This important handbook of 600 pages provides the latest research and practical knowledge about a broad range of disorders with a genetic component that effect children’s learning, behavior and development.
The handbook demonstrates the difference that well-planned interventions and accommodations can make in the health and functioning of children with mild to severe neurodevelopmental impairment. Chapters offer indepth discussions of common disorders as well as numerous, less frequently encountered, conditions.
Current research on etiologies is reviewed. Neurodevelopmental, psychosocial, and medical implications are considered and practical strategies are provided for assessment and clinical management.
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Books
This is an authoritative text for parents. It presents a common sense approach to understanding and negotiating the medical and non-medical maze of evaluation and treatment and, most importantly, successfully managing problems in children with ADHD.
This text provides parents with accurate, up-to-date, scientifically valid information concerning this common and complex disorder of childhood.
Comprehensive and user friendly, this book uses the same straightforward steps as the popular first edition. First, a teacher, parent, or school psychologist completes the detailed questionnaire to pinpoint student strengths and needs then the Building Blocks model targets ten factors and abilities related to school success and gives teachers practical strategies for helping students succeed. Within this revised edition, pre and in-service educators will keep up with the current research, address a broad age range, address their understanding of how to help students with behavior challenges, as well as helping students with academic and emotional difficulties. This expanded volume of 500 pages comprehensively reviews all of the academic and behavioral curricula currently available.
This text defines depression in straightforward terms and explains how to tell whether a child or adolescent is depressed. The text discusses the causes of depression and examines treatment options with an eye toward helping parents decide which treatment, or combination of treatments - medical, psychological and environmental - might be most beneficial for a depressed youngster.
Detailed information is provided about what parents and teachers can do to help depressed youngsters at home, in school and in the community.
This 500 page publication sets a new standard and marks a turning point in the understanding, evaluation and treatment of the impact childhood learning, attention and behavioral problems have on adjustment in the adult years.
The text begins with a thorough, scholarly overview of childhood and adolescent literature dealing with learning and attention problems. Comorbid issues are reviewed indepth. Following chapters then provide an up-to-date review of learning disabilities and attention problems in adulthood.
