Neurodevelopmental Disorders in Children and Adolescents provides an innovative perspective on developmental disorders in youth, one focused on embracing and working with the "messiness" and many variables at play in child and adolescent development. The volume's approach is ali…
This comprehensive volume brings together international experts involved in applying and developing understanding of Working Memory in the context of a variety of neurodevelopmental disorders, neurocognitive disorders, and depressive disorders. Each chapter provides a descriptio…
Introduction. 1. Science, Society, and Mental Retardation, A History. 2. Neurogenesis, Neuronal Migration, Maturation, and Function: Insights into Learning and Memory. 3. Structural Brain Anomalies and Neural Tube Defects. 4. Mental Retardation Associated with Dysmorphology, Gro…
The rapid increase in recent years in the number of children and adults accessing care for ADHD raises a number of questions. It is unclear whether the increase is due to an increased public and professional recognition and awareness of ADHD as a debilitating human condition or …
Examines the most significant issues in swallowing and feeding facing school-based speech-language pathologists (SLPs). Topics addressed are unique to the school setting, ranging from organizing a team procedure in a district to serving children with complex medical issues, beha…
"Adolescents with behavior problems go by various labels, such as difficult-to-treat adolescents, juvenile delinquents, at-risk youth, violent youth, and youthful offenders. They may have disruptive behavior disorder or substance abuse disorder, and they may be involved with the…
The ideal quick reference for the busy mental health clinician seeing younger patients, this text has been fully revised by a new team of authors active in clinical practice and resident education. A trusted reference in the field, Green's continues to provide practical and bala…
From concerns of an 'autism epidemic' to the MMR vaccine crisis, autism is a source of peculiar fascination in the contemporary media. Discussion of the condition has been largely framed within medicine, psychiatry and education but there has been no exploration of its power wit…
Practitioners seeking the most current advances in the field of ADHD and LD must often bridge the gap between research and practice. The Therapist's Guide to Learning and Attention Disorders provides that bridge through the authors, who are both researchers and practitioners wit…
Examines issues surrounding intellectual and developmental disabilities in a real-world socio-political framework. This book also summarizes the major domains and emerging subspecialties of this area and offers a range of assessment and diagnostic tools and tactics, including co…
"Understanding Sensory Dysfunction provides a wide range of practical and empowering strategies to assist children with sensory dysfunction in learning, skills development and socialization. Focusing on early intervention, this book shows how children with sensory dysfunction ca…
The Autisms, written by Mary Coleman and Christopher Gillberg, demonstrates that autism, like mental retardation, is a clinical presentation of numerous different diseases, many with genomic underpinnings. In this ground-breaking work, the authors explain in great detail how to …