Student Support Services Resources

Parent Education Network: http://www.parentseducationnetwork.org/. The San Francisco-based Parent Education Network is a coalition of parents collaborating with educators, students, and the community to empower and bring academic success to students with learning and attention difficulties. PEN brings locally and nationally renowned experts to speak to parents throughout the school year.

Berkeley Parents Network: http://parents.berkely.edu. This site offers an email network for parents in the San Francisco Bay Area.

Smart Kids with Learning Disabilities: http://smartkidswithld.org. This parent-friendly site provides a look at the diagnosis of a learning difference with quick links to descriptions of various learning challenges.

Sensory Processing Information: SPD Foundation (www.spdfoundation.net)

National Center for Learning Disabilities: http://ncld.org/. This site provides background and support information for parents and educators on a variety of learning differences and disabilities.

Learning Disabilities Online: http://www.ldonline.org. This comprehensive site provides information, support, and strategies for parents, educators, and children.

National Institute of Mental Health: http://www.nimh.gov/index.shtml. This site provides research, support, and contacts for a variety of mental health issues.

International Dyslexia Association: http://interdys.org/. This comprehensive site offers information on language-based learning disorders, including dyslexia.

The Yale Center for Dyslexia and Creativity: http://www.dyslexia.yale.edu. This site provides information about the strengths and challenges of a dyslexic mind.

Children and Adults With Attention Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder: http://chadd.org. This site provides information for parents and professionals working with children and adults with attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder.

Anxiety: www.anxietybc.com. This site provides a wide range of resources for parents and caregivers.

Girls Leadership: https://girlsleadership.org/

Kids Health: https://kidshealth.org/

Child Mind Institute: https://childmind.org/

• Kastner’s Getting to Calm
• Nelsen’s Positive Discipline for Teenagers
• Riera’s Uncommon Sense for Parents and Teenagers and Right from Wrong: Instilling a Sense of Integrity in Your Child
• Siegel’s Brainstorm The Power and Purpose of the Teenage Brain
• Untangled:Guiding Teenage Girls Through the Seven Transitions Into Adulthood by Lisa Damour

• Cohen’s The Opposite of Worry
• Chansky’s Freeing Your Child from Anxiety
• Wagner’s Worried No More
• Albano’s You and Your Anxious Child
• Anxious Kids Anxious Parents, 7 Ways to Stop the Worry Cycle and Raise Courageous & Independent Children by Reid Wilson, Ph.D and Lynn Lyons, LICSW
• Helping Your Anxious Teen: Positive Parenting Strategies to Help Your Teen Beat Anxiety, Stress and Worry by Sheila Achar Josephs, PhD

• Flick’s ADD/ADHD Behavior-Change Resource Kit
• Greenspan’s Overcoming ADHD: Helping Your Child Become Calm, Engaged and Focused Without A Pill
• Hallowell’s Driven to Distraction and Delivered from Distraction
• Hallowell’s Superparenting for ADD
• Honos-Webb’s The ADHD Workbook for Teens: Activities to Help Gain Motivation and Confidence

• Thompson’s Best Friends, Worst Enemies
• Wiseman’s Queen Bees and Wannabes
• Elman’s The Unwritten Rules of Friendship: Simple Stratgies to Help Your Child Make Friends

• Shaywitz’s Overcoming Dyslexia
• Sensory Integration
• Kranowitz’s The Out-of-Sync Child
• Miller’s Sensational Kids
• Eide’s The Dyslexia Advantage: Unlocking the Hidden Potential of the Dyslexic Brain
• Delisle’s and Galbraith’s When Gifted Kids Don’t Have All the Answers: How to Meet Their Social and Emotional Needs
• Hallowell’s and Mooney’s Learning Outside the Lines : Two Ivy League Students with Learning Disabilities and ADHD Give You the Tools for Academic Success and Educational Revolution
• Homayoun’s That Crumpled Paper Was Due Last Week: Helping Disorganized and Distracted Boys Succeed in School and Life

• Bronson’s Nurture Shock
• Teach Your Children Well: Parenting for Authentic Success (Madeline Levine, Ph.D.)
• Mogel’s Blessing of the Skinned Knee and Blessing of the B-Minus
• Thompson’s The Pressured Child
• Weissbourd’s The Parents We Mean To Be
• Wood’s Yardsticks
• Senior’s All Joy and No Fun: The Paradox of Modern Parenting
• How to Raise an Adult: Break Free of the Overparenting Trap and Prepare Your Kid for Success by Julie Lythcott-Haims
• The Me, Me, Me Epidemic by Amy McCready
• The Conscious Parent by Shefali Tsabary, PhD
• The Whole Brain Child: 12 Revolutionary Strategies to Nurture Your Child's Developing Mind, by Daniel J. Siegel and Tina Payne Bryson

• Hannibal’s Good Parenting Through Your Divorce
• Ricci’s Mom’s House, Dad’s House
• Whittmann’s Custody Chaos, Personal Peace
• Wolf’s Why did You Have to Get a Divorce?
• Talking to Children about Divorce by Jean McBride, MFT

• Kronwitz’s The Out of Sync Child- Recognizing and Coping With Sensory Processing Disorder

• Hafner’s From Diapers to Dating
• Rothman’s Sex and Sensibility
• For Goodness Sex: Changing the way we talk to teens about sexuality, values, and health by Al Vernacchio

• Faber’s and Mazlish’s Siblings Without Rivalry- How to Help Your Children Live Together So You Can Live Too
• Peaceful Parent, Happy Siblings by Dr. Laura Markam

Boys:

• Kindlon and Thompson's Raising Cain
• Pollack's Real Boys
• Masterminds and Wingmen: Helping Our Boys Cope with Schoolyard Power, Lockerroom Tests, Girlfriends, and the New Rules of Boy World by Rosalind Wiseman
• Speaking of Boys by Michael Thompson PhD

Girls:

• Hartley-Brewer's Raising Confident Girls
• Homayoun’s The Myth of the Perfect Girl-Helping Our Daughters Find Authentic Success and Happiness in School
• Curse of the Good Girl by Rachel Simmons