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Different Minds 2/e

Gifted Children with ADHD, ASD, and Other Dual Exceptionalities
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In this fully updated second edition, this book provides an insight into the challenges and benefits specific to gifted children with attention difficulties. Recognising the different kinds and levels of giftedness, it explains why certain children are gifted and how giftedness is manifested, with each chapter addressing the relevance of a specific topic for children with AD/HD and Asperger Syndrome. Lovecky guides parents and professionals through methods of diagnosis and advises on how best to nurture individual needs, positive behaviour and relationships at home and at school. Lovecky explores concepts such as asynchrony and the effects of such `uneven development on children, using case studies to illustrate emotional, intellectual, creative and social development. She also highlights the inadequate measures currently in place to assist parents and teachers and goes on to clearly define what is required to understand and help these children so that their needs can be met more positively in the future. Different Minds, with its wealth of practical and background information, is essential reading for all those who live or work with gifted children with attention difficulties.

Deirdre V. Lovecky PhD is a clinical child psychologist at the Gifted Resource Center of New England. She is a qualified psychotherapist and consultant, specialising in the needs of gifted children, adolescents and their families.

An insight for parents and professionals into the challenges and benefits specific to gifted children with attention difficulties

•The first edition has sold almost 12,000 copies. This second edition, fully updated to reflect the DSM-V terminology, will replace the first edition.

•Unique - AD/HD or Asperger Syndrome are frequently associated with giftedness and there is no other book on this topic

•Practical and accessible - a helpful guide for parents, teachers and other professionals

•Authoritative - written by a qualified psychologist with extensive experience of working with gifted children

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