Helping Children with Nonverbal Learning Disabilities to Flourish A Guide for Parents and Professionals 1st Edition by Marilyn Martin ISBN ‎ 1843108585 ‎ 978-1843108580

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ISBN 10: 1843108585

ISBN 13:  ‎ 978-1843108580

Author: Marilyn Martin

When you continuously cannot find the bathroom in your best friend’s house, or you cannot print the letter ‘t’ when all your friends are writing volumes, you notice and you ask questions. So it was for Marilyn Martin’s daughter, Sara, who was diagnosed with Nonverbal Learning Disability (NLD). This book skilfully combines a comprehensive guide to NLD with the inspiring story of how Sara transformed herself from that young girl whose existence seemed darkened by learning difficulties into the capable young woman she is today. In Helping Children with Nonverbal Learning Disabilities to Flourish, Marilyn Martin presents a comprehensive developmental profile of children with NLD. She explores the controversies surrounding the disorder so parents and professionals can identify learners with NLD and insure they receive early intervention. Offering practical advice on NLD at home and at school, she describes step-by-step interventions for improving a range of skills from penmanship to social acumen. This book is essential reading for parents and professionals working with children with NLD.

Table of contents: 

Beginnings: Deciphering the Rosetta Stone

Chapter 2: What is a Nonverbal Learning Disability?

• Sara’s first year

• Developing the picture: A snapshot of a rare mind

Chapter 3: Side by Side: NLD and Reading Disabilities

• A low-incidence disability

• Dyslexia: A model for the development of useful interventions

• Problems with diagnosis and receiving services

Chapter 4: How to Recognize the Child with NLD at Different Ages

• Spellbound by words: The unexpected consequences of replacing physical dexterity with verbal deftness

• The armchair traveler is born: The infant with NLD

• The preschool years: Problems with play, self-help, and the beginning of social isolation

• Early readers who disappoint: Elementary school years

• Learning to navigate: Adolescence

Chapter 5: A Constructive Diagnosis and Remediation Plan

• Developing a method of remediation

• Special children need special parents

• The value of a diagnosis and obstacles to obtaining an accurate one

• The evaluation for a school-aged child: Private or public sector?

• Sara’s diagnosis story: Novelty as a possible wild card during assessment for individuals with NLD

Chapter 6: The Importance of the School Environment

• A picture of a model school

• What kinds of school environments best serve children with NLD?

• An ideal preschool

• An ideal elementary school

• High school

Chapter 7: The Importance of the Family

• Home environment

• Listen when they talk so you can interpret the world for them

• Familiarity as an antidote to novelty

• Dealing with homework

• Encouraging autonomy

• Helping the young adult with NLD learn to be a self-advocate

• Parents can make all the difference

Chapter 8: Charting Sara’s Language

• Using language to improve drawing and perception

• Experiencing how others feel through play-acting

• Moving beyond a literal interpretation

Chapter 9: Some Final Thoughts

• Seeing the third dimension

Chapter 10: A Sampler of Interventions

• Introduction

• Intervention 1: Common motor skills

• Intervention 2: Penmanship

• Intervention 3: Finding one’s way

• Intervention 4: Vocabulary and reading comprehension

• Intervention 5: Interpreting words and phrases literally

• Intervention 6: Social development

• Intervention 7: Mathematics instruction

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