For Parents Raising A Child With Special Needs (NAPSA)—An extraordinary book for anyone who knowsa special-needs child describes whatit’s like to parent a child with special needs. In “The Elephant in the Playroom” (Hudson Street Press), Denise Brodey introduces readers the elephant ih the playroom Ordinary Parents Write Intimately and Honestly About the Extraordinary Highs and Heartbreaking Lowsof Raising Kids with Special Needs denise brodey This collection brings comfort, advice and hopeto parents and teachers of special-needs children. to a community of intrepid parents who share the dysfunctional lows and joyful highs of parenting a child with ADD, ADHD, sensory disorders, childhood depression, autism and physical and learning disabilities. Parents from Florida to Alaska, with children ages 3 to 33, address everything from if and whento medicate a child to how to explain a child’s behavior to strangers. Written by ordinary parents, the book offers from-the- trenches accounts of how one makesit through the day.
