Ellen Braaten, Brian Willoughby

Bright Kids Who Can't Keep Up

Help Your Child Overcome Slow Processing Speed and Succeed in a Fast-Paced World

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Produktbeschreibung

Do you find yourself constantly asking your child to "pick up the pace"? Does he or she seem to take longer than others to get stuff done--whether completing homework, responding when spoken to, or getting dressed and ready in the morning?

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Guilford Publications
• Seitenzahl: 207
• Erscheinungstermin: 17. Juli 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 236mm x 158mm x 21mm
• Gewicht: 413g
• ISBN-13: 9781462515493
• ISBN-10: 1462515495
• Artikelnr.: 40032226

Autorenporträt

Ellen Braaten, PhD, is Director of the Learning and Emotional Assessment Program (LEAP) at Massachusetts General Hospital and Assistant Professor of Psychology at Harvard Medical School. The coauthor of Straight Talk about Psychological Testing for Kids, Dr. Braaten lives with her family in Boston. Brian Willoughby, PhD, is a Staff Psychologist at LEAP and a faculty member at Harvard Medical School. Dr. Willoughby specializes in neuropsychological assessments of children and adolescents with learning, developmental, and emotional concerns. He is married and lives in Boston.

Inhaltsangabe

I. Understanding Processing Speed
1. If My Kid Is So Smart, Why Is He So Slow?
2. My Child Doesn't Seem to Be Able to Keep Up . . . Now What Do I Do?
3. So What, Exactly, Is Processing Speed?
II. Helping Your Child Keep Up in Daily Life
4. Processing Speed in the Family
5. Processing Speed at Home
6. Processing Speed in the Classroom
7. Processing Speed and Social Relationships
8. The Emotional Costs of Slow Processing Speed
III. Staying Informed
9. Pulling It All Together: Formally Assessing Processing Speed
Resources
Index