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Coping with Cerebral Palsy - Answers to Questions Parents Often Ask, 2nd. ed. 1993, by Jay Schleichkorn, PhD,PT.252 pp., illus., 6" x 9" paperback, ISBN 0-89079-576-2, published by Pro-Ed, Austin, TX (available from the publisher at $26.00 as item 6576) 1-800-897-3202 or click here to link to Pro-Ed's page

The publisher's 1999 catalog describes this book as follows:

"Parents of children and adults with cerebral palsy often have many questions and concerns that are not always satisfactorily answered by professionals or through the available literature. This revised and updated edition of Coping with Cerebral Palsy provides parents with answers to more than 300 questions that have been carefully researched and represents the author's 40 years of experience with parents or individuals with cerebral palsy. Information is presented in a highly readable style with medical jargon kept to a minimum for better understanding. New material is offered on causes of cerebral palsy, treatment procedures, special education, federal legislation, vocational rehabilitation, hippotherapy, rhizotomy, conductive education, augmentative and alternate communication, serial casting, mobility, sibling problems, technology, research and more."This book is available from the publisher by Pro-Ed, Austin, TX for $26.00 (as item 6576) 1-800-897-3202 or www.proedinc.com