Be Your Child's Best Advocate: 100 Strategies for Parents of Children with Learning or Behavior Issues [Paperback]

Peggy Schmidt (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: March 12, 2002

Be Your Child's Best Advocate helps parents understand and accept what is preventing their child from performing and interacting successfully in school and in social situations. This book is intended to be a voice of encouragement and direction to the par

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About the Author

Peggy Schmidt is the author of six books, including The Book of My Healing: 150 tk (Hyperion, 2000). She is also a book producer. Her company, New Century Communications, has produced the 14-book series, Careers Without College (Peterson's) and the six-bo

Product Details

• Paperback: 306 pages
• Publisher: Xlibris (March 12, 2002)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1401029957
• ISBN-13: 978-1401029951
• Product Dimensions: 8.6 x 5.6 x 0.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 15.4 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #3,039,643 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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5.0 out of 5 stars Don't Despair, Help Is Here, May 11, 2006

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This review is from: Be Your Child's Best Advocate: 100 Strategies for Parents of Children with Learning or Behavior Issues (Paperback)

I'd been looking for a book like this. It covers a variety of topics for parents with children with learning or behaviorial issues. For each topic, it gives strategies to deal with that.
It has understanding and accepting your child's difficulty, getting the spouse involved, and building the child's self-esteem. It discusses working with schools and educators, asking for special services and placement, and how to help your child make school transitions.
The section on self-advocacy was valuable to help the child be his or her own best advocate, teach your child social skills, enhance communication skills and teach self-reliance.
To me, the suggested strategies are really sensible and get you started when sometimes otherwise it just seems overwhelming.
I'm loaning my book to a friend whose child has ADD and then to another friend with an adult child with learning difficulties.
This is a greatly needed book since many parents with these issues just don't know where to turn for help.