Do You Have a Special Child?

Do you have a special child with special needs? "Down syndrome" is the medical term for what I'm referring to in this post but I want to avoid the word. This is because inspite of having differences physically and mentally from other normal kids, in my heart I still see these kids as normal. If I see special kids, as a mother, I can feel how difficult it is to have a child that cannot do what normal kids do. I just wish all kids are normal but there are factors that cause the physical and mental disabilities of these kids. On certain cases, the cause of such disabilities can't be explained. 

Not all parents

who have special kids has the opportunity to search the Internet for a broader knowledge about their child's health situation and learn to treat their child as a normal child based from medical advice. Those are the parents who live in remote areas or those parents who don't have the means to ask for medical advice in order to understand why their kids are not normal. Since I grew up in a province, and at that time there was no Internet yet, I knew of some parents who have special kids and since during that time discoveries in medicine was not yet advance, they just accept it as their child's fate to be as one. However, the love and care that they gave to their special kids is the same to a normal kid.

In Babies with Down Syndrome: A New Parent's Guide by Susan J. Skallerup, which was first published in 1985, completely revised and updated, cover the best practices for raising and caring for children with Down Syndrome into their lives. This new edition incorporates the latest scientific, medical, educational research, and practical information available, as well as parent's suggestion and feedback. To quote an excerpt from one of the reviews for this book by Britanny R. Massey:

"There's a lot of information in the internet, but this book not only compiles it together for you in an organized fashion (so you can actually retain what you read...) but it also provides humanity. Short snippets at the end of every chapter help you cope with the array of emotions that you will be feeling -- without making you feel bad, dirty or even worse."

A helpful guide to parents of special kids.