Reference Books
Title: Babies with Down Syndrome, A New Parents’ Guide- Second Edition
Author: Karen Stray-Gundersen
Published Date: 1995
Description: Babies with Down Syndrome is the book that thousands of new parents and professionals have turned to as their first source of information on Down Syndrome. This second edition is written by the same group of knowledgeable parents, doctors, nurses, educators, and lawyers, who cover everything parents need to know about raising their child in an environment of love, pride and achievement. Now, the new edition of this classic guide improves on the original with up-to-date information on prenatal testing, early intervention,
legal and medical issues and resources.
Title: Visions for the 21 st Century- Down Syndrome
Author: William I. Cohen, Lynn Nadel, Myra E. Madnick
Published Date: 2002
Description: Providing a comprehensive survey of the clinical, educational, developmental, psychosocial, and transitional issues relevant to people with Down syndrome, this book addresses the needs of family members, caregivers, and professionals alike.
Title: Classroom Language Skills for Children with Down Syndrome
Author: Libby Kumin
Published Date: 2001
Description: This book emphasizes the crucial role teachers and speech-language pathologists play. It explains how to make adaptations to curriculum, verbal instruction, classroom routines, and written assignments. The book discusses ways to enhance social communication between children with Down syndrome and other students during class, lunch, and recess. Also covered is the use of augmentative communication methods for children with Down syndrome who are non-verbal or rarely use speech. As an added bonus, there are numerous forms and checklists for parents such as an IEP planner, home-school communication tips, samples of visual prompts, graphic organizers, and worksheet adaptations. Overall, this guide offers parents an in-depth overview of their child's language skills in school, while providing teachers and SLPs with useful ideas and adaptations that will help them meet the communication needs of their
students with Down syndrome.

Title: Babies with Down Syndrome, A New Parents Guide- Third Edition
Author: Susan J. Skallerup
Published Date: 2008
Description: Covering the best practices for raising and caring for children with Down syndrome through age five, this book is invaluable to new parents who have welcomed a baby with Down syndrome into their lives. This new edition incorporates the latest scientific, medical, educational research, and practical information available, as well as parents suggestions and feedback. Existing chapters have been revised, some completely rewritten by new authors, and in keeping with its parent-friendly reputation, most of the book's contributors are parents of children with Down syndrome.
Title: Teaching by Design
Author: Kimberly S. Voss
Published Date: 2005
Description: This book shows readers how to use the computer to design meaningful educational materials for children and adults with special needs. A synthesis of computer graphics, education, and crafting, this book represents the author's considerable expertise in customizing educational materials for her daughter with multiple disabilities as well as
teaching other parents and teachers to create them too.
Title: Prescription for Nutritional Healing
Author: Phyllis A. Balch, CNC
Published Date: 2006
Description: A comprehensive source on dietary supplements, vitamins, minerals, and herbs. A pioneer in the field of nutritional healing, Phyllis Balch passionately and meticulously researched and compiled this groundbreaking book. Now, a generation later, her message has more relevance than ever: consume fresh foods, avoid processed foods and those high in saturated fat, and optimize your intake of essential nutrients with the right supplements.
Today's well-stocked vitamin and natural-health stores can be confusing, and people need
Balch's clear, concise, landmark guide.
Title:The Down Syndrome Nutrition Handbook
Author: Joan Guthrie Medlen

Published Date: 2002
Description: A nutrition handbook that is a guide to promoting a healthy lifestyle.
Title: From Emotions to Advocacy
Author: Peter & Pamela Wright
Published Date: 2006
Description: This book is designed to teach you how to plan, prepare, organize and get quality special education services. In this comprehensive, easy-to-read book, you will learn your child’s disability and educational needs, how to create a simple method for organizing your child’s file, and devising a master plan for your child’s special education. You will understand parentschool conflict, how to create paper trails and effective letter writing. This book includes dozens of worksheets, forms and sample letters that you can tailor to your needs. Whether you are new to special education or an experienced advocate this book will provide a clear roadmap to
effective advocacy for your child.
Title: Helping Children with Down Syndrome Communicate Better
Author: Dr Libby Kumin
Published Date: 2008
Description: As children with Down syndrome reach age 6 they encounter more complex speech and language demands in their learning and relationships with others. This is when gaps in communication abilities between children with Down syndrome and their typically developing peers begin to widen. Helping Children with Down Syndrome Communicate Better provides parents and professionals with the information and resources they need to improve their child s communication at school, at home, and in the wider community.Written by Dr.
Libby Kumin, an expert in Down syndrome and communication, this is the only book about speech and language issues for children with Down syndrome ages 6-14, and is the sequel to
Early Communication Skills for Children with Down Syndrome. Encouraging and parent-friendly, it covers the scope of speech and language issues important for this age group, from understanding language pragmatics to building conversation skills and from using augmentative and alternative communication systems to improving speech intelligibility.
Chapters include case studies, research, home and school activities for practice, and present.
Title: Revised Administrative Rules for Special Education from Michigan Department of
Education (March 2012)

Other books:
Title: Bloom
Author: Kelle Hampton
Published Date: 2012
Description: Love me. Love me. I'm not what you expected, but oh, please love me.
That was the most defining moment of my life. That was the beginning of my story.
From the outside looking in, Kelle Hampton had the perfect life: a beautiful two-year-old daughter, a loving husband, a thriving photography career, and great friends. When she learned she was pregnant with her second child, she and her husband, Brett, were ecstatic. Her pregnancy went smoothly and the ultrasounds showed a beautiful, healthy, high-kicking baby girl. But when her new daughter was placed in her arms in the delivery room, Kelle knew instantly that something was wrong. Nella looked different than her two-year-old sister,
Lainey, had at birth. As she watched friends and family celebrate with champagne toasts and endless photographs, a terrified Kelle was certain that Nella had Down syndrome—a fear her pediatrician soon confirmed. Yet gradually Kelle's fear and pain were vanquished by joy, as she embraced the realization that she had been chosen to experience an extraordinary and special
gift.
* author signed book
Title: Hi, I’m Ben… And I have a secret
Author: Julie A. Bouwkamp
Published Date: 1995
Description: Back by popular demand and with an updated look, this simple children's book tells the story of Ben, a young boy who has a secret. Before revealing his secret, Ben shares much about his life and likes. All readers find they have much in common with this charming boy with Down syndrome. A must have for siblings, school classrooms, church and synagogue reading rooms and public libraries. This new edition includes mischievous bear illustrations by
David Tesnar.
Title: The Special Needs Acceptance Book, being a friend to someone with special needs
Author: Ellen Sabin
Published Date: 2007
Description: Be a friend a to someone with special needs

Title: Where’s Chimpy
Author: Berniece Rabe
Published Date: 1988
Decription: "Rabe's simple plot is the vehicle for a joyous, unaffected portrait and Schmidt's full-color, perceptive photos depict naturally the daily life of a captivating little girl and her
special dad. Excellent for building awareness and a nice story with warm appeal."--Booklist.
Title: Chicken Soup for the Soul becomes friend, children with special needs
Author: Jack Canfield, Mark Victor Hansen, Heather McNamara, and Karen Simmons
Published Date: 2007
Description: 'These powerful heart-rending stories are filled with honesty, humor, hope and offer inspiration to parents, teachers, and anyone else who cares for children with special needs. By embracing the magnificence, inner peace, and beauty each child possess, our own
attitudes are shifted from despair to promise.'
Raising a child with special needs is a lifelong commitment that is as unique as each person who embarks on it. Written by a variety of authors who share in this distinctive relationship,
Chicken Soup for the Soul Children with Special Needs offers a glimpse into the lives of others
who are on a similar path.
These stories provide insight, comfort, and connection with others who have walked this powerful and transformational journey. The authors of these candid stories relate their own experiences of adjusting, reaching out, and flourishing and share their universal worries, their tears, and the laughter that come with this extraordinary relationship. Most important, through these stories, you will be guided with the wisdom of fellow parents, caregivers, and those with special needs to help you be the very best parent or caregiver you can be.
Title: What I Learned from my Daughter
Author: Nancy Jo Sullivan
Published Date: 2004
Description: Sometimes God's greatest gifts are unrecognized. Such was the case with Nancy Jo
Sullivan, an expecting mother who received the unexpected: a Down syndrome child. Open to
God's plan, and filled with love for her child, Nancy Jo came to realize that her daughter Sarah
was a sacred surprise disguised as a handicapped baby.

Title: Life as we Know it
Author: Michael Berube
Published Date: 1996
Description: When Jamie Bérubé was born with Down syndrome in 1991, he was immediately subject to the medical procedures, insurance guidelines, policies, and representations that surround every child our society designates as disabled. In this wrenching yet ultimately inspiring book, Jamie's father, literary scholar Michael Bérubé, describes not only the challenges of raising his son but the challenge of seeing him as a person rather than as a
medical, genetic, or social problem.
Title: Count Us In
Author: Jason Kingsley and Mitchell Levitz
Published Date: 1994
Description: At ages nineteen and twenty-two, respectively, Jason Kingsley and Mitchell Levitz shared their innermost thoughts, feelings, hopes, and dreams, their lifelong friendship—and their experiences growing up with Down syndrome. Their frank discussion of what mattered most in their lives—careers, friendships, school, sex, marriage, finances, politics, and independence—earned Count Us In numerous national awards, including the EDI Award from the National Easter Seal Society. More important, their wit, intelligence, candor, and charm made a powerful and inspirational statement about the full potential of people with
developmental disabilities, challenging prevailing stereotypes.
Now, thirteen years later, the authors discuss their lives since then—milestones and challenges, developments expected and unexpected—in a new afterword.
Title: Adventures in the Mainstream: Coming of age with Down Syndrome
Author: Greg Palmer
Published Date: 2005
Description: (2006 Independent Publishers Book Awards: Honorable Mention in
Autobiography/Memoir Category) (2005 ForeWord Magazine's Book of the Year Award:
Finalist in Autobiography/Memoir Category) Like many parents, Greg Palmer worries about his son's future. But his son Ned's last year of high school raises concerns and anxieties for him that most parents don't experience. Ned has Down syndrome; when high school ends for him,

school is out forever. The questions loom: What's next? How will Ned negotiate the world without the structure of school? Will he find a rewarding job in something other than food service? To help him sort out these questions and document his son's transition from high school to work, Palmer, an award-winning writer and producer of PBS documentaries, keeps a journal that s the basis of this thoughtful and entertaining book. Ned's talents and interests in poetry, music, and history help him connect with other travelers on a nautical excursion around the British Isles, while his father watches from a distance. The years Palmer and his wife nurtured Ned's interests seem to pay off when Ned shares a favorite poem with a stranger or wins "Employee of the Month." Gratified and a little surprised at how easily Ned sometimes lives by his wits, Palmer also acknowledges the parenting challenges: Ned has some gaps in self-help skills; rarely considers eating anything but peeled wieners for breakfast; and needs help knowing when to curb his passions, such as bombarding people with unsolicited accounts of his family genealogy. Preparing Ned for the working world teaching him to handle money and public transportation, and finding him a job is both amusing and stressful. Palmer wisely stays out of the way when Ned is working happily in the same office and he recognizes the value of good job coaching when his son is lucky enough to get it. But it's trickier business when
Ned loses money and skips the bus. Worry over Ned's vulnerabilities leads to discussing what it means to have Down syndrome and, Palmer hopes, offering him a dose of reality. ADVENTURES
IN THE MAINSTREAM is a lively and insightful account allowing readers to enjoy Ned's strengths and foibles just as his father does. This personal chronicle also gives us a better understanding of what's involved for parent and child in a young man's journey from adolescence toward adulthood and greater independence.
Title: Angel Unaware: A Touching Story of Love & Loss –
Author: Dale Evans Rogers
Published Date: 2004
Description: Entertainers Roy and Dale Evans Rogers were thrilled when their little daughter
Robin was born. But their excitement turned to concern when they were informed that Robin was born with Down's Syndrome and advised to "put her away." The Rogers ignored such talk and instead kept Robin, and she graced their home for two and a half years. Though Robin's time on earth was short, she changed her parents' lives and even made life better for other children born with special needs in the years to come.
Angel Unaware is Robin's account of her life as she looks down from heaven. As she speaks to
God about the mission of love she just completed on earth, the reader sees how she brought her parents closer to God and encouraged them to help other children in need.
This book, which changed the way America treated children with special needs, is now available to a new generation. It is the perfect gift for parents of special needs children, parents
grieving the death of a child, or anyone whose life has been touched by a special child.

Title: Are There Stripes in Heaven?
Author: - Lee Klein
Published Date:1994
Description: Patrick's sister Colleen, a Down's syndrome child, helps him to appreciate various
experiences, including going to Mass and seeing their first rainbow.
Title:Baby Minds
Author: - Linda Acredolo
Published Date:2000
Description: More than 65 delightful games and activities to jump-start your baby's amazing brainpower
Can simply singing a song or blowing a dandelion under a toddler's nose help her mind to blossom? Can your baby count, remember events, and solve problems even before he can talk?
The exciting answer to both questions is yes!
Breakthrough research is revealing the extraordinary inborn abilities of infants.
It is also showing how experiences during the first years of life profoundly influence intelligence, creativity, language development-and even later reading and math skills.
Now two psychologists and child development experts-authors of the bestselling Baby Signshave created a delightful guide for parents based on the most up-to-date knowledge of how babies discover the world. You'll learn how to:
_ Create a homemade mobile to stimulate your three-month-old's delight in solving problems
_ Play a patty-cake game to help your two-year-old make logical connections
_ Initiate bedtime conversations that build your child's memory and sense of personal history
_ Develop "Baby Signs" to help your toddler communicate before he or she can talk
_ Stimulate your child's natural number skills with puppets and counting games
_ Use nursery rhymes and special read-aloud techniques to foster reading readiness
_ Nurture budding creativity with humor and fantasy play
_ And much more!

Baby Minds is not another program for creating "super babies." Instead it builds on activities that babies instinctively love to develop their unique abilities and make your
daily interactions full of the joy of discovery-for both of you.
Title:Be Good to Eddie Lee
Author: Virginia Fleming
Published Date: 1997
Description: Christy's mother tells her to treat Eddie Lee, a neighborhood child, well because he has Down's Syndrome and needs special care, but Christy does not always want him tagging along, until Eddie Lee show her a special hiding place in the woods and she sees how very
special he really is.
Title: Gifts: Mothers Reflect on How Children with Down Syndrome Enrich Their Lives
Author: Kathryn Lynard Soper
Published Date:2007
Decription: Having a baby with Down syndrome is not something most parents would willingly choose. Yet many who travel this path discover rich, unexpected rewards along the way. In this candid and poignant collection of personal stories, sixty-three mothers describe the gifts of respect, strength, delight, perspective, and love, which their child with Down syndrome has brought into their lives. The contributors to this collection have diverse personalities and perspectives, and draw from a wide spectrum of ethnicity, world views, and religious beliefs.
Some are parenting within a traditional family structure; some are not. Some never considered terminating their pregnancy; some struggled with the decision. Some were calm at the time of diagnosis; some were traumatized. Some write about their pregnancy and the months after giving birth; some reflect on years of experience with their child. Their diverse experiences point to a common truth: The life of a child with Down syndrome is something to celebrate. These
women have something to say--not just to other mothers but to all of us.
Title: I Can, Can You?

Author: - Marjorie W Pitzer
Published Date:2004
Description: boardbook for toddlers
Title:Jewel
Author: - Bret Lott
Published Date:1999
Description: In the backwoods of Mississippi, a land of honeysuckle and grapevine, Jewel and her husband, Leston, are truly blessed; they have five fine children. When Brenda Kay is born in
1943, Jewel gives thanks for a healthy baby, last-born and most welcome. Jewel is the story of how quickly a life can change; how, like lightning, an unforeseen event can set us on a course without reason or compass. In this story of a woman's devotion to the child who is both her burden and God's singular way of smiling on her, Bret Lott has created a mother-daughter relationship of matchless intensity and beauty, and one of the finest, most indomitable
heroines in contemporary American fiction.
Title:Just a Little Different
Author: - Gina & Mercer Mayer
Publication Date:2001
Description:A new kid has moved in next door to Little Critter and his family. He's a nice kid but he's just a little bit different: his mother is a rabbit and his father is a turtle. This timely story
about prejudice and friendship is filled with Mercer Mayer's trademark humor.
Title:My Friend Isabelle
Author: Eliza Woloson

Publication Date: 2003
Description: isabelle and Charlie are friends. They both like to draw, dance, read, and play at the park. They both like to eat cheerios. They both cry if their feelings get hurt. And like most
friends, they are also different from each other. Isabelle has Down syndrome. Charlie doesn’t.
Title: A Rainbow of Friends
Author: - P K Hallinan
Publication Date: 2006
Description: This book is for ages 3-5. Friends come in all colours and sizes; they can be funny or serious, musical or athletic, outgoing or quiet. This book reminds children to celebrate their
differences because that is what makes each of us so special.
Title:Sometimes Miracles Hide
Author: - Bruce Carroll
Publication Date:1999
Description: “With refreshing honesty and eternal hope, parents of special needs children share their hears in stirring letters written in response to Bruce Carroll’s song “Somtimes Miracales
Hide”
Books for Siblings:
Title: Making Room for Uncle Joe
Author: ADA B. Litchfield
Published Date: 1984
Description: The children in this story know ABOUT Uncle Joe, but they don't know him personally because he has been in a special home for the mentally retarded--a place they never visit, only their parents. Now, Uncle Joe is coming to live with them, maybe for quite a while.

A neighbor boy is sure that "all retarded people are funny looking and most of 'em drool; you'll have to wipe his chin all the time." Teenager Beth doesn't want this little-known uncle to be
"creeping around" and causing her friends to make fun of HER, too.
And, it turns out, Uncle Joe does have to be cleaned up after, and be reminded to wear his glasses, comb his hair, put on matching socks, and take a shower.
Does the family and Uncle Joe become unhappy? Does Beth lose her friends? How does young
Dan react when his school friends see him in public with Uncle Joe? Why does five-year-old Amy cry and hug her uncle? What decision is finally made about Uncle Joe? [Suitable for grades 2-
4/5.]
Title: The Best Worst Brother
Author: Stephanie Stuve-Bodeen
A family of products (DVDs, Music CDs, books, and flashcards) that teach American Sign
Language (ASL) vocabulary. Signing Time products are created for children from infancy through age 8, but appeal to all ages and abilities. Signing Time DVDs feature children and adults who model each sign, original music, real-life scenes, and animated segments. The combination of visual, auditory, and kinaesthetic teaching results in an effective, multi-sensory approach to learning.