The Down Syndrome Transition Handbook: Charting Your Child's Course to Adulthood (Topics in Down Syndrome)
In this excellent and comprehensive guide, Jo Ann Simons, drawing upon her professional expertise as well as her personal experience as the mother of a son with Down Syndrome, shepherds families and teachers through the transition process. This manual, with its emphasis on successful transition into age-appropriate roles in the family and the larger community, is a useful mixture of practical information and anecdotal experience. It is also one of the best books of its kind that we at [Disability Resources Online] have seen in many years and is an example of why we think so highly of Woodbine House publications. --Disability Resources OnlineIn an easy style born of practical experience, Jo Ann Simons helps parents of children with Down syndrome manage all the ups and downs of becoming a parent of an adult. You will laugh, you will cry, and you will keep this book on your bedside table to comfort and guide you through all the changes you love and dread--at the same time! --Timothy P. Shriver, Ph.D.Chairman & CEO, Special OlympicsEven if your child doesn't have Down syndrome, you'll find helpful information in this handbook for dealing with special-education transitions, special-needs trusts, guardianship, supported employment and housing, government benefits, and all those other adulthood issues you've been trying not to think about. Simons is a parent who's lived through her son's transition and has a lot of information and opinions to share. --Terri Mauro, Guide to Parenting Special Needs, specialchildren.about.comIn an easy style born of practical experience, Jo Ann Simons helps parents of children with Down syndrome manage all the ups and downs of becoming a parent of an adult. You will laugh, you will cry, and you will keep this book on your bedside table to comfort and guide you through all the changes you love and dread--at the same time! --Timothy P. Shriver, Ph.D.Chairman & CEO, Special OlympicsEven if your child doesn't have Down syndrome, you'll find helpful information in this handbook for dealing with special-education transitions, special-needs trusts, guardianship, supported employment and housing, government benefits, and all those other adulthood issues you've been trying not to think about. Simons is a parent who's lived through her son's transition and has a lot of information and opinions to share. --Terri Mauro, Guide to Parenting Special Needs, specialchildren.about.com