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Understanding specific learning difficulties
- Author:
- PRIOR Margot
- Publisher:
- Psychology Press
- Publication year:
- 1996
- Pagination:
- 191p.,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- Hove
Presents current knowledge on the nature, causes, characteristics, correlates and treatment of specific learning difficulties. Describes and explains reading, spelling, and mathematical difficulties; provides information on psychological and neuropsychological assessments; explains the associations between behavioural problems and learning difficulties; and critically reviews remedial approaches.
Incoherent self-narratives and disorders of the self in children with learning disabilities
- Author:
- PALOMBO Joseph
- Journal article citation:
- Smith College Studies in Social Work, 64(2), March 1994, pp.129-152.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
- Place of publication:
- Philadelphia, USA
Educators currently are giving considerable attention to the diagnosis and remediation of children with learning disabilities. The integration into clinical social work of this body of knowledge and experience presents a major challenge. Reviews the major paradigms of learning disabilities, and discuss those psychoanalytic developmental theories that have attempted to integrate the concept of neurocognitive differences in endowment into their frameworks.
Tourette syndrome: a practical guide for teachers, parents and carers
- Authors:
- CARROLL Amber, ROBERTSON Mary
- Publisher:
- David Fulton
- Publication year:
- 2000
- Pagination:
- 96p.,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- London
Discusses Tourette's Syndrome, with particular reference to supporting children in school. Describes the clinical characteristics of the syndrome; comorbid conditions; differential diagnosis; management and treatment; supporting the child with Tourette's in personal development and in relationships; and inclusive education for children with Tourette's.
Services for children with learning disability: international perspectives on residential child care
- Editor:
- BARLOW Gerald
- Publisher:
- University of Strathclyde. Centre for Residential Child Care
- Publication year:
- 1999
- Pagination:
- 50p.,bibliogs.
- Place of publication:
- Glasgow
Includes papers on: services for children with learning difficulties; between the ideal and the reality; exploring the relationship of the child educator; the Camphill Diploma Course in Curative Education; respite care in the Ottawa Rotary Home; a holistic approach at the Linn Moor Special Residential School; twenty two years of residential care for special needs children; education, care and therapy at the St. Margaret's School; the network family programme in Tasmania; and putting the concept of quality of care into operation.
Don't count me out: the exclusion of children with a learning disability from education because of health needs
- Author:
- ROYAL SOCIETY FOR MENTALLY HANDICAPPED CHILDREN AND ADULTS
- Publisher:
- Mencap
- Publication year:
- 1999
- Pagination:
- 24p.
- Place of publication:
- London
Based on a survey of families, this report discusses how the health needs of children with learning disabilities affects their access to schooling. Looks at how the current system fails and argues that this is due to the failure of health and education authorities to work together at local level. Discusses the impact of this failure on children and families. Describes the legal position on these issues. Examines the roles and responsibilities of the agencies concerned. Ends with recommendations for future practice.
The legal context of practice 1: consent to treatment
- Author:
- -
- Journal article citation:
- Mental Health Care, 1(5), January 1998, pp.171-174.
- Publisher:
- Pavilion
This first unit in the journal's bi-monthly 'Directions' professional development and continuing education series explores aspects of the law relating to mental health and learning disability nursing practice. This unit looks specifically at the laws governing consent to treatment.
Collaboration between teachers and speech and language therapists working with children with severe learning disabilities (SLD): implications for professional development
- Authors:
- KERSNER Myra, WRIGHT Jannet A.
- Journal article citation:
- British Journal of Learning Disabilities, 24(1), 1996, pp.33-37.
- Publisher:
- Wiley
Looks at the effect of the exchange of information on the collaborative working practices of teachers and speech and language therapists who work together with children who have communication problems and severe learning disabilities. Examines whether this exchange was affected if the teachers and therapists were perceived as being 'specialists' in the field of severe learning disabilities. The research addresses the issues of knowledge and skills gained, the type of information exchanged and the ways in which this may affect the nature of the collaborative process.
What do parents want?: an analysis of education-related comments made by parents of children with different genetic syndromes
- Authors:
- FIDLER Deborah J., LAWSON John E.
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of Intellectual and Developmental Disability, 28(2), June 2003, pp.196-204.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
This study explored whether parents of children with three different genetic syndromes, Down syndrome (n~39), Prader-Willi syndrome (n~25), and Williams syndrome (n~26), express divergent desires for modifications in their child's current educational programming. A content analysis was performed on the parents' answers to an open-ended question about how to improve their child's current placement. The parents of children with Down syndrome spontaneously expressed a greater desire for changes or improvements in speech therapy and reading services, the parents of children with Prader-Willi syndrome expressed a desire for increases in adaptive physical education services, and the parents of children with Williams syndrome expressed a desire for increases and modifications to music services and aides in the classroom. Within-syndrome variation was also found in the specific sentiments and desires expressed. Implications for a syndrome-specific approach to special education programming are discussed.
Mental health and deafness
- Editors:
- HINDLEY Peter, KITSON Nick
- Publisher:
- Whurr
- Publication year:
- 2000
- Pagination:
- 582p.
- Place of publication:
- London
Designed as an introductory text on mental health and deafness for care workers and mental health workers. Covers a wide range of mental health issues as they relate to deafness and is divided into two sections. The first, Assessment, includes topics such as child and adolescent psychiatry, adult psychiatry, children who are deaf and have multiple disabilities, deafness and learning disability, addictive behaviour and deafness, forensic psychiatry, acquired deafness, and abuse of deaf children. The second section, Management and Intervention, discusses interpreters in mental health settings, educational interventions, different forms of psychotherapy, family therapy, rehabilitation, and drug treatments.