The book provides tried and tested ideas for games and activities to develop the skills of any child with special needs. It also offers advice on behaviour management, coping with stress, and includes a comprehensive resources section.
Small Steps Forward Summary
Small Steps Forward: Using Games and Activities to Help Your Pre-School Child with Special Needs by Sarah Newman
British Medical Association Popular Medicine book of the Year 2000
Small Steps Forward Reviews
Revised edition of this work designed to provide parents and carers with information and ideas to encourage their child's development. -- Current Awareness Service The book is positive, accessible, easy to dip into and reflects real life... For parents dealing with the initial realization that their child has special needs I feel this book must be 10 out ot 10. -- National Childminding Association
About Sarah Newman
After a degree in History at Oxford University, Sarah Newman worked for ten years as an administrator and fund-raiser in higher education. Her first child was diagnosed as developmentally delayed at the age of one, and as autistic at three. She has two other children and lives in the New Forest.
Table of Contents
Foreword. How to use this book. Acknowledgements. 1. How to survive. 2. What everyone needs to know. 3. Cognitive development. 4. Language development. 5. Physical development. 6. Sensory development. 7. Social development. 8. Emotional development. 9. Additional practical advice. 10. The support your child should expect. Resources. Glossary.
Additional information
GOR001330573
9781853026430
1853026433
Small Steps Forward: Using Games and Activities to Help Your Pre-School Child with Special Needs by Sarah Newman
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