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Special Needs Resources

General Resources

Books
  • Homeschooling Your Struggling Learner – Kathy Kuhl
  • Simply Classical: A Beautiful Education for Any Child – Cheryl Swope
  • Managing the Homeschool Teaching Day with a Struggling Learner – Pam Gates
  • Homeschooling and Loving It! Create Your Best Homeschooling Year Ever – Rebecca Kochenderfer
  • An Insider’s Guide to Successful Science Fair Projects – Felice Gerwitz
  • Teaching A Child with Special Needs at Home and At School: Strategies and Tools that Really Work – Judith B. Munday
  • Home Schooling Children with Special Needs – Sharon C. Hensley
  • The Ultimate Guide to Homeschooling – Debra Bell
  • A Special Kind of Love: For Those Who Love Children with Special Needs – Susan Titus Osborn, Janet Lynn Mitchell
  • Brain Gym: Simple Activities for Whole Brain Learning – Paul E. Dennison, Gail E. Dennison
  • Brain Gym: Teacher’s Edition – Paul E. Dennison, Gail E. Dennison
  • Smart Moves: Why Learning is Not All in Your Head – Carla Hannaford
  • Disconnected Kids: The Groundbreaking Brain Balance Program for Children with Autism, ADHD, Dyslexia and other Neurological Disorders – Robert Melillo
  • Developing Students’ Multiple Intelligences – Kristen Nicholson-Nelson – published by Scholastic
  • Multiple Intelligences in the Classroom – Thomas Armstrong
  • You’re Smarter Than You Think: A Kid’s Guide to Multiple Intelligences – Thomas Armstrong
  • In Their Way: Discovering and Encouraging your Child’s Multiple Intelligences – Thomas Armstrong

Resources By Topic

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ADD/ADHD

Attachment/Adoption

  • The Connected Child: Bring Hope and Healing to your Adoptive Family – Karyn B. Purvis, David R. Cross
  • I Love You Rituals – Becky A. Bailey
  • Theraplay: Helping Parents and Children Build Better Relationships Through Attachment-Based Therapy – Phyllis B. Booth
  • Games and Activities for Attaching with your Child – Deborah D Gray, Megan Clarke
  • Attaching Through Love, Hugs and Play: Simple Strategies to Help Build Connections with Your Child – Deborah Gray

Autism – Asberger

  • Sensory Integration and the Young Child – Jean Ayres
  • The Out-of-Sync Child: Recognizing and Coping with Sensory Processing Disorder – Carol Kranowitz
  • Asperger Syndrome and Difficult Moments – Brenda Smith Miles, Jack Southwick
  • Upsidedown Brilliance – Linda Silverman
  • Asperger Syndrome: A Guide For Educators and Parents – Brenda Smith Miles, Richard Simpson

Autism

  • Autism – Stephanie Marohn
  • Children with Autism – Michael Powers
  • Children with Starving Brains – Jaquelyn McCandless
  • Homeschooling Children with Special Needs – Sharon Hensley
  • Recovery Against All Odds – Kristi Chrysler
  • Siblings of Children with Autism: A Guide for Families – Sandra L. Harris, Beth A. Glasberg
  • The Verbal Behavior Milestones Assessment and Placement Program – Mark Sundberg

Auditory Processing Dysfunction

  • Brain Integration Therapy for Children – Dianne Craft

A Struggling Right Brain Learner

  • Right-Brained Children in a Left-Brained World: Unlocking the Potential of Your ADD Child – Jeffrey Freed, Laurie Parsons

Down Syndrome

  • Teaching Reading To Children With Down Syndrome – Patricia Logan Oelwein
  • Teaching Math to People with Down Syndrome and Other Hands-On Learners: Strategies and Materials – DeAnna Horstmeier
  • Early Communication Skills for Children with Down Syndrome: A Guide for Parents and Professionals – Libby Kumin
  • Fine Motor Skills for Children with Down syndrome: A Guide for Parents and Professionals – Maryann Bruni
  • Gross Motor Skills for Children with Down Syndrome: A Guide for Parents and Professionals – Patricia C. Winders
  • Whole Child Reading: A Quick Start Guide to Teaching Students with Down Syndrome and Other Developmental Delays – Natalie Hale
  • Supporting Positive Behavior in Children and Teens with Down Syndrome: The Respond but Don’t React Method – David Stein

Dysgraphia

  • Teaching Your Special Needs Student – Judith B. Munday – learn@helpinschool.net or 757-482-5709
  • The Student Education Plan – Judith B. Munday – learn@helpinschool.net or 757-482-5709
  • Brain Integration Therapy Manual – Dianne Craft
  • Handwriting Without Tears Manual – Jan Olsen lwtears.com

Dyslexia

  • Dyslexia 101 – Marianne Sunderland
  • The Dyslexic Advantage – Brock L. Eide and Fernette F. Eide
  • The Source for Dyslexia and Dysgraphia – Regina Richard – Lingui Systems Publishers, 800-776-4332
  • Overcoming Dyslexia – Sally Shaywitz
  • Homeschooling Children with Special Needs – Sharon Hensley
  • Learning in Spite of Labels – Joyce Herzog
  • The LCP Solution: The Remarkable Nutritional Treatment for ADHD, Dyslexia & Dyspraxia – Jacqueline Stordy
  • At Last! A reading Method for every Child – Mary Pecci onlinereadingteacher.com
  • Recipe for Ready – Nina Traub

Gifted Children

  • Twice Exceptional Gifted Children: Understanding, Teaching and Counseling Gifted Students – Beverly Trail
  • Perfectionism: What is so Bad about Being Good – Miriam Adderholdt, Jan Goldberg
  • Project-Based Learning for Gifted Students – Todd Stanley
  • Coping for Capable Kids: Strategies for Parents, Teachers and Students – LeoNora Cohen, Erica Frydenburg
  • Living with Intensity: Understanding the Sensitivity, Excitability, and the Emotional Development of Gifted Children, Adolescents and Adults – Michael M. Piechowski, Susan Daniels
  • A Collection of Math Lessons from Grades 1 through 3 – Marilyn Burns, Bonnie Tank
  • The Good Time Math Event Book – Marilyn Burns
  • Developing Students’ Multiple Intelligences – Kristen Nicholson-Nelson, published by Scholastic
  • Multiple Intelligences in the Classroom – Thomas Armstrong
  • You’re Smarter Than You Think: A Kid’s Guide to Multiple Intelligences – Thomas Armstrong
  • In Their Way: Discovering and Encouraging your Child’s Multiple Intelligences – Thomas Armstrong

Intellectual Disabilities

  • Homeschooling Children with Special Needs – Sharon Hensley
  • When Slow Is Fast Enough – Joan Goodman
  • God’s Special Child – Donna Adee
  • Slow and Steady Get Me Ready – June Oberlander

Sensory Processing Dysfunction

  • The Out-Of-Sync Child: Recognizing and Coping with Sensory Processing Disorder – Carol Stock Kranowitz
  • The Out-Of-Sync Child Has Fun: Activities for Kids with Sensory Processing Disorder – Carol Stock Kranowitz
  • Sensory Integration and the Young Child – Jean Ayres
  • Is Your Child’s Brain Starving? – Michael Lyon
  • Crazy Makers – Carol Simontacchi
  • Homeschooling Children with Special Needs – Sharon Hensley

Speech Disorders

  • Communicating Partners: 30 Years of Building Responsive Relationships with Late-Talking Children Including Autism, Asperger’s Syndrome, Down Syndrome and Typical Development – James D. MacDonald
  • Childhood Speech, Language & Listening Problems – Patricia Hamaguchi
  • Mouth Madness: Oral Motor Activities for Children – Catherine Orr
  • The Late Talker: What to Do If Your Child Isn’t Talking Yet – Marilyn C. Agin, Lisa F. Geng, Malcolm Nicholl
  • Speaking of Apraxia: A Parents’ Guide to Childhood Apraxia of Speech – Leslie A. Lindsay

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