A Special Child in the Family: Living with Your Sick or Disabled Child

by Diana Kimpton

Overview

Written by a parent for parents, this book is for anyone whose child is sick or disabled or has other special needs. It talks about feelings and how to cope with them. It looks at ways to balance the needs of your family, your special child and yourself, and it gives you parent-sized solutions you can use yourself to make life better.

In addition to showing you how to find and use the help that's available, it provides tips on making a fuss when that help isn't as good as it should be. And it tackles the big taboos that no one usually talks about, like death and failing to cope.

ABOUT THE BOOK
A Special Child in the Family is the book Diana Kimpton searched for in vain when she discovered that her sons were incurably ill. Eventually she stopped looking and, after extensive research, she wrote the book herself. This third edition is a revised and updated version of the original book published by Sheldon Press in 1990. 

REVIEW FOR THE FIRST EDITION
Here it is. The book all parents have been waiting for, written by a mother who has 'been there' with her sons who have Cystic Fibrosis, for those of use who have been there too. Therefore it is not written by someone who tells us what they think we want to know but by a mum who knows what we need.
(Research Trust for Metabolic Diseases News)

Product Details

BN ID:	2940151743051
Publisher:	Diana Kimpton
Publication date:	07/18/2011
Sold by:	Draft2Digital
Format:	eBook
File size:	2 MB

Table of Contents

1: First Shock

2: Finding Out More

3: Getting Along

4: Doctors

5: Health Visitors and Community Nurses

6: Social Workers

7: Therapists

8: Psychiatrists, Psychologists, Psychotherapists and Counsellors

9: Education Specialists

10: Standing up for your Child

11: Facing the Outside World

12: Finding the Time and the Money

13: Making Life Easier

14: Is Hospital Really Necessary?

15: Going into Hospital

16 Getting a Break

17: When you can’t cope any more

18: Alternatives to Care at Home

19: Taking the Stress off your Relationship

20: Brothers and Sisters

21: Grandparents

22: Should we have Another Baby?

23: If your Child might Die

24: Talking to Children about Death

25: Death and Bereavement

26: Ordinary School or Special School

27: Assessments and Statements

28: Getting the Best from School

29: Helping your Child Face the Future