Rethinking Learning Disabilities: Understanding Children Who Struggle in School - Hardcover

Waber, Deborah P.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1606235656 ISBN 13: 9781606235652

Verlag: Guilford Publications, 2010

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Argues that learning disabilities are not simply problems that children and adults have, but rather aspects of the developmental interaction between the individual and the world and a matter of adaptation, and presents case studies.

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Deborah P. Waber, PhD, is Senior Associate in Psychology in the Department of Psychiatry at Children’s Hospital Boston and Associate Professor of Psychology in the Department of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School. Her research includes innovative work on the development of children with learning and attention disorders and large-scale studies of the typical development of schoolchildren. Dr. Waber has published peer-reviewed studies on related topics, including neuropsychological effects of therapy in childhood cancer patients and outcomes in children with neurogenetic disorders, prematurity, and early malnutrition. In addition to her research work, she has a clinical practice as Senior Neuropsychologist in the Learning Disabilities Program in the Department of Neurology at Children’s Hospital Boston. She is also actively engaged in clinical training and mentoring young investigators.

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• Verlag: Guilford Publications
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2010
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1606235656
• ISBN 13: 9781606235652
• Einband: Gebundene Ausgabe
• Anzahl der Seiten: 241
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