Disability-and-Health Books

This book is designed to be used as a reference tool. Not only is it quick and easy to find the answers you are looking for, the explinations are completely referenced and are the most credible I've read in a book on ADHD. Very well written, and best of all, IT ISN'T BORING!

I found this book through a teacher's memo. Recently, some of my students were diagnosed with ADHD. This was by far the best source for addressing the concerns of parents, students, and other educators. ALL of the points are completely referenced, making it invaluable in answering the 'who says?' questions. If you're supposed to know, this is your ADHD bible.

For the sake of simplicity, a list of contents as presented on the book cover:

*Facts backed by Scientific Study

*Causes, Early Signs, Diagnosis, and Treatment

*Medications, Diet, and Alternative Therapies

*How to Use Drugs Safely, With Minimal Risk

*Management Roles of Parents, Teacher, Psychologist and Physician

*Outcome and Prevention

This book is easily followed, an EXCELLENT REFERENCE, inspiringly unbiased, utterly complete and succinctly presented. Need anyone say more? Thak you Dr. Millichap, if you read this!

In short, this is the one and only text you need. Since 1995, when my eldest son was diagnosed with ADHD, I have spent a great deal of money and time ordering and reading almost every text published on this disorder. As a single mother, and now an authority on finding the right source of information on this subject, my experience to share is that you will not find a more complete and ACURATE text on ADHD and Learning Disorders, anywhere. Questions & Answers provides more scientifically backed facts on every aspect of ADHD and related Learning Disorders than all of the other books on my shelf combined - and that's saying alot!

I have been searching for clear and reliable information related to causes, methods of diagnosis, medications, diet, alternative therapies and, generally, the most up-to-date medical opinion's on this disorder. Having bought just about every text on the market without feeling I was getting the best authority on the subject, a friend recommended Dr. Millichap's book. Since discovering it was such a relief to me, I have felt obliged to pass on the recommendation to everybody and anybody who has gone through the same frustrating search for a scientific, yet easy to understand, treasury of helpful facts that this text embodies.

Use this text, and feel properly informed - as for the rest, good luck!

I THINK WHOMEVER HAS A CHILD WITH AUTISM OR ASPERGERS, IT WAS A GREAT BOOK, AND ANSWERED A GREAT DEAL OF QUESTIONS. MY ONLY PROBLEM WAS, I DON'T HAVE A CHILD, I HAVE A TEENAGER. BELEIVE ME, ONCE HORMONES KICK IN, YOU HAVE A GREAT MANY "NEW" QUESTIONS THAT NEED TO BE ANSWERED. ALL THE BOOKS THAT I HAVE PURCHASED, (I HAVE A SMALL LIBRARY), SEEMS TO DEAL WITH CHILDREN, NOT SO MUCH YOUNG ADULTS. BUT IF YOU ARE LOOKING FOR ANSWERS FOR YOUNGER CHILDREN, IT WAS EXCELENT READING.
KK

My son was recently diagnosed as a child with autism. This book simply and thoroughly answered all the questions my husband and I had. We knew very little about autism before the diagnoses and what we knew wasn't completely accurate. It has helped us rethink what we knew and look at autism as just a part of who our beautiful and bright son is and not something horrible we have to face alone or in shame. The perspectives he shares from adults with autism were really empowering to hear. We are going to be buying copies for friends and family members to help them understand our son better. I would recommend this book for anyone new to this world and looking for answers!

This book is a good introduction or complement to information about Autism. Lots of good info

How I wish this book was written sooner!! My son was diagnosed with an Autism spectrum disorder at age 2, he is now 4. This is the first and only, in my opinion, book that looks at Autism from a more positive and less "cynical clinical" perspective. These are REAL questions from REAL parents that may not make sense to some who read this book that do not have children on the spectrum, but for us this book is a God send. Thank you Mr. Stillman for taking the time to give your wisdom to this book. I have recommended this book to all of the parents that are just starting out on the Autsim Journey with their child. This book truly is a breath of fresh air into a society where most books on this subject leave parents feeling hopeless and depressed. This book leaves one with understanding. Once again Thank You Mr. Stillman!! God Bless You!!
Julia A. Howerin
Virginia Beach, Virginia

The brain is the most important organ of the human body, and dealing with damage to it is a feat in itself. "Brain Injury Survival Kit: 365 Tips, Tools, & Tricks to Deal with Cognitive Function Loss" is a guide for those who are afflicted and those who are family to them. Touching on the many sorts of brain injury and the effects of each, it tackles subjects such as communication, struggling with memory, medication, and dealing with day to day life when it's an epic challenge to do so. "Brain Injury Survival Kit" is a must to have on hand when you or a family member is faced with this unfortunate injury.

There are few injuries more traumatic than brain injuries. Not to be able to find just the right word at just the right time can be...devastating.

This book will teach you tricks for how to cope. Much of it consists in learning to plan, to take notes, and to organize, organize, and organize again so you can regain your life.

I would like to point out also that this book would be of extreme value to any caregivers. Sometimes it can be difficult to persuade someone with brain injuries to read a book like this. Even so, this book will show you how to help your loved one.

This book is a great road map for people with brain injury and for families of people with brain injury. What this book does not do: It does not delve on the reasons how or why there is brain damage, or to the degree or extent of brain damage. It does not compare severe vs. mild brain damage. It does tell of all kinds of symptoms, many more than I personally have. Dr. Sullivan showed ways to get around them or ways to deal with them. But most importantly she showed me that one can learn to accept and live with brain damage. My life changed and I had no direction from the medical field. The doctors fixed the physical, but then left me adrift. I read several books once my reading comprehension returned and not one of the books offered any solutions to fix or help. Dr. Sullivan's book is a no nonsense book with honest to goodness answers for ways to deal with every day issues, not only to help the person with a brain injury, but will also help the family of the brain injured understand what is happening and how to help. She also offers resources for all kinds of additional help that is available. This book is easy to read and will be used time & time again.

Many people do not understand the wide spectrum of results from brain injury...from the severe and most obvious to those who live day to day with moderate disabilities and their consequences. Many of the survival techniques in this book are directed to those who suffer from the subtle changes that are a disaster to the sufferer but hardly noticed by those surrounding them. Dr. Sullivan speaks to those of us who can function--just not as well as most of the population. She extends a helping hand to those of us who need her--those of us who keep our moderate symptoms a secret but still need help. It would also be a great tool kit for those suffering "normal" memory loss in the aging process. My sincere thanks for this survival kit.

I am very interested in children with cerebral palsy in Korea.
Because of easiler explaination basic concepts, y book I am very impressed this book.
This book is helped in teaching introduced children with cerebral palsy in Korea.

Wow! After almost five years of parenting a child with CP, I've discovered a book that answers all my questions! This book goes into detail on everything you want to know--the medical aspects of high tone/low tone, when various surgeries are necessary and what results you can expect, the different types of AFO's and equipment, lots of other stuff. If you have a child with CP, you'll want this book. I only wish they had come out with a second edition by now. (Sept. 2003) Also includes an extensive encyclopedia. If you've been craving detailed information and answers, this is what you've been looking for.

Co-authored by medical doctors Freeman Miller and Steven Bachrach, Cerebral Palsy: A Complete Guide For Caregiving, 2nd Edition is a `must' for any family struggling with CP care: it provides parents with answers ranging form understanding areas of involvement and basic care issues to understanding medical terminology commonly used. An A-Z encyclopedia helps define these terms, diagnoses and procedures, while discussions delve into regulations, assessments of condition, and the latest research. The wealth of details are organized logically and parents will find it easy to navigate, making it an item of choice above others.

Dr. Miller and Dr. Bachrach have written a wonderful book. Dr. Miller was actually my daugther's ortho doctor until he took time off to help write this book. Dr. Bachrach is currently treating my daughter. I love the fact that they have made this book easy to understand and that it answers questions that you might never think to ask while you are in the clinic with your child.

This book is phenominal. Many of the questions that I have had as a parent of a child with Bipolar Disorder are outlined and answered in an easy-to-read fashion. This will be a must-have for parents and therapists alike.

"As a licensed mental health therapist working with the chronically mentally ill for over 13 years, I have seen
first-hand the destruction and anguish caused by ignoring or putting off a diagnosis and/or treatment. People
end up suffering for years and often turn to drugs/alcohol to self-medicate, or even worse, some take their
own lives. That being said, I am also the parent of a 7 year old who has been recently diagnosed with Early
Onset Bipolar Disorder. Working in the field and having a detailed knowledge of the disease made the
diagnosis no less devastating. This book is an invaluable resource; the authors have provided the reader
with a wealth of important information in a format that is easy to read and understand. It is not only helpful for
recognizing symptoms, but also helps to identify possible solutions. I feel the knowledge gained by reading
this book has helped pave the way for me to learn about and accept my child's illness while simultaneously
providing hope for the future."

Lisa R. Steller MA, LPC

This book, like all of the others written by Tracy Anglada is a must have for your bookshelf if your child is diagnosed with Bipolar Disorder or any mood disorder. She answers questions clearly and simply. The book is divided into categories to make looking up information you need easy to do without a lot of research. After reading this book, you will feeling very informed and confident to help your child receive the best of care.

"Hands down this book gets 5 stars! Having the opportunity to review this book prior to its release, the authors do a phenomenal job conveying to their readers everything there is to know about childhood bipolar disorder in an easy to read question/answer format. This layout allows the reader to navigate directly to areas of particular interest, with information invaluable to not only the newly diagnosed but the seasoned parent as well. This book is an essential resource for all!"
Annette Seelig
NAMI-Contra Costa,Ca

This was assigned reading for an Intro to Disability Studies class that I've taken. It's encouraging for a person with a disability like myself to see that there are people who genuinely care about the individual without allowing the individual's disability to be an obstacle for current and future interactions. This compilation of essays shows how some professionals in the disability services actually have a learning attitude and are able to step back from their position of 'authority' (after all, they're supposed to be 'the expert'). From the perspective a person with a disability, it is an eye opener and I'm eager to read more of Mr. Schwartz's literature and that of some of his colleagues. Not only is this a must-read for professionals and parents of people with disabilities, I believe it is important for people with disabilities to read this book as well. Education, that tests the limits of the individual, is one of the keys to better integrating a person with a disability into his or her community.

Mattel does a great job designing this Barbie. The skin tone, eye color and body pose are splendid. I have yet to open the box to know if the doll is posable (bendable at the knee.) I would have liked this information to have been communicated on the box. None-the-less, the doll is beautiful and a true representation of the African-American Barbie. Your child will have great adventures with this very special doll.

This book is a "must read" for policy makers, families of people with disabilities, and service providers. Unlike most writers in the field, Schwartz expands his discussion of disability policy and practice to the larger realm of community and the world we all live in at any given moment. This book stimulates us to examine our own assumptions, our world view, our own life trajectory, and the very purpose of our own individual lives.

Martha Ziegler
Founder, Federation for Children with Special Needs

Although David Schwartz's book is several years old now, it is still THE best look at the complexities of the community rebuilding process that is the aftermath of deinstitutionalization. This book is a must for all service providers, family members, friends and everyone who is interested in crossing the river to that place where everyone is welcome and everyone is included.

When we lose just a part of our physical or mental being, we can suddenly feel that somehow we are not really ourselves anymore. Dr. Beisser had lost almost his whole physical self, but he shows us so eloquently how to overcome loss by changing his "point of view" both literally and mentally. I have gven a copy of this book to more than one person that I felt by their reading it, it could be of service in some way. I think anyone can benefit form this book, disabled or not and I highly recommend it!!

I'm 25 hispanic female that recently read this book. I just became fascinated for the optimistic attitude and spirit of life that this book has. No words to describe what has done in my life

This is an excellent true story. I think it would be very good for people in the medical and/or caregiving professions to read. Dr. Beisser is very inspirational in his journey to overcome his disability. The concepts in the book that were important to me are those feelings and experiences he relays about being dependent on physical care from nurses and doctors. Specifically, I learned alot from what he said he felt like when they cared for him grudgingly or with indifference; and also how he was affected when they simply would not listen to him. I have taken these words into my life and I always try to remember them when I am caring for someone who is dependent on me. Another important concept is the persistence he embodied. He simply never gave up, even when everybody was telling him to 'throw in the towel'. He did accomplish exactly what he set out to do, despite his obstacles. And finally, the concept of gratitude was BIG in this book. He was grateful even for his disability in the end. As amazing as this sounds, it is a pure and simple truth that we all must be grateful for absolutely everything that happens to us. Dr. Beisser shows the reader this lesson in a big way at the end of the book when he talks about his total acceptance of his circumstances and all the personal growth he has attained from those circumstances.

Arnold Beisser grew up with two life goals: To be a doctor and to be a national tennis champion. At 23, he achieved his first goal; at 24, his second. The year was 1950. Soon after his tennis victory, en route to basic training that would have brought him to Korea as an army doctor, he developed a high fever and was brought to a military hospital. Within 24 hours, he was paralyzed from the neck down. As Beisser puts it, one moment he was a doctor; suddenly he was a patient, requiring an iron lung to breathe. He had contracted polio. This outstanding book examines the funny, sad and philosophical aspects of life with a disability and its social consequences. Particularly fascinating are Beisser's stories of the stigma many people attach to disability. His courtship and marriage, as well as his career as a psychiatrist treating professional athletes, make for compelling reading. Anyone who has struggled in life - because of disability or any other tribulation - will be permanently enriched by this unforgettable memoir.

THIS BOOK WAAS VERY GOOD. IT GAVE THE EXPEIRNCES OF PARENTS MWHO HAD KIDS THAT WHERE AUTISTIC. I BOUGHT AND READ IN ONLYA FEW DAYS.

Living With Autism is a collection of candid, informative and revealing parental stories of what it is like to live with autistic children on a day to day basis. Author Kathleen Dillon provides a review of the professional literature defining and diagnosing autism, securing adequate treatment, family stress, social stigma, and all of the aspects and elements of life with an autistic charge. Highly recommended reading for parents and caretakers of autistic children, Living With Autism is enhanced with a "Parent's Questionnaire" and "Suggestions For Parents", references, glossary, and an index.

No jargon. No hype. No claims of "miracle cures". Just an honest, realistic account of the lives of the families of six autistic children. Parents of autistic children are bound to find much to reassure them that they are not alone. Others will learn a great deal about the problems, pressures and challenges facing the parents of any disabled child.

i have read many books dealing with the subject of autism and i feel this book has the most accurate information. from the author's prospective & researched information you get a step by step introduction to the effects of autism on the families. honest & straightforward... w/o hyping miracle cures (i.e. vitamins, drug therapy) or understating the massive effect an autistic child has on the family. for anyone who is close to a family with an autistic child this is a must read..... the 6 children whose parents were interviewed give an honest, clear account of what day-to-day life is like with an autistic child. funny, heartwarming, sad and informative if you buy any book about autism, buy this one! i've read 24 plus books on autism, this one is by far the best

This book offers the best not only in terms of content but also in the quality of the writing. There are many truly wonderful writers here, including some of my personal favorites: the wise and compassionate Naomi Remen, the fascinatingly resilient Floyd Skloot, and one of the book's editors, Karen Myers, whose honesty and sensitivity is not only moving but illuminating. A lot of ground gets covered, and what the authors have to say isn't really just for "people with disabilities;" their thoughts, observations, emotions and epiphanies will resonate with everyone who has ever struggled to accept or adapt to difficulty, to adversity, or to the disconcertingly unexpected -- whether within the realm of illness, disability and healing...or simply within the realm of LIVING. Its truths are universal.

This book is for anybody who has a body, especially those of us who may have discovered that our body can't do what it once could. I especially appreciate the different points of view and subject matter, the sense that this project is a circle of people with varied life experience who are contributing to a picture of what it means to be human and challenged that is larger and more inclusive than the sum of its parts. The selection of form and tone gives a suggestion of the flexibility and resourcefulness that are called out of each of us in dealing with our individual challenges. Kudos.

If you or your loved ones are coping with illness or disability, this book is a must-read! This book leads the reader through this process - from affliction, to isolation, to integration, and all other steps in between - all through the voices of those who have walked this path before. You cannot read this book and be unmoved, either through a greater recognition of yourself in these stories or through a greater understanding of those who live with illness or disability. A book you will keep forever and reach for again and again when your spirit needs rekindling.

The personal essays and poetry in My Body of Knowledge are not only educational in terms of learning about how people live with disability and chronic illness, but also well written and moving. From well known authors such as Rachel Naomi Remen and Molly Ivins, to "every day people" like the editor Karen Myers, the personal experiences shared in the book are poignant, and full of truth and love. As a cancer survivor making my way through the world, I was heartened by reading the authors' writings. So many of their struggles resonated with my own--from entering an unknown, uncertain world to the emotions I've felt--grief, anger, hope and even humor. This book is a "must read" for anyone living with the challenges of a disability or chronic illness, or anyone loving a person with a chronic illness or disability.

This is my favorite book. I read it in less than a day wich is rare for me. Some other books I love are Catcher and the Rye, and The Sound and the Furry. Donna Williams is amazing. This book is amazing.

This is my favorite book. I read it in less than a day wich is rare for me. Some other books I love are Catcher and the Rye, and The Sound and the Furry. Donna Williams is amazing. This book is amazing.

At the age of four Donna's main carers are gone when her grandfather dies and her grandmother is sent away. Now, with her surreal and eccentric father basically banned from contact with her, she becomes the possession of a disability-phobic, obsessive, disturbed and alcoholic mother who is determined to play out her own lost childhood and make her seemingly deaf, somewhat 'psychotic' and disturbed idiot daughter a pretty and perfect dancing doll.

But inside of Donna there are other people she has collected along her road to survival; Willie who is like a civil rights activist on steroids and the smiling facade of Carol.

Carol plays the mother's doll to protect the soul of the real Donna. Intertwined with Willie's violent and defensive outbursts and paranoic protection and Donna's often bizarre and quite Autistic responses and behaviours, Carol, behaving like people on TV sit-coms, goes to school,even goes through the motions of 'friends', and develops a broad range of mimicked speech, stored phrases and charicatures, saving Donna from a life in an institution and often from the very real threat of death.

As the teenage years approach Carol and Willie fight it out for control of the body with the real Donna on the sidelines as the lot of them drift into homelessness, poverty and domestic prostitution passed from stranger to stranger.

After an attempted suicide she falls into the care of a psychiatrist and goes on to get a university education. But knowlege is not wisdom and without independence skills, Donna follows a stranger across the ocean where, on arrival, he abandons her to an itinerant bag-lady existance throughout Europe. This second journey begins with a man who will change her life and sense of self forever as she meets and falls in love with a real life 'mirror'with the same challenges as her own and, later faced with the loss of this first deep love, goes on a desperate and dangerous quest to find out 'what kind of mad' she is in the hope there is hope she can change it and as a result finds out she is Autistic; a realisation that ends up changing the entire field of Developmental Disabilities forever.

An international bestseller, in over 17 languages throughout the world, Nobody Nowhere is a moving, gripping, surreal, myth-shattering, sometimes hilarious but ultimately uplifting book and one that will stay with you as one of the most moving and exceptional works you will ever read.

Life, normality and reality will not be the same after you read this book.

I think Donna Williams is one of the world's greatest authors. Although she suffers from pervasive developmental disorder, (autism related), she has shown great courage and will be of great benefit in the future for other people with disabilities.

I suffer, myself, from Asperger's Syndrome (I am 23 years old) and I have benefited from Donna's three autobiographies written.

I am trying hard to find information and correspondence with other autistic people like myself; but the process has not been a walover. I recommend reading of the books, from "Nobody Nowhere"(first) to "Like Color to the Blind" (third) because all three books run in sequence.

I have rated Nobody Nowhere a perfect 10!

Adrian Pooley