"This morning, after just two days of practicing these techniques, my ADHD daughter woke up, got dressed, made her bed, made breakfast and brushed her teeth! And I did the "Talk Through" just once. Noël is a genius."
-Kristen S.
"Noel Janis-Norton’s approach blends some of the best aspects of developmental psychology with positive behavioral strategies. When parents use Noël’s techniques, they see their children developing better habits. Then a sort of conversion happens in which the parents of children with special needs see that they can have higher expectations for their children, and that becomes self-fulfilling.”
-Andrea Davis, PhD., Clinical Psychologist, Pasadena, California
Just Released - Special Needs 5- CD Set:
In Bringing out the Best in Children and Teens with Special Needs, Noël Janis-Norton shares specific, detailed, positive, strategies for improvement. One very powerful strategy that Noël explains is “Descriptive Praise.” Read how Noël used descriptive praise to help an impulsive and highly physical child:
Several years ago, I did an in-home consultation with a family whose son had multiple diagnoses. The parents were worried about his aggression and occasional violence, his extreme impulsivity and his recklessness and risk taking. They wanted to know what they could do to help him because what they’d been doing, which was spanking, was making it worse. While I was at their home, he became very angry that I was coaching the parents to follow through on something. He raised his hand to hit me, and in the split second when he hesitated, I quickly praised him by saying: “You’re so angry, but you’re controlling yourself. You’re not hitting.” The boy’s arm slowly came down, and his whole mood changed. He became much friendlier and more willing and more relaxed. Because of this little boy’s almost constant impulsive misbehavior, he had never before in his life been praised for self-control. That one Descriptive Praise started to change how he saw himself. And because the parents continued to put the Calmer, Easier, Happier Parenting Foundation Skills into practice, he’s been able to thrive in mainstream school, he’s almost caught up academically, and he is learning social skills that are enabling him to make and keep friends.
-Noel Janis-Norton
Does your child have learning difficulties?
Have you been told your child has dyslexia, dyspraxia, attention deficit disorder, social communication or language problems, sensory integration issues, Asperger’s syndrome, autistic spectrum disorder, or other neurological diagnosis?
Does your child seem overly sensitive, intense or emotional?
Parenting children and teens with special needs is rewarding, challenging, and often overwhelming. You need a set of skills to bring out their best and help you stay calm.
Noël Janis-Norton’s Bringing out the Best in Children and Teens with Special Needs CD set offers specific strategies that parents and teachers will be able to use right away to improve behavior, confidence, self-reliance and learning.
There is a huge range of possible diagnoses – and new ones are being identified every year as brain research reveals more and more about typical and atypical neurological functioning.
These many different conditions, ranging from the autistic spectrum to attention deficit, ODD, and other behavioral and developmental issues, all share various degrees of learning difficulties.
Learning difficulties affect every aspect of a child’s life – not just schooling. Even mild learning difficulties affect behavior, attention span, social skills, leisure activities, and ultimately self-esteem.
Parenting is never easy, and raising a child with special needs brings additional challenges for the whole family. There’s so much to learn and decide, and you may frequently wonder if you’re doing the right thing.
Bringing out the Best in Children and Teens with Special Needs will give you specific skills to help your child learn better habits, and help you feel calmer and more confident on this parenting journey. The new skills you gain will enable you to teach and train your child with special needs to become more flexible, more competent, and more self-reliant.
Parents tend to blame themselves when things aren’t going well. Parenting problems are usually not about you. They’re more about what you’re doing or not doing. These CDs will give you specific strategies that you can use immediately to improve things.
As you know, there are many different diagnoses – and different professionals can evaluate the same child and disagree on the diagnosis, just as very different children may receive the same diagnosis.
Bringing out the Best in Children and Teens with Special Needs focuses on characteristics of the problem instead of diagnoses. That is the information we need in order to figure out what to do about it. Read on to see if any of the following characteristics apply to your child.
It is helpful to think of problems as either primary or secondary.
Primary (caused by nature) problems are the direct result of some specific neurological dysfunction or of an inborn temperament which is extremely sensitive, intense, impulsive inflexible and emotionally immature.
Secondary (caused by nurture) problems are caused by the environment of home, school, and the wider world.
You may have observed that primary problems that are relatively mild can lead to secondary problems that are severe. For example, a child with relatively poor fine motor skills may find writing so difficult and frustrating that she becomes less and less willing to write and eventually refuses to even pick up a pencil. She can end up failing a subject that she’s actually quite good at because she isn’t turning in the homework assignments.
Common Primary Problems include:
Common Secondary Problems include:
In these CDs, you will learn how to use descriptive praise and the other Calmer, Easier, Happier Parenting foundation skills to rapidly improve your child’s:
Bringing out the Best in Children and Teens with Special Needs is a five CD set. Noël Janis-Norton provides an in-depth explanation of:
Disc #5 is entirely filled with stories from parents and professionals describing how they’ve put these strategies to use. Your understanding of the strategies will be enhanced by hearing how others have applied them. You’ll hear six chapters:
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