Description
Book SynopsisUnderstanding 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 inte
Table of Contents
1. A Rose is a Rose but what is Intellectual Disability?
Ciro Ruggerini and Antonina Pellegrino
2. Is Intelligence a General Mental Capacity?
Margherita Orsolini, Francesca Federico and Sergio Melogno
3. Assessments of Children with Developmental Delays and Intellectual Disability
Margherita Orsolini, Sara Conforti, Sergio Melogno
4. Intervention to Empower Children’s Learning
Margherita Orsolini and Sergio Melogno
5. Attachment and Intellectual Disability: Promoting Secure Attachment in Relationships
Furio Lambruschi, Ciro Ruggerini, and Melvin Piro
6. Not Just Telling: Narratives and the Construction of Shared Understanding in Interaction
Marilena Fatigante, Samantha Salomone, Margherita Orsolini
7. Personal Identity, Desire, Life Project
Ciro Ruggerini, Stefania Musci, Aldo Moretti
