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The Sibling SLAM Book: What It’s REALLY Like To Have A Brother Or Sister With Special Needs
edited by Don Meyer

Woodbine House, 2005. Softcover, 152 pages, $15.95

 

Sibling relationships, especially during the teenage years, can often be emotionally charged, but what happens when one sibling is a brother or sister with special needs? At times, sibs of special needs individuals feel left out and isolated with no one who understands their situation. -- until Don Meyer came along, that is. In The Sibling SLAM Book: What It's REALLY Like To Have A Brother Or Sister With Special Needs, Meyer, Director of the Sibling Support Project of the ARC, presents the thoughts of eighty such teens as they answer over fifty questions about life with a special needs sibling. The slam book format allows for realistic, honest, and age-appropriate answers. This is one of the best and most user-friendly books Disability Resources has come across in the growing field of "sib books.".

 

-Reviewed by Sally Rosenthal

 

 

About the reviewer: Contributing Editor, Disability Resources Online. A former college librarian and occupational therapist, Sally Rosenthal is a regular contributor to many publications about animals and disabilities.