Development and Disabilities offers the first" multi-disability" developmental approach to
children with mental retardation, deafness, blindness and motor impairments. The book is …

Reviews research on the development of blind children, deaf children, and children with
spina bifida, cerebral palsy, Down's syndrome, and autism. In addition, the author includes …

The education of children with visual impairments or blindness combined with other
disabilities is increasingly recognized as one of the most compelling and challenging …

The first chapter of the book offers an introduction to the field of developmental disabilities,
setting out some major guiding ideas and facts, incidence and prevalence figures …

The chapters in this volume are drawn from the presentations delivered at a symposium on
Developmental Disabilities in the Preschool Child. This sym posium was held under the …

Development and handicap. Development and handicap. Citation Lewis, V. (1987).
Development and handicap. Basil Blackwell. Abstract How do sensory, mental and physical …

This authoritative handbook reviews the breadth of current knowledge about developmental
disabilities: neuroscientific and genetic foundations; the impact on health, learning, and …

Babies and preschool children with severe visual disabilities have been studied in a
developmentally orientated clinical research setting. Severe congenital visual disability …

Issues in the Developmental Approach to Mental Retardation is one of the first books
exclusively devoted to applying the theories, findings and approaches used in work with …

To understand the ecology of parenting children with disabilities, one must first appreciate
certain societal changes. Since the 1970s, changes have arisen in most Western societies in …