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
