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Supportive parenting : becoming an advocate for your child with special needs /

Parents of children with special needs often feel like they have been dropped in the middle of a dark and deep forest with no knowledge of how to find their way to a clearing. Supportive Parenting: Becoming an Advocate for Your Child With Special Needs is the GPS system that will lead them through t...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Campito, Jan Starr
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: London ; Philadelphia : Jessica Kingsley Publishers, 2007.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Why this book?
  • Pre-diagnosis : is it normal for everything to be so hard?
  • Obtaining a formal evaluation
  • What next? : what does this diagnosis mean?
  • Beginning therapeutic interventions for your child
  • Marcus and Asperger's Syndrome : an example of how the manifestation of a disorder (and one's parenting role) can change over time
  • Your parenting role, part I : promoting positive behavior and reducing misbehavior in your child
  • Your parenting role, part II : increasing your child's competence
  • The special education process : formulating an individualized education or family services plan
  • Monitoring the progress of your child
  • Advocating for your child : it never ends, or does it?