books about: disorder     books:       Understanding Your Child's Sensory Signals: A Practical Daily Use Handbook for Parents and Teachers Angie Voss OTR CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2011 The 2nd edition is now available! New cover and new interior format! Now including 210 of the most common sensory signals with double the content and many more ideas to help! This practical, daily application handbook is helping parents, teachers, and caregivers all over the world to understand sensory signals and cues from a child rather than jumping to the conclusion of behavior driven. This user friendly "go to" handbook is geared for daily ...             To Soften the Blow, 2011 To Soften the Blow is a powerful true story that will change the way you look at loss, stress, and trauma. At seven-years old Lynnie Vessels steps out of the bathtub to discover her father has just shot her mother with a shotgun across their dining room table. Literally standing naked in her mother’s blood throughout the ensuing horror, she is magically transported into the loving eyes of her younger sister. Simultaneously, her older sister ...             The Boy Who Was Raised As a Dog: And Other Stories from a Child Psychiatrist's Notebook: What Traumatized ... Bruce D. Perry, Maia Szalavitz Basic Books, 2007 What happens when a young brain is traumatized? How does terror, abuse, or disaster affect a child's mind--and how can that mind recover? Child psychiatrist Bruce Perry has helped children faced with unimaginable horror: genocide survivors, murder witnesses, kidnapped teenagers, and victims of family violence. In The Boy Who Was Raised as a Dog , he tells their stories of trauma and transformation through the lens of science, revealing the ...             Carly's Voice Arthur Fleischmann, Carly Fleischmann Tantor Audio, 2012 At the age of two, Carly Fleischmann was diagnosed with severe autism and an oral motor condition that prevented her from speaking. Doctors predicted that she would never intellectually develop beyond the abilities of a small child. Carly remained largely unreachable through the years. Then, at the age of ten, she had a breakthrough. While working with her devoted therapists, Carly reached over to their laptop and typed “HELP TEETH HURT,” ...             Hope and Help for Your Nerves Claire Weekes HighBridge Company, 2012 Sweaty, trembling hands. Churning stomach. Headaches, sleeplessness, rapid heartbeat. All are common symptoms of nervous illness, or the panic state. During her long and accomplished career, Dr. Claire Weekes helped countless people overcome anxiety, fear, and frustration and lead happy, healthy lives. Based on the best-selling book of the same name, this eight-part original audio series is like a personal consultation with Dr. Weekes. Learn to ...             Could It Be B12?: An Epidemic of Misdiagnoses Sally M. Pacholok, Jeffrey J. Stuart Linden Publishing, 2011 Presenting a wide scope of problems caused by B12 deficiency, this comprehensive guide provides up-to-date medical information about symptoms, testing, diagnosis, and treatment. Written for both the patient and the interested layperson, this detailed book outlines how physicians frequently misdiagnose B12 deficiency as Alzheimer’s disease, multiple sclerosis, heart disease, mental retardation, Parkinson’s disease, depression, or other ...             How We Love: Discover Your Love Style, Enhance Your Marriage Milan Yerkovich, Kay Yerkovich WaterBrook Press, 2008 Identify the source of missteps in your marriage–and learn exactly what you can do about it! Tired of arguing with your spouse over the same old issues? Longing for a marriage with less conflict and more intimacy? Struggling under a load of resentment? In How We Love, relationship experts Milan and Kay Yerkovich draw on the powerful tool of attachment theory to show how your early life experiences created an “intimacy ...             The Wizard of Oz and Other Narcissists: Coping with the One-Way Relationship in Work, Love, and Family Eleanor Payson Julian Day Publications, 2002 Every day headlines are filled with examples of narcissistic individuals in positions of power who are nothing more than impostors plundering and wrecking havoc on the lives of others. From the financial barons of Wall Street to our elected officials in government, we are confronted daily with narcissists and the self-serving systems that enable them. Helping people reclaim their lives from this sinister exploitative force is the mission behind ...             Wide Awake and Dreaming: A Memoir of Narcolepsy Julie Flygare Mill Pond Swan Publishing, 2012 Julie Flygare was on an ambitious path to success, entering law school at age 22, when narcolepsy destroyed the neurological boundaries between dreaming and reality in her brain. She faced terrifying hallucinations, paralysis and excruciating sleepiness aspects of dream sleep taking place while wide awake. Yet, narcolepsy was a wake-up call for Julie. Her illness propelled her onto a journey she never imagined from lying paralyzed on her ...             Can I Tell You About Asperger Syndrome?: A Guide for Friends and Family Jude Welton Jessica Kingsley Pub, 2003 Meet Adam - a young boy with AS. Adam invites young readers to learn about AS from his perspective. In this book, Adam helps children understand the difficulties faced by a child with AS; he tells them what AS is, what it feels like to have AS and how they can help children with AS by understanding their differences and appreciating their many talents. This book is ideally suited for boys and girls between 7 and 15 years old and also serves as ...             Eat What You Love, Love What You Eat Am I Hungry? Publishing, 2011 Do you regularly deprive yourself, succumb to temptation, feel guilty, and then start the process all over again? If so, you need this book. Dr. Michelle May will guide you out of the food-focused, diet-driven downward spiral that leads you to eat, repent, and repeat. She offers a powerful alternative: end your love-hate relationship with food and start eating mindfully and joyfully. No more rigid rules, strict exercise regimens, questionable ...             The Connected Child: Bring hope and healing to your adoptive family Karyn Purvis, David Cross, ... McGraw-Hill, 2007 "An extremely useful parenting handbook... truly outstanding ... strongly recommended." --Library Journal (starred review) "A tremendous resource for parents and professionals alike." --Thomas Atwood, president and CEO, National Council for Adoption The adoption of a child is always a joyous moment in the life of a family. Some adoptions, though, present unique challenges. Welcoming these children into your family--and addressing their ...             Coconut Cures: Preventing and Treating Common Health Problems with Coconut Bruce Fife Piccadilly Books, Ltd., 2005 Discover the amazing health benefits of coconout meat, milk, water, and oil. In this book you will learn how to use coconut to: prevent heart disease, dissolve kidney stones, balance blood sugar and control diabetes, enhance the immune system, protect against cancer, boost your energy and increase your metabolism, lose excess body fat, kill disease-causing bacteria and viruses, and relieve symptoms associated with irritable bowel syndrome.             The Narcissistic Family: Diagnosis and Treatment Stephanie Donaldson-Pressman, Robert M. Pressman Jossey-Bass, 1997 In this compelling book, the authors present an innovative therapeutic model for understanding and treating adults from emotionally abusive or neglectful families? families the authors call narcissistic. Narcissistic families have a parental system that is, for whatever reason (job stress, alcoholism, drug abuse, mental illness, physical disability, lack of parenting skills, self-centered immaturity), primarily involved in getting its own needs ...             Raising a Sensory Smart Child: The Definitive Handbook for Helping Your Child with Sensory Integration Issues Lindsey Biel, Nancy Peske Penguin Books, 2005 For children with sensory integration issues-those who have difficulty processing everyday sensations and exhibit unusual behaviors such as avoiding or seeking out touch, movement, sounds, and sights-this groundbreaking book is an invaluable resource. Long thought to affect only autistic children, or mistaken for ADHD, SI dysfunction is finally being recognized as a separate condition. Coauthored by a pediatric occupational therapist and a ...             Cure Unknown: Inside the Lyme Epidemic Pamela Weintraub St. Martin's Press, 2008 A groundbreaking and controversial narrative investigation into the science, history, medical politics, and patient experience of Lyme disease told by a science journalist whose entire family contracted the disease. Pamela Weintraub paints a nuanced picture of the intense controversy and crippling uncertainty surrounding Lyme disease and sheds light on one of the angriest medical disputes raging today.  She also reveals her personal odyssey ...             Words Ginny L Yttrup B&H Books, 2011 "I collect words. I keep them in a box in my mind. I'd like to keep them in a real box, something pretty, maybe a shoe box covered with flowered wrapping paper. Whenever I wanted, I'd open the box and pick up the papers, reading and feeling the words all at once. Then I could hide the box. But the words are safer in my mind. There, he can't take them." Ten-year old Kaylee Wren doesn't speak. Not since her drug-addled mother walked ...             Living (Well!) with Gastroparesis, 2012 Living (Well!) with Gastroparesis: Answers, Advice, Tips & Recipes for a Healthier, Happier Life is a comprehensive guide to navigating life after a gastroparesis diagnosis. Certified Health Counselor and gastroparesis patient-advocate Crystal Saltrelli guides you through all aspects of managing gastroparesis, including self advocacy, appropriate medical treatment, complementary therapies, dietary modifications, nutrition and supplementation, ...             Eating in the Light of the Moon Anita A. Johnston Kensington Publishing Corp., 1999 "Once we are able to stop seeing food as our enemy, we find we can use it to learn more about our emotional state. We begin to see that our favorite binge foods speak to us and for us. When we learn to listen carefully and decipher what our food choices have to say, the information can be quite revealing. Certain qualities in foods can be associated with certain feelings or with the suppression of certain feelings. For example, women who crave ...             Dancing with Max: A Mother and Son Who Broke Free Zondervan, 2010 Meet a remarkable young man. Max doesn't communicate like we do. But he communicates better than we do about the most important things. Max doesn't think like we do. But his actions reflect deep spiritual truths. With candor and wit, Emily Colson shares about her personal battles and heartbreak when, as a suddenly single mother, she discovers her only child has autism. Emily illuminates the page with imagery---making you laugh, making you cry, ...              search for books adoptive, asperger, children, connected, definitive, diagnosis, discover, dreaming, epidemic, gastroparesis, handbook, integration, marriage, misdiagnoses, narcissistic, narcissists, narcolepsy, notebook, practical, preventing, problems, psychiatrist, relationship, sensory, syndrome, teachers, traumatized, treating, treatment, understanding books:    Kindle - Amazon's New Wireless Reading Device This is the future of book reading. I have used it and love it! randomly chosen DVD: Titanic (Four-Disc Combo: Blu-ray 3D / Blu-ray / Digital Copy) home  impressum - about us