Showing results by publisher "Audible Studios" in Children's Health

Wie lange darf Kacka in der Windel bleiben? Warum wacht mein Kind nachts ständig auf? Warum hat es ständig Blasenentzündung? Und: Was bedeutet es, wenn mein Kind beim Schlafen den Kopf hin und her wirft? Der Kinderarzt Vitor Gatinho, auf Instagram besser bekannt als KidsDoc, weiß Rat! Und beantwortet seiner stetig wachsenden Fangemeinde die häufigsten medizinischen Fragen in den ersten drei Jahren mit Kind - sympathisch, kompetent und ohne ärztlichen Zeigefinger.

Food consumption is a significant and complex social activity - and what a society chooses to feed its children reveals much about its tastes and ideas regarding health. In this groundbreaking historical work, Amy Bentley explores how the invention of commercial baby food shaped American notions of infancy and influenced the evolution of parental and pediatric care. Until the late 19th century, infants were almost exclusively fed breast milk. But over the course of a few short decades, Americans began feeding their babies formula and solid foods....

"Dr. Spock? Check. Penelope Ann Leach (Remember her?) Check. What to Expect When You’re Expecting? Check. I had a 700 dollar Bellini crib for God’s sake! Everything was perfect…." And so begins Kim Stagliano’s electrifying and hilarious memoir of her family’s journey raising three daughters with autism. Always outspoken, often touching, and sometimes heartbreaking, Kim Stagliano is a powerful new voice in comedic writing.

Powerful and eye-opening, Seeing Ezra is an inspirational chronicle of a mother's struggle to protect her son from a system that seeks to compartmentalize and "fix" him, and of her journey toward accepting and valuing him for who he is - just as he is.

It’s 1949 and 18-year-old pitching phenom Mickey Tussler is back with the rejuvenated minor league Brewers in the sequel to The Legend of Mickey Tussler (the basis for the television movie A Mile in His Shoes). Despite Mickey’s proclamation that he will never play baseball again after last season’s violent conclusion, his manager - and now surrogate father - Arthur Murphy cajoles the emotionally fragile, socially awkward boy with autism into giving it another shot.

When her daughters are born deaf, Rosner is stunned. Then she discovers a hidden history of deafness in her family, going back generations to the Jewish enclaves of Eastern Europe. Traveling back in time, she imagines her silent relatives, who showed surprising creativity in dealing with a world that preferred to ignore them. Rosner shares her journey into the modern world of deafness, and the controversial decisions she and her husband have made about hearing aids, cochlear implants, and sign language.

Hayley Okines is like no other 13-year-old schoolgirl. In Old Before My Time, Hayley and her mum, Kerry, reflect on her unusual life. Share Hayley’s excitement as she travels the world meeting her pop heroes Kylie, Girls Aloud, and Justin Bieber and her sadness as she loses her best friend to the disease at the age of 11. Now as she passes the age of 13 - the average life expectancy for a child with progeria - Hayley talks frankly about her hopes for the future and her pioneering drug trials in America which could unlock the secrets of ageing for everyone....

Parenting the Children of Now is the first book of its kind that addresses the needs of parents of Indigo and Crystal children. It teaches parents how to mine for their own truth, understand their purpose in life, stop sabotaging their own and their children's lives, discover their passion, and live their truth. Each chapter offers insightful ideas and strategies, and ends with exercises for parents to do for their own development and another set of exercises to do with their children.

Autism shakes up your world. It has changed my life and I wasn't even the one diagnosed with it. My brother's name is Ethan Wolfgang, but we call him Deets. He is one of the greatest gifts my family has ever received. And one of the most challenging.

Si algo nos acompaña desde que nacemos es nuestro sistema inmunitario. Las enfermedades acechan al bebé desde el mismo momento en que sale al mundo: infecciosas, autoinmunes, alérgicas, cancerígenas... Todas permanecen a raya gracias a su eficaz sistema inmunitario, que hace de verdadero muro defensivo, invisible pero infranqueable... y cuando por alguna razón falla, tenemos un verdadero problema.

Em O brincar e a realidade, o autor investiga, a partir de alguns objetos especiais escolhidos pelas crianças (o ursinho, o paninho, o Dudu etc.), o que determina a atividade de brincar, mostrando como ela é parte da criação de si mesmo, do outro e do mundo...quando há saúde. Seu estudo analisa e descreve um campo de existência comum, ao qual têm se dedicado artistas, filósofos, cientistas, psicoterapeutas e crianças, procurando caracterizar “o lugar em que vivemos”, uma área intermediária, entre a realidade interna e a externa.

Cosa spinge papà Mimmo e suo figlio Tommaso a presentarsi tutti i giorni in gelateria, cascasse il mondo, in estate come in inverno, sotto il sole o una pioggia torrenziale? E perché Tommi è così fissato con i cartoni animati della Disney? Per scoprirlo dovrai salire a bordo di un mezzo di trasporto un po’ particolare. No, non è un’astronave, ma un capitone, capace di catapultarti avanti e indietro nel tempo, dentro la realtà degli sgusciati, in cui suoni, colori ed emozioni passano attraverso un guscio speciale, simile a quello di una tartaruga, che Tommi e tutti i ragazzi e le ragazze autistici come lui costruiscono per sentirsi protetti.

Fourteen years ago, Mike Milligan learned he would become a grandfather for the first time. He was surprised to find that there was little or no information available on what it means to be a grandfather, how to make the most of the experience, and how to be the best grandfather possible. Sure, there were shelves of books dedicated to grandmothers - all with cuddly covers depicting spring bouquets or gentle little lambs. But there was not a single book that spoke to him, a 64-year-old grandfather-to-be. It struck him that there were countless other grandfathers out there experiencing this same feeling of neglect.

A todos los niños que han sido diagnosticados con algún problema de aprendizaje o conducta y etiquetados como diferentes e inadaptados. A los padres, maestros, educadores y tutores, quienes buscan respuestas y soluciones para enfrentar el retraso en lo.

Autism has attracted a great deal of attention in recent years, thanks to dramatically increasing rates of diagnosis, extensive organizational mobilization, journalistic coverage, biomedical research, and clinical innovation. Understanding Autism, a social history of the expanding diagnostic category of this contested illness, takes a close look at the role of emotion - specifically, of parental love - in the intense and passionate work of biomedical communities investigating autism.

Happiness begins with a charming courtship between hopelessly attracted opposites: Heather, a world-roaming California girl, and Brian, an intellectual, homebody writer, kind and slyly funny but loath to leave his Upper West Side studio. Their magical interlude ends, full stop, when Heather becomes pregnant - Brian is sure he loves her, only he doesn't want kids.

AD(H)S bei Erwachsenen? Wurde bisher kaum erkannt, noch seltener diagnostiziert und vor allem in seiner Bedeutung vollkommen unterschätzt. Tatsächlich leiden 50-60 % der als Kind von AD(H)S Betroffenen auch im Erwachsenenalter noch unter den typischen und weniger typischen Symptomen, die sie in ihrer Lebensgestaltung mitunter erheblich beeinträchtigen. Viele können den Scheinwerfer ihrer Aufmerksamkeit nicht lange fokussieren und sind leicht ablenkbar. Hinzu kommen Symptome wie Hyperaktivität, Verträumtheit und fehlende Impulskontrolle.

Lina was a precocious toddler - charming, chatty, joyful. At the age of three, in the aftermath of her second MMR vaccine, first came a seizure, and then, to her parents’ horror, the loss of Lina’s ability to play, use language, and control her impulses. Over the next few years they continued to lose Lina. She communicated her acute discomfort by biting, screaming, hitting, laughing maniacally, and throwing violent tantrums.

It's 1950 and Mickey Tussler - the now-famous pitching prodigy with autism and a golden arm - is back for another baseball season in this third installment of Frank Nappi's critically acclaimed Legend of Mickey Tussler series. Talk of Mickey's legendary exploits on the field has grown since his improbable debut two years prior, as have the fortunes of Murph and the rest of the lovable ragtag Brew Crew. Now Mickey, Murph, and Lester find themselves heading to Bean Town to play for the Boston Braves.

La méthode suédoise ? Une égale implication des deux parents auprès de l'enfant pour un parfait équilibre dans la famille. Cecilia Chrapkowska et Agnes Wold, deux médecins suédoises, exposent pour la première fois en France les bienfaits concrets de la fameuse méthode suédoise. Des débuts de la grossesse aux premiers mois de l'enfant, les autrices expliquent comment chacun peut trouver sa place dans cette nouvelle vie et comment participer pleinement à l'éveil du nouveau-né.