Helping a Child With Nonverbal Learning Disorder of Asperger's Disorder: A Parent's Guide
The book offers readers ways to evaluate their child's strengths and weaknesses in areas such as visual and spatial functioning, writing problems, information processing and organizational skills, social and emotional capabilities, language skills, and interactive abilities. It offers specific strategies for intervening and helping the child to cope with these obstacles, such as teaching the child how to socialize with humor and empathy, alternatives for learning to write, tips for organizing...
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The book offers readers ways to evaluate their child's strengths and weaknesses in areas such as visual and spatial functioning, writing problems, information processing and organizational skills, social and emotional capabilities, language skills, and interactive abilities. It offers specific strategies for intervening and helping the child to cope with these obstacles, such as teaching the child how to socialize with humor and empathy, alternatives for learning to write, tips for organizing daily activities, multi-tasking, and more.
Preface VAn Overview of Nonverbal Learning Disorder and Asperger's DisorderWhat Are Nonverbal Learning Disorder and Asperger's Disorder? 3Areas of Strength and Weakness 30Why It's Important to Correctly Assess the Child with NLD or AD 48The Effects of Nonverbal Learning Disorder and Asperger's DisorderSpeaking a Different Language: Social Skills Development and Social and Emotional Functioning 67Lost in Space: Visual-Spatial Processing and Sensory Integration 82Roots of the Matter: Information Processing and Organizational Problems 88What Now? Interventions and Program PlanningAddressing Deficits in Organizational Skills and Information Processing 99Learning to Learn: Interventions for Successful Learning Experiences 122Bodies in Motion: Addressing Deficits in Visual-Spatial Processing and Sensory-Motor Integration 150Social Competency: Issues of the Self, Others, and Self-Esteem 162What Does the Future Hold? 194Resources 209Classroom Wish List 215Activities for Children with NLD or AD 218Information Processing Deficits 221Orion Academy's Social Skills and Transitional Program Outline and Goals 225References 234
