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The Child With Special Needs: Encouraging Intellectual and Emotional Growth
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Stanley Greenspan, internationally known for his work with infants, young children, and their families, and his colleague, nationally recognized child psychologist Serena Wieder, have for the first time integrated their award-winning research and clinical experience into a definitive guide to raising children with special needs. In this essential work they lay out a comple
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Hardcover, 512 pages
Published
January 6th 1998
by Da Capo Lifelong Books
(first published January 5th 1998)
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This book is so packed full of information that I have been reading it for 3 months now. I can only read 5-10 pages at a time, implement what he talks about in those pages and them read a little more. I love the floor-time approach this book teaches. To draw the child into your world and learn to enjoy interaction.

Lots of good advice for parents of special needs kids in this book. My minor criticisms are that while the book claims to be for all special needs kids, it feels like it’s really aimed at kids on the autism spectrum, with other special needs as an afterthought. And the case studies if parents following the advice of the book and seeing huge progress with their kids, while meant to be inspiring, eventually feels like it takes on an undertone of blaming the parents of kids who don’t make huge prog
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This had nothing new for me. I would love to see an update, because I think there is much that can be added to make this a really useful book for parents. This may be useful as one of the first books after a diagnosis. It mostly focuses on IDD, but there are some other issues discussed as well. This was published early in the days of SPD and calls it SID. I could have given it more stars...it wasn't bad, just not what I was looking for.
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Thick, dense read. I've started and stopped a dozen times. Takes time to digest. I'm considering adding it to my collection of reference books (high praise - I'm picky about what I buy) mainly because I'll need to refer to parts of this work for years...as my children continue to develop.
Revelation: All communication comes from emotional experiences. Emotions are the basis of learning; feelings underlie cognitive learning.
What I like:
charts for observing your child,
Quick reference for floor tim ...more
Revelation: All communication comes from emotional experiences. Emotions are the basis of learning; feelings underlie cognitive learning.
What I like:
charts for observing your child,
Quick reference for floor tim ...more

I found this book very informative and very helpful. It broke down developmental milestones for intellectual and emotional growth that made it a lot easier for me to get a picture of where my son is and where he needs to go. It also has a lot of helpful suggestions for different disorders and challenges that arise when dealing with children with special needs. I would recommend this book to anyone who has contact with children with special needs.

Feb 21, 2008
Nicole Martin
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it was amazing
Recommends it for:
People working with special needs children.
Recommended to Nicole by:
A family I used to work with gave me a copy.
Greenspan has developed a really awesome approach to working with children with special needs. I have only used this model when working with children on the Autism spectrum, but it can be used for children with all kinds of challenges.

Jan 30, 2008
Elissa
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A must-read for anyone who lives or works with a child dealing with developmental or processing disorders. So... probably not many of you. :)

Aug 04, 2013
Carol Muleta
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This is an excellent resource for parents as they try to sort out their child's needs and devise a strategy for meeting them where they are.
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