Has your child been diagnosed with any form of SEN or disability, autism or a serious illness? Are you facing uphill struggles to get the right support, the appropriate level of care and the best education for your child? Having a disabled child in the family changes everything. Too often, family life can revolve around battles with the authorities to get essential support and equipment, parents find themselves swamped in layer upon layer of bureaucracy and administration, dates for meetings, appointments and therapies fill the diary up months in advance, and it can all be frighteningly overwhelming. Most importantly, your child is probably much more vulnerable than most, so you are likely to be spending a lot of your time worried out of your mind and the extra care they may need can be exhausting.
If you’re looking for a book that will somehow make everything easier and more doable, then “The Special Parent’s Handbook” is a “must-read”.
Yvonne Newbold, the author, has three disabled children, and has had to face long term serious illnesses with them too. In the beginning Yvonne was clueless and didn’t think she was up to the task at all, but over time she learnt to do it all a lot better. Her three children are all on the brink of adulthood now, they survived, they are happy and confident young people with opportunities ahead, despite the sometimes massive odds that were stacked against them.
In this book, Yvonne passes on everything she learnt along the way so that you can learn how to do it better much more quickly than she managed. It’s packed with tips, tricks and strategies to get you and your family through even the worst of times and out the other side ready to laugh at life again.
Yvonne shares her top tips on how to handle the professionals and their beloved meetings so that you get the right decisions made for your child. She will show you how to keep your sanity intact when you are a resident parent for months on end with your desperately ill child on a hospital ward. There are masses of ideas of how to ensure that your other children don’t miss out on a fun-filled childhood as well as practical advice on how to help your child through things like eating issues and meltdowns.
Yvonne writes from the heart in a chatty, conversational way, so this book is very easy to read. Her sense of humour comes through loud and clear, although there are parts of the book which are painfully poignant.
To help illustrate each aspect of the book, Yvonne has used real-life things that happened in her house all the way through the book, so in some ways it’s also the story of the Newbold Family growing up. Whatever you’re facing this week, Yvonne is almost certain to have faced something similar and in this book she’ll show how she worked her way around it.
It’s not just parents who should read this book, but all who know and love such families and the professionals who work with them will gain a rare and invaluable insight about what it’s really like in inside a family like Yvonne’s.
If you’re looking for a book that will somehow make everything easier and more doable, then “The Special Parent’s Handbook” is a “must-read”.
Yvonne Newbold, the author, has three disabled children, and has had to face long term serious illnesses with them too. In the beginning Yvonne was clueless and didn’t think she was up to the task at all, but over time she learnt to do it all a lot better. Her three children are all on the brink of adulthood now, they survived, they are happy and confident young people with opportunities ahead, despite the sometimes massive odds that were stacked against them.
In this book, Yvonne passes on everything she learnt along the way so that you can learn how to do it better much more quickly than she managed. It’s packed with tips, tricks and strategies to get you and your family through even the worst of times and out the other side ready to laugh at life again.
Yvonne shares her top tips on how to handle the professionals and their beloved meetings so that you get the right decisions made for your child. She will show you how to keep your sanity intact when you are a resident parent for months on end with your desperately ill child on a hospital ward. There are masses of ideas of how to ensure that your other children don’t miss out on a fun-filled childhood as well as practical advice on how to help your child through things like eating issues and meltdowns.
Yvonne writes from the heart in a chatty, conversational way, so this book is very easy to read. Her sense of humour comes through loud and clear, although there are parts of the book which are painfully poignant.
To help illustrate each aspect of the book, Yvonne has used real-life things that happened in her house all the way through the book, so in some ways it’s also the story of the Newbold Family growing up. Whatever you’re facing this week, Yvonne is almost certain to have faced something similar and in this book she’ll show how she worked her way around it.
It’s not just parents who should read this book, but all who know and love such families and the professionals who work with them will gain a rare and invaluable insight about what it’s really like in inside a family like Yvonne’s.
