Product Description

Parents raising a child with special needs want to equip their child with the skills and abilities necessary to live the most independent life possible. But actually accomplishing this can be difficult. Learning to empower a child with strength, dignity, responsibility, and independence is a daunting task for parents struggling to understand and cope with the special needs of their child. In Empowering Your Child Who Has Special Needs , Debbie Goodwin helps parents identify enabling or guilt-based attitudes and actions that trap the child and themselves in unhealthy co-dependencies. As the mother of a daughter with special needs, she understands first-hand the struggles and frustration that come with this unexpected responsibility. Based on the belief that God’s truth is a freeing reality, Goodwin develops empowering strategies to help parents actualize God’s plan for them and their child. Empowering Your Child Who Has Special Needs invites the parents of children with special challenges to make the journey to discover how God’s plan will ’give you hope and a future.’

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #811044 in Books
• Published on: 2006-07
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 192 pages

Customer Reviews

Special needs educator
I appreciated the well researched and thought out ideas presented in this book as well as all the personal stories and experiences that reinforced the concepts. As an educator in an early childhood, special needs program, I see great value in following the advice given by Debbie in raising a special needs child to be as independent and capable as possible in handling his/her own life. The author is positive and encouraging while giving strategies to empower parents, as well as children, to meet the, sometimes, difficult days with which they are faced. I was very happy to find this book and
Debbie helped me adjust my thoughts as I looked at children with special needs from a different perspective than before. I highly recommend reading Empowering Your Child.