A Time to Grieve

About the Book

A Time to Grieve Parent Grief for Handicapped Children When a child is born into a family, there are high expectations of life, love, and happiness. If the child is born with handicapping conditions, those dreams come crashing to the ground. How and if a parent survives this trauma depends on how he or she handles the grief. This book sets out to carry the parent on that journey of grief, pain, anger, and hopelessness with enough information to survive and come out whole for the benefit of the parent, child, and family. Until now, very little has been written on this “unending grief.”

About the Author

Ben Davidson is a former Marine Corps drill instructor, Air Force communications specialist, and speech/language pathologist. He holds a B.S.Ed. degree from Abilene Christian University and an M.A. degree from California State University, Long Beach. He worked as a speech/language pathologist and infant habilitation specialist for forty-one years. He directed one of the first projects in Texas to serve severe and multiply handicapped children while working at the West Texas Rehabilitation Center. Now retired, he and his wife, Grace, live in Robert Lee, Texas.