Special Needs Kids Are People, Too! Benefitting From Bibliotherapy in Your Homeschool
Special Needs Kids Are People, Too!
Amy Bodkin, Ed.S. of Amy Bodkin Consulting joins The Homeschool Counseling Network podcast in episode 5 to discuss her debut release, Special Needs Kids Are People, Too!
Amy takes us on a journey with lessons in history, biology, psychology, philosophy, and faith. She challenges us to go deeper – to examine all we have learned and all we thought we knew while also inviting us to learn more and see the world and ourselves through new eyes.
Part teacher, part guide, and part fellow traveler, her book invites readers to hold a mirror up to society and themselves. Introspection, while challenging at best and painful at worst, is necessary for awareness, understanding, and growth.
Amy endears readers to look beyond labels to see the child as a person. As a fellow clinician and a homeschooling mom of a child with learning differences, I have a love/hate relationship with labels. While labels are necessary for common communication, they are terms and nothing more. They are not the sum of a person. Identity is so much more.
About the Author
Amy Bodkin, Ed.S., is a homeschooling mom, Autistic Adult, former school psychologist, public speaker, special needs advocate, and Special Needs Consultant.
Looking for more insights from Amy’s debut release, Special Needs Kids Are People, Too!? Be sure to check out episode 5 of The Homeschool Counseling Network podcast. You can listen right here on our website, watch the video on our YouTube channel, or download the audio episode from RSS.com.
What Is Bibliotherapy?
What exactly is bibliotherapy and how do we use it? Bibliotherapy is another tool for our homeschooling, parenting, and wellness toolbox.
If bibliophiles are lovers of books, I’ll bet you can guess what bibliotherapy is!
You nailed it! Using books as a medium to help facilitate the healing process in therapy.
Bibliotherapy is a form of creative arts therapy that uses literature to help you improve your life by providing information, support, and guidance through reading books and stories. Books and other written material can influence human emotions and provide wisdom, emotional connection, insight, and comfort.
Bibliotherapy: Definition, Types, Techniques, and Efficacy (verywellmind.com)
To learn more about how bibliotherapy can benefit you in your homeschool, check out our blog post here.
How It Works
At HCN, we believe in the benefits of bibliotherapy. Join us monthly in our private Facebook group as we chat with authors here to help support you in your homeschool.
Each month, HCN will choose a reading selection. The book choice will be announced at the beginning of the month in our private Facebook group. Group posts will feature author interviews for the featured month’s reading recommendation.
We hope to encourage healthy discussion and dialogue among members to offer encouragement and support. Members are also encouraged to recommend and discuss various bibliotherapy suggestions.
Author Recommendations
Do you have an author you would like to submit for consideration?
Perhaps YOU are a homeschool parent who is also an author?
Do you have some hard-earned wisdom to share with fellow homeschool parents?
How about teaching tips, personal growth stories, or words of encouragement?
Would you like to be considered as a candidate?
Then reach out and tell me a little bit about yourself!
A copy of your book must be submitted for consideration. Digital format is welcome.
Please note, this is not a book review or critique, but rather an opportunity to share your experience as a homeschool parent with other homeschool families to encourage and inspire.
Email me to submit your book for consideration: [email protected]
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Blessings,
Kimberly Bennett, LPC
Founder/CEO It’s Only Homeschooling
Founder/CEO The Homeschool Counseling Network
This website is not a professional counseling website and nothing here should be construed as professional counseling advice. Although Kimberly Bennett, LPC is a Licensed Professional Counselor, she is not your counselor, and no counselor-client relationship is established unless she has signed an agreement with you. All information provided through this website is for informational and educational purposes only.
