Disorders of Learning in Childhood

Presents a comprehensive and interdisciplinary approach to understanding and diagnosing learning disabilities in children. With emphasis on those disorders most frequently seen in the clinic and classroom, the text surveys clinically-based classifications of learning disorders and offers general principles of diagnosis and management from biological, psychological, social and educational perspectives. Contains specific recommendations for management, including educational remediation, the use of drugs and psychological therapies. The coverage includes a broad range of opinions to provide alternative theoretical viewpoints and ideas. It concludes with a discussion of future research trends in the neurosciences that will have implications for learning disorders. A GENERAL VIEW OF DISORDERS OF LEARNING.

The Problem of Definition.

Clinical Classification of Disorders of Learning.

Subgroup Patterns of Neuropsychological Dysfunction.

Prevalence of Disorders of Learning.

PRINCIPLES OF MANAGEMENT.

Principles of Educational and Psychological Diagnosis.

Principles of Psychiatric and Neurological Diagnosis.

Principles of Educational Remediation.

Drugs Affecting Learning and Memory.

Principles of Psychotherapeutic Management.

Prevention of Disorders of Learning.

CLINICAL PATTERNS IN DISORDERS OF LEARNING.

Specific Language Disability.

Effects of Poverty, Cultural Differences, and InappropriateStimulation.

Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder.

The Organic Group.

Gilles de la Tourette's Syndrome.

Autism.

FUTURE DIRECTIONS FOR SERVICE AND RESEARCH.

Future Directions for Service and Research.

Appendices.

References.

Author Index.

Subject Index.

ARCHIE A. SILVER is a Distinguished Scholar, Professor of Psychiatry, Director of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, and Codirector of the Center for Infant and Child Development at the University of South Florida, College of Medicine. He is among the Best Doctors in America, a medical referral service that refers the top physicians in the country.

ROSA A. HAGIN is Research Professor of Psychology at New York University School of Medicine and Professor Emerita at Fordham University, where she founded the School Consultation Center, which is named in her honor.