Caring for Children With Neurodevelopmental Disabilities and Their Families - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0805844775 ISBN 13: 9780805844771

Publisher: Routledge, 2004

Synopsis

Children with neurodevelopmental disabilities such as mental retardation or autism present multiple challenges to their families, health care providers, and teachers. Professionals consulted by desperate parents often see the problems from their own angle only and diagnosis and intervention efforts wind up fragmented and ineffective. This book presents a model multidisciplinary approach to care--family-centered and collaborative--that has proven effective in practice. A pillar of the approach is recognition of the importance of performing culturally competent assessment and adjusting service delivery so that is responsive to cultural differences.

Detailed case stories illuminate the ways in which the approach can help children with different backgrounds and different disabilities. Most chapters include study questions, lists of resources, and glossaries to facilitate easy comprehension by professionals with different backgrounds--in special education, communication sciences, and disorders, clinical and counseling psychology, neuropsychology and psychiatry, social work, pediatrics--and program administrators as well as students, trainees and educated parents. Caring for Children With Neurodevelopmental Disabilities and Their Families constitutes a crucial new resource for all those professionally and personally concerned with these children.

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Review:

Caring for Children With Neurodevelopmental Disabilities and Their Families constitutes a useful addition to current theory and research, and it provides a model clinicians, policymakers, and parents can apply to their own efforts. It is intended, above all, to help parents and professionals develop the potential of children with disbilities to live as normal lives as possible. The chapters are easily accessible yet clinically sound.
—SirReadaLot.org

About this edition

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 2004
• ISBN 10: 0805844775
• ISBN 13: 9780805844771
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 394
• Editor: Vargas Claudia Maria