Your Child Has a Disability: A Complete Sourcebook of Daily and Medical Care [Paperback]

Mark, L., M.D. Batshaw (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: November 30, 1998

When a child is diagnosed with a disability, parentscan be overwhelmed by daily physical and emotional demands. This helpful volume offers expert advice on a wide range of medical and educational issues. And it provides coverage of the daily and long-term care requirements of disabilities such as

* mental retardation
* autism
* hearing impairment
* Down syndrome
* visual impairment
* communication disorders
* seizure disorders
* spina bifida
* multiple disabilities
* cerebral palsy
* muscular dystrophy

Detailed chapters explore behavior management, treatment, nutrition, dentistry, physical therapy, occupational therapy, and commonly used medicines. This essential resource answers families' questions and offers practical information for making the best possible caregiving decisions for a child's future.

Editorial Reviews

From Library Journal

Dividing his handbook into five parts, Batshaw, a pediatrician who works with children with developmental disabilities, discusses the diagnosis of a handicap, genetic and other causes of developmental disabilities, practical information on individual diseases and syndromes, approaches to therapy, and social, legal, and educational decisions with a disabled child. Additional readings amplify and enhance the content of each chapter. Batshaw presents a significant amount of material in a clear and concise manner, and his responsible, capable, and supportive approach will help parents meet the challenge of caring for a child with greater needs. Highly recommended.
-Kathryn Hammell Carpenter, Univ. of Illi nois, Chicago
Copyright 1991 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

About the Author

Dr. Batshaw joined the Children's National Medical Center in July, 1998, as the "Fight for Children" Chair of Academic Medicine and Chief Academic Officer; Director, Children's Research Institute; and Professor and Chairman of Pediatrics at George Washington University School of Medicine and Health Sciences in Washington, D.C. Previously he was the W.T. Grant Professor of Pediatrics and Neurology at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, Physician-in-Chief of children's Seashore House, and Chief of the Division of Child Development and Rehabilitation Medicine at the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia. Dr. Batshaw's experience includes 25 years of treating children with developmental disabilities. He is listed in Best Doctors in America. Dr. Batshaw is recognized as an international authority on inborn errors of metabolism and has received numerous major grants from the National Institutes of Health. He is a Fellow of the American Academy of Pediatrics and a member of the American Pediatric Society, the Society for Inherited Metabloic Disorders, and the Society for Developmental Pediatrics. He received a bachelor of arts degree from the University of Pennsylvania and a medical degree from the University of Chicago. He completed a residency in Pediatrics at the Hospital from Sick Children in Toronto and a postdoctoral fellowship at the Kennedy Krieger Institute of The Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore.

Product Details

• Paperback: 368 pages
• Publisher: Paul H Brookes Pub Co (November 30, 1998)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1557663742
• ISBN-13: 978-1557663740
• Product Dimensions: 9.5 x 7 x 0.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.2 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #4,014,796 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Your Child Has a Disability, January 12, 2000

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Debbie Stafford (Connecticut,USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Your Child Has a Disability: A Complete Sourcebook of Daily and Medical Care (Paperback)

I have a child with Cerebral Palsy. I found this book to be the best layman medical explaination of the disorder that I have read. I recommend it to family members to help explain the disability to other people.

5.0 out of 5 stars Your Child Has a Disability, January 24, 2002

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Theresa Seeley (APO, AE United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Your Child Has a Disability: A Complete Sourcebook of Daily and Medical Care (Paperback)

I use this book as a reference tool for children who have disabilities. The book is written in clear and concise language for anyone to understand. Many of my college students who work with young children have purchased this text. Excellent .... I recommend this book for anyone who wants to learn more about children.