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Children’s Well-Being & parentingbooks

Below are the best books we could find on Children’s Well-Being and parenting.

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Connecting with the Autism Spectrum: How to Talk, How to Listen, and Why You Shouldn’t Call It High-Functioning

For a friend, family member, or coworker with autism, communication can be challenging.

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Casey “Remrov” Vormer
2024
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A Parent’s Guide to High-Functioning Autism Spectrum Disorder: How to Meet the Challenges and Help Your Child Thrive (Second Edition)

Over 100,000 parents have found the facts they need about high-functioning autism spectrum disorder (ASD), including Asperger syndrome, in this indispensable guide. Leading experts show how you can work with your child's unique impairments—and harness his or her capabilities.

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Sally Ozonoff, Geraldine Dawson, James C. McPartland
2014
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A Parent's Guide to Autism Diagnosis

Autism diagnosis can be an overwhelming time for many families. This is an accessible, easy to navigate guide for parents, answering the questions they may have before, during and after diagnosis.

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Sophia Mooncey, Adele Devine
2021
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Outside Looking In: High-functioning Autism From One Mother's Perspective

That's what Vivian M. Lumbard does. She's a mom to teenage twins with high-functioning autism challenges. As a retired air traffic controller, she is familiar with long-term and short-term goals, changing plans on a moment's notice, as well as being able to laugh when stressed.

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Vivian M. Lumbard
2024
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The Black Parenting Book: Caring for Our Children in the First Five Years

The parents of America’s 3.6 million black children under age six face unique challenges and, until now, there has not been one complete resource for them.

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Allison Abner, Linda Villarosa, Anne C. Beal
1998
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The Reason I Jump: The Inner Voice of a Thirteen-Year-Old Boy with Autism

You’ve never read a book like The Reason I Jump. Written by Naoki Higashida, a very smart, very self-aware, and very charming thirteen-year-old boy with autism, it is a one-of-a-kind memoir that demonstrates how an autistic mind thinks, feels, perceives, and responds in ways few of us can imagine.

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Naoki Higashida, KA Yoshida (Translator), David Mitchell (Translator)
2016
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Healing Self-Injury: A Compassionate Guide for Parents and Other Loved Ones

Healing Self-Injury provides desperately-needed guidance to parents and others who love a young person struggling with self-injury.

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Janis Whitlock, Elizabeth Lloyd-Richardson
2019
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Let Them Play: The Mindful Way to Parent Kids for Fun and Success In Sports

American youth sports are in crisis: Parents are fighting with referees, coaches, their kids, and one another. Micromanaged kids are losing their passion to play. In Let Them Play, sports psychologist and team consultant Dr. Jerry Lynch provides an antidote to parental overinvolvement.

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Jerry Lynch
2016
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Raising Twice-Exceptional Children: A Handbook for Parents of Neurodivergent Gifted Kids

Just because a child is gifted doesn't mean they don't have other types of neurodivergence, like ADHD, autism, dyslexia, and more. Conversely, even children with one of these diagnoses can be cognitively gifted.

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Emily Kircher-Morris
2024
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The Puzzle Solver: A Scientist’s Desperate Quest to Cure the Illness that Stole His Son

At the age of twenty-seven, Whitney Dafoe was forced to give up his life as a photographer who traveled the world. Bit by bit a mysterious illness stole away the pieces of his life: First, it took the strength of his legs, then his voice, and his ability to eat.

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Tracie White, Ronald W. Davis
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