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Children with mental disabilities Children with mental disabilities Care Children with mental disabilities Fiction Down syndrome Large type books New York (State) New York Staten Island Parents of autistic children People with mental disabilities Institutional care Reformatories Twin sistersSullivan, Teresa
Summary: When Mikey is young, the Sullivans are a closely knit unit, all of them devoted to caring for her. But as Mikey grows older, she also grows increasingly violent. By the time she's twelve, institutionalization is the only available option--and without the shared purpose of caring for Mikey, the family begins to unravel. As her family falls apart, Teresa searches for relief and connection during...
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Publisher / Publication Date: She Writes Press 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 920 SULGrandin, Temple
Summary: "Empowering strategies for anyone who works with children and teens on the spectrum. International best-selling writer and autist Temple Grandin joins psychologist Debra Moore in presenting nine strengths-based mindsets necessary to successfully work with young people on the autism spectrum. Examples and stories bring the approaches to life, and detailed suggestions and checklists help readers...
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Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton & Company 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 618.92 GRACopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 618.92 GRACopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 618.92 GRAForgan, James W.
Contents: The big deal about executive functioning -- General support for executive functioning difficulties -- Holding back impulses -- Keeping information in working memory -- Shifting, being flexible and regulating emotion -- Focusing and self-monitoring -- Not just ordinary organizing -- Managing time -- Taking action -- Sustaining effort -- Planning/problem solving/goal setting/using critical...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Prufrock Press Inc. 2015
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 649 FORBranscom, Conni
Summary: The story of seven-year-old Mya, who enjoys being a big sister to her siblings. There's a difference in her family. When brother Kyle is born, she learned from her parents he has Down syndrome, and all the things Mya had dreamed of doing with her new brother seem impossible. As Kyle grows, Mya learns what Down syndrome means for her and her family, she also absorbs the basics of the condition...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE Social Emo Branscom 2016Summary: Jean Hansen is an experienced city transplant who takes a job at a Down's syndrome institution and befriends Reuben, one of the boys afflicted with the disease. Reuben latches on to Jean, to the dismay of Dr. Matthew Clark, the head of the institution. He feels that Jean's affection for Reuben will disturb the other children, prompting him to separate the pair.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA CHIBunn, T. Davis
Summary: "Ryan Eames is a policewoman and single mother dedicated most of all to her lonely, uniquely gifted son. Stretched thin by double shifts and grappling with an out-of-season coastal wildfire, Christmas cheer feels as far away as a distant carol on a winter night. Until duty draws her into the life of a stranger. Ethan Lange is alive because Ryan reached his canyon home before the blaze....
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Adult, Call number: LP FIC BUNCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP Fiction BunnBartoletti, Susan Campbell.
Summary: It is 1871 in Scranton, Pennsylvania, and fourteen-year-old Pringle Rose, still grieving from the death of her parents, takes her brother Gideon, who has Down syndrome, escapes from her uncle and aunt, taking a train to Chicago--but disaster seems to follow her there.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic 2013
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1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: Y DA BARRamesh, Jaya
Summary: 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...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Parenting Press 2024
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1 available in New Non-fiction, Call number: 649.7 RAMJones, Holly Goddard.
Summary: Thirteen-year-old Emily Houchens doesn't have many friends. She finds more comfort playing make-believe in the woods near her house in Roma, Kentucky, than with her classmates, who find her strange and awkward. When she happens upon a dead body hidden in the woods one day, she decides not to tell anyone about her discovery -- a choice that begins to haunt her. Susanna Mitchell has always been...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP MYS JONSummary: This sequel to the award-winning Gifts: Mothers Reflect on How Children with Down Syndrome Enrich Their Lives offers comfort, hope, and inspiration to families and the wider community in a way that no scholarly document ever could; it can also help to prepare the minds and hearts of expectant parents to receive their new Down syndrome child with love and joy.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Woodbine House 2009
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 362.198 GIFBuck, Pearl S
Summary: The author's account of her struggle to help and understand her mentally retarded daughter.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Woodbine House 1992
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 362.3 BUCKumin, Libby.
Contents: Communication, language, and speech -- Speech and language skills in school-aged children with Down syndrome -- An overview of speech-language evaluation and eligibility -- Evaluating language and speech skills -- Language treatment -- Speech treatment -- Communication skills at school -- Communication skills at home & in the community -- Conversational skills -- Assistive technology for...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Woodbine House 2008
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 371.9 KUMLott, Bret.
Summary: The life of Jewel Hilburn, a mother living with her husband and children in the backwoods of Mississippi in 1943, undergoes a drastic change when her sixth child, Brenda Kay, is born without the gift of common sense.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pocket Books 1991
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LOTPeoples, Susan J.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Special Offspring Publishing 2004
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 371.9 PEOGarner, Helen
Summary: "Helen Garner has been a literary institution in Australia for decades. Her perfectly formed novels embodied Australia's tumultuous 70s and 80s, and her incisive nonfiction evokes the keen eye of the New Journalists. The Atlantic dubbed her "the Joan Didion of Australia." Now, The Children's Bach, the beloved work that solidified her place among the masters of modern international letters, is...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pantheon Books 2023
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Publisher / Publication Date: Woodbine House 1986
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Publisher / Publication Date: Woodbine House 2011
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 618.92 HALCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Parents HaleSummary: Babies with Down Syndrome-- the book that tens of thousands of new parents have turned to for information and guidance-- is now completely revised and updated. Covering medical care, daily care, family life, development, early interention, learning, legal rights, and much more, the new edition is a complete roadmap to every aspect of your child's health and well being from birth through age five.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Woodbine House 2008
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 618 BABBrookwood, Marilyn
Summary: "The fascinating-and eerily timely-tale of the forgotten Depression-era psychologists who overthrew long-accepted racist and classist views of childhood development. "Doomed from birth" was how psychologist Harold Skeels described two toddler girls at theOrphans' Home in Davenport, Iowa, in 1934. Following prevailing eugenic beliefs, Skeels and his colleague Marie Skodak assumed that the girls...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Liveright Publishing Corporation 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 305.231 BROCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 305.231 BROWiseman, Ellen Marie
Summary: "Sage Winters always knew her sister was a little different even though they were identical twins. They loved the same things and shared a deep understanding, but Rosemary -- awake to every emotion, easily moved to joy or tears -- seemed to need more protection from the world. Six years after Rosemary's death from pneumonia, Sage, now sixteen, still misses her deeply. Their mother perished in a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2022
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC WISCopies Available at Woodmere
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1 available in Adult, Call number: LP FIC WISWiseman, Ellen Marie
Summary: Sage Winters always knew her sister was a little different even though they were identical twins. They loved the same things and shared a deep understanding, but Rosemary--awake to every emotion, easily moved to joy or tears--seemed to need more protection from the world. Six years after Rosemary's death from pneumonia, Sage, now sixteen, still misses her deeply. Their mother perished in a car...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Kensington Publishing Corp. 2022
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC WISCopies Available at Fife Lake
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction WisemanFlynn, Laura
Summary: Traces the author's coming of age under the shadow of her mother's paranoid schizophrenia, a disorder that ended her parents' marriage and caused the author to be raised in accordance with her mother's distorted perceptions of the world.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Counterpoint 2008
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 FLYNN, LAURA FLYKumin, Libby.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Woodbine House 2003
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 618.9285 KUMMcGlothlin, Kristin
Summary: "Catalynd Jewett Hamilton has always lived a peaceful life with her family on their old farmstead at the top of Sourland Mountain in New Jersey. But after she and her mother get in a bad car accident, Cat ends up in a wheelchair with two broken legs and her mom begins to suffer from depression. With her older brother leaving for college, Cat has to take charge and guide her family back to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bird Upstairs Books 2021