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Understanding intellectual disability : a guide for professionals and parents / edited by Margherita Orsolini and Ciro Ruggerini.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Understanding atypical development
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- People with mental disabilities.
- Intellectual disability.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xiii, 224 pages) : illustrations.
- Place of Publication:
- Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2022.
- Biography/History:
- 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.
- Contents:
- A rose is a rose but what is intellectual disability? / Ciro Ruggerini and Antonina Pellegrino
- Is intelligence a general mental capacity? / Margherita Orsolini, Francesca Federico and Sergio Melogno
- Assessments of children with developmental delays and intellectual disability / Margherita Orsolini, Sara Conforti, and Sergio Melogno
- Intervention to empower children's learning / Margherita Orsolini and Sergio Melogno
- Attachment and intellectual disability: promoting secure attachment in relationships / Furio Lambruschi, Ciro Ruggerini, and Melvin Piro
- Not just telling: narratives and the construction of shared understanding in interaction / Marilena Fatigante, Samantha Salomone, and Margherita Orsolini
- Personal identity, desire, life project / Ciro Ruggerini, Stefania Musci, and Aldo Moretti.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Electronic reproduction. London Available via World Wide Web.
- Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on January 26, 2023).
- Other Format:
- Print version: Understanding intellectual disability
- ISBN:
- 9781003220367
- 1003220363
- 9781000780536
- 1000780430
- 9781000780437
- 1000780538
- Publisher Number:
- 40031541053
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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