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Record Nr.

UNINA9910784814203321

Autore

Martin Marilyn <1952->

Titolo

Helping children with nonverbal learning disabilities to flourish [[electronic resource] ] : a guide for parents and professionals / / Marilyn Martin ; foreword by Michele Berg

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; Philadelphia, : Jessica Kingsley Publishers, 2007

ISBN

1-281-10535-X

9786611105358

1-84642-619-7

1-4356-0299-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (244 p.)

Disciplina

618.92/85889

Soggetti

Learning disabled children - Rehabilitation

Nonverbal learning disabilities

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Front Cover; Title Page; Contents; FOREWORD; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; Beginnings: Deciphering the Rosetta Stone; 2 What is a Nonverbal Learning Disability?; 3 Side by Side: NLD and Reading Disabilities; 4 How to Recognize the Child with NLD at Different Ages; 5 A Constructive Diagnosis and Remediation Plan; 6 The Importance of the School Environment; 7 The Importance of the Family; 8 Charting Sara's Language; 9 Some Final Thoughts; 10 A Sampler of Interventions; APPENDIX: EXAMPLE OF HOW TO COMBINE STRATEGIES TO DEVELOP LESSONS; REFERENCES; SUBJECT INDEX; AUTHOR INDEX; Back Cover;

Sommario/riassunto

Marilyn Martin's book Helping Children with Nonverbal Learning Disabilities to Flourish is an exciting and essential new addition to the literature. &hellip; Martin shines in her ability to match interventions to a broad range of problems and examples abound in every chapter. Clear, concise, and detailed explanations are given so that the interventions can be applied skillfully. &hellip; Each intervention is presented in a terrifically useful and usable format that includes the problem, strengths available, proposed solution, how the solution can be generalized, the goal of the intervention, a