Parents of children with special needs face unique emotional and practical challenges every day. These issues are seldom fully addressed by the medical community-and parents' most compelling questions remain unanswered. Judith Loseff Lavin was thrust into the world of children's hospitals and special needs when her daughter was born with a cleft lip and palate. In special Kids Need Special Parents, she draws on interviews with health-care peofessionals, nationally recognized authori-ties, and families of children with special needs to give readers the advice, encouragement, and comfort they crave.

• Boosting your child's self-esteem Coping with chronic pain, sleep problems, and frequent hospitalizations

• Dealing with feelings of grief and anger

• Choosing a therapist

• Finding a suitable, reliable childcare

• How to cope with teasing

• The to cope a child with special needs can have on a marriage, siblings, and grandparents

• Finding cosmetic help, including hair replacement

• Prosthetic and orthotic options

“ Judy Lavin has written an excellent resource book that should be required in the homes of parents who have children with special needs and in the offices of professionals who work with them.” – Marshall Duke, Ph.D., and Stephen Nowicki, Jr., Ph.D., Candler Professors of Psychology, Emory University and authors of Helping the Child Who Doesn't Fit In