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About.com 2012 Readers' Choice Award Winner, Favorite New Special-Needs Parenting Book! Down Syndrome Parenting 101 is a savvy book for parents, grandparents, teachers, and anyone who shares life with a person with Down syndrome! It's full of uplifting advice and best practices gleaned from the author's personal and professional experiences raising a son, now an adult, and teaching educators and parents how to teach children with Down syndrome to read. Down Syndrome Parenting 101 offers inspired takes on a host of important issues, from learning to recognize and celebrate your child's personality and gifts to finding a great teacher for him, and from insisting your child pull his own weight to giving your child his space as an adult. The author--equal parts mentor, humorist, enthusiast, and realist--takes readers by the hand and walks them through the various life stages, experiences, and people they will encounter with their child including: getting to know and fall in love with your child, interacting with medical professionals, literacy, discipline, school, transitioning, and independence.



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Natalie Hale

Natalie Hale is an award-winning author, an innovative educator, and for over 20 years, a national and international speaker on the topic of teaching reading to learners with Down syndrome and other developmental delays. She is the mother of Jonathan, an adult with Down syndrome who lives in his own apartment with the help of a caregiver, and of Rebecca, an ESL (English as a Second Language) professor, a skill she began learning as a toddler, teaching her big brother with Down syndrome to talk.

In 2000, Natalie's desire to open the world-wide doors of reading for kids who would often be left behind led her to found Special Reads for Special Needs. Her complete line of food-focused-and-frequently-funny reading books is available on her website, www.specialreads.com. No online snacking allowed on Peanut Butter, Spaghetti, Ice Cream, and Pizza! (Check it out.)

She lives in Los Angeles and continues to write books born of passion, to teach reading, and to give workshops across the country and across borders to parents and educators.



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