Family & Relationships : Child Development

Incorporating groundbreaking scientific findings on brain development, How to Raise a Brighter Child will help you boost your child's potential from birth. Specific early learning techniques aid your child's development, in his or her own personal style - and at the appropriate speed. These are not formal lessons. Most are fascinating games. And they work! more...

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Explains the development of values and morals, why parents and family are most often the strongest influence, how changes in society have altered the means for teaching those traits, and calls for integrated parent, teacher and community efforts to raise kids of character. more...

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At three, Ben still hadn't started talking. Karen Foli took her son to a speech and hearing clinic. The clinicians found Ben's speech was delayed by one to two years. Karen learned of APD, auditory processing disorder - the aural equivalent of dyslexia. Here's their story, illuminating the diagnosis and treatment of auditory processing disorder. more...

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Paving the way for understanding. This work is a definitive look at learning disabilities and the brain from two neurologists who specialise in clarifying the help parents need to get and give their children. Parents and doctors often treat learning disability based on behaviour rather than what is actually occurring in the brain. A diagnosis of ADHD can stem from many things and medication won't cure the fact that the child in question may have a sensory impairment (hearing/vision) or a brain that isn't wired to retain information for longer than 10 minutes without some kind of stimulating break. Two extremely simple examples: the Eides have written comprehensively on every kind of learning difficulty, from dyslexia to dysgraphia, and even the issues provoked by the notion of "giftedness". "The Mislabelled Child" is a complete, ordered look at these disorders from two experienced neuropsychologists who have pioneered the study of (as well as being parents of) gifted or learning disabled children. It provides an answer to the parents of the millions of children with significant learning and behavioural problems; to the teachers who are responsible for their education; to home schooling families who have been unable to find the requisite help within the system; and to the many therapists and other health professionals whose mission is to care for them. more...

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Children who develop a healthy balance of mind and spirit enter adulthood with higher self-esteem, better able to respond to life's challenges. Many parents wish to heighten their children's spiritual awareness but have been unable to find good resources. Nurturing Spirituality in Children offers scores of simple lessons that parents can teach to their children in less than ten minutes at a time. more...

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