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Under His Wings: Meeting the Spiritual Needs of the Mentally Disabled
By Robert Bittner / Crossway Books & Bibles

"From the Publisher:" Sensitively combines practical suggestions and resources that will help individuals and churches respond to the spiritual and physical needs of mentally disabled people. Paperback, 192 pages.

It's So Much Work to Be Your Friend: Helping the Child with Learning Disabilities Find Social Success
By Richard Lavoie / Simon & Schuster Trade Sales

As any parent, teacher, coach or caregiver of a learning disabled child knows, every learning disability has a social component. For more than thirty years, Richard Lavoie has lived with and taught learning disabled children. Here are practical strategies to help learning disabled children ages 6-17 navigate the treacherous social waters of their school, home, and community. Rick examines the special social issues surrounding a wide variety of learning disabilities, including ADD and other attentional disorders, anxiety, paralinguistics, visual-spatial disorders, and executive functioning. Then he provides proven methods and step-by-step instructions for helping the learning disabled child through almost any social situation, including choosing a friend, going on a playdate, conducting a conversation, reading body language, overcoming shyness and low self-esteem, keeping track of belongings, living with siblings and adjusting to new settings and situations. Rick knows about the intensity with which children long for friends and acceptance, the exasperation they can cause in others, and the joy they feel in social connection.

Learning Disabilities A to Z: A Parent's Complete Guide
By Corinne Smith, Lisa Strick / Simon & Schuster Trade Sales

This comprehensive guide to learning disabilities is filled with encouragement and practical advice for the parents of learning disabled children. Helping to navigate the hundreds of options available to you, information on finding an effective educational program that focuses on strengths, avoiding dead-end practices, negotiating for what your child needs at school and managing behavior problems and more tips and topics are included. 407 pages, indexed, softcover.

Disabling America
By Greg Perry / Thomas Nelson

Greg Perry was born in 1961 with a total of three fingers and one leg. As he says, "Fortunately, the ADA was not around when I was young, so I grew up normally." In this book, Perry takes aim at the American with Disabilities Act, signed into law by President George H.W. Bush, which he claims does very little to actually improve the plight of the disabled in America. According to Perry, the ADA has been irreversibly politicized, has subjected businesses to reams of bureaucratic red tape, has opened the floodgates of frivolous lawsuits, and has stifled economic growth for everyone. With sincere outrage at a system that has run amok and inspiring, even humorous, insight from a man who's dealt with the problem both inside and out, Perry discusses his fierce battles and hard-won victories and warns of the dangers of the ADA--how its laws infringe on not only the disabled but all Americans.

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