In this lecture, including interviews with parents who have children with disabilities, Michael Trout focuses on the resources and survival skills used by families. Available in VHS format only.

The Exceptional Child II explores how families feel and change in response to having children with exceptional needs. Available in DVD and VHS formats.

Video Guide and companion training manual identify the many tasks and responsibilities of early intervention service coordination includeing both the knowledge and personal skills fundamental to building partnerships between families and professionals. Includes: VHS, VHS Guide, and Companion Training Manual

The focus is on the family value of inclusion in family life and in education, the differences in parents' roles in child-rearing, support from sister and friend in providing care, family attitudes toward diagnosis of autism and confronting attitudes within Latino culture toward children with special needs. Available in DVD and VHS formats.

This presentation includes all families in the Listen to Family Series with their family consultants. The consultants demonstrate strategies to engage families in conversations about their strengths as well as their problems. Available in DVD and VHS formats.

The Exceptional Child I defines the educationally exceptional child by using scenes of children and interviews to help viewers develop an understanding of the wide range of exceptionalities. Available in DVD and VHS formats.

This parent education program reviews the concepts of aggression, the role of parents in the socialization process, and the basic principles for understanding and changing behavior. Specific strategies are offered for responding to defiance and aggression and teaching pro-social behavior. Available in DVD and VHS formats.

The focus of this two-volume video set is on the Colton family's hopes and vision for their one-year-old daughter, Carissa, who has Down Syndrome. The interviews with family consultant Jana Staton, are one-year apart. Available in DVD and VHS formats.

The video describes the phases of morning and grief that parents of a child with disabilities may experience. Available in VHS format only.

This video presents parents with special needs/ mental retardation who demonstrate how to make a home safe for children. Available in DVD and VHS formats.

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This video offers methods of assessing and evaluating the relationship between babies and their parents. Available in VHS format only.

Based on current research this set provides an intervention program for parents of preschool children who are language delayed.

The purpose of this tape is to promote discussion with parents with special needs/mental retardation that will result in increased understanding of the difficult issues of disciplining their young children. Available in DVD and VHS formats.

This program brings ideas, answers, and possibilities for teen parents who are trying to negotiate the managed-care maze for their children with special needs. English version availale in DVD and VHS. Spanish version available in VHS format only.

The focus is on the parents' commitment to their child and their efforts to cooperate. Available in DVD and VHS formats.

This tape includes unedited excerpts from conversations with 5 diverse families that demonstrate communication strategies helpful in joining with a family and building a collaborative partnership. Available in DVD and VHS formats.

This video resource was developed to help parents of premature babies, and neonatal medical staff, understand infant behavior and development in the intensive-care nursery. Available in DVD and VHS formats.

In this session the focus is on the parents' difficulties in making decisions for their child with speech delays when the diagnosis is uncertain or ambiguous, differences over which language to speak in the home, and financial concerns. Available in DVD and VHS formats.

This video illustrates how professionals can provide support, information, resources, and follow-up when sharing difficult news to parents of children with special needs. Available in DVD and VHS formats.

This video follows several culturally diverse families as they negotiate their health care systems. The families learn to advocate for themselves and together with their doctors they solve problems and develop strategies for dealing with complex health care systems.

The focus is on the boy's medical condition, the attitudes of medical staff towards the family, financial difficulties, communication, and tensions over the shared responsibilities and altered priorities of the grandparents. Available in DVD and VHS formats.

The focus is on family strength and vulnerabilities, multiple caregiving demands brought on by the mother's worsening sickle cell anemia, the three-year-olds special needs and EI services, custody issues with niece, the strengths and support of the African-American family, the community and church, and the mother's hopes for the future for herself and her children. Available in DVD and VHS formats.

The focus is on family strengths, differences in child-rearing philosophy across generations, impact of drugs on family life and continuity, importance of extended family, friends, social services, and spiritual values. Available in DVD and VHS formats.

The focus is on parenting roles, stress on the parents and on their relationship from caring for a medically fragile child, the needs of the older sibling, interactions with medical and EI providers, conflicts over diagnosis and treatment, and financial and future concerns. Available in DVD and VHS formats.

The focus is on the development of a couple bond, family-of-origin relationships and acceptance, medical and EI services, and hopes for the future. Available in DVD and VHS formats.

Examines the struggles engaged in by parents and siblings to integrate a handicapped or sick newborn into the family. Available in VHS format only.

This parent education program was developed for low-income parents and other parents of young infants. Topics covered are presented at a fifth-grade level. Available in DVD and VHS formats.

This video looks at the benefits of collaboration between parents with special needs/ mental retardation, their children, and the professionals that work with them. Available in DVD and VHS formats.

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The purpose of this tape is to engage parents in discussions that will result in increased understanding of the most effective ways of communicating with professionals. Available in DVD and VHS formats.

This video series and discussion leader's manuals were designed to be used by staff who serve families in which children age birth to three years are at established, biological or environmental risk and have parents with special needs/mental retardation. Available in DVD and VHS formats.

This video-and-guide set delivers a framework for service coordination for families who have young children or infants with disabilities or special needs. Available in DVD and VHS formats.

This video examines the therapist's role as consultant to families with children who have eating problems. Includes: VHS

This book examines the origins, development, outcomes, and treatment of aggression and antisocial behavior in youth, a serious problem in contemporary society.

This video paints a dramatic picture of the wrong way to discipline kids and gives clear, practical ideas on a better way. Includes: VHS

This video examines the homes and lives of six parents who have various types of developmental disabilities. Includes: VHS

Parents are children’s first and most influential teachers. This book provides strategies for teaching the life skills children from age three through young adulthood need to live as independently as possible.

This 16-tape CLOSED CAPTIONED series is designed to meet the need for training early interventionists to work effectively with families. Available in DVD and VHS formats.

This training package was developed to promote integration and culturally responsive ways to serve American-Indian children and their families. Available in VHS format only.

With the birth of a second child, parents suddenly find themselves confronted with classic sibling problems. Includes: VHS

Based on the original research of Drs Stella Chess and Alexander Thomas, this series of four videos was developed to introduce parents to the temperament approach of understanding the behavior of young children. Choose from DVD and VHS formats.

This video examines the potential of Individual Transition Planning for young adults with disabilities and their families. In planning for the future after high school, the video is designed to support the quest for self-determination, maximum independence, and integration into the community. Available in DVD and VHS formats.

In this video thirteen children, ranging in age from six to seventeen, talk about the impact television has on their lives. Includes: VHS

A video for parents of new siblings featuring two child-care experts, Dr Brenda Wade and Dr Glen Aylward. Available on DVD.

Along with extensive coverage of genetics, heredity, pre- and postnatal development, specific disabilities, family roles, and intervention, The fifth edition of this book features new chapters on substance abuse, HIV and AIDS, Down syndrome, fragile X syndrome, behavior management, transitions to adulthood, and health care in the 21st century.

This video and facilitator's guide builds understanding of the Individualized Family Service Plan (IFSP) process while promoting family-centered approaches to service. Available in VHS format only.

Fatherhood USA goes beyond the popular media stereotypes of “deadbeat” dads and househusbands to provide an intimate glimpse into the lives of a racially and economically diverse group of fathers who are trying to be good fathers. Includes: Manual, 3 VHS tapes

This video focuses on alternatives to shaking and hitting infants, toddlers, and preschoolers. Featuring black, white, and Hispanic families, five scenes are portrayed that represent the major causes of injuries to children by their parents. Available on VHS or DVD.

This book offers step-by-step instructions for helping children with disabilities get the rest they need.

This award-winning book shares valuable information about emotional management, managing challenging behavior of children, handling depression, and methods of encouraging children to succeed academically.

This is the story of two families coping with their preschool sons who carry the diagnosis of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) and developmental delay. Available in VHS format only.