Understanding Your Young Child with Special Needs explores the developmental impact of disability on normal stages of child development, and examines the complex nature of the emotional bonds between parents and their children with special needs. Placing the child and his or her personality, family life, feelings and behaviours in the foreground, Bartram addresses all the 'ordinary' challenges and tasks of parenting, such as sibling relationships, nursery and school, toilet training, and healthy aggression, as well as those that are of particular relevance to the parents of young children with special needs. This accessible book will provide a wealth of information to help parents of a child with special needs understand his or her development and their own relationship with the child, and will also be of interest to professionals working with babies and pre-school children with special needs.

Préface
Definitive, accessible guidance for parents, carers and educators on normal stages of child development in the context of disability or special needs

Auteur
Pamela Bartram trained as a child psychotherapist at the Tavistock Clinic, after beginning her clinical work as a music therapist.

Contenu
Foreword, Jonathan Bradley. Introduction. Chapter One: Expectations and Birth. Chapter Two: Getting Together. Chapter Three: Letting Go. Chapter Four: Boundaries and Behaviour. Chapter Five: Diagnosis, Testing, Treatment and Therapy. Chapter Six: Understanding Your Young Child with Autism. Chapter Seven: Play and Talking. Chapter Eight: Parents, Couples and Families. Chapter Nine: Brothers and Sisters. Chapter Ten: 'Surprised by Joy'. Appendix: 'Welcome to Holland', Emily Perl Kingsley. References. Further Reading. Helpful Organizations. Index.