Growing Up with Epilepsy provides parents with the tools needed to raise a child with epilepsy, to support his/her social development, provide effective discipline, and negotiate the educational system.
Book Description
Frequently Bought Together
Editorial Reviews
Review
"This book is an excellent reference to recommend to parents of children with epilepsy." -- Child Neuropsychology, 2004, Vol. 10, No. 4
About the Author
Lynn Bennett Blackburn, Ph.D. is a pediatric neuropsychologist at St. Louis Children's Hospital. She works with the families and children receiving care through the Pediatric Epilepsy Center, a joint program of Children's Hospital and Washington University School of Medicine, as well as serving on the Professional Advisory Board of the Epilepsy Foundation of the St. Louis Region. She has approached the task of creating a practical guide for parents from the perspective of the questions raised by the families she serves and her experience as a parent to her own children.
Product Details
Would you like to update product info or give feedback on images?
|
More About the Author
Discover books, learn about writers, read author blogs, and more.
Customer Reviews
|
Share your thoughts with other customers:
|
||||||||||||||||||||||
|
Most Helpful Customer Reviews
8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
An important tool for everyday living,
By Midwest Book Review (Oregon, WI USA) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Growing Up with Epilepsy: A Practical Guide for Parents (Paperback)
Parents who must deal with the daily unpredictability of seizures and the side effects of medication often find it confusing to understand what to expect. Growing Up With Epilepsy will appeal to busy parents who want a quick reference guide: information is organized in a manner easy to look up, chapters discuss social and behavioral as well as psychological concerns and issues, and parents receive basic tools to help their kids through all manner of concerns. An important tool for everyday living.
Share your thoughts with other customers: Create your own review
|
|
Inside This Book
(learn more)
First Sentence:
"TO UNDERSTAND EPILEPSY, you first need to understand how the brain works." Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
child with seizures, frontal problems, child with epilepsy, upper elementary years, frontal lobe problems, temporal dysfunction, children with epilepsy, neuropsychologic assessment, understanding epilepsy, pediatric psychologist, frontal dysfunction, word finding problems, left parietal lobe Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Epilepsy Foundation, New York, Attention Deficit, Epilepsy Goes, Hyperactivity Disorder, Child's Guide, Guilford Press New!
Books on Related Topics | Concordance | Text Stats Browse Sample Pages:
Front Cover | Table of Contents | First Pages | Index | Back Cover | Surprise Me!
"TO UNDERSTAND EPILEPSY, you first need to understand how the brain works." Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
child with seizures, frontal problems, child with epilepsy, upper elementary years, frontal lobe problems, temporal dysfunction, children with epilepsy, neuropsychologic assessment, understanding epilepsy, pediatric psychologist, frontal dysfunction, word finding problems, left parietal lobe Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Epilepsy Foundation, New York, Attention Deficit, Epilepsy Goes, Hyperactivity Disorder, Child's Guide, Guilford Press New!
Books on Related Topics | Concordance | Text Stats Browse Sample Pages:
Front Cover | Table of Contents | First Pages | Index | Back Cover | Surprise Me!
Citations (learn more)
This book cites 8
books:
See all 8 books this book cites
- Seizures and Epilepsy in Childhood: A Guide for Parents by Professor John M. Freeman MD on page 10, and page 11
- Seizures and Epilepsy in Childhood: A Guide (Johns Hopkins Press Health Book) by John M. Freeman on page 10, and page 11
- Lee: The Rabbit with Epilepsy (Special Needs Collection) by Deborah Moss on page 106
- Attention Deficit Disorder (Health Watch (Enslow)) by Susan Dudley Gold in Back Matter
- Your Defiant Child: Eight Steps to Better Behavior by Russell A. Barkley on page 119
See all 8 books this book cites
Books on Related Topics
(learn more)
|
What Other Items Do Customers Buy After Viewing This Item?
Tags Customers Associate with This Product(What's this?)Click on a tag to find related items, discussions, and people.
|
Sell a Digital Version of This Book in the Kindle Store
If you are a publisher or author and hold the digital rights to a book, you can sell a digital version of it in our Kindle Store.
Learn more
Customer Discussions
|
This product's forum
Active discussions in related forums
Search Customer Discussions
|
Related forums
|
