thorough compendium of vital information.
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Good Resource
This a good resource for people who are choosing not to use medication to help manage AD/HD. The book give a basic idea of what AD/HD is. It offers suggestions for natural ways to help with AD/HD such as changes in diet, toxin removal, biofeedback. etc. The suggestions in the book may also pertain to ADDults.

Solving the puzzle
Laura Stevens provides a much needed road map for parents seeking help for their children with ADHD.By providing step-by-step instructions, sound nutritional knowledge, excellent examples, problem-specific narratives, and good, common sense day-to-day practices (i.e.-recipes), she is eliminating the frustration in the search for answers for current and future parents of children with ADHD.This book provides the type of aid that only could have been given by someone who has had first hand experience in raising children with ADHD.Parents can now learn what to do directly from the book rather than waiting while much of the medical community is playing catch-up to scientific literature.

12 Effective Ways to Help Your ADD/ADHD Child
This book is superb in every respect.It's comprehensive, yet concise, well organized and reader-friendly.It contains information which parents cannot find elsewhere.