Parenting Your Complex Child: Become a Powerful Advocate for the Autistic, Down Syndrome, PDD, Bipolar, or Other Special-Needs Child [Paperback]

Peggy Lou Morgan (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: April 10, 2006

"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."

Editorial Reviews

Review

“Energy, wisdom, power and a personal touch make this book a cut above the rest.”

---Atlanta Parent

“Here’s a powerful, different system for gathering information about a child and planning for daily life: Morgan is both the parent of a complex child and a professional working with special-needs clients, so her dual expertise lends to a book which covers working more effectively with doctors, caregivers, and others. Create a life that supports both child and the entire family using the tips in Parenting Your Complex Child.”

----Bookwatch

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."

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Product Details

• Reading level: Ages 17 and up
  
• Paperback: 240 pages
• Publisher: AMACOM; 1 edition (April 10, 2006)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0814473164
• ISBN-13: 978-0814473160
• Product Dimensions: 9 x 6.1 x 0.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 12 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #992,049 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
  • #15 in Books > Health, Fitness & Dieting > Personal Health > Children's Health > Down Syndrome

More About the Author

Peggy Lou Morgan is the mother of Billy Ray, who experiences complex special needs. She has worked with people who experience disabilities in some form for more than 30 years. She is an author and enjoys communicating with other parents through blogging and speaking at various conferences. Peggy Lou lives with her husband, Larry and son, Billy Ray in Central Oregon with Billy Ray's service dog.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent read, well written, very practical, April 24, 2006

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Nathan A. Covington (Tulsa, Oklahoma) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Parenting Your Complex Child: Become a Powerful Advocate for the Autistic, Down Syndrome, PDD, Bipolar, or Other Special-Needs Child (Paperback)

This book is so practical, with great insights from personal experience, written intelligently and with compassion, and contains excellent suggestions and insights, not only for parents, and relatives of special needs children, but for professionals. This should be in the library of both the parents who have such children, and the professionals who work with them.

6 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Very moving book, April 1, 2006

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L. Dubuc (Eugene, OR United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Parenting Your Complex Child: Become a Powerful Advocate for the Autistic, Down Syndrome, PDD, Bipolar, or Other Special-Needs Child (Paperback)

I liked the author's use of her own personal experiences in this book. I felt like not only was she helping other parents to understand and work with the professionals who deal with her child, but she was also giving some of herself in the process.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A powerful, different system for gathering information about a child and planning for daily life, September 11, 2006

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Midwest Book Review (Oregon, WI USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Parenting Your Complex Child: Become a Powerful Advocate for the Autistic, Down Syndrome, PDD, Bipolar, or Other Special-Needs Child (Paperback)

Here's a powerful, different system for gathering information about a child and planning for daily life: Morgan is both the parent of a complex child and a professional working with special-needs clients, so her dual expertise lends to a book which covers working more effectively with doctors, caregivers, and others. Create a life that supports both child and the entire family using the tips in Parenting Your Complex Child.