Special Needs
epub |eng | 2015-10-05 | Author:Robertson,Missy

The Surgical Coordinator Our last visit before returning to the orthodontist to pick up Mia’s palatal appliance was with Dr. Salyer’s surgical coordinator. We were able to schedule Mia’s first ...
( Category: Spiritual Growth October 11,2015 )
epub |eng | 2014-01-17 | Author:Donna Thomson

CHAPTER FOURTEEN Capable Me Mothering a child with medical needs is a very public but lonely endeavour. Public, because a myriad of professionals weigh in with opinions on how Nicholas ...
( Category: Special Needs July 18,2015 )
epub |eng | 2015-03-16 | Author:Paul Daugherty [Daugherty, Paul]

CHAPTER 16 Kelly How old are those guys, Dad? —KELLY Meantime, Kelly was a senior in high school, and we worried about him. Typical teenaged-kid worries. How are your grades? ...
( Category: Mentally Disabled July 17,2015 )
epub |eng | | Author:Sister Dang Nghiem [Nghiem, Sister Dang]

Chapter Five REVERENCE AND RESPECT Reverence is the nature of my love. —From a calligraphy by Thich Nhat Hanh When we realize that we’re the product of all of our ...
( Category: Spirituality June 9,2015 )
epub |eng | 2014-02-24 | Author:Maria Mutch [Mutch, Maria]

R and I, along with friends, take Gabriel to a different jazz club, this one in New London, Connecticut, about an hour from our house. We’ve been here a few ...
( Category: Special Needs May 27,2015 )
mobi |eng | 2015-01-20 | Author:Carrie Cariello

A Letter to Joey Dear Joey, You’ve just celebrated your ninth birthday, and it’s been another wonderful year. We’ve watched you blossom into an avid reader (the Harry Potter series), ...
( Category: Disabilities April 9,2015 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2013-12-31 | Author:Nelson, Jessica Hendry [Nelson, Jessica Hendry]

THE DOLLHOUSE MY FATHER WAS Cynthia’s firstborn and she likes to tell the story of his beginning. I am twelve and sit cross-legged on an Oriental rug inside the townhouse ...
( Category: Special Needs April 5,2015 )
epub |eng | 2005-03-21 | Author:Miriam Toews [Toews, Miriam]

A friendly male nurse has entered my room to tell me that I am not what I said I was, that I am being too hard on myself. Now, I ...
( Category: Bipolar March 22,2015 )
mobi |eng | 2010-06-16 | Author:Hall, Elaine [Hall, Elaine]

I COME FROM a long line of women who did not give up, among them my aunt Pearl. She was born with a hole in her heart. Her hands always ...
( Category: Autism & Asperger's Syndrome March 22,2015 )
epub |eng | 2008-08-04 | Author:David Carr [Carr, David]

While I was at Eden House, I wrote a horrid first-person account of being in the place for the St. Paul Pioneer Press. John, the columnist who’d seen me there, ...
( Category: Authors February 15,2015 )
epub |eng | 2009-06-27 | Author:Clara Claiborne Park [Park, Clara Claiborne]

. . . We read often that autistic children are deficient in imagination, in “pretend play.” “Current diagnostic schemes pay particular attention to the abnormal lack of imaginative activity.” “The ...
( Category: Special Needs February 8,2015 )
mobi |eng | 2014-03-19 | Author:Ron Suskind [Suskind, Ron]

In talking early on to his parents about how Owen spends his time, I picked up that he really loves Disney movies—especially classic Disney, from the ’40s and ’50s, and ...
( Category: Disabled February 3,2015 )
epub | | 2013-09-29 | Author:Nuala Gardner

11 Highs and Lows Struan School and the Gardner family go back a long way. It was, after all, Jim Taylor who first moved things for us, making sure Dale ...
( Category: Special Needs January 29,2015 )
epub |eng | 2014-01-28 | Author:Tina Traster

Three days later I arrive at Dr. Traister’s office. I gave Anna the morning off so I could take Julia for her third well-visit. So far the doctor’s been pleased ...
( Category: Special Needs January 29,2015 )
mobi |eng | 2012-05-01 | Author:Mcgill, Jerry [Mcgill, Jerry]

INT. HOSPITAL ROOM—DAY JEROME sits up in his wheelchair in front of a canvas. He is painting. He wears a splint on his right wrist and a paintbrush has been ...
( Category: Disabled January 24,2015 )