Alamosa Public Library

Laural Lockwood's 15-year-old son Andy is "special". She lost him once through neglect, but is determined to make up for her mistakes. When she allows Andy to attend a local church social she is terrified when the church is consumed by fire. Andy survives and saves other children as well. Initially Andy basks in the role of unlikely hero but when the suspicion of arson is cast upon Andy, Laurel must ask herself how well she really knows her son,...

Explores the rising problems of fetal alcohol effects and fetal alcohol syndrome, and discusses how the use of alcohol during pregnancy can cause severe birth defects.

A must read for prospective adoptive and foster parents as well as those already in the trenches of caring for a child affected by Fetal Alcohol Syndrome and substance abuse, early childhood trauma, abandonment, and attachment issues. This book is an eyes-wide-open look into one family's adoption journey.Kristin Berry tells her family's adoption story honestly, and does not shy away from the challenges she and her family has faced, including isolation...

Product Description: Each volume in this timely series provides essential information on a disease or disorder (including symptoms, causes, treatments and cures); presents the controversies surrounding causes, alternative treatments, and other issues; and offers first-person narratives from people coping with the disease -- either as patients, family members or caregivers. Essays are carefully edited and introduced to make them easily accessible to...

Tells how fetal alcohol spectrum disorders are diagnosed, the primary and secondary disabilities associated with FASD, and it's human cost. Addresses the in-utero effects of alcohol, including the facial, bodily, neurological, cognitive, and behavioral characteristics of FASD.