Children with Special Needs
- Children with Autism
- Marian Sigman
- Lisa Capps
- As they make sense of the many features of autism at every level of intellectual functioning across the life span, Marian Sigman and Lisa Capps weave together clinical vignettes, research findings, methodological considerations, and historical accounts. The result is a compelling, comprehensive view of the disorder, as true to human experience as it is to scientific observation.
- Paperback 1997 / Hardcover 1997
- Medicating Children
- Rick Mayes
- Catherine Bagwell
- Jennifer Erkulwater
- Mayes and his coauthors argue that a unique alignment of social and economic trends and incentives converged in the early 1990s with greater scientific knowledge to make ADHD the most prevalent pediatric mental disorder. This book is unique in that it integrates analyses of the clinical, political, historical, educational, social, economic, and legal aspects of ADHD and stimulant pharmacotherapy.
- Hardcover 2009
- The Science and Fiction of Autism
- Laura Schreibman
- In The Science and Fiction of Autism, one of the country's leading experts in behavioral treatments approaches autism through the context of its controversies, showing where extraordinary and unfounded claims have falsely raised hopes, stirred fears, and ruined lives.
- Hardcover 2005 / Paperback 2007
- Twenty-Two Years
- Stephen Richardson
- Helene Koller
- Twenty-Two Years presents the results of a unique longitudinal study of the first 22 years in the lives of more than 200 young people with varying degrees of mental retardation.
- Hardcover 1997