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The Essential Partnership: How Parents and Children Can Meet the Emotional Challenges of Infancy and Childhood
(1989)
Stanley and Nancy Greenspan

First Feelings: Milestones in the Emotional Development of Your Baby and Child
(1994)
Stanley and Nancy Greenspan

Infants and Mothers: Differences in Development
(1986)
T. Berry Brazelton

Know Your Child: An Authoritative Guide for Today's Parents
(1989)
Stella Chess and Alexander Thomas

Pediatric Disorders of Regulation in Affect and Behavior: A Therapist’s Guide to Assessment and Treatment
(2000)
Georgia A. DeGangi

Playground Politics: Understanding the Emotional Life of The School-Age Child
(1994)
Stanley Greenspan and Jacqueline Salmon

Play Power: Games and Activities for Young Children
(1986)
Sharron Werlin Krull and Norma Don

Understanding Sensory Dysfunction: Learning, Development, and Sensory Dysfunction in Autism Spectrum Disorders, ADHD, Learning Disabilities and Bipolar Disorder
2005
Polly Godwin Emmons and Liz McKendry Anderson

Learning & Brain Development

The Brain
(1984)
Richard Restak

Emotional Intelligence
(1995)
Daniel Goleman

Endangered Minds: Why Children Don't Think and What We Can Do About It
(1990)
Jane Healy

Failure to Connect: How Computers Affect Our Children's Minds — for Better and Worse
(1998)
Jane Healy

Frames of Mind: The Theory of Multiple Intelligences
(1993)
Howard Gardner

Is the Left Brain Always Right? A Guide to Whole Child Development
(1989)
Clare Cherry, Douglas Godwin and Jesse Staples

Learning Re-enabled
(2001)
Susan Orloff

Sensory Secrets: How to Jump-Start Learning in Children
(2001)
Catherine Chemin Schneider

Smart Moves: Why Learning Is Not All In Your Head
(1995)
Carla Hannaford

Your Child's Growing Mind: A Guide to Learning and Brain from Birth to Adolescence
(1987)
Jane Healy

When Listening Comes Alive: A Guide to Effective Learning and Communication
(1994)
Paul Madaule

Raising & Educating Children With Special Needs

The Bipolar Child: The Definitive and Reassuring Guide to Childhood’s Most Misunderstood Disorder
(1998)
Dimitri Papalos and Janice Papalos

The Challenging Child: Understanding, Raising, and Enjoying the Five "Difficult" Types of Children
(1995)
Stanley Greenspan

The Child with Special Needs: Encouraging Intellectual and Emotional Growth
(1998)
Stanley Greenspan and Serena Wieder

Dancing in the Rain: Stories of Exceptional Progress by Parents of Children with Special Needs
(1995)
Annabel Stehli (Editor)

The Difficult Child
(2000)
Stanley Turecki and Leslie Tonner

Driven to Distraction: Recognizing and Coping with Attention Deficit Disorder from Childhood through Adulthood
(1994)
Edward Hallowell and John Ratey

Dr. Larry Silver's Advice to Parents on ADHD
(1999)
Larry Silver

The Ear and Language
(1997)
Alfred Tomatis

The Explosive Child: A New Approach for Understanding and Parenting Easily Frustrated, Chronically Inflexible Children
(1998)
Ross Green

Helping Children Overcome Learning Difficulties
(1993)
Jerome Rosner

Helping the Child Who Doesn’t Fit In
(1992)
Stephen Nowicki and Marshall Duke

Keeping A Head In School: A Student's Book About Learning Abilities And Learning Disorders
(1990)
Melvin Levine

The Misunderstood Child: A Guide for Parents of Children with Learning Disabilities
(2nd edition, 1992)
Larry Silver

The Myth of the A.D.D. Child: 50 Ways to Improve Your Child's Behavior and Attention Span Without Drugs, Labels or Coercion
(1997)
Thomas Armstrong

Negotiating the Special Educational Maze: A Guide for Parents & Teachers
(3rd edition, 1997)
Winifred Anderson, Stephen Chitwood and Deidre Hayden

No Easy Answers: The Learning Disabled Child at Home and at School
(1995)
Sally Smith

Nonverbal Learning Disabilities: The Syndrome and the Model
(1999)
Byron Rourke

Raising Your Spirited Child: A Guide for Parents Whose Child Is More Intense, Sensitive, Perceptive, Persistent, Energetic
(1991)
Mary Sheedy Kurcinka

Since Owen: A Parent-to-Parent Guide for Care of the Disabled Child
(1990)
Charles Callanan

Smart Kids with School Problems: Things to Know and Ways to Help
(1989)
Priscilla L. Vail

Syndrome of Nonverbal Learning Disabilities: Neurodevelopmental Manifestations
(1999)
Byron Rourke

Teaching Your Child the Language of Social Success
(1996)
Marshall Duke, Elisabeth Martin and Stephen Nowicki, Jr.

20/20 Is Not Enough: New World of Vision
(1991)
Arthur Seiderman and Steven Marcus

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