Supportive Parenting

Becoming an Advocate for your Child with Special Needs

Jan Starr Campito

Paperback: £18.99 / $29.95

2007, royal, 256pp
ISBN: 978-1-84310-851-1, BIC 2: JNSP VFJD

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Preface. Acknowledgements. 1. Why This Book? 2. Pre-diagnosis: Is it Normal for Everything to Be So Hard? 3. Obtaining a Formal Evaluation. 4. What Next? What Does This Diagnosis Mean? 5. Beginning Therapeutic Interventions for Your Child. 6. Marcus and Asperger's Syndrome: An Example of How the Manifestation of a Disorder (and One's Parenting Role) Can Change Over Time 7. Your Parenting Role, Part I: Promoting Positive Behavior and Reducing Misbehavior in Your Child. 8. Your Parenting Role, Part II: Increasing Your Child's Competence. 9. The Special Education Process: Formulating an Individualized Education or Family Services Plan. 10. Monitoring the Progress of Your Child. 11. Advocating for Your Child: It Never Ends, Does It? References.

Author information

• Jan Starr Campito

Subject areas

• Disability
• Parenting
• Asperger Syndrome, Autism and other Syndromes

Keywords

• ADD,
• ADHD,
• Asperger syndrome,
• autism,
• challenging behaviour,
• children,
• disability,
• Down's syndrome,
• dyspraxia,
• emotions,
• families,
• high functioning autism,
• hyperlexia,
• nonverbal learning disabilities,
• parenting,
• tics,
• tourettes

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