The resources below are from members of our community. We’d love your input as well. If you have a great parenting book to recommend or more specific recommendations for specialists or services, please email miladrumke@littlepro.com to have your entry added to the list.

 

PARENTING, GENERAL

  1. Becoming the Parent You Want to Be: A Sourcebook of Strategies for the First Five Years, by Laura Davis and Janis Keyser
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  3. How to Talk So Kids Will Listen and Listen So Kids Will Talk, by Adele Faber and Elaine Mazlish
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  5. The Magic Years: Understanding and Handling the Problems of Early Childhood, by Selma Fraiberg
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  7. Siblings without Rivalry, by Adele Faber and Elaine Mazlish
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EARLY CHILDHOOD DEVELOPMENT

  1. The Way of Boys, by Anthony Rao, Ph.D.
    “Dr Anthony Rao challenges some of the potentially harmful assumptions, attitudes and behaviors we’ve developed toward young boyhood over the last few decades. The Way of Boys is a celebration of natural, constructive boyhood development and an expert, definitive handbook on what to look for and expect in normal growth.”

 

MENTAL HEALTH

  1. Child Mind Institute
    The Child Mind Institute is dedicated to transforming mental health care for children everywhere. Founded by Dr. Harold S. Koplewicz and Brooke Garber Neidich, our organization is committed to finding more effective treatments for childhood psychiatric and learning disorders, building the science of healthy brain development, and empowering children and their families with help, hope, and answers. The Child Mind Institute does not accept funding from the pharmaceutical industry.

 

SPECIAL NEEDS (GENERAL)

  1. Advocates for Children of New York
    Advocates for Children of New York works on behalf of children who are at greatest risk for school-based discrimination and/or academic failure due to poverty, disability, race, ethnicity, immigrant or English Language Learner status, sexual orientation, gender identity, homelessness, or involvement in the foster care or juvenile justice systems.
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  3. Rivendell
    277 Third Avenue between President and Carroll Streets
    718-499-5667
    Rivendell provides the whole gamut of free evaluations for preschoolers, home and school services, and a host of other programs for kids with special needs. Also houses a well-equipped sensory gym staffed by top-notch, deeply committed therapists.

 

SENSORY PROCESSING

  1. The Out of Sync Child, by Carol Stock Kranowitz
    Now revised and updated, this “parents’ bible to sensory processing disorder ” (New York Times) features additional information from recent research on vision and hearing deficits, motor skills problems, ADHA, autism, and other related disorders.
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  3. “Sensory Processing Issues Explained: Tantrums, Clumsiness, ‘Immaturity’ All Could Point to Problems Taking in the World” by Beth Arky for Child Mind Institute
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  5. Raising a Sensory Smart Child, By Lindsey Biel, OTR/L and Nancy Peske
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  7. Rivendell (Sensory Gym)
    277 Third Avenue between President and Carroll Streets
    718-499-5667
    Rivendell houses a well-equipped sensory gym staffed by top-notch, deeply committed therapists.
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  9. Synchrony Therapy (Sensory Gym)
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  11. Run, Jump, Roll, Gowanus (Sensory Gym)
    433 Third Avenue Suite 2 between 7th and 8th Streets
    347-227-7748
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