| Description |
1 online resource (211 pages) |
| Contents |
1. Introduction -- 2. Markers of NVLD within a developmental framework -- 3. What is a nonverbal learning disability (NVLD) -- 4. The etiology and pathophysiology of NVLD -- 5. The initial contact and the intake process -- 6. Screening and diagnostic assessments for NVLD -- 7. Reading and interpreting the neuropsychological assessment report -- 8. The need for early assessment and accurate treatment -- 9. Working with a consistent psychological theory -- 10. Creating a treatment plan and team -- 11. Working with your patient’s family -- 12. Learning from our patients -- 13. Choosing what to work on first in therapy/tutoring -- 14. The Brooklyn Learning Center model -- 15. Specific interventions -- 16. Conclusions |
| Summary |
This unique volume explores issues related to working with children who have nonverbal learning disability (NVLD). It examines how a child's psychology - thoughts, feelings, beliefs - affects his or her functioning and learning. In addition, the book addresses how a child's experiences are processed through individual personality, psychology, culture, environment and economic circumstances, and family dynamics. Using these psychological organizing principles, the book describes how to work most effectively with young patients with NVLD. It offers a new model and definition for understanding NVLD, emphasizing its core deficit of visual-spatial processing. In addition, this book addresses efforts to rename NVLD to developmental visual-spatial disorder (DVSD). It describes the 11 possible subtypes as including a primary deficit in visual-spatial processes and impairment in several additional functional domains, including executive functioning, social/emotional deficits, academic achievement, and motor coordination. The book highlights the need for psychologically minded treatment and provides specific intervention guidelines. It details how to conduct the intake process and create a treatment plan and team and offers practical suggestions for working with a patient's family members. In addition, the book addresses the importance of working with a consistent psychological theory, such as control mastery theory (CMT). It describes the Brooklyn Learning Center Model for treating NVLD and offers guidelines for interventions to support patients academically. The book provides a comprehensive approach to the neuropsychological assessment of NVLD as well as examples of visual-spatial, sensory perception, executive functioning, academics, social/emotional deficits and motor coordination interventions, and all forms used to gather information from patients. Key areas of coverage include: Definition of nonverbal learning disability (NVLD). Efforts toward inclusion in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual (DSM) and for renaming it to a developmental visual-spatial disorder (DVSD) Guide to general diagnostic testing and assessment. Developing a treatment plan and team for NVLD patients. NVLD therapy and tutoring priorities. NVLD and Developmental Visual-Spatial Disorder in Children is an essential reference for clinicians, therapists, and other professionals as well as researchers, professors, and graduate students in school and clinical child psychology, special education, speech-language therapy, developmental psychology, pediatrics, social work as well as all interrelated disciplines |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Nonverbal learning disabilities -- Diagnosis
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Nonverbal learning disabilities -- Treatment
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Clinical child psychology.
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Child psychology.
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School psychology.
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Child psychiatry.
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Speech disorders.
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Clinical psychology.
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Developmental psychology.
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Child Psychiatry
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Speech Disorders
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Psychology, Clinical
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Child psychiatry
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Child psychology
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Clinical psychology
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Developmental psychology
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Pediatrics
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School psychology
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Speech disorders
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Melcher, Miranda
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Margolis, Amy
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Davis, John M
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| ISBN |
9783030561086 |
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3030561089 |
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