Learning Difficulties & Mental Retardation in Children & Adolescents Books

New and Published Books

1. Educating Children and Young People with Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders

   Constructing Personalised Pathways to Learning

   By Carolyn Blackburn, Barry Carpenter, Jo Egerton

   The range of learning difficulties associated with children and young people who have Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders (FASD) has been highlighted as an emerging but little understood area of Special Educational Needs. This engaging, timely and highly practical book will raise awareness about FASD...

   Published May 6th 2012 by Routledge
2. Social Skills for Teenagers with Developmental and Autism Spectrum Disorders

   The PEERS Treatment Manual

   By Elizabeth A. Laugeson, Fred Frankel

   This book is essential reading for any clinician or researcher working with teens with autism spectrum disorders. This parent-assisted intervention for teens is based on a comprehensive, evidence-based, 14-week program at UCLA’s Semel Institute for Neuroscience and Human Behavior, the manualization...

   Published May 19th 2010 by Routledge
3. Assessment and Intervention for Executive Function Difficulties

   By George McCloskey, Lisa A. Perkins, Bob Van Diviner

   Series: School-Based Practice in Action

   In Assessment and Intervention for Executive Function Difficulties, McCloskey, Perkins, and Diviner provide a unique blend of theory, research, and practice that offers clinicians an overarching framework for the concept of executive functions (EFs) in educational settings. The conceptual...

   Published December 4th 2008 by Routledge
4. The Handbook of Intellectual Disability and Clinical Psychology Practice

   Edited by Alan Carr, Gary O'Reilly, Patricia Noonan Walsh, John McEvoy

   The Handbook of Intellectual Disability and Clinical Psychology Practice will equip clinical psychologists in training with the skills necessary to complete a clinical placement in the field of intellectual disability. The book is divided into seven sections, which cover conceptual frameworks,...

   Published February 25th 2007 by Routledge
5. To Hold and Be Held

   The Therapeutic School as a Holding Environment

   By Daniel K. Reinstein

   Drawing on the teachings of D.W. Winnicott and John Bowlby, who helped revolutionize thinking about relational psychology, To Hold and Be Held integrates the concepts of the ‘holding environment’ and attachment theory and describes how they are applied in a clinical setting. It also uses metaphor...

   Published May 18th 2006 by Routledge
6. Nameless

   Understanding Learning Disability

   By Dietmut Niedecken

   Is learning disability determined from birth? Psychoanalysis has always striven to reconstruct damaged human subjectivity. However, with a few exceptions, people with learning disabilities have long been excluded from this enterprise as a matter of course. It has been taken for granted that...

   Published November 10th 2004 by Routledge