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22) My Mind's Eyes
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En 1978 nuestro ordenamiento jurídico daba un vuelco radical con unas pocas palabras "todos somos iguales ante la ley", consagradas en la Constitución. Se acababan así muchos siglos de desigualdad entre mujeres y hombres, especialmente intensa durante los cuarenta años de dictadura. O eso parecía. Pero del dicho al hecho hay un buen trecho. No bastaba con palabras. No basta decir que somos iguales para que realmente lo seamos.
De eso trata este...
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In the honest and gripping narrative within "Growing a Rainbow," Lesley Donaldson-Reid recounts the perilous journey of Baby Torran, who arrived three months early and weighed less than a pair of running shoes. Witness through her eye as Baby Torran fights to for his first breath and against the staggering impacts of his premature birth. Lesley's passionate words brings hope to parents of preemies as she raises awareness about this unexpected outcome...
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I was married right out of high school and bore two sons within the first two years. Needing extra income but wanting to stay home with my sons, I decided to do in home child care. I did child care for the next forty-two years. I had many children enrolled in my child care facility all with different wants and needs. One of the children I had was partly deaf. During our reading hour, I had to spend a little extra time with this child. Some of the...
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Told with the intensity of a medical thriller, the extraordinary story of how Clay Whiffen and his family conquered autism. "Leeann Whiffen's fight for her son is a poignant, intimate story of perseverance and love - a reminder to all of us that a mother is the greatest ally a child with autism will ever have. A Child's Journey out of Autism shines a heartfelt light on a future of healing and hope." Jenny McCarthy, author of Mother Warriors and Louder...
26) Beyond Breathing
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Beyond Breathing is a story of a mother's loss of her 13 year old daughter, Jena, to Cystic Fibrosis, a fatal genetic disease. Her journey takes you from unfathomable heartache to love and understanding of life's realities. Through her journey she learns that life lessons come from her children and the beauty of living and the power of love. In the span of one year she learns to go from depression and dependency to inner strength and the realization...
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A riveting and redemptive family memoir, The Four Walls of My Freedom is Donna Thomson's account of raising a son with cerebral palsy and a passionate appeal to change the way we think about the good life. Donna Thomson's life was forever changed when her son Nicholas was born with cerebral palsy. A former actor, director, and teacher, Donna became his primary caregiver and embarked on a second career as a disability activist, author, and consultant....
28) Broken Wings
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So that his brief, innocent life might have meaning for him and those who followed, Barry Glider's young mother bravely fought THE SYSTEM all the way up to the White House. When Barry's mission on Earth was accomplished, God took him home. His young life established hope for those who had no place before in society.
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Today, one out of fifty boys is diagnosed with autism-an alarming situation that affects thousands of families and needs to be addressed. Parents are left with many unanswered questions about how to help their child, and they often receive little guidance in their journey down a road filled with gray answers. Jennifer Witten knows firsthand what it feels like to be overwhelmed with this sort of news and to fear the unknown. In 2010, when her son,...
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The Cankered Rose and Esther's Revenge begins the author's dramatic journey of adopting his teenage daughter with severe attachment issues in Seattle. The heartbreak of then seeing Cordelia "stolen" by the efforts of his former wife and the child-welfare legal complex in Los Angeles, alongside that of the trauma of being denied during efforts to reunify with her are each foreshadowed here. Issues surrounding adoption trauma, parenting children with...
31) My Destiny
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My Destiny is the real-life story of Thomas Rice's journey into being a single parent of a child with special needs. Through this ongoing thirteen-year journey with his son Nikolas, he takes you into the mindset of what parents of children with special needs must endure, the decisions that they must make throughout the lifetime of their child, and the stress that accompanies these experiences. The purpose of My Destiny is to educate and give parents...
32) Sophia's Gift
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Sophia's gift was her life.
This is a beautiful story of a child who taught her family and others to embrace life and love. Though born with significant disabilities, she inspired others to experience life with a unique and wonderful perspective.
Less than one week after celebrating her sixth birthday, Sophia suffered a heartbreaking accident in her wheelchair. Her family was determined to find answers for how a tragedy such as hers was even possible....
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Power to the Aspies is exactly that... the blow-by-blow fight against autism, bringing her child from total despair to overcoming power. Becca, an American university student married to a German businessman, was suddenly shocked into the reality that she was the divorced mom of a son born with Aspergers autism, in a country totally foreign to her. This is a detailed account of how Becca lived through the isolated, helpless, powerless grief of mothering...
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This invaluable resource by Dr Lucy Jane Miller and Doreit Bialer helps teach cost effective, functional, on the spot tips to use for children with sensory issues at home, at school, or in a community setting. Any parent, teacher, or therapist can use this book and help a child with sensory or motor issues!
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The manuscript of God's "Good Morning" is just what the subtitle claims. It is a retelling of my spiritual journey raising an autistic son who is now fifty-four years old. Our son lives at home with his parents and will do so until my husband Greg and I become incapable of parenting him due to old age or our passing at which time, our son will live with his sister. Thus, this relationship is a lifelong commitment. This manuscript is a story of the...
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"Friends of Children with Special Needs" is a compilation of narratives, speeches, reports, articles, and other firsthand accounts that tells the history, work, and current activities of Friends of Children with Special Needs (FCSN). FCSN is a ground-breaking organization run by many dedicated workers and volunteers who hope to fill the emotional, physical, social, and any other needs of families, who have children with special needs. These special...
37) Sarah's World
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Sarah Marie Risotti was born into the world with ten little fingers and ten little toes, but the process of being born was not kind to Sarah. This is a magical, tumultuous, sad but joyful story of Sarah's life and how her life shaped the world of those around her.
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Where's Becky? chronicles the family odyssey of raising a special needs child. It is a memoir that describes the development of a family over thirty years, written in four voices: mom, dad, older sister and, intermittently, the star of the show, Becky. Where's Becky? is written with the insight of psychoanalysis, the style of dedicated writers, and the authority of a family determined to not only survive but to flourish.
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A Compassionate Guide for Parents! As a parent, what's harder to deal with than seeing your child in pain? It's especially frustrating when you feel like you've exhausted the resources you could use to help him or her stop hurting. And if your child is cutting or engaging in another form of self-injury, a behavior that you simply can't make any sense of in the first place, this feeling of helplessness can be unbearable.
This book offers you information...
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J'ai envie de partager mon point de vue, celui de parent, de mère surtout. Je veux parler du quotidien, de cette étiquette de parents inadéquats que l'on nous colle trop facilement e de mon expérience à gérer ce fléau tant controversé, cette maladie qui n'en paraît pas une pour beaucoup d'observateurs.
Avec ce témoignage, pas de solutions faciles, de phrases creuses et de promesses de bonheur sauf... si vous acceptez de faire le voyage...
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