Helping a child with nonverbal learning disorder or Asperger's disorder: a parent's guide

✍ Scribed by Stewart, Kathryn

• Publisher: New Harbinger Publications
• Year: 2007
• Tongue: English
• Edition: 2nd ed
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

An overview of nonverbal learning disorder and Asperger's disorder -- What are nonverbal learning disorder and Asperger's disorder? -- Areas of strength and weakness -- Why it's important to correctly assess the child with NLD or AD -- The effects of nonverbal learning disorder and Asperger's disorder -- Speaking a different language -- Lost in space -- Roots of the matter -- Now what? Intervention and program planning -- Addressing deficits in organizational skills and information processing -- Learning to learn -- Bodies in motion -- Social competency -- What does the future hold?;Provides an overview of Asperger's Syndrome and nonverbal learning disorders, offers advice to parents on how to recognize the symptoms of the disorders, and suggests intervention strategies for addressing deficits in visual and spatial functioning, organizational skills, and information processing.

✦ Table of Contents

An overview of nonverbal learning disorder and Asperger's disorder --
What are nonverbal learning disorder and Asperger's disorder? --
Areas of strength and weakness --
Why it's important to correctly assess the child with NLD or AD --
The effects of nonverbal learning disorder and Asperger's disorder --
Speaking a different language --
Lost in space --
Roots of the matter --
Now what? Intervention and program planning --
Addressing deficits in organizational skills and information processing --
Learning to learn --
Bodies in motion --
Social competency --
What does the future hold?

✦ Subjects

Asperger's syndrome in children;Nonverbal learning disabilities;Electronic books