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Special Needs Smart Pages

Created by Joni and Friends (DVD and CD-rom Included)

This comprehensive resource from Joni and Friends will help you meet the great need to minister to children with disabilities such as autism, physical disabilities, developmental disabilities and emotional and behavioral disorders.

It's crucial that these cherished children and their families learn about Jesus' love for them and know Him as their Savior. This indispensable guide provides the resources that will help you meet the spiritual, physical, social, and emotional needs of children with disabilities ages 4 to 12.

Children's Ministry Pocket Guide to Special Needs

Quick Tips to Reach Every Child

What are the most prevalent special needs among kids today? Find out - and discover relevant teaching techniques, plus tips for parents and other kids in the classroom! You'll learn how to identify and connect with children who have special needs, then reach them with Jesus' great love. See kids thrive in your class and grow in their relationship with Jesus!

Includes surveys and tools to guide teachers as they partner with parents - and establish action plans that work.

Autism and Your Church

Nurturing the Spiritual Growth of People with Autism Spectrum Disorders

Revised and Updated

by Barbara J. Newman

Autism and Your Church offers practical ways to welcome and include individuals with ASD into the full life of your congregation. This resource will enable church leaders to

• appreciate those with ASD as persons created in God's image.
• learn about five specific disorders included in ASD.
• discover ten strategies for including people with ASD in the life of your church.
• develop an action plan for ongoing ministry with children and adults who have autism.

A reproducible resources section includes interview and permission forms, a coordinator's job description, a sample Individual Spiritual Formation Plan, and more.

Price $28.50

Helping Kids Include Kids with Disabilities

by Barbara J. Newman

Children with special needs are part of God’s family. Like all of us, they need to experience belonging and inclusion in the community.Helping Kids Include Kids with Disabilities equips teachers, church activity leaders, and kids with the information they need to practice inclusive education in community. This book includes:

• information for understanding children with special needs
• guidelines for churches
• information about specific and general areas of impairment
• lesson plans
• letters to families
• devotions for families

Author Barbara J. Newman, an expert in the area of inclusive education for over twenty years, shares strategies to help teachers welcome kids with impairments into their classes at church or in school.

Price $25.50

Adopting the Hurt Child

Hope for Families with Special-Needs Kids

by Gregory C. Keck, Ph.D and Regina M. Kupecky, LSW

The world is full of hurting kids who suffer from emotional trauma caused by someone they should have been able to trust. It’s a pain that lasts into adulthood if not healed and resolved. It is the new face of adoption.
In this revised and updated guide to healing the emotional trauma of the adopted child, authors Gregory C. Keck and Regina M. Kupecky provide a clear picture of what it’s like to hurt and what it means to heal. Through advice, tips, and success stories of those who have been there, you’ll find valuable insight and hope.
It’s never too late for healing.

Group's Emergency Response Handbook

You want to help. But don't know how… Here are practical ways to love kids through their greatest challenges.

Amber just lost her mother to cancer. Sam's parents are divorcing – and he's torn in his loyalties. A job change in Dana's family means she has to move – immediately.

Children face emergencies, too – and shouldn't endure them alone.
When children in your care experience life's struggles, what do you say? How can you help? What if you make things worse?
This rapid-response handbook gives you and your children's ministry leaders the confidence to share God's love and comfort with hurting children – and their families.

Price $13.00

Why A.D.H.D Doesn't Mean Disaster

The Inclusive Early Childhood Classroom