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Book Description
Besides the usual parenting challenges, parents of disabled children face added obstacles that can tax the resolve and resources of even the strongest families. The author has developed a powerful system for obtaining dramatically better care for children with one or more serious disabilities. Parenting Your Complex Child reflects the experience and knowledge she has gained through decades of navigating a sea of complex medical, educational, occupational, and social issues while working with disabled clients and with her own son. Morgan's unique tracking and documentation tools let parents adapt to their child's challenges, create routines that support the child's needs, communicate those needs to busy professionals--and be taken seriously by them.
The book also helps parents lay the groundwork for care to continue after they themselves can no longer provide it. Compassionate, practical, and proven, Parenting Your Complex Child helps parents ensure that life-changing decisions are based on the best interests of the child--and on the best information available.
"This book is so much more than a list of suggested responses to particular behaviors. It's a detailed guide to understanding your child and building a place in the world for him or her from the ground up. Truly an amazing feat by any measure." -- from the Foreword by Kate Crow, MS, CGC, Genetic Counselor, Kaiser Permanente Genetics
"This is a thoughtful, thought-provoking, well-written and really helpful book. It will be of great interest, and of great value, to both parents and professionals. Well done!" -- Bernard Rimland, Ph.D., Director, Autism Research Institute; Founder, Autism Society of America
"Lots of good information in navigating the school systems and working with the medical community." -- Temple Grandin, Ph.D., author, Thinking In Pictures: and Other Reports from My Life with Autism
About the Author
PEGGY LOU MORGAN (LaPine, OR) has worked with the disabled for nearly 35 years, including more than 10 years as a professional fiduciary, setting up services and placements for her clients. Morgan adopted a multiply disabled child 20 years ago.
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