Alphabet Kids - From ADD to Zellweger Syndrome
A Guide to Developmental, Neurobiological and Psychological Disorders for Parents and Professionals
Robbie Woliver
Hardback: £39.99 / $44.95
2008, 246mm x 173mm / 10in x 7in, 480pp
ISBN: 978-1-84310-880-1, BIC 2: JM
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YXK
Paperback: £16.99 / $24.95
2010, 246mm x 173mm / 10in x 7in, 480pp
ISBN: 978-1-84905-822-3, BIC 2: JM
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Bronze Medal Winner in the 2009 IPPY Awards
From ASD (Autism Spectrum Disorder) to ZS (Zellweger Syndrome)-there seems to be an alphabet disorder for almost every behavior, from those caused by serious, rare genetic diseases to more common learning disabilities that hinder children's academic and social progress.
Alphabet Kids have disorders that are often concurrent, interconnected or mistaken for one another: for example, the frequent combination of ASD, OCD, SID and ADHD. If a doctor only diagnoses one condition, he or she may have missed others. As the rates of these disorders dramatically rise, Alphabet Kids explains it all. Robbie Woliver covers 70 childhood disorders, providing information on causes, cures, treatments and prognoses. Chapters include a comprehensive list of signs and symptoms, and the disorders are illustrated with often heartbreaking, but always inspirational true-life stories of a child with the particular disorder.
This comprehensive, easy-to-read go-to guide will help parents to sort through all the interconnected childhood developmental, neurobiological and psychological disorders and serve as a roadmap to help start the families' journey for correct diagnoses, effective treatment and better understanding of their Alphabet Kids.
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Keywords
- ADD,
- ADHD,
- anger management,
- Asperger syndrome,
- autism,
- bipolar disorder,
- cerebral palsy,
- challenging behaviour,
- child development,
- child psychiatry,
- child psychology,
- children,
- developmental coordination disorder,
- disability,
- Down's syndrome,
- dyslexia,
- dyspraxia,
- epilepsy,
- high functioning autism,
- hyperlexia,
- inclusive classroom,
- intellectual disabilities,
- nonverbal learning disabilities,
- obsessive compulsive disorder,
- occupational therapy,
- parenting,
- pervasive developmental disorder,
- seizures,
- special education,
- speech and language therapy,
- tics,
- tourettes
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