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Bringing together research on how the brain learns, this resource helps educators recognize, understand, and teach the growing numbers of children with more than one condition or disorder.
Chapter 1: Defining Overlapping and Co-Existing Conditions
Defining Overlapping and Co-Existing Conditions
Defining overlapping and co-existing conditions
This chapter sets the scene for the rest of the book by:
- presenting case studies of two children as illustrations of overlapping and co-existing disorders
- explaining how the terms used to describe childhood disorders have changed over time
- discussing the meaning of overlapping disorders and ones that co-exist
- defining the four main groupings of developmental disorders that are the focus of this book.
What's in a Label?
It is a comparatively recent phenomenon that children with developmental disorders may be given not just one diagnosis but two or more. This has happened at a time when the number of terms being used to describe different disorders has increased. For instance, ‘specific learning difficulties’ now covers not just dyslexia, but dyspraxia, dyscalculia ...
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