1st Edition
Understanding Intellectual Disability A Guide for Professionals and Parents
1. A Rose is a Rose but what is Intellectual Disability?
Ciro Ruggerini and Antonina Pellegrino
2. Is Intelligence a General Mental Capacity?
Margherita Orsolini, Francesca Federico and Sergio Melogno
3. Assessments of Children with Developmental Delays and Intellectual Disability
Margherita Orsolini, Sara Conforti, Sergio Melogno
4. Intervention to Empower Children’s Learning
Margherita Orsolini and Sergio Melogno
5. Attachment and Intellectual Disability: Promoting Secure Attachment in Relationships
Furio Lambruschi, Ciro Ruggerini, and Melvin Piro
6. Not Just Telling: Narratives and the Construction of Shared Understanding in Interaction
Marilena Fatigante, Samantha Salomone, Margherita Orsolini
7. Personal Identity, Desire, Life Project
Ciro Ruggerini, Stefania Musci, Aldo Moretti
Biography
Margherita Orsolini is a Professor of Developmental and Educational Psychology. She was the Director of the Centre for the Learning Disabilities in the Department of Developmental and Social Psychology at Sapienza University of Rome, Italy.
Ciro Ruggerini is a specialist in Child Neuropsychiatry and Psychiatry and a psychotherapist. He is the past president of the Italian Society of Neurodevelopmental Disorders and was the Coordinator of the Section of Neuropsychology of the Italian Society of Child and Adolescent Neuropsychiatry from 2008 to 2011.
