Author: Sheryl Belshaw-Ponciano
This web site offers an extensive look at the internal and external questions that parents of children with special needs must deal with and gives ideas for how to face the challenges of raising their special child.
The material, inspired by the author?s 18-years of experience in working with parents at the United Cerebral Palsy Child Development Center of Tampa Bay, is ?intended to be used by parents as a motivational reader and in parent support groups as an outline for discussion and stimuli for emotional response?.
Topics include:
? Handling the Shock of Diagnosis
? Addressing the Spirituality of Parents and Their Children with Special Needs
? Communicating with Children about Their Special Needs
? Handling Discrimination
? Parental Advocacy
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