
The Child With Special Needs: Encouraging Intellectual and Emotional Growth
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Summary
Author Biography
Table of Contents
Acknowledgments | |
Introduction | p. 1 |
Discovering Each Child's Unique Strengths, Developmental Capacities, and Challenges | p. 17 |
Moving beyond the Label | p. 19 |
Biological Challenges | p. 34 |
Observing Each Child: Biological Challenges and Strengths | p. 56 |
The Six Milestones | p. 70 |
Observing Each Child: The Six Milestones | p. 91 |
Observing Yourselves | p. 98 |
Emotion and Interaction: Keys to the Development of Intelligence, Sense of Self, and Social Capacities | p. 106 |
Encouraging Emotional and Intellectual Growth | p. 119 |
The Floor-Time Approach | p. 121 |
Floor Time I: Attention, Engagement, and Intimacy Helping a Child Become Interested in the World and Connect with People | p. 132 |
Floor Time II: Two-Way Communication Helping a Child Communicate with Gestures and Expressions | p. 160 |
Floor Time III: Feelings and Ideas Helping a Child Develop and Express Feelings and Ideas | p. 190 |
Floor Time IV: Logical Thinking Helping a Child Connect Ideas and Develop a Logical Understanding of the World | p. 231 |
Strengthening Biologically Based Processing Abilities | p. 293 |
Going to Sleep, Toilet Training, and Other Difficult Challenges | p. 302 |
Special-Needs Syndromes | p. 339 |
Family, Therapy, and School | p. 351 |
Marital Challenges | p. 353 |
Family Challenges | p. 361 |
An Integrated Approach to Therapy | p. 377 |
School and Other Children | p. 403 |
What Can We Expect? | p. 433 |
Floor-Time Strategies: A Quick Reference | p. 439 |
Food Sensitivities and Chemical Exposures | p. 444 |
Developmental Patterns and Outcomes in Infants and Children with Disorders of Relating and Communicating: A Chart Review of 200 Cases of Children with Autistic Spectrum Diagnoses | p. 449 |
Index | p. 485 |
About the Authors | p. 495 |
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