Understanding intellectual disability a guide for professionals and parents
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 Orso...
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Tag hinzufügen | Zusammenfassung: | 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 Understanding Intellectual Disability: A Guide for Professionals and Parents supports professionals and parents in understanding critical concepts, correct assessment procedures, delicate and science-infused communication practices and treatment methods concerning children with intellectual disabilities.From a professional perspective, this book relies on developmental neuropsychology and psychiatry to describe relevant measures and qualitative observations when making a diagnosis and explores the importance of involving parents in the reconstruction of a child's developmental history. From a parent's perspective, the book shows how enriched environments can empower children's learning processes, and how working with patients, families, and organizations providing care and treatment services can be effectively integrated with attachment theory. Throughout seven chapters, the book offers an exploration of diagnostic procedures, new insights on the concept of intelligence and the role of communication and secure attachment in the mind's construction. With expertise from noteworthy scholars in the field, the reader is given an overview of in-depth assessment and intervention practices illustrated by several case studies and examples, as well as a lifespan perspective from a Human Rights Model of disability.Understanding Intellectual Disability is an accessible guide offering an up-to-date vision of intellectual disability and is essential for psychologists, health care professionals, special educators, students in clinical psychology, and parents.Things are connected through invisible bonds: you cannot pluck a flower without unsettling a star.Galileo Galilei |
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| Beschreibung: | xiii, 224 Seiten |
| ISBN: | 9781032115399 978-1-032-11539-9 9781032115412 978-1-032-11541-2 1032115416 |