Development and Disabilities Intellectual, Sensory and Motor Impairments [Hardcover]

This book offers a 'multi-disability' approach to children with mental retardation, deafness, blindness and motor impairments.Development and Disabilities offers the first 'multi-disability' approach to children with mental retardation, deafness, blindness and motor impairments. After describing 'development' as both the child's own advances and changes-interactions with parents and families, this book examines the most exciting research on the development of children with these four disabilities. The final section then draws together these diverse findings, showing how development in mental retardation, deafness, blindness, and motor impairments is both 'the same and different', leading to important implications for researchers, family members, and practitioners.Development and Disabilities offers the first 'multi-disability' approach to children with mental retardation, deafness, blindness and motor impairments. After describing 'development' as both the child's own advances and changes-interactions with parents and families, this book examines the most exciting research on the development of children with these four disabilities. The final section then draws together these diverse findings, showing how development in mental retardation, deafness, blindness, and motor impairments is both 'the same and different', leading to important implications for researchers, family members, and practitioners.Development and Disabilities offers the first multi-disability developmental approach to children with mental retardation, deafness, blindness and motor impairments. The book is divided into three sections. Section 1 describes the organismic and contextual aspects of modern-day developmental approaches, along with such historical precursors as Werner, Piaget, and Vygotsky. Section 2 examines the most interesting aspects of development in each of the four disabilities. For each of these disabilities, the author describes studies related to child development, mother-chlcw