Parenting a child with special needs - Bernadette Thomas

What is the actual experience of
parents who live with and love children with special needs? After the initial
shock of becoming a parent, now complicated by being the parent of a child
with special needs, as well as having only a confused idea of what may lie
ahead how do they find a way forward, to start to build a relationship with
their child?The stories that emerge from Parenting A Child with Special Needs
are of great passion and, sometimes, pain and above all the courageous
dedication needed to bring up a disabled child. The editors, Bernadette
Thomas and Cindy Dowling, are parents of disabled children who write with
real and practical insight into bringing up a disabled child and the
relationship it creates. While Neil Nicoll gives a professional perspective
into the issues raised.Parents often come to see their children as a
"gift", and the dominant note struck is of the intensity of the
relationships that develop between these parents and their children,
relationships that are the most fulfilling part of both their lives.They tell
it as it is, the joy and the pain, and these are stories that all parents
will recognise.