The Child with Special Needs: Encouraging Intellectual and Emotional Growth (A Merloyd Lawrence Book) by Stanley I. Greenspan

by Stanley I. Greenspan

Excellent Book

Genres: Parenting, Autistic Spectrum Disorder, Nonfiction, Mental Health, Education, Psychology

Hardcover

First published January 5, 1998

About the author

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanley...

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Stanley Greenspan (June 1, 1941 – April 27, 2010)[1] was an American child psychiatrist and clinical professor of Psychiatry, Behavioral Science, and Pediatrics at George Washington University Medical School. He was best known for developing the floortime approach for attempting to treat children with autistic spectrum disorders and developmental disabilities.[2]

He was Chairman of the Interdisciplinary Council on Developmental and Learning Disorders and also a Supervising Child Psychoanalyst at the Washington Psychoanalytic Institute. A graduate of Harvard College and Yale Medical School,[2] Greenspan was the founding president of Zero to Three: National Center for Infants, Toddlers, and Families and former director of the National Institute of Mental Health's Clinical Infant Developmental Program and Mental Health Study Center.[3]

Reviews

[Alaina · Rating 5 out of 5]

This book is so packed full of information that I have been reading it for 3 months now. I can only read 5-10 pages at a time, implement what he talks about in those pages and them read a little more. I love the floor-time approach this book teaches. To draw the child into your world and learn to enjoy interaction.

[Joyce L · Rating 5 out of 5]

Learn about floortime and how you can do so much to work with a child with special needs. Can we clone Dr. Greenspan?

[Scot · Rating 4 out of 5]

Lots of good advice for parents of special needs kids in this book. My minor criticisms are that while the book claims to be for all special needs kids, it feels like it’s really aimed at kids on the autism spectrum, with other special needs as an afterthought. And the case studies if parents following the advice of the book and seeing huge progress with their kids, while meant to be inspiring, eventually feels like it takes on an undertone of blaming the parents of kids who don’t make huge progress fir it trying hard enough.

[Karin · Rating 2 out of 5]

This had nothing new for me. I would love to see an update, because I think there is much that can be added to make this a really useful book for parents. This may be useful as one of the first books after a diagnosis. It mostly focuses on IDD, but there are some other issues discussed as well. This was published early in the days of SPD and calls it SID. I could have given it more stars...it wasn't bad, just not what I was looking for.

[Meg · Rating 2 out of 5]

This book would have been more beneficial if my child was younger....geared for younger children.

[Michelle · Rating 5 out of 5]

Thick, dense read. I've started and stopped a dozen times. Takes time to digest. I'm considering adding it to my collection of reference books (high praise - I'm picky about what I buy) mainly because I'll need to refer to parts of this work for years...as my children continue to develop.

Revelation: All communication comes from emotional experiences. Emotions are the basis of learning; feelings underlie cognitive learning.

What I like:
charts for observing your child,
Quick reference for floor time (a systematic way of working with a child to help him climb the developmental ladder),
Strategies for specific sensory difficulties at every milestone,
Great case examples,
Recommended for families that deal with autism like behaviors, but not autism. Greenspan and Wieder go to great lengths to explain and address struggles that are typically associated with autism but in fact occur in many, many children with "individual differences". A breath of fresh air.

Unexpected treat:
I'm reading for my son, but I'm learning about myself, my parents, my husband, and my other children.

Recommended by Selective Mutism Group

[Becky · Rating 4 out of 5]

I found this book very informative and very helpful. It broke down developmental milestones for intellectual and emotional growth that made it a lot easier for me to get a picture of where my son is and where he needs to go. It also has a lot of helpful suggestions for different disorders and challenges that arise when dealing with children with special needs. I would recommend this book to anyone who has contact with children with special needs.

[Nicole Martin · Rating 5 out of 5]

Greenspan has developed a really awesome approach to working with children with special needs. I have only used this model when working with children on the Autism spectrum, but it can be used for children with all kinds of challenges.

[Michelle · Rating 4 out of 5]

His floor time approach is interesting and if you have the time a good approach.

[Elissa]

A must-read for anyone who lives or works with a child dealing with developmental or processing disorders. So... probably not many of you. :)

[Melissa · Rating 4 out of 5]

A lot of great ideas in here.

[Andrea · Rating 3 out of 5]

Brings back memories of child development classes in college. Written with clear milestones, steps and concepts using simple-to-complex strategies.

[Carol Muleta]

This is an excellent resource for parents as they try to sort out their child's needs and devise a strategy for meeting them where they are.

[Lisa]

recommended by a developmental psychologist