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A pediatric neuropsychologist presents strategies to help parents of special-needs children navigate the emotional challenges they face, As diagnosis rates continue to rise for autism, ADHD, learning disabilities, and other developmental differences, parents face a maze of medical, psychological, and educational choices-and a great deal of emotional stress. With compassion, clarity, and an emphasis on practical solutions, Dr. Rita Eichenstein walks...
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Miss Peregrine volume 1
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English
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A mysterious island. An abandoned orphanage. A strange collection of peculiar photographs. A horrific family tragedy sets sixteen-year-old Jacob journeying to a remote island off the coast of Wales, where he discovers the crumbling ruins of Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children. As Jacob explores its decaying bedrooms and hallways, it becomes clear that Miss Peregrine's children were more than just peculiar. They may have been dangerous. They...
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English
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Every year, tens of thousands of young children are diagnosed with disorders that make it difficult for them to absorb the external world. Parents of sensory kids-like those with sensory processing disorder, anxiety disorder, AD/HD, autism, bipolar disorder, and OCD-often feel frustrated and overwhelmed, creating stress in everyday life for the whole family. Now, with The Sensory Child Gets Organized, there's help and hope. As a professional organizer...
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IFC Films
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
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"FAR FROM THE TREE follows families meeting extraordinary challenges through love, empathy, and understanding. This life-affirming documentary encourages us to cherish loved ones for all they are, not who they might have been. Based on Andrew Solomon's award-winning, critically acclaimed, New York Times bestselling non-fiction book "Far From the Tree: Parents, Children and the Search for Identity."--Container.
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Lionsgate
Pub. Date
[2017]
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English
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Humanity has been all but destroyed by a fungal disease that eradicates free will and turns its victims into flesh-eating 'hungries'. Only a small group of children seem to be immune to its effects. At an army base in rural England, these unique children are being studied and subjected to cruel experiments. When the base falls, one little girl escapes and must discover what she is, ultimately deciding both her own future and that of the human race....
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Solomon's startling proposition in Far from the Tree is that being exceptional is at the core of the human condition-that difference is what unites us. He writes about families coping with deafness, dwarfism, Down syndrome, autism, schizophrenia, or multiple severe disabilities; with children who are prodigies, who are conceived in rape, who become criminals, who are transgender. While each of these characteristics is potentially isolating, the experience...
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"Today millions of kids are stuck in a world that doesn't respect, support, or embrace who they really are--these are what Deborah Reber is calling the "differently wired" kids, the one in five children with ADHD, dyslexia, Asperger's, giftedness, anxiety, sensory processing disorder, and other neurodifferences. Their challenges are many. But for the parents who love them, the challenges are just as hard--struggling to find the right school, the right...
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Saga (Brian K. Vaughan) volume 1
Publisher
Image Comics
Pub. Date
[2014]
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English
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"Saga is the story of Hazel, a child born to star-crossed parents from opposite sides of a never-ending galactic war. Now, Hazel's fugitive family must risk everything to find a peaceful future in a harsh universe that values destruction over creation"--Publisher's website.
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Hay House
Pub. Date
[2001]
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English
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Indigo children are bright, intuitive, strong-willed, sometimes self-destructive individuals. They are often labeled-- and misdiagnosed-- as having ADD or ADHD because they won't comply with established rules and patterns. Virtue, a spiritual clairvoyant doctor of psychology, explores the psyche of these special children, aiming to positively affect the ways in which parents interact with their children.
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Saga (Brian K. Vaughan) volume 4
Publisher
Image Comics
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
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"Saga is the sweeping tale of one young family fighting to find their place in the universe. As they visit a strange new world and encounter even more adversaries, baby Hazel finally becomes a toddler, while her star-crossed parents Marko and Alana struggle to stay on their feet"--Back cover.
11) Saga: Book two
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Series
Saga (Brian K. Vaughan) volume 1
Publisher
Image Comics
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
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SAGA Book Two continues the action-packed education of Hazel, a child born to star-crossed parents from opposite sides of a never-ending galactic war.
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English
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What if parenting were an act of social justice? In this part story-telling, part self-inquiry book, authors and therapists Jaya Ramesh and Priya Saaral situate parenting children of color with neurodivergence within the context of various interlocking systems of oppression including settler colonialism, White supremacy, ableism, and capitalism. These intersections engender isolation and loneliness. Using the voices of parents on the front lines and...
13) Saga: Volume six
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Saga (Brian K. Vaughan) volume 6
Publisher
Image Comics
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
"After a dramatic time jump, Hazel begins the most exciting adventure of her life: kindergarten. Meanwhile, her starcrossed family learns hard lessons of their own." - Back cover.
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Saga (Brian K. Vaughan) volume 7
Publisher
Image Comics, Inc
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
"From the worldwide bestselling team of Fiona Staples and Brian K. Vaughan, 'The war for Phang' is an epic, self-contained Saga event. Finally reunited with her ever-expanding family, Hazel travels to a war-torn comet that Wreath and Landfall have been battling over for ages. New friendships are forged and others are lost forever in this action-packed volume about families, combat and the refugee experience."--Back cover.
15) Saga: Volume one
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Saga (Brian K. Vaughan) volume 1
Publisher
Image Comics
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
"When two soldiers from opposite sides of a never-ending galactic war fall in love, they risk everything to bring a fragile new life into a dangerous old universe"--Page 4 of cover.
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Saga (Brian K. Vaughan) volume 8
Publisher
Image Comics, Incs
Pub. Date
2017
Language
English
Description
"After the traumatic events of the War for Phang, Hazel, her parents, and their surviving companions embark on a life-changing adventure at the westernmost edge of the universe."--Amazon.com.
17) Saga: Volume two
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Series
Publisher
Image Comics, Inc
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
"Thanks to her star-crossed parents Marko and Alana, newborn baby Hazel has already survived lethal assassins, rampaging armies, and alien monstrosities, but in the cold vastness of outer space, the little girl encounters her family's greatest challenge yet: the grandparents. Collects SAGA #7-12"--Publisher's website.
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Bloomsbury
Pub. Date
2015.
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English
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Fei explores the value of a human life: from the spreadsheets wielded by cost-cutting executives to the insidious notions of risk surrounding modern pregnancy; from the wondrous history of medical innovation in the care of premature infants to contemporary analyses of what their lives are worth; and finally, to the depths of her own struggle to make sense of her daughter's arrival in the world.
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Saga (Brian K. Vaughan) volume 1
Publisher
Image Comics
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
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"While Gwendolyn and Lying Cat risk everything to find a cure for The Will, Marko makes an uneasy alliance with Prince Robot IV to find their missing children, who are trapped on a strange world with terrifying new enemies"--Page 4 of cover.
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