Step-by-Step Parenting Program© Manual: Basic Child-care, Health, Safety, and Parent-child Interactions for Parents and Caregivers of Children Zero-Three years of Age (2nd Edition)
This manual has been developed to assist parent educators in assessing and teaching child-care skills to parents with learning differences who have newborns, infants, and toddlers. The Step-by-Step Parenting manual has sections both for parent educators and for parents. It covers parenting skills related to: newborn care, feeding, nutrition, diapering, bathing, crib and sleep safety, home safety and first aid, parent-child interactions, problem-solving, and several other skills related to child health, safety, cleanliness, and development.
The Step-by-Step Parenting Program© manual includes step-by-step checklists for over 60 specific skills and corresponding picture books for over 25 of these skills. The Step-By-Step Parenting Program© curriculum has been extensively reviewed and revised by both pediatric health-care practitioners and the parents, themselves. The Step-by-Step materials can be used by the parents as self-instructional aides or as part of a comprehensive parent education program.
The Family Game Manual: Building Parent-Child Rapport and Child Cooperation (3rd Edition)
The Family Game is a fun way to teach parents with learning difficulties to increase positive rapport with their preschool and school age children and to use noncorporal positive behavior support strategies to increase child cooperation and other appropriate behaviors. The Family Game manual is divided into two training sections: Building Rapport and Increasing Child Cooperation.
Skills taught in the Building Rapport section include: giving attention and choices, engagement, responsivity and empathy. Skills taught in the Child Cooperation section include: giving clear instructions, when to praise, when not to praise and correction for non-cooperation.
The Family Game can be conducted with couples and groups of up to eight parents. The Family Game is suited for center-based programs, but can also be conducted in the parents’ homes.
Comprehensive Competence-Based Parenting Assessment for Parents with Learning Difficulties and Their Children (Maurice Feldman & Marjorie Aunos)
This book, originally published by NADD Press but now available from Dr. Feldman, presents a timely, innovative, empirically-supported approach to assessing parenting capacity of parents with learning difficulties that can lead to more humane, fair and accurate child custody decisions. Many professionals working with these families recognize that current parenting capacity assessment approaches are based on outdated and invalid assumptions and methods. This book addresses the unique assessment needs of these families, and includes detailed background information, rationales and methods. After a comprehensive literature review, the authors provide a theoretical interactional model underlying their assessment approach. The remainder of the book is devoted to a detailed description of the comprehensive, competence-based parenting capacity assessment method and includes many examples and two case studies. This book is an indispensable resource for all professionals involved with parents who have learning difficulties and their children.
