Practical Guide to Congenital Developmental Disorders and Learning Difficulties [Mīkstie vāki]

"The book is an ambitious, extremely detailed and well-researched title set out in three broad and related sections... This book is a carefully structured contribution to multidisciplinary working with much to offer the education practitioner working in the SEND area." - John Perry, nasen Special

"This is a well-conceived and constructed book. The logically arranged content uses a solid educational process, designed to help the reader embed the issues discussed, throughout. It is designed to meet the needs of a new generation of health professionals in child assessment for learning difficulty related issues. This is particularly timely as new discoveries in neurology are accelerating understanding and earlier diagnosis. At the same time, Government policy is leading to an expanding workforce in public health, especially in the health visitors with most child and family contact. This increased workforce will be better placed to utilise the knowledge illuminated by a text of this kind." Dr Bill Whitehead, Assistant Subject Head, Nursing, Radiography and Healthcare Practice, University of Derby, UK

"This book is a veritable goldmine of practical information, useful as an everyday resource for specialists in the field and as an invaluable reference book for generalists, such as teachers, health visitors and school nurses. Anyone looking to advise service users about their rights will also find much food for thought in the amount of detail given, as the text traces the multiple changes in policy across the years. Whilst these mainly apply to England, much of the information is potentially useful as a general guide elsewhere. Above all, sound science and well considered underlying theory underpins the strongly ethical, human rights and social stance, which is threaded throughout the book." Emeritus Professor Dame Sarah Cowley, Florence Nightingale School of Nursing and Midwifery, Kings College London, UK.