The Inner Life of Children With Special Needs

by Varma, Ved Prakash

• ISBN13: 9781897635438
• ISBN10: 1897635435
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2009-12-07
• Publisher: Wiley

Summary

Most children have interesting interior lives that contain dreams, fantasies, hopes, fears, beliefs and their unconscious lives. This can be inferred from their preoccupations, stories, plays, games, conversations and behaviour. Because many children with special needs are emotionally confused, anxious and angry, their inner lives often contain secrets that may be permanent and damaging. These children nevertheless put out clear signals that they want to be understood.

Author Biography

Ved Prakash Varma is the editor of The Inner Life of Children with Special Needs, published by Wiley.

Table of Contents

Foreword	vii	(2)
Professor Cedric Cullingford
Contributors	ix	(2)
Acknowledgements	xi	(2)
Introduction	xiii
Ved P. Varma
Chapter 1 The Inner Life of Visually Impaired Children	1	(14)
Gianetta Corley
Linda Pring
Chapter 2 The Inner Life of Deaf Children	15	(12)
Patricia Kiff
David Bond
Chapter 3 The Secret Life of the Physically Disabled Child	27	(18)
Michael Smith
Chapter 4 The Inner Life of Children with Moderate Learning Difficulties	45	(18)
Helen Barrett
David Jones
Chapter 5 The Inner Life of Children with Profound and Multiple Learning Disabilities	63	(18)
Penny Lacey
Chapter 6 The Inner Life of Children with Autistic Difficulties	81	(14)
Jill Boucher
Chapter 7 The Inner Life of Children with Emotional and Behavioural Difficulties	95	(17)
Paul Cooper
Chapter 8 The Inner Life of the Dyslexic Child	112	(12)
Tim Miles
Chapter 9 The Inner Life of Youngsters with Specific Developmental Language Disorder	124	(21)
Wendy Rinaldi
Chapter 10 Diagnosing and Treating the Problems of Able Maladjusted Children	145	(10)
Ludwig F. Lowenstein
Chapter 11 The Inner Life of Children from Ethnic Minorities: The Impact of Cultural Differences	155	(15)
Ali El-Hadi
Chapter 12 The Art of Communicating with Secretive Children	170	(19)
Alice Morris
Index	189