Better lives for kids with special needs worldwide

As part of our mission, we continue to distribute free copies of The Special Needs Parent Handbook to families that are unable to afford them and are reaching out to several national charities about helping us to expand our reach.

In the meantime, The Academy of Special Needs Planners, a national organization representing attorneys that help families with children with special needs with estate planning, wrote a very favorable review of the book and mentioned Advocacy For All. We have asked them to help us distribute free books through their members.

Here are some excerpts from their review:

"The Special Needs Parent Handbook is a well-written, down-to-earth guidebook that reads like a conversation with a good friend. In it, Singer offers tips for interacting with a child with special needs that he has learned through his first-hand experience of raising both a child with special needs as well and one without."

"In a particularly helpful section, Singer discusses how to integrate a child with special needs into the general community, and he offers suggestions for teaching children and parents without special needs about a child's condition without sounding shrill or patronizing. In fact, throughout the book, Singer's conversational tone rarely reaches a fever pitch -- you can tell that he is completely committed to his work without resorting to lecturing. When you reach the end of The Special Needs Parent Handbook, you will feel like you gained 15 years of practical knowledge in a matter of hours.

At the moment, The Special Needs Parent Handbook is available as a download from Singer's Web site with a $10 donation to Advocacy for All. Readers can also purchase an ebook version for the Kindle or iPhone. To read excerpts from the book, or to purchase a copy, click here."

Links:

• Book review and mention of Advocacy For All