Psychological perspectives on childhood exceptionality : a handbook

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Psychological perspectives on childhood exceptionality : a handbook

edited by Robert T. Brown, Cecil R. Reynolds

(Wiley series on personality processes)

Wiley, c1986

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"Wiley-Interscience publication."

Includes bibliographies and indexes

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Description

This book presents current psychological perspectives on exceptional children. It is an attempt not only to organize and to summarize current knowledge but to help direct future research, theory and practice.

Table of Contents

  • ORIENTATIONS TOWARD PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECTS OF EXCEPTIONALITY: Exceptionality: Historical Antecedents and Present Positions
  • Reading and Evaluating Research on Exceptional Children
  • PERSPECTIVES ON GENERAL ISSUES REGARDING EXCEPTIONAL CHILDREN: Neuropsychological Bases of Exceptionality
  • Measurement and Assessment of Exceptional Children
  • The Observation and Classification of Exceptional Child Behavior
  • Etiology and Development of Exceptionality
  • Interface between Psychology and Education: Services and Treatments for Exceptional Children
  • Exceptional Individuals and the Family: Interactional Processes
  • PERSPECTIVES ON SPECIFIC AREAS OF EXCEPTIONALITY: CHARACTERISTICS, ETIOLOGIES AND TREATMENT: Positive Exceptionality: The Academically Gifted and the Creative
  • General Cognitive Deficits: Mental Retardation
  • Specific Learning Deficits: The Learning Disabled
  • Economic and Cultural Factors in Childhood Exceptionality
  • Attention Deficit Disorder
  • The Emotionally Exceptional
  • Children with Auditory and Visual Impairment
  • Childhood Speech and Language Disorders
  • Epilepsy and Other Neurological and Neuromuscular Handicaps
  • Author Index
  • Subject Index.

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