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A handy guidebook to navigating the world of raising a child with a disability - in the author's own words "in a way that a Lonely Planet Guidebook is about navigating a visit to Paris".

The author, a journalist, has offered to share her journals, her insights and some handy interviews with other parents about her life experiences of raising her son Arlo following his diagnosis of quadriplegic cerebral palsy at 9 months old. Her own frustrations at the social worker handing her a children's book about a girl in a wheelchair and a dusty DVD about cerebral palsy and the "complete lack of inspiration" that was involved, led her to write this funny memoir / self help guide

Very relevant for parents with kids anywhere on the spectrum outside of "perfectly normal and healthy"

Melanie Dimmet keeps it real.
One I will go back to when we are struggling

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