Children who are medically fragile and dependent on technology can miss the opportunity to develop physically, cognitively, or socially as do other children. The tape shows Daniel who has complex medical needs as he participates at preschool in play activities with other similar children. His mother discribes the benefits of preschool. Available in DVD and VHS formats.

The focus is on the family value of inclusion in family life and in education, the differences in parents' roles in child-rearing, support from sister and friend in providing care, family attitudes toward diagnosis of autism and confronting attitudes within Latino culture toward children with special needs. Available in DVD and VHS formats.

This presentation includes all families in the Listen to Family Series with their family consultants. The consultants demonstrate strategies to engage families in conversations about their strengths as well as their problems. Available in DVD and VHS formats.

Video Guide and companion training manual identify the many tasks and responsibilities of early intervention service coordination includeing both the knowledge and personal skills fundamental to building partnerships between families and professionals. Includes: VHS, VHS Guide, and Companion Training Manual

The book and CD/ROM with video, was written and developed by early intervention specialists who have worked for over 30 years with children of all ages with learning difficulties. Based on their extensive experience they focus on the potential of children, what they can do rather than cannot do.

The Exceptional Child II explores how families feel and change in response to having children with exceptional needs. Available in DVD and VHS formats.

This book is for two often adversarial groups of people: parents and teachers. It is intended to help teachers better understand the lives of parents who are coping with the ever-changing needs of their challenged children, especially in the realm of education.

The Exceptional Child I defines the educationally exceptional child by using scenes of children and interviews to help viewers develop an understanding of the wide range of exceptionalities. Available in DVD and VHS formats.

In this lecture, including interviews with parents who have children with disabilities, Michael Trout focuses on the resources and survival skills used by families. Available in VHS format only.

This video teaches the significance of home visiting for infants and toddlers with special needs and their families, the common structure of a home visit, and the multiple factors that influence in-home early intervention services. 16 minutes.

Stanley Greenspan and Serena Wieder, authors of this book, provide a step-by-step approach to developmental challenges faced by young children and their families based on the unique profile of each child.

The focus is on family strengths, differences in child-rearing philosophy across generations, impact of drugs on family life and continuity, importance of extended family, friends, social services, and spiritual values. Available in DVD and VHS formats.

The focus is on the boy's medical condition, the attitudes of medical staff towards the family, financial difficulties, communication, and tensions over the shared responsibilities and altered priorities of the grandparents. Available in DVD and VHS formats.

The focus is on family strength and vulnerabilities, multiple caregiving demands brought on by the mother's worsening sickle cell anemia, the three-year-olds special needs and EI services, custody issues with niece, the strengths and support of the African-American family, the community and church, and the mother's hopes for the future for herself and her children. Available in DVD and VHS formats.

This program is about Mariah, a girl with Down Syndrome. Her experiences with transition into special education services and her family's support are shown in this video. Available in DVD and VHS formats.

Based on current research this set provides an intervention program for parents of preschool children who are language delayed.

This program brings ideas, answers, and possibilities for teen parents who are trying to negotiate the managed-care maze for their children with special needs. English version availale in DVD and VHS. Spanish version available in VHS format only.

In this video families talk about their experiences as their child transitions from Infant-Toddler Services to preschool and Early childhood Special Education Services. Available in DVD and VHS formats (includes: Guide - Step Ahead at Age 3)

This video follows several culturally diverse families as they negotiate their health care systems. The families learn to advocate for themselves and together with their doctors they solve problems and develop strategies for dealing with complex health care systems.

The focus is on the development of a couple bond, family-of-origin relationships and acceptance, medical and EI services, and hopes for the future. Available in DVD and VHS formats.

In this session the focus is on the parents' difficulties in making decisions for their child with speech delays when the diagnosis is uncertain or ambiguous, differences over which language to speak in the home, and financial concerns. Available in DVD and VHS formats.

The focus is on the parents' commitment to their child and their efforts to cooperate. Available in DVD and VHS formats.

The focus of this two-volume video set is on the Colton family's hopes and vision for their one-year-old daughter, Carissa, who has Down Syndrome. The interviews with family consultant Jana Staton, are one-year apart. Available in DVD and VHS formats.

In this video a group of inner city foster parents of infants who were prenatally exposed to drugs, describe the experiences they have had using infant massage with their foster children. Available in VHS and DVD.

The video describes the phases of morning and grief that parents of a child with disabilities may experience. Available in VHS format only.

The focus is on parenting roles, stress on the parents and on their relationship from caring for a medically fragile child, the needs of the older sibling, interactions with medical and EI providers, conflicts over diagnosis and treatment, and financial and future concerns. Available in DVD and VHS formats.

This video-and-guide set delivers a framework for service coordination for families who have young children or infants with disabilities or special needs. Available in DVD and VHS formats.

This tape includes unedited excerpts from conversations with 5 diverse families that demonstrate communication strategies helpful in joining with a family and building a collaborative partnership. Available in DVD and VHS formats.

This Resource Manual is for early-intervention service providers who work with young children with special needs, their families, and child-care providers. Includes: Resource Manual in Two Volumes

The presentation examines the issues facing the family and the clinician in providing sensitive intervention that addresses the problem of early identification as well as the interplay between constitutional factors and certain specifics of caregiving.

Authorities of clinical work with emotional and developmental challenges in the early years of life show how to use their systematic approach, the DIR (Developmental, Individual-Differences, Relationship-Based) model, to treat young children with emotional and developmental problems.

Supports and services for infants and toddlers with special needs are best provided in the context of a family’s everyday routines, activities, and places (also known as “natural environments”). Includes: VHS and 55-page Facilitator’s Guide.

This video examines the therapist's role as consultant to families with children who have eating problems. Includes: VHS

This 16-tape CLOSED CAPTIONED series is designed to meet the need for training early interventionists to work effectively with families. Available in DVD and VHS formats.

Examines the struggles engaged in by parents and siblings to integrate a handicapped or sick newborn into the family. Available in VHS format only.

This training package was developed to promote integration and culturally responsive ways to serve American-Indian children and their families. Available in VHS format only.

This video describes the special education services that prechoolers with special needs are entitled to by law. Includes: VHS

This video features professionals and parents describing specific techniques that have worked for them in guiding and teaching children with Asperger Syndrome in class settings that range from elementary through high school. Available: VHS and DVD

Parents are children’s first and most influential teachers. This book provides strategies for teaching the life skills children from age three through young adulthood need to live as independently as possible.

This set of booklets and accompanying video were produced to assist families in understanding the services provided in early intervention/early education programs. The video discusses the need to provide parents with appropriate written material on services and describes how the booklets can be used to support families. Languages: English and Spanish

Along with extensive coverage of genetics, heredity, pre- and postnatal development, specific disabilities, family roles, and intervention, The fifth edition of this book features new chapters on substance abuse, HIV and AIDS, Down syndrome, fragile X syndrome, behavior management, transitions to adulthood, and health care in the 21st century.

Developed to help educators and parents understand and implement inclusive practices, this video shows how to adapt regular education classrooms to fully include students with severe disabilities. Available on VHS or DVD. Languages: English and Spanish

This video details the things people with Asperger Syndrome need to do to prepare for college or to find and hold a job. Available: VHS and DVD.

Wraparound is a family-centered, strength-based philosophy of care used to guide service planning for students with or at-risk of emotional and behavioral disabilities and their families. Includes: VHS and Manual

This book offers step-by-step instructions for helping children with disabilities get the rest they need.

This video examines the potential of Individual Transition Planning for young adults with disabilities and their families. In planning for the future after high school, the video is designed to support the quest for self-determination, maximum independence, and integration into the community. Available in DVD and VHS formats.

This video and facilitator's guide builds understanding of the Individualized Family Service Plan (IFSP) process while promoting family-centered approaches to service. Available in VHS format only.

This program shows several children from different age groups who have gone through inclusion, and these success stories give teachers a positive outlook about effective inclusion practices. Includes: VHS

This is the story of two families coping with their preschool sons who carry the diagnosis of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) and developmental delay. Available in VHS format only.

This two-part video looks at an early intervention team that at first does not function well and in the second part learns how to be effective. Available in DVD and VHS formats.