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Learn how to thrive, not just survive, the special needs parenting journey, with encouragement and guidance that can easily be incorporated into daily life.
Embracing Another Normal: Resilience Stories and Strategies for Raising Children with Disabilities combines reflections, research, and insightful storytelling to support parents, educators, and others entrenched in the complex world of raising children with disabilities. It integrates the deep expertise of Kris Burbank, thought leader and parenting coach, and the wisdom and insights of Dr. Linda Hoopes, award-winning author and researcher on personal resilience. The authors provide a framework for navigating six fundamental challenges of raising children with disabilities and connect successful strategies to the key building blocks of resilience. They share intimate examples of how to thrive, not just survive, the special needs parenting journey and offer encouragement and guidance that readers can easily incorporate into daily life.
A Q&A session will follow the talk.
Kris Burbank is a certified leadership coach, published thought leader, and passionate advocate for families with disabilities. The mother of three adult children, including one with cerebral palsy, Kris has spent nearly three decades helping parents, organizations, and communities support individuals with disabilities to reach their full potential and create lives of meaning and potential.
Dr. Linda Hoopes is a psychologist, award-winning writer, and leader of a global resilience community of practice. She has spent more than thirty years studying resilience, change, and well-being. In addition to co-authoring and publishing the Six Challenges series, she is the author of Prosilience: Building Your Resilience for a Turbulent World and Managing Change with Personal Resilience.
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* Presented by Adult Services
AGE GROUP: | Ages 19+ |
EVENT TYPE: | Raising Resilience | Health & Wellness | Author Talk |
Mon, Apr 29 | 9:00AM to 9:00PM |
Tue, Apr 30 | 9:00AM to 9:00PM |
Wed, May 01 | 9:00AM to 9:00PM |
Thu, May 02 | 9:00AM to 9:00PM |
Fri, May 03 | 9:00AM to 9:00PM |
Sat, May 04 | 9:00AM to 9:00PM |
Sun, May 05 | 9:00AM to 9:00PM |
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