Spontaneous Cognitive Processes in Handicapped Children (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1989)

The thinking that began this book arose out of some dissatisfaction with the rela tively simplified, unidimensional model of development, which seems to have come to dominate the fields that address the needs of atypically developing chil dren. It seemed impossible to us that developmental differences could explain the range of learning and coping styles we have seen and read about in children iden tified as mentally retarded, slow learning, learning disabled, nonhandicapped, and gifted. If a typical model of development did not account for what children with handicaps to learning could do, when they would do it, and how they would accomplish it, such a model was not likely to imply anything important about how to intervene with and help them. Unfortunately, when we first began to examine this problem, turning away from a developmental model for interpreting atypical behavior meant turning toward a behaviorist one. This was not very satisfying either. Again the assumptions were bothersome. We were expected to accept that all children, this time at all ages as well as with all kinds of diagnoses, learned in essentially the same way with perhaps some variation in rate, reac tivity, reinforcement preferences, and, according to more liberal applications, expectancy. In our search for a more satisfying view of the atypical learner, we were lucky to be lost at the moment when cognitive psychology and systems theory were being found."

General

Imprint:	Springer-Verlag New York
Country of origin:	United States
Series:	Disorders of Human Learning, Behavior, and Communication
Release date:	November 2011
First published:	1989
Authors:	Miriam Cherkes-Julkowski • Nancy Gertner
Dimensions:	235 x 155 x 9mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	171
Edition:	Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1989
ISBN-13:	978-1-4613-8806-7
Categories:	Books > Social sciences > Psychology > Child & developmental psychology Books > Social sciences > Psychology > Cognition & cognitive psychology > General Books > Medicine > Clinical & internal medicine > Paediatric medicine > General
LSN:	1-4613-8806-6
Barcode:	9781461388067

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