| Description |
ix, 496 pages ; 24 cm |
| Contents |
1. Discovering Each Child's Unique Strengths, Developmental Capacities, and Challenges. 1. Moving beyond the Label. 2. Biological Challenges. 3. Observing Each Child: Biological Challenges and Strengths. 4. The Six Milestones. 5. Observing Each Child: The Six Milestones. 6. Observing Yourselves. 7. Emotion and Interaction: Keys to the Development of Intelligence, Sense of Self, and Social Capacities -- 2. Encouraging Emotional and Intellectual Growth. 8. The Floor-Time Approach. 9. Floor Time I: Attention, Engagement, and Intimacy Helping a Child Become Interested in the World and Connect with People. 10. Floor Time II: Two-Way Communication Helping a Child Communicate with Gestures and Expressions. 11. Floor Time III: Feelings and Ideas Helping a Child Develop and Express Feelings and Ideas. 12. Floor Time IV: Logical Thinking Helping a Child Connect Ideas and Develop a Logical Understanding of the World. 13. Strengthening Biologically Based Processing Abilities. 14. Going to Sleep, Toilet Training, and Other Difficult Challenges. 15. Special-Needs Syndromes -- 3. Family, Therapy, and School. 16. Marital Challenges. 17. Family Challenges. 18. An Integrated Approach to Therapy. 19. School and Other Children. 20. What Can We Expect? App. A. Floor-Time Strategies: A Quick Reference -- App. B. Food Sensitivities and Chemical Exposures -- App. C. Developmental Patterns and Outcomes in Infants and Children with Disorders of Relating and Communicating: A Chart Review of 200 Cases of Children with Autistic Spectrum Diagnoses. |
| Note |
"A Merloyd Lawrence book." |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Subject |
Developmentally disabled children -- United States -- Psychology.
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Developmentally disabled children -- Mental health -- United States.
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Developmentally disabled children -- United States -- Life skills guides.
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Child psychology -- United States.
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Developmental psychology -- United States.
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Parents of children with disabilities -- United States.
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| Added Author |
Wieder, Serena.
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Simons, Robin.
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| ISBN |
0201407264 |
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