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'[AN] IMPORTANT BOOK' TEMPLE GRANDINOver the course of her career, psychologist Joanne Ruthsatz has assembled the largest-ever research sample of child prodigies. Their accomplishments are epic. One could reproduce radio tunes by ear on a toy guitar at two years old....
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Ebury Digital
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2016-11-03
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This book discusses the main milestones of early brain development and the emergence of consciousness, within and outside the mother’s environment, with a particular focus on the preterm infant. These insights offer new perspectives on issues concerning fetal pain,...
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Springer
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2016-10-21
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One hundred and ten years ago, Maria Montessori, the first female physician in Italy, devised a very different method of educating children, based on her observations of how they naturally learn. In Montessori, Angeline Stoll Lillard shows that science has finally...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2016-10-03
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The book explores the lived reality of parenting and caring for children with autism in contemporary urban India. It is based on a qualitative, ethnographic study of families of children with autism as they negotiate the tricky terrain of identifying their child s...
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Springer
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2016-09-30
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This book traces the growing influence of ‘neuroparenting’ in British policy and politics. Neuroparenting advocates claim that all parents require training, especially in how their baby’s brain develops. Taking issue with the claims that ‘the first years last forever’...
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Palgrave Pivot
Parution :
2016-09-20
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Bridging psychological theory and educational practice, this is an innovative textbook on the emotional and social aspects of young people's development. Bosacki's Social Cognition in Middle Childhood and Adolescence, First Edition moves beyond tradition cognitivist...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2016-09-14
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'You know you’re getting old when you can pinch an inch on your forehead.' John Mendoza You might be getting a bit thin on top, plump at the middle and creaky around the knees, but that doesn’t mean you’ve forgotten how to enjoy yourself! This collection of witty...
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Summersdale
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2016-09-08
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This book offers a comprehensive overview of studies on youth agency across various parts of the world. It explores diverse perspectives on education, citizenship and future livelihoods, modernity and tradition, gender equality, and social norms and transformations as...
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Springer
Parution :
2016-09-01
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There has been dramatic social change with respect to lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) rights around the world in the last decade. Yet legal protection and inclusion remain limited for LGBT youth. The context of schooling is especially important-schools...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2016-08-18
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Dieses Buch beschäftigt sich mit der Entwicklung, Pilotierung und Evaluation eines theoriegeleiteten Steigerungssystems für den Erwerb der Verbzweitstellung bei spracherwerbsauffälligen Kindern auf der Grundlage des DYSTEL-Konzeptes. In zwei empirischen Studien...
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Springer
Parution :
2016-08-08
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Adolescence, Privacy, and the Law provides a foundation for understanding privacy rights and how they relate to adolescents. Roger Levesque argues that because privacy is actually an inherently social phenomenon, the ways in which adolescents' privacy needs and rights...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2016-08-03
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This invaluable reference introduces successful strengths-based programs for aiding families of young children in critical social contexts: family, school, community, and policy. The wide range of systems/contextual approaches described here are based in current...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2016-08-02
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Human beings have the most immature newborn and longest maturational schedule of any animal. Only 25% of the adult brain size is developed at full-term birth, and most of the brain's size and volume is co-constructed by caregivers in the first years of life. As a...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2016-07-01
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We are seeing a generation of children and teens with excessively high levels of stress, and, as a result, an explosion of health problems in young people today. But few parents recognise the 'hidden stressors' that their children are struggling with. This book,...
Editeur :
Yellow Kite
Parution :
2016-06-30
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This book gives an account of developmental language impairment from the perspective of language evolution. Components of language acquisition and specific language impairments can be mapped to stages in the evolutionary trajectory of language. Lian argues that the...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2016-06-27
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This book begins with a discussion of the human life cycle and then uses that discussion and other ideas to paint a general picture of what human lives are like. While the first part looks at human development and change, the second part of the book explores what...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2016-06-14
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This volume explores in depth how infants—perhaps as young as three months—develop the capacity to appreciate, participate in, and create humor. Engagingly written, it synthesizes theories of humor, its subtle complexities, and why it exists despite seeming to have...
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Springer
Parution :
2016-06-14
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This reference examines the wide-ranging impact of military
life on families, parenting, and child development. It examines the complex family
needs of this diverse population, especially as familiar issues such as trauma,
domestic violence, and child abuse manifest...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2016-06-10
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Music therapy is growing internationally to be one of the leading evidence-based psychosocial allied health professions, meeting needs right across the lifespan.Music therapy is a relational therapy in which the therapist and client collaborate to discover how music can...
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OUP Oxford
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2016-06-02
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Adolescence is a turbulent period to live through, and a time of importance and concern to parents, teachers, and social workers. Marking the transition from the world of childhood to adult life, the adolescent faces many challenges and opportunities, including forming...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2016-05-19
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