On Their Own: Creating an Independent Future for Your Adult Child With Learning Disabilities and ADHD: A Family Guide

Ford, Anne, Thompson, John-Richard, Shaywitz, Sally

ISBN 10: 1557047596 / ISBN 13: 9781557047595

Verlag: William Morrow, 2007

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• Titel: On Their Own: Creating an Independent Future for Your Adult Child With Learning Disabilities and ADHD: A Family Guide
• Verlag: William Morrow
• Erscheinungsjahr: 2007
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN-10: 1557047596
• ISBN-13: 9781557047595
• Einband: Hardcover
• Zustand: New

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A guide for parents of children with ADHD and learning disabilities makes recommendations on how to help them to become independent adults, in a resource that covers such topics as employee relations, finding appropriate trade schools and colleges, and estate planning. By the author of Laughing Allegra. Simultaneous.

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Anne Ford is the author of the acclaimed memoir Laughing Allegra about raising her severely learning disabled daughter, On Their Own: Creating an Independent Future for Your Adult Child with Learning Disabilities and ADHD, and A Special Mother: Getting Through the Early Days of a Child's Diagnosis of Learning Disabilities and Related Disorders. She served as Chairman of the National Center for Learning Disabilities from 1989 to 2001, and remains a committed advocate and frequent speaker on LD issues. The great-granddaughter of Henry Ford, she lives in New York City.

John-Richard Thompson is an award-winning playwright and novelist, who has collaborated with Anne Ford at NCLD and on her three books. He lives in New York City.