Step-by-Step Parenting Program^© Manual for Parent Educators Supporting Parents with Learning Difficulties (3rd Edition)

This manual has been developed to assist parent educators in assessing and teaching child-care skills to parents with learning differences. While the focus is on supporting parents who have newborns, infants, toddlers, and preschoolers, aspects of the program can be applied to parents with older children. The program can also be used with expectant parents. The Step-by-Step Parenting Program^© 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, development, and behavior.

The Step-by-Step Parenting Program© manual includes step-by-step checklists for over 100 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.

Note that this manual is available only to participants of Dr. Feldman’s 3-day training in the Step-by-Step Parenting Program.

To obtain more information about this manual, please contact Prof. Maurice Feldman, by email at: [email protected].

The Family Game: Enhancing Child Cooperation and Parent-Child Rapport in Parents with Learning Problems (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: Increasing Child Cooperation and Building Parent-Child Rapport.

Skills taught in the Child Cooperation section include: giving clear instructions, when to praise, when not to praise and correction for non-cooperation.

Skills taught in the Building Rapport section include: giving attention and choices, engagement, responsivity and empathy.

The Family Game can be conducted with couples and groups of up to six parents. The Family Game is suited for center-based programs, but can also be conducted in the parents’ homes.

Note that this manual is available only to participants of Dr. Feldman’s 3-day training in the Step-by-Step Parenting Program or one-day training just on The Family Game.

To obtain more information about this manual, please contact Prof. Maurice Feldman, by email at: [email protected]

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 as a free-of-charge e-book with an updated (2020) literature review, 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.

To obtain more information about this manual, please contact Prof. Maurice Feldman, by email at: [email protected]