Stanley Greenspan, internationally known for his work with
infants, young children, and their families, and his colleague,
nationally recognized child psychologist Serena Wieder, have for
the first time integrated their award-winning research and clinical
experience into a definitive guide to raising children with special
needs. In this essential work they lay out a complete, step-by-step
approach for parents, educators, and others who work with
developmental problems. Covering all kinds of disabilitiesincluding
autism, PPD, language and speech problems, Down syndrome, cerebral
palsy, and ADDthe authors offer a new understanding of the nature
of these challenges and also specific ways of helping children
extend their intellectual and emotional potential. The authors
first show how to move beyond labels to observe the unique
profilestrengths and problemsof the individual child. Next, they
demonstrate the techniques necessary to help the child not only
reach key milestones but also develop new emotional and
intellectual capacities. Greenspans well-known floortime approach
enables parents, as well as clinicians, to use seemingly playful
interactions that help children actually move up the development
ladder and often master creative and abstract thinking formerly
thought beyond their reach. Including vivid case histories, the
book also offers deep and compassionate understanding of the
stresses and rewards involved in raising a child with special
needs. whose amazing work with autistic and other special needs
children is nationally known, and his colleague, child psychologist
Serena Wieder, have integrated a lifetime of research and clinical
practice into a single, comprehensive guide for parents. Covering
all kinds of disabilitiesincluding cerebral palsy, autism,
retardation, ADD, PDD, and language problemsthe book offers
specific ways of helping all children reach their full intellectual
and emotional potential. First the authors show how to move beyond
the label and observe the strengths and problems of the particular
child and the key milestones that must be reached. Next, they move
step by step through the techniques necessary to help the child
reach these milestones and show how to tailor these to each child.
Finally, with a deep and compassionate understanding they outline
the marital, educational, and social stresses and rewards in
raising a special needs child.
關於作者:
Stanley I. Greenspan, M.D., author of the widely used and
praised books The Challenging Child and with Serena Wieder, Ph.D.
Engaging Autism, is Clinical Professor of Psychiatry and Pediatrics
at George Washington University Medical School and lives in
Bethesda, Maryland. Serena Wieder, Ph.D., Associate Editor of the
Journal of Developmental and Learning Disorders, is co-author with
Dr. Greenspan of The Child with Special Needs and a close colleague
of Dr. Greenspan''s in all his work in the field of autism.