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advocating for your child 

ADVOCATING FOR YOUR CHILD WITH LEARNING DISABILITIES / Learning
      Disabilities Association of Canada. 1998.
        This is a companion piece to our earlier guide called A Guide to
        Understanding Learning and Behaviour Problems in Children.
        ISBN 0-919051-56-4. 

battle cries

BATTLE CRIES: justice for kids with special needs / Edelson, Miriam.
        offers a strategy for achieving significant improvement to existing
        Canadian practices.
        ISBN 1-894549-42-2. 

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Everyday Advocate (the)
"The guide for getting the best life possible for your child...invaluable." -Dr. Phil McGraw
Nationally recognized expert on autism advocacy Areva Martin shares her hard-won knowledge as a parent of an autistic child and an individual rights attorney. In "The Everyday Advocate," she lays out vital and relevant step-by-step instructions to parents facing the seemingly impossible odds of advocating for a child with autism. 

its a matter of rights

IT'S A MATTER OF RIGHTS: a book about your rights and how to stand
      up for them / Community Living Essex County.
        statistics show that individulal with an intellectual disability
        experience almost five times more abuse than the general population. 

making medical

MAKING MEDICAL DECISIONS FOR THE PROFOUNDLY MENTALLY DISABLED /
      Cantor, Norman L. 2005.
        analyzes the legal and moral status of people with profound mental
        disabilities -- those with extreme cognitive impairments that
        prevent their exercise of medical self-determination.
       ISBN 0-262-03331-3. 

special stories

SPECIAL STORIES FOR DISABILITY AWARENESS: stories and activities for
      teachers, parents and professionals / Leicester, Mal. 2007.
        ISBN 978-1-84310-390-5 

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Trustee Reference Manual, a guide for trustees of a Henson Trust
Graeme S.Treeby

unfolding the tent

UNFOLDING THE TENT: advocating for your one-of-a-kind child /
      Addison, Anne. 2005.
        Anne Addison shares her experiences as a parent of a son with
        special needs. She also introduces the concept of Life Mapping, a
        strength-based, realist process that parents can use to assist
        their children in realizing their potential.
        ISBN 1-931282-80-3. 

whats stopping you

WHAT'S STOPPING YOU?: living successfully with disability / Nagler,
      Mark; Nagler, Adam. 1999.
        Over 60 million North Americans live with some form of disability
        and countless others are affected by it, or will be. This is a
        boering reality, but take heart: there's nothing holding back
        anyone who is affected by disability.
        ISBN 0-7737-6027-x.

 

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