Disability-and-Health Books

Trainer is an excellent writter who cuts right to the heart of the matter. She deals frankly with some difficult topics and doesn't have much use for platitudes like "little angles", etc.

While the cover is clearly aimed at women, this is a book for us guys too. You'll enjoy the writing and be affected by the content.

I picked this up at a DS conference and just finished reading, at times it made me happy and at times I cried. But it helped me put my life with my 18 mo old DS girl in perspective and also gave me hope for her future. This is an excellent book that is both inspirational and eye opening. A must read.

I truly feel this book is a must read for anyone with a child with Down syndrome. Marilyn Trainer was able to put into words many of the same feelings that I have had about my child with Down syndrome. She is very frank and doesn't hold back on how she feels about many issues concerning her son. I highly recommend Differences in Common!

The book " Dr. Hoffer's ABC of Natural Nutrition for Children: With Learning Disabilities, Behavioral Disorders and Mental State Dysfunctions" by Abram Hoffer is a source of information on children's health and nutrition. Nutrition-based therapies have been used successfully to treat a wide range of health problems. The author has done research. The book contain varieties of topics, such as diagnosis and treatment with easy to find children's illnesses diagnosed. Also, contain a tables of the nutrient content of common foods which can be follow in developing an optimum diet. Furthermore, a complete guide to vitamins and mineral supplements for kids with recommended dosage.

how much difficult for a child is to function in school if he have learning disability?, wether it is fogy- brain, or hyperactivity, or any other mental/neurological-disability, is one question. but finding a good help is even more difficult, but no more!.this book is the natural choice for every child that realy is working, and with the best resoults. many case histories as well are showed in that book. you have got to give your child a natural fair chance.you have my warm recommandation.

The book " Dr. Hoffer's ABC of Natural Nutrition for Children: With Learning Disabilities, Behavioral Disorders and Mental State Dysfunctions" by Abram Hoffer is a source of information on children's health and nutrition. Nutrition-based therapies have been used successfully to treat a wide range of health problems. The author has done research. The book contain varieties of topics, such as diagnosis and treatment with easy to find children's illnesses diagnosed. Also, contain a tables of the nutrient content of common foods which can be follow in developing an optimum diet. Furthermore, a complete guide to vitamins and mineral supplements for kids with recommended dosage.

This book is fabulous and it is one of a kind. I found it helpful as a guardian often faced with ethical dilemmas about when I should decide and when "my ward" should. But the book is also written for doctors, policymakers, lawyers and judges, and parents -- in fact anyone interested in the assimilation of "the retarded" into the rest of the population.
It is actually fun reading and set up so you can skip the parts less relevant to you. It made me cry a couple of times as well as giving me many ideas -- and increasing my confidence in my judgments. READ IT. It will surely affect you profoundly in one way or another.

While this closely argued and exhaustively researched book focuses on the reproductive legal rights of our retarded adults, its real core is to ask: Why should retarded people be deprived of the same rights the rest of us enjoy simply because they are retarded.
The book punctures the veil of silence around our automatic presumptions about these people that underlies our assumptions of the necessity and goodness of paternalistic regulation.
It does this by honing in on the most emotionally arousing aspect of the question. Asking why our retarded fellow citizens can be prevented from having sex and from having children brings us up against our deepest prejudices.
The book caused me to reconfigure my opinions in these areas in what feels to me a more useful perspective of the lives of these people, some of whom are my patients. I think it is a must read for anyone involved in any aspect of the care of our retarded population.

This book puts forth a compelling thesis: The mentally retarded should have full rights to manage their own sexual and reproductive lives. The idea sounds good, but most people would quail at its full implications. Should a severely retarded 15-year-old be allowed to bear a child? What about situations where parents fear a daughter might suffer from rape in an institution? Should they have the right to have their daughter sterilized? A Harvard law professor, Field does not dodge the hard questions. She addresses them and forces a re-thinking of conventional ideas about who should make decisions for others and why. Field writes with such authority and conviction that at the end you are likely to be persuaded that human rights apply to the retarded in ways you never imagined. Analytical and systematic, the book is rooted in a deep knowledge of the law and a concern for the shaping of social policy. It is a must-read for those who face decisions about the retarded, either within their families or in the public arena. Those concerned with human rights will also find their minds, and perhaps their causes, expanded when they read this book.

This is an excellent book for newly diagnosed Celiacs. Although written in a time frame for the first year, I read it in the first two weeks and now in my third week as a celiac, I carry it with me for review. Highly recommended.

After buying many self help books regarding Celiac Disease, I can honestly say this book is like NO other book! It is primarily due in part to the fact that this book is written by a Celiac patient! This book guides anyone who is helping a Celiac child, friend, or a Celiac themself through the process of coping with and learning how to deal with the struggles of day to day life, and Jules helps us learn that these really aren't struggles, but are managable.

I have been eliminating foods that really weren't gluten-free all along, and without Jules, I don't know what I would have done! I can honestly say this is the BEST Celiac Disease book I have ever read. I have purchased her cookbook already, subscribed to her website, and keep in touch with her via email regularly! As a Celiac writing to all of you out there, if you do one thing, you MUST purchase this book!!!

I am privileged to know Jules Shepard and I have witnessed, first hand, her excellent knowledge of this life-changing disease and her passion for educating & supporting those who live with Celiac Disease/Gluten-Intolerance.
This book will be the `First Line of Defense' for anyone who has first gotten that diagnoses and are told to maintain a strict Gluten-Free Diet. Having gone down that road myself, I know what an awesome task this is. If you want to understand Celiac Disease better, this is the book for you! If you want to learn more about living with Celiac Disease/Gluten-Intolerance, this is the book for you! I highly recommend this author and this book for all! Check out her cookbook, "Nearly Normal Cooking for Gluten Free Eating"!

Pat Minnigh
www.celiacsonline.com

A thoroughly heartfelt as well as informative book from a talented author. I felt like I knew them.

A deaf child raised by very loving family. The author taught her deaf child to speak and hear. She not only treat her like a normal hearing person, she allows her to learn signs with her deaf friends, and speak with her hearing friends, family and relatives.
Highly recommended for parents or relatives of deaf child to read this book that help take a right path to raise deaf child.

Truly a labor of love. This book is a wonderful chronology of a mother coping with a child's deafness in the days before ADA.

What a great idea! Bonnie's illustrations always bring a smile. These should be mandatory in all hospital gift shops!

Bonnie's unique and wonderful illustrations are colorful, playful and endearing! These cards speak for the patient when they are unwilling, unable or just too tired to speak for him/herself... All ages can use the cards and when they're feeling better, they also bring a smile... Remember to look close to appreciate all of Bonnie's little artistic details. These cards will definitely help everyone GET BETTER!

What a great idea! You have to buy several because it makes a great gift for someone who is recuperating or even terminally ill. Now those that don't, won't, or can't communicate their needs only have to display the appropriate card.

As a pediatric RN at a midwestern children's hospital, I interact daily with children and families dealing with serious on-going illnesses. So, of course I was keenly interested in checking out Nancy Klein's "Healing Images..." resources. I now own my own set (book, CD, workbook) and am excited to have this opportunity to share my fierce passion for these materials!
When the onset of serious illness feels like an all-out attack on a child and his or her loved ones, Nancy Klein's book and related materials provide the effective counterattack armament to be used in conjunction with the medical treatment battle plan.
Here's a book built from profound compassion and filled with solid substance. Nancy's words and metaphor-stories are dynamically encouraging and soothingly nurturing for the ill child as well as their often overwhelmed family members and friends.
Aside from the goal of enhancing healing, this guide aims to imbue the healing journey with calmness, courage, and confidence. Ms. Klein hits the mark. The wonderful illlustrations by Matt Holden aptly support the cause.
This is an awesome resource for children, families, health care providers, and anyone who cares about someone with a serious illness! I'm telling everyone I can about this great book and the adjunct activity book and CD. I've personally purchased sets for several families in my community. Most of you, too, know of at least one family in the midst of a medical crisis. You may have been wondering what you can do. Know that such a child and family would desperately welcome and appreciate the huge heartfelt help that these materials deliver.
P.S. I love the stories! My favorites right now are "Soccer Victory," "A Turtle," and "Remote Control." Which are yours?

As a pediatric RN at a midwestern children's hospital, I interact daily with children and families dealing with serious on-going illnesses. So, of course I was keenly interested in checking out Nancy Klein's "Healing Images..." resources. I now own my own set (book, CD, workbook) and am excited to have this opportunity to share my fierce passion for these materials!
When the onset of serious illness feels like an all-out attack on a child and his or her loved ones, Nancy Klein's book and related materials provide the effective counterattack armament to be used in conjunction with the medical treatment battle plan.
Here's a book built from profound compassion and filled with solid substance. Nancy's words and metaphor-stories are dynamically encouraging and soothingly nurturing for the ill child as well as their often overwhelmed family members and friends.
Aside from the goal of enhancing healing, this guide aims to imbue the healing journey with calmness, courage, and confidence. Ms. Klein hits the mark. The wonderful illlustrations by Matt Holden aptly support the cause.
This is an awesome resource for children, families, health care providers, and anyone who cares about someone with a serious illness! I'm telling everyone I can about this great book and the adjunct activity book and CD. I've personally purchased sets for several families in my community. Most of you, too, know of at least one family in the midst of a medical crisis. You may have been wondering what you can do. Know that such a child and family would desperately welcome and appreciate the huge heartfelt help that these materials deliver.
P.S. I love the stories! My favorites right now are "Soccer Victory," "A Turtle," and "Remote Control." Which are yours?

Nancy Klein clearly applies the best that trance and metaphor have to offer in assisting children and families confronted by cancer. Her unpretentious and direct self-instruction book serves as essential reading for any psychotherapist who wants to learn how to apply trance and metaphor as psychotherapy tools in life-threatening situations. Just as Milton E. Erickson's medical condition fueled his way of healing others, so also, Nancy Klein's medical history fuels her way of healing children and families. School Psychologists and Psychotherapists supporting children confronting serious medical conditions will value this book.

I'm astonished that I'm the first to review this outstanding children's book! Never having heard of the author before, I came across a copy in our local library and took it out to read to my visiting god-daughter. We had a good time reading and discussing it and considered it far above the average in present-day children's books. Although the author deals with serious and even tragic topics, she does so with great sensitivity and with humour. We rolled with laughter at some of the scenes. The serious side of things led to interesting discussions about life, and I appreciated Julie Johnston's courage in presenting such topics for children to consider, in a context which was not too difficult for them to digest. My god-daughter still likes to talk about the time we read this book and how much she enjoyed it.

Since reading this book, I have read Adam and Eve and Pinch Me, which I also enjoyed, but not as much as Hero of Lesser Causes.

Never having heard of the author before, I came across a copy of this book in our local library and took it out to read to my eleven-year old, visiting god-daughter. We had a good time reading and discussing it and considered it far above the average in present-day children's books. Although the author deals with serious and even tragic topics, she does so with great sensitivity and with humour. We rolled with laughter at some of the scenes. The serious side of things led to interesting discussions about life, and I appreciated Julie Johnston's courage in presenting such topics for children to consider, in a context which was not too difficult for them to digest. My god-daughter still likes to talk about the time we read this book and how much she enjoyed it.

Since then, I have read Adam and Eve and Pinch Me, by the same author, which I also enjoyed, but not as much as Hero of Lesser Causes.

This book was good because of the real life epidemic, Polio. It made you think and feel for Patrick. It had a good ending with the freind with the horse

This book is a very great and beneficial book. It is very entertaining also. Moshe is my father, but I am also a diabetic type 2.
I had asked my Father about eating and he had directed me to the book. The book is concise and constructive. It helped me look at other ways to do things in a positive way.
The pictures make you want to just hug Molly. They make it more real. I was amazed at the valuable way the book makes you look at things. It has helped me see thing in a different light. The ability of Molly to show people that you are not alone is heartening and I think this book should be on every parents list to buy if their child has diabetes.
Also for people that are new to this disease. It is the most clear and communicative book I have read. I thank my father and Camille Dorian for bring this book to be published. Thank you
Rebecca

Molly's Story makes understanding diabetes easy. The photos of Molly are adorable and the humor makes the book fun to read.

The book explains everything you need to know about what diabetes is and how to take care of yourself. It makes learning fun rather than work. Molly gives detailed advice on diet and exercize and treatment in an easy to read way.

Molly's attitude is positive and reading her story makes you feel OK about having diabetes.

If you were to read only one book on diabetes this would be the one. "I Have Diabetes Too" is a very easy-to-understand, readable book full of illustrations, detailed information and advice on all aspects of diabetes management. It explains how to stay healthy and prevent complications by adjusting your diet and lifestyle. It does so in such a way that it is fun to read.

I haven't seen any other book that gives so much detailed information on every aspect of diabetes (both type 1 and type 2) so concisely.

The diet information is extensive, well-illustrated and up-to-date. Information on food groups, balancing carbs and using the glycemic index is easy to understand, as is discussion of efa's (essential fatty acids) and transfats. There is an appendix that offers specific suggestions for aerobic exercise and for weight resistance exercises (which are illustrated) and explains the importance of each type.

The layout and writing style are such that both children and adults will enjoy and learn from the book. The monkey is so charismatic that I think even people without diabetes would enjoy the book (and could learn a lot about diet and exercise that is relevant to everyone)!

This book provides an up front look at how to help children deal with meeting someone who is differently abled. It is worded so young children
in preschool can understand what they should or could do if they meet
someone who is different from them. The pictures provide an additional learning tool to discuss how the children are feeling on each page. Overall I think this book is a 5 star book and could be used just about
anywhere!!
Carla

I loved this book. It is difficult to find books that discuss disabled people. This book showed the many ways in which people with and without disabilities are alike. It also told children how to become acquainted with another child and that they might become good friends. This book talked about people who need different types of assistive technology devices like wheelchairs or talking devices. Overall, this was an excellent book. I would use it in my preschool classroom to introduce different types of disabilities to the students.

I ordered this book for my sister, who's 2 year old son has cerebral palsy. My idea was that she could place it in her local day care center that my nephew attends so that the other kids could have some of their questions answered about kids with special needs. This book really fit the bill..it is clear and concise, and seemed to address lots of questions that I have heard other children asking. Other than just seeing that something is "wrong" or different, maybe after reading the book they will realize that diversity is a part of life and that people with special needs can be just as fun and interesting as everyone else! The book really helped put into words what I would like kids to know about meeting and interacting with kids with disabilites. I also ordered "Someone special just like you", but found the Extraordinary friends book to be a much better choice for my particular needs.