Book: Empowering Your Child Who Has Special Needs by Debbie Salter Goodwin
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Parents raising a child with special needs want to equip their child with the skills and abilities necessary to live the most independent life possible. But actually accomplishing this can be difficult. Learning to empower a child with strength, dignity, responsibility, and independence is a daunting task for parents struggling to understand and cope with the special needs of their child.

Empowering Your Child Who Has Special Needs helps parents identify enabling or guilt-based attitudes and actions that trap the child and themselves in unhealthy co-dependencies. As the mother of a daughter with special needs, Debbie understands first-hand the struggles and frustration that come with this unexpected responsibility. Based on the belief that God's truth is a freeing reality, Goodwin develops empowering strategies to help parents actualize God's plan for them and their child. Make the journey to discover how God's plan will "give you hope and a future."


Introduction 11
Something to Live With 13
Something to Grieve 31
Balancing Family Needs 55
Surviving School 77
Negotiating the Medical Maze 101
Finding Help 119
Empowering Prayer 141
Flying Lessons 161
Appendix 181
How to Start a Faith-Based Support Group 181
Tips for Running a Faith-Based Support Group 182
Starting a Special-needs Ministry 184
Ways to Prepare Your Church for a
Special-needs Ministry 186