The Elephant in the Playroom ─ Ordinary Parents Write Imtimately and Honestly About Raising Kids With Special Needs

A collection of personal accounts by everyday parents of children with such developmental challenges as ADHD, Asperger's syndrome, and autism offers insight into their daily experiences, from the emotional highs and lows of raising children with special needs to their efforts to apply case-specific treatments. Reprint.

Denise Brodey is a writer with a specialty in women's wellness and parenting. Brodey is also an award-winning journalist who has written and edited for The New York Times, USA TODAY, Glamour, Fitness, SELF, O: The Oprah Magazine, People,?and Prevention. The Elephant in the Playroom (Penguin), was published in 2007, and is widely known as one of the first books to reveal life within the whirlwind of parenting a quirky child.