Non-Verbal Learning Disabilities: Characteristics, Diagnosis and Treatment Within an Educational Setting
ISBN: 9781843100669 / Angielski / Miękka / 112 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This is an accessible introduction to Nonverbal Learning Disabilities (NLD), a syndrome which was first recognized in the 1970s. Since this time, the number of children diagnosed with NLD, a condition that combines both behavioural and coordination problems, has been slowly rising. Marieke Molenaar-Klumper provides an overview of the varied opinions expressed about NLD. Inspired by extensive research, she describes the cognitive, psychometric, socio-emotional and visual aspects of this syndrome. She also discusses how NSD can be diagnosed and describes how the syndrome associates itself with...
This is an accessible introduction to Nonverbal Learning Disabilities (NLD), a syndrome which was first recognized in the 1970s. Since this time, the ...
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120,07 zł |
Transfer Boy: Perspectives on Asperger Syndrome
ISBN: 9781843102137 / Angielski / Miękka / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Transfer Boy: Perspectives on Asperger Syndrome explores what it is like to be an adolescent with Asperger Syndrome, through interviews with Teodor, a 'psychologically unusual' twelve-year-old. In this detailed case study, Vuletic and Ferrari combine an autobiographical account with perspectives from other family members and people who know Teodor well, while simultaneously integrating psychiatric and psychological research on autism. The authors evaluate the merits and pitfalls of different interpretations of autism and address the broad psychological issues related to Asperger Syndrome -...
Transfer Boy: Perspectives on Asperger Syndrome explores what it is like to be an adolescent with Asperger Syndrome, through interviews with Teodor, a...
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120,07 zł |
A Self-Determined Future with Asperger Syndrome: Solution Focused Approaches
ISBN: 9781843105138 / Angielski / Miękka / 160 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A Self-Determined Future with Asperger Syndrome presents an empowering, practical approach to helping people with Asperger Syndrome (AS) to succeed at college, at work, at home and in life. The authors highlight how treating AS as a problem' is unproductive, and advocate a solution focused approach which recognizes and uses the strengths of people with AS to foster mutual respect and understanding. Drawing on both their personal experience and knowledge of counselling, the authors use anecdotes and stories to show how people with AS cope in day-to-day situations. They also illustrate how...
A Self-Determined Future with Asperger Syndrome presents an empowering, practical approach to helping people with Asperger Syndrome (AS) to succeed at...
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92,77 zł |
Running with Walker: A Memoir
ISBN: 9781843107552 / Angielski / Miękka / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. By the time he was three, Walker's parents were concerned enough about his delayed development to consult a paediatric neurologist. Doctors diagnosed autism and issued a grim prognosis: 'I hold out no hope for this child'. But they hadn't accounted for Walker's intelligence, affection, and sense of humour - or for the remarkable bonds that grew within his family. Walker's father, Robert Hughes, tells a touching and inspiring story of discovering that their 'perfect little boy had a problem'. With disarming honesty and humour, the book tells how a family copes and keeps hope alive despite the...
By the time he was three, Walker's parents were concerned enough about his delayed development to consult a paediatric neurologist. Doctors diagnosed ...
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125,53 zł |
Raising NLD Superstars: What Families with Nonverbal Learning Disorders Need to Know about Nurturing Confident, Competent Kids
ISBN: 9781843107705 / Angielski / Miękka / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Raising NLD Superstars is essential reading for all those who come in to contact with children with non-verbal learning disorders (NLD). Instead of insisting upon the one size fits all model of intervention the author focuses on the individual nature of NLD children and offers practical, adaptable advice that will help them find their place both in the family and in wider social groups. The author shares her experiences of life as the parent of a child with NLD with humanity and humor. She looks not only at day to day practicalities such as making meal times easier for all the family and...
Raising NLD Superstars is essential reading for all those who come in to contact with children with non-verbal learning disorders (NLD). Instead of in...
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109,15 zł |
Dyslogic Syndrome: Why Millions of Kids Are Hyper, Attention-Disordered, Learning Disabled, Depressed, Aggressive, Defiant, or Violent -
ISBN: 9781843108771 / Angielski / Twarda / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Dyslogical children are commonly labelled as having one or more of a mix of conditions that include Attention Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder, Conduct Disorder, Bipolar Disorder and Oppositional Defiant Disorder. The number of children who could be described as dyslogical continues to rise sharply, and society has a tendency to lay the blame for this trend on poor parenting or bad schooling. In this ground-breaking book, Bernard Rimland argues that such 'conventional wisdom' is not just mistaken but dangerous. Drawing on the latest research, Rimland outlines the impact of biological factors on...
Dyslogical children are commonly labelled as having one or more of a mix of conditions that include Attention Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder, Conduct ...
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136,45 zł |
Linguistic and Communicative Competence: Topics in ESL (Op)
ISBN: 9781853591488 / Angielski / Miękka / 160 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. An anthology of articles on teaching English to speakers of other languages. The emphasis is on practical concerns of classroom procedures and on cross-cultural aspects of teaching English around the world. Several of the articles focus on communicative language teaching.
An anthology of articles on teaching English to speakers of other languages. The emphasis is on practical concerns of classroom procedures and on cros...
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147,15 zł |
Parental Learning Disability and Children's Needs : Family Experiences and Effective Practice
ISBN: 9781843106326 / Angielski / Miękka / 144 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Parental Learning Disability and Children's Needs explores how to effectively assess children in families where one or more parent has a learning disability. These children often have unmet needs because their parents are more likely to be coping with mental and physical illness, domestic violence or substance abuse. The book examines current social care practice in this area, whether it is working, and the impact it has on families. The authors describe how, although some parents with a learning disability face a significant risk of losing their children, most continue to look after them...
Parental Learning Disability and Children's Needs explores how to effectively assess children in families where one or more parent has a learning disa...
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163,75 zł |
Raising a Left-Brain Child in a Right-Brain World: Strategies for Helping Bright, Quirky, Socially Awkward Children to Thrive at Home and at School
ISBN: 9781590306505 / Angielski / Miękka / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Does your child:
- Have impressive intellectual abilities but seem puzzled by ordinary interactions with other children? - Have deep, all-absorbing interests or seemingly encyclopedic knowledge of certain subjects? - Bring home mediocre report cards, or seem disengaged at school, despite his or her obvious intelligence? If you answered -yes- to these questions, this book is for you. Author Katharine Beals uses the term -left-brain- to describe a type of child whose talents and inclinations lean heavily toward the logical, linear, analytical, and introverted side of the... Does your child:
- Have impressive intellectual abilities but seem puzzled by ordinary interactions with other children? - Have deep, all-ab... |
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82,37 zł |
My Baby Rides the Short Bus: The Unabashedly Human Experience of Raising Kids with Disabilities
ISBN: 9781604861099 / Angielski / Miękka / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The stories in this collection provide parents of special needs kids with a dose of both laughter and reality. Featuring works by so-called alternative parents who have attempted to move away from mainstream thought, this anthology carefully considers the implications of raising children with disabilities. From professional writers to novice storytellers, including original essays by Robert Rummel-Hudson, Ayun Halliday, and Kerry Cohen, this assortment of authentic, shared experiences from parents in the know is a partial antidote to the stories that misrepresent, ridicule, and objectify...
The stories in this collection provide parents of special needs kids with a dose of both laughter and reality. Featuring works by so-called alternativ...
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86,94 zł |
Growing Up with Jessica, Second Edition: Blessed by the Unexpected Parenting of a Special Needs Child.
ISBN: 9780980064100 / Angielski / Miękka / 204 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This award winning true story, told clearly and passionately by Jessica's father is moving as well as inspiring. Highly recommended and endorsed by international author and speaker, Josh McDowell. "I encourage you to read this book because it will touch you, Josh McDowell, Author & Speaker A moving true story, shared, by Jessica's Dad. He honestly shares the ups and downs of his wife and family, as they quite unexpectedly,... This award winning true story, told clearly and passionately by Jessica's father is moving as well as inspiring. Highly recommended and endorsed by... |
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69,51 zł |
A Different Life: Growing Up Learning Disabled and Other Adventures
ISBN: 9781586488079 / Angielski / Miękka / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Bradlee offers this frank, funny, inspiring memoir of growing up with developmental and learning disabilities as well as his famously accomplished parents--a "Washington Post" editor and bestselling author. Illustrations throughout.
Bradlee offers this frank, funny, inspiring memoir of growing up with developmental and learning disabilities as well as his famously accomplished par...
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127,95 zł |
Wings to Fly: How to Teach a Child with Learning Difficulties
ISBN: 9781609110703 / Angielski / Miękka / 56 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Wings To Fly is an invaluable reference guide on how to care for a child with learning difficulties or learning disabilities. As a parent, teacher or caregiver, you are provided with information and ideas on assisting your child through their school years, interacting as a family and setting goals and expectations for yourself and your child. This book encourages readers to appreciate their child's uniqueness and even provides motivational tools to help make life more bearable when things may seem bleak. Divided into easy-to-reference chapters, Wings To Fly will guide you and your special...
Wings To Fly is an invaluable reference guide on how to care for a child with learning difficulties or learning disabilities. As a parent, teacher or ...
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56,47 zł |
Reading with Ralph - A Journey in Christian Compassion
ISBN: 9781939289209 / Angielski / Miękka / 114 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Discover the bond of friendship with an unsuspecting relationship developed through reading. You will laugh, and you will cry as Leigh Anne W. Hoover introduces you to Ralph. Through their story, you will also discover Gods strength and His prevailing love and grace.
Discover the bond of friendship with an unsuspecting relationship developed through reading. You will laugh, and you will cry as Leigh Anne W. Hoover ...
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48,45 zł |
Ready for Take-Off : Preparing Your Teen with ADHD or LD for College
ISBN: 9781433808913 / Angielski / Miękka / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In todays world, getting accepted to college is only half of the battle. Staying in there is another matter altogether. And for students ADHD or learning disabilities, staying, thriving, and graduating from college can be very challenging even for the most academically prepared students. Ready for Take-Off lays out a plan to keep students with ADHD or LD in college by first teaching parents to prepare their teen for take-off and their first solo flight away from the home. This essential resource encourages parents to adopt a unique coaching-style approach in their parenting and urges parents...
In todays world, getting accepted to college is only half of the battle. Staying in there is another matter altogether. And for students ADHD or learn...
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82,94 zł |
What's That Pig Outdoors?: A Memoir of Deafness
ISBN: 9780252077395 / Angielski / Miękka / 232 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Henry Kisor lost his hearing at age three to meningitis and encephalitis but went on to excel in the most verbal of professions as a literary journalist. This new and expanded edition of Kisor's engrossing memoir recounts his life as a deaf person in a hearing world and addresses heartening changes over the last two decades due to the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 and advancements in cochlear implants and modes of communication.Kisor tells of his parents' drive to raise him as a member of the hearing and speaking world by teaching him effective lip-reading skills at a young age and...
Henry Kisor lost his hearing at age three to meningitis and encephalitis but went on to excel in the most verbal of professions as a literary journali...
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98,50 zł |
The Challenged: Overcoming Retarded Ideas and Practices Relating to Those We Call Retarded
ISBN: 9781585007899 / Angielski / Miękka / 220 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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60,64 zł |
The Anti-Romantic Child: A Memoir of Unexpected Joy
ISBN: 9780061690280 / Angielski / Miękka / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "TheAnti-Romantic Child is remarkable. This haunting and lyrical memoir will bean invaluable and heartening guide to all who find themselves in similarsituations and indeed anyone confronting an unforeseen challenge." --MarieBrenner, writer for Vanity Fair andauthor of Apples and Oranges
With an emotionally resonant combination of memoirand literature, Wordsworth scholar Priscilla Gilman recounts the challenges ofraising a son with hyperlexia, a developmentaldisorder neurologically counterpoint to dyslexia. Gilman explores thecomplexities of our... "TheAnti-Romantic Child is remarkable. This haunting and lyrical memoir will bean invaluable and heartening guide to all who find themselves ...
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78,20 zł |
Two Are Better Than One
ISBN: 9781467070942 / Angielski / Miękka / 52 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Our dream is to create a devotional book that could be used as a tool for those with developmental challenges as well as extraordinary abilities. Our hope is that this book will be of encouragement to draw people closer to God and each other. It is designed in such a way that it can benefit all age groups.
Our dream is to create a devotional book that could be used as a tool for those with developmental challenges as well as extraordinary abilities. Our ...
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61,81 zł |
The Gift of Life
ISBN: 9781612150659 / Angielski / Miękka / 156 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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75,41 zł |