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Books > Health, Home & Family > Family & health > Coping with personal problems > Coping with disability
This easy-to-read guide offers a complete overview of Nonverbal
Learning Disabilities (NLDs) and the wide variety of symptoms that
different types of NLD present. Maggie Mamen enables readers to
select the most relevant strategies for coping with and managing
their particular symptoms. She provides a wealth of practical
advice on key skills such as developing written and verbal
communication, understanding social clues, managing behaviour,
self-regulation and improving organization. She also covers
relevant teaching methods for the classroom. This practical and
accessible introduction is an essential guide for those families
and professionals working with children and adults with NLDs.
The last decade has seen increased recognition of the rights of
persons with disabilities (PWDs) in Mongolia and the rest of the
world. Yet, there is a call to put these rights into practice. This
report presents data and information about the current living
conditions and challenges faced by persons with disabilities in
Mongolia. It summarizes the latest findings from a five-year
project of the Asian Development Bank and the Government of
Mongolia aiming to address the need for community-based services
and support for PWDs. Key policy implications are identified for
the project, which builds on the Law on the Rights of Persons with
Disabilities and covers the period 2018-2022.
Author Marilyn Martin's daughter Sara was diagnosed with Nonverbal
Learning Disability (NLD). Marilyn offers a comprehensive
developmental profile of children with NLD and explores the
controversies surrounding the condition so parents and
professionals can identify learners with NLD and ensure they
receive early intervention. Offering practical advice on NLD at
home and at school, the book describes step by step interventions
for improving a range of skills from penmanship to social acumen.'
- Autism Us 'Marilyn Martin's book Helping Children with Nonverbal
Learning Disorder to Flourish is an exciting and essential new
addition to the literature. Martin shines in her ability to match
interventions to a broad range of problems and examples abound in
every chapter. Clear, concise, and detailed explanations are given
so that the interventions can be applied skillfully. Each
intervention is presented in a terrifically useful and usable
format that includes the problem, strengths available, proposed
solution, how the solution can be generalized, the goal of the
intervention, and a very up-to-date and helpful listing of relevant
resources.' - from the Foreword by Michele Berg, Director, Center
for Learning Disorders, Family Service and Guidance 'Imagine
getting lost in your own home, forgetting where the bathroom is at
work, or being unable to operate a simple door knob. These are just
some of the myriad challenges faced by individuals with a Nonverbal
Learning Disability, or NLD. In Helping Children With Non-Verbal
Learning Disabilities to Flourish, Marilyn Martin gives an overview
of NLD and strategies for teaching individuals with this
disability. Using examples of her struggles to help her daughter,
who has NLD, as well as current research, she has written a book
helpful for both parents and professionals. In addition to her
experiences with her daughter, Martin is a Learning Specialist with
more than fifteen years of experience working with students who
have dyslexia, NLD, and other learning disorders. This book is a
good introduction to NLD and interventions for treating it. As it
gains recognition as a distinct learning disorder, interventions
and informative books, like this one, will open doors, literally
and figuratively, for families and individuals touched by NLD.' -
Foreword Reviews 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.
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