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• Aunt Katie’s Visit
  Addresses assistive technology, coping mechanisms, good citizenship and the importance of wearing your seatbelt.
  
  
• A Balancing Act: Living with Spinal Cerebellar Ataxia
   
• Dance of Partnership
  A series of books from Janice Fialka on inclusive education, secondary transition, sibling issues and most notably about ways to strengthen the parent-professional partnership.

• Dis"ability" Joke Books
  A refreshingly humorous look at issues and aspects of disability. More than 215 cartoons from Frank Warner's wheelchair perspective hit the mark on everything from parking, strangers assumptions, to lift mechanisms run amok!
   
• The Down Syndrome Nutrition Handbook: A Guide to Promoting Healthy Lifestyles
  Includes medical information regarding people with Down syndrome is helpful to parents and professionals alike who want to know more about recommendations for specific conditions, such as diabetes and celiac disease, as well as basic nutrition and physiology. This latest edition includes updated resources and information to reflect the most up-to-date information.  The book is written by Joan Guthrie Medlen, a registered dietician and the parent of a young man with Down syndrome.

• The Functional Independence Skills Handbook
  An assessment and a full curriculum with lesson plans designed to assist people with devlopmental disabilities in gaining more functional independence. Domains of learning include adaptive behavior, affective skills, cognitive abilities, sensorimotor, socialization, speech and vocational. Some sample lesson plans and other materials are available on the site.

• Kara Mia
  The story of sudden loss and slow recovery in a teenager with Long QT syndrome

• Life on the Reflux Roller Coaster
  A book about reflux disease in infants and children.

• Living Well with an Ostomy
  By Elizabeth Rayson - A resource to all patients regardless of the type of ostomy

• Making Life Easier Series
  These books offer ways to live your life to the fullest, by overcoming obstacles along the way.

• Mark The Peanut Butter Kid
  This book from Bonny Billups is an inpirational true story about a young woman that experiences an unexpected pregnancy that gives her with a child with a special heart. It also can serve as a parent's survival guide on how to care for a child with a heart conditions. The book also documents the child's out of body experiences during heart surgery.

• The Moon Balloon: A Journey of Hope and Discovery for Children and Families

• The "OK" Health Check: Improving Health Care for People with Learning Disabilities
  From Fairfield Publications

• One Handed in a Two Handed World
  From Prince-Gallison Press

• One Step at a Time
  One Step at a Time is a unique journal, keepsake and guide for coping with a child's hospitalization.

• Place Last Seen
  A novel that centers around the search for a Down Syndrome child lost on an ordinary day hike in the Sierra.

• Red Riding Hood Races the Big Bad Wolf
  Red Riding Hood views her wheelchair as an ability, not a hindrance, to race and defeat the Big Bad Wolf to Grandma's house. From Twilight Press

• The Recycling Occupational Therapist
  Learn how to create and adapt activities for people of all different skill levels out of common household recyclable objects such as laundry bottles, soda bottles and cardboard boxes.
   
• Riding The Bus With My Sister
  Rachel Simon's sister Beth is a spirited woman who lives intensely and often joyfully, and who also happens to have developmental disabilities (or what used to be known as "mental retardation").

• Self-Help Group Sourcebook
  Listing of local non-profit self-help group clearinghouses worldwide; suggestions for starting both community and online mutual aid groups; summaries of research studies studies conducted of self-help groups; a registry for those trying to start new national or international self-help group organization that don't yet exist in the world.

• Special Siblings: Growing Up With Someone With a Disability
  This book written by Mary McHugh is the author's story of growing up with her brother Jack who has cerebral palsy and mental retardation and who now lives in a home for retarded adults in Deland, Florida. It's also partly the story of over a hundred other siblings of people with disabilities - all disabilities, not just mental retardation. And it is partly the advice of people who have specialized in this field and know the feelings and reactions of siblings who have a brother or sister with a disability.

• Taking the Bully by the Horns
  This self-help book from Kathy Noll and Dr. Jay Carter explores different ways children and teenagers are bullied (both mentally and physically), how the bully becomes a bully, how the victim becomes a victim (sometimes there's a fine line between the two!), and what can be done about it.

• The Way Life Is
  The Way Life Is takes readers into the home of a young couple trying to accommodate their own needs, desires and demons while coping with the special needs of their children: Sara, born with a rare and life threatening disability known as Prader-Willi Syndrome; Gina, who arrived needing open-heart surgery in order to survive; and Andrew, an active and exceptionally healthy little boy stuck in the middle.
  
  
• Understanding Stevens – Johnson Syndrome & Toxic Epidermal Necrolysis
  People who survive this horrible, life-changing condition face untold challenges on a daily basis. Until now, there has been no one central informational reference about these conditions. This comprehensive book is the first of its kind, placing all known information about this condition in one place, detailing the causes, signs and symptoms; treatment, and long-term health ramifications. Includes treatment protocols for physicians. This book contains valuable information that may save your life, the life of a loved one, or it may help the survivor come to terms in living with this condition by knowing what to expect.
  
  
• Yoga for the Special Child
  This book offers a therapeutic approach for babies and children with downs syndrome, attention deficit disorder, learning disabilities, and cerebral palsy.

• You Are Not Your Illness: Seven Principles for Meeting the Challenge
  This book from Linda Noble Topf (who has multiple sclerosis) reveals the keys to regaining emotional & spiritual wholeness when a serious illness or injury threatens to destroy one's sense of self.

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