Stephen M. Camarata

Late-Talking Children, revised and expanded edition (eBook, ePUB)

Understanding Delays, Avoiding Misdiagnoses, and Navigating the Educational System: A Guide for Parents, Clinicians, and Educators

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

A revised and expanded edition of the bestselling guide to late-talking children for parents, clinicians, and educators, from a leading authority on development and disabilities. Every year in America, more than half a million parents of late-talking children face agonizing questions: What should I do if my two- or even three-year old has not yet begun to talk? Should I worry that my child is autistic or intellectually disabled? Are expensive therapies or medications needed? Will my child ever speak normally? In this revised and expanded edition of the essential resource on the subject, Late-Talking Children, Stephen Camaratathe parent of a late-talking child and a late talker himselfprovides clear, sensible, and compassionate answers for parents, clinicians, and educators, drawing on his more than three decades of experience diagnosing and treating the late-talking syndrome as well as the best science available today. This book provides parents with answers about their late-talking child and includes advice on how to navigate confusing health care and education systems. It offers an extensive update on autism spectrum disorder, newly developed interventions, updated criteria for determining whether a child's late-talking is a symptom or a stage, and more importantly, if it is a symptom, how to be confident in choosing treatment that will optimize intervention. This expanded version also includes new information about the various clinicians whose expertise may be beneficial to parents seeking answers for their late-talking child. This includes pediatricians, child psychiatrists, psychologists, occupational therapists, special educators, and speech language pathologists. A highly valuable resource for a commonly misunderstood issue, Late-Talking Children is the definitive guide for helping a toddler or preschooler who comes to speech late, providing clear and useful answers for parents, educators, and clinicians alike.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: MIT Press
• Seitenzahl: 280
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. Mai 2025
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780262382229
• Artikelnr.: 72257137

Autorenporträt

Stephen M. Camarata is Professor in the Department of Hearing and Speech Sciences at Vanderbilt School of Medicine. He is the author of Late Talking Children: A Symptom or a Stage? (MIT Press) and The Intuitive Parent. He has a regular blog on Psychology Today and has served as a panel member on the US National Academy of Science, Medicine, and Engineering and at the National Institutes of Health.