Madeleine Portwood

Developmental Dyspraxia (eBook, ePUB)

Identification and Intervention - A Manual for Parents and Professionals

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This second edition of Madeleine Portwood's successful manual aims to give parents, teachers and health professionals the confidence to diagnose and assess dyspraxia. Most importantly, it offers them an intervention program that will significantly improve the cognitive functioning of the dyspraxic child or teenager.

Updated in light of the author's new and extensive research, the book provides the reader with background information on the neurological basis of the condition; strategies for identification, diagnosis and assessment; proven programs of intervention that can be monitored by anyone closely involved with the child; strategies to improve curricular attainments; remediation activities to develop perceptual and motor skills; programs to develop self-esteem; and information about where to find help.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 224
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. Dezember 2018
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781134156610
• Artikelnr.: 56890338

Autorenporträt

Madeleine Portwood is a Specialist Senior Educational Psychologist working in Durham. She is also Chairperson of the Education Committee of the Dyspraxia Foundation. Her extensive research into dyspraxia is internationally accepted as being at the forefront of work in the field and has formed the basis of several television documentaries on the subject.

Inhaltsangabe

Chapter 1 1 Introduction
Chapter 2 2 Development of the brain and the significance of diet
Chapter 3 3 What is dyspraxia?
Chapter 4 4 Observable characteristics
Chapter 5 5 Research evidence
Chapter 6 6 Behavioural problems: neurological? psychological?
Chapter 7 7 Intervention in the `early years¿
Chapter 8 8 Intervention with primary and secondary age pupils
Chapter 9 9 Adults with dyspraxia
Chapter 10 10 Epilogue
: Appendix A
Appendix BAppendix C
Bibliography
Index