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The child with special needs: encouraging intellectual and emotional growth
- Authors:
- GREENSPAN Stanley, WIEDER Serena, SIMONS Robin
- Publisher:
- Perseus
- Publication year:
- 1998
- Pagination:
- 496p.bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- Cambridge, MA
Presents a guide to raising a child with special needs. In this essential work they lay out a complete, step-by-step approach for parents, educators, and others who work with developmental problems. Covering all kinds of disabilities, including autism, PDD, language and speech problems, Down syndrome, cerebral palsy, and ADD - the authors offer a new understanding of the nature of these challenges and also specific ways of helping children extend their intellectual and emotional potential.
Introduction to challenging behaviour
- Author:
- PIMM Paul L.
- Journal article citation:
- British Journal of Occupational Therapy, 61(7), July 1998, pp.306-310.
- Publisher:
- Sage
Introduces the topic of challenging behaviour based on a review of the relevant literature and from work with people with cerebral palsy who challenge services. Discusses defining a behaviour as challenging, reasons for the behaviour, assessment and management of challenging behaviour.
Understanding disability: a lifespan approach
- Author:
- QUINN Peggy
- Publisher:
- Sage
- Publication year:
- 1998
- Pagination:
- 256p.,bibliog
- Place of publication:
- Thousand Oaks, CA
Details expected developmental stages for those without disabilities as well as the impact of disability at each of these periods. Begins with diagnosis in infancy or childhood and goes on to provide specific information on four disabilities: Down's Syndrome, visual impairment, cerebral palsy, and spina bifida. Designed to aid social workers to create treatment and care plans, coordinate with other professionals, and work with users and carers.