Development and Disability [Paperback]

The fully revised second edition of this text provides a comprehensive and up-to-date review of how the psychological development of children is affected by disability.

Fully revised edition of Development and Handicap first published in 1987.
Reviews research on how the psychological development of children is affected by disability.
Now updated to take account of recent studies.Preface.

1. Children with Disabilities.

2. How Do Blind Children Develop?.

3. How Do Deaf Children Develop?.

4. How Do Children with Motor Disabilities Develop?.

5. How Do Children with Down's Syndrome Develop?.

6. How Do Children with Autism Develop?.

7. Practical Implications.

8. Theoretical Implications.

References.

Index.

“Vicky Lewis has written a must – a book that no one involved in the diagnosis, treatment, education or care of children with disabilities can neglect. . . . What is particularly impressive is Lewis’s ability not only to present all the essential facts of disability but at the same time to convey what it is like to be disabled. . . .The book is thus scholarly and at the same time human, and will be found invaluable by all who in any way care about children with disabilities.” Professor Rudolph Schaffer, University of Strathclyde <!--end-->

“The study of children with conditions such as blindness, deafness and autism is immensely important and revealing. Professor Lewis provides an up-to-date overview of such research that is authoritative, wide-ranging, and impressively free of prejudice. She sifts and clarifies the evidence in such a way as to reveal the subtlety (and at times, the ambiguity) of research findings about these and olÛ