Be Your Child's Best Advocate

About the Book

Be Your Child's Best Advocate helps parents understand and accept what is preventing their child from performing and interacting successfully in school and in social situations. This book is intended to be a voice of encouragement and direction to the parents who have not yet found the courage or the connections to get help and support and for those parents who want to improve their effectiveness in getting the right help for their child. Each of the 100 strategies in the book is designed to help the reader deal with a particular problem. Ideas that have worked for parents are featured in “One Family’s Experience,” first-person accounts that accompany many strategies. Additional selected resources including videos, organizations, or books that provide more in-depth information on a particular topic will be featured for most of the strategies.

About the Author

Peggy Schmidt is the author of six books, including The Book of My Healing: 150 tk (Hyperion, 2000). She is also a book producer. Her company, New Century Communications, has produced the 14-book series, Careers Without College (Peterson’s) and the six-book Child Magazine Parenting Series (Pocket Books). She writes a weekly column, “Your New Job,” for The Boston Herald. Schmidt has written for The New York Times, The Atlanta Constitution-Journal, Glamour, New Woman, Child, and Working Woman. She is a member of the board of trustees of the Charles Armstrong School, which serves dyslexic learners.