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A Parent’s Guide to Down Syndrome
This resource provides a thorough overview of Down syndrome. Taking a life span approach, it highlights developmental stages and shows the recent advances that improve a child’s quality of life. It includes discussions on easing the transition from home to school and choosing integration and curricular priorities, as well as guidelines for confronting adolescent and adult issues such as social and sexual needs, and independent living and vocational options.338 pages. 2001
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Adults with Down Syndrome
People with Down syndrome are living longer, fuller lives than ever before — and now for the first time ever, there’s a comprehensive, reader-friendly book on the social, clinical, legal, and personal issues they’ll navigate in adulthood. Internationally recognized authority Siegfried Pueschel blends contributions from respected experts with first-person essays by adults with Down syndrome themselves. Together, they answer readers’ critical questions about what adults experience and how to support their goals, dreams, choices, and overall well-being.
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Another Season
When beloved University of Alabama football coach Gene Stallings’s son was born with Down syndrome and a serious heart defect, doctors predicted he wouldn’t live to see his first birthday and urged Coach Stallings and his wife to institutionalize him. But for Gene and Ruth Ann that was not an option.
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Babies with Down Syndrome
Special Needs Project is delighted to welcome this important update of a genuine classic. Babies with Down Syndrome, the trustworthy guide which has benefited thousands of families since it was first published in 1985, has been completely revised for the new, third edition.
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Bebes con sindrome de Down. 3a edición
Nueva edición ¡Ya tenemos en las existencias! Babies with Down Syndrome, el libro que decenas de miles de padres de bebés han empleado como guía y fuente de información, ha sido completamente revisado y actualizado. Con temas como la atención médica, el cuidado diario, la vida en familia, el desarrollo, la intervención temprana, el aprendizaje, los derechos legales, y muchos más, esta nueva edición es la guía completa para todos los aspectos de la salud y el bienestar de su bebé, desde recién nacido hasta los cinco años de edad.
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Boy in the World
For many three and four-year-olds, learning how to live in the world begins in a preschool classroom. Children with developmental disabilities are no exception. This intimate documentary follows four-year-old Ronen, a young boy with Down syndrome, who attends a fully inclusive early childhood education center. Through his story we learn what it really means for a child to be included: the triumphs, the struggles, and the positive effects on everyone involved: classmates, parents, teachers, and community.
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Choosing Naia
A dramatic and carefully detailed account of one family’s journey through the maze of genetic counseling, medical technology, and disability rights; destined to become required reading for anyone touched by any of these issues.Mitchell Zuckoff spent more than a decade as an award-winning writer for the Boston Globe and now teaches journalism at Boston University.
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Common Threads. Second edition
This popular book is now available in a paperback edition!Take heart in the accomplishments of 59 persons with Down syndrome from across the U.S. and Canada, all chronicled in this unique and inspiring book. Original black-and-white photographs, research, and exclusive information from the Band of Angels survey of children with Down syndrome round out the pages.Common Threads: Celebrating Life with Down syndrome is an essay and photographic celebration of inspirational accomplishments of people with Down syndrome. Photographs are by nationally recognized Kendra Dew.
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Discovery
While supplies last, you save $5.99 (20%) Discovery: Pathways to Better Speech for Children with Down syndrome takes the viewer into the real world of speech in children with Down syndrome. Through examples, interviews and stories, the DVD shows how parents and professionals can bring forth better speech and communication. Discovery is a comprehensive overview of language development in youngsters with Down syndrome from 2 and up. It shows the new techniques developed by experts such as Dr.
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