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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Martin, Marilyn, 1952-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Learning disabled children--Rehabilitation.

Learning disabled children.

Nonverbal learning disabilities.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (244 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

London ; Philadelphia : Jessica Kingsley Publishers, 2007.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Marilyn Martin's book Helping Children with Nonverbal Learning Disabilities to Flourish is an exciting and essential new addition to the literature. … 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. … 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

Contents:

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;

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9786611105358

9781281105356

128110535X

9781846426193

1846426197

9781435602991

1435602994

OCLC:

191925919