A Michigan Parent Shares Help for Breakthrough Parenting

Breakthrough Parenting for Children with Special Needs: Raising the Bar of Expectations is a motivational parenting guide for families of children with special needs and the professionals working with them.

This resource features:

• A Special Needs Bill of Rights for Children, Parents, Siblings, and Professionals.
• Inspiring success stories and valuable resources.
• Parent-tested strategies for success—with a healthy dose of humor!
• Interviews with Dana Reeve of the Christopher Reeve Foundation, Tim Shriver of Special Olympics, and Diane Bubel of the Bubel/Aiken Foundation.

Judy Winter is an award-winning journalist on special needs parenting issues and the recipient of the 2002 Michigan Council for Exceptional Children Exceptional Parent Award. A frequent contributing writer to Leading Change, Judy Winter also shares first-hand insights about parenting a child with special needs with future teachers at Michigan State University (MSU).

According to Edna Felmlee, Michigan State University, “Judy Winter’s book Breakthrough Parenting for Children with Special Needs: Raising the Bar of Expectations requires me to alter my beliefs and my instruction of academic content to special education teachers and adds another dimension to the preparation of teachers working with special need students. In fact, Breakthrough Parenting requires all teachers to think differently when working with parents and families of children with special needs. As professionals, we need to raise the bar when interacting with parents. Thank you, Judy, for this insightful, thought-provoking, and attitude-changing book.”

Edna Felmlee, Instructor, Special Education
Coordinator/Special Education Internship, MSU

The book is available for sale at www.josseybass.com or www.amazon.com. For more information, contact: Judy Winter, jappwinter@aol.com or visit www.judywinter.com.

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