Development and Disabilities - Intellectual, Sensory and Motor Impairments

Klappentext The first 'multi-disability' approach to children with mental retardation! deafness! blindness and motor impairments. Zusammenfassung This book offers a 'multi-disability' approach to children with mental retardation! deafness! blindness and motor impairments. After describing 'development' as both the child's own advances and changes-interactions with parents and families! this book examines the most exciting research on the development of children with these four disabilities. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface; Part I. Introduction and History: 1. What are developmental approaches; 2. Historical precursors to developmental approaches; Part II. Applications of Developmental Approaches to Children with Disabilities: 3. Mental retardation - origins and organismic issues; 4. Mental retardation - contextual issues; 5. Deafness; 6. Blindness and visual impairments; 7. Motor impairments; Part III. Implications and Applications: 8. General lessons; 9. Toward better interventions; 10. Evaluating developmental approaches; Appendix.

Product details

• Authors: Robert M. Hodapp, Robert M. (University of California Hodapp
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 13.10.1998
• EAN: 9780521482943
• ISBN: 978-0-521-48294-3
• No. of pages: 286
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Psychology > Applied psychology; Non-fiction book > Psychology, esoterics, spirituality, anthroposophy > Psychology: general, reference works