Siblings at School (A Small Group Curriculum and Writing Project) is designed to be used by counselors and other school professionals to establish a small group of elementary or middle school students who have siblings with disabilities, impairments or other health concerns. The book contains action-research background and sound, practical strategies to start this group within the school setting. Following that is a three-year curriculum with detailed session plans, lively activities, effective discussion starters and intriguing methods providing students with leadership roles and insights into their own outlooks and that of family interactions, all of which will be useful in planning and running the program over consecutive years. Introduced are the instructions and sample formats for an original writing project intended to assist the students in expressing themselves as siblings of brothers or sisters with special needs or health-related issues. Sample writings, touching and perceptive themselves, are provided throughout the text as are directions on how to turn this into a book-writing project for the group members and the counselor’s library as resources for future siblings groups. An extensive bibliography of books, resources and other materials for use by the students themselves as well as parents, counselors and other educators is included.
