When the Brain Can't Hear: Unraveling the Mystery of Auditory Processing Disorder
ISBN: 9780743428644 / Angielski / Miękka / 368 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In this landmark book, Dr. Teri James Bellis, one of the world's leading authorities on auditory processing disorder (APD), explains the nature of this devastating condition and provides insightful case studies that illustrate its effect on the lives of its sufferers. Millions of Americans struggle silently with APD. For many of them, holding a simple conversation can be next to impossible. As sound travels through an imperfect auditory pathway, words become jumbled, distorted, and unintelligible. As Dr. Bellis notes, the most profound impact of this highly specific impediment to auditory...
In this landmark book, Dr. Teri James Bellis, one of the world's leading authorities on auditory processing disorder (APD), explains the nature of thi...
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81,95 zł |
ADHD: Helping Parents Help Their Children
ISBN: 9780765702739 / Angielski / Twarda / 247 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Just as special diagnostic and clinical skills are needed by therapists working with children and families coping with ADHD, very special skills are needed to parent the ADHD child. In this practical guide, Dr Jacobs demonstrates how he helps parents work effectively as a team to acquire skills that will help their children. Addressing both necessity and the complexity of developing a therapeutic relationship with the child's parents, he guides clinicians through the process of offering information about the nature of ADHD, coping with the parents' emotional reactions, identifying differences...
Just as special diagnostic and clinical skills are needed by therapists working with children and families coping with ADHD, very special skills are n...
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695,06 zł |
Parenting a Struggling Reader: A Guide to Diagnosing and Finding Help for Your Child's Reading Difficulties
ISBN: 9780767907767 / Angielski / Miękka / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The first completely comprehensive, practical guide for recognizing, diagnosing, and overcoming any childhood reading difficulty.
According to the National Institute of Health, ten million of our nation s children (approximately 17 percent) have trouble learning to read. While headlines warn about the nation s reading crisis, Susan Hall (whose son was diagnosed with dyslexia) and Louisa Moats have become crusaders for action. The result of their years of research and personal experience, Parenting a Struggling Reader provides a revolutionary road map for any parent facing this... The first completely comprehensive, practical guide for recognizing, diagnosing, and overcoming any childhood reading difficulty.
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81,99 zł |
Understanding Dyslexia: A Practical Approach for Parents and Teachers
ISBN: 9780819182494 / Angielski / Miękka / 345 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Dyslexia, a language communication disability remains a little-understood and controversial disease among specialists, educators, and parents. In easy-to-understand terms, Dr. Huston provides suggestions for parents and teachers to help dyslexic children learn to cope.
Dyslexia, a language communication disability remains a little-understood and controversial disease among specialists, educators, and parents. In easy...
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90,41 zł |
Attention Deficit: A Practitioner's Handbook
ISBN: 9780876308905 / Angielski / Twarda / 250 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Most clinicians rely on only an interview to diagnose ADHD in adults. With the recent media "overkill" about ADHD, more and more patients have already read numerous articles and books about the topic making it even harder for practitioners to differentiate between symptoms due to ADHD and symptoms of a hypersensitive patient. As a result, the clinician should no longer rely on just an interview but a more sphoisticated and reliable method.
Attention Deficit: A Practitioner's Handbook offers practical guidance to diagnose ADHD with special consideration to comorbid and... Most clinicians rely on only an interview to diagnose ADHD in adults. With the recent media "overkill" about ADHD, more and more patients have already...
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271,16 zł |
Elijah's Cup: A Family's Journey Into the Community and Culture of High-Functioning Autism and Asperger's Syndrome
ISBN: 9781416567769 / Angielski / Miękka / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Faced with her two-year-old toddler's precipitous bout with epilepsy and his puzzling behaviors, Valerie Paradiz took a bold and unusual path, coming to terms with and ultimately embracing the strange beauty of her son Elijah's special neurological disorder, which was diagnosed as Asperger's syndrome, a form of autism. In Elijah's Cup, Paradiz tells the powerful story of her family's struggle with her son's disease, one characterized by social awkwardness, literal-mindedness, and a fixation with particular subjects and interests. Like attention deficit disorder (ADD), dyslexia,...
Faced with her two-year-old toddler's precipitous bout with epilepsy and his puzzling behaviors, Valerie Paradiz took a bold and unusual path, coming ...
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77,46 zł |
An Asperger Marriage
ISBN: 9781843100171 / Angielski / Miękka / 160 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Chris and Gisela have been partners for twelve years. Four years ago Chris was diagnosed with Asperger syndrome. For Chris, this was an explanation of why he had always regarded himself as 'socially handicapped'. For Gisela, it meant coming to terms with a marriage in which there would never be an intuitive understanding despite Chris's good intentions. For the couple it was the beginning of a long and still unfinished process of learning to live with a disability regarded by some as incompatible with marriage.
Chris and Gisela have been partners for twelve years. Four years ago Chris was diagnosed with Asperger syndrome. For Chris, this was an explanation of...
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80,75 zł |
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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154,69 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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118,45 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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80,75 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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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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96,90 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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118,45 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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107,46 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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81,77 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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69,01 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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127,07 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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56,06 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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48,09 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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81,83 zł |