Helping Children Learn and Grow

This concise and highly informative reference book is designed to help parents educators and other concerned adults recognize and understand the various developmental stages children go through as they grow as well as difficulties they can encounter along the way. It is a laymans guide to developmental behavioral and mental health conditions to be alert to in children from birth through the teens. The descriptions and characteristics in these chapters are not meant to diagnose but to increase awareness of what is expected at each major developmental stage as well as of some of the deviations to look out for. In addition to covering childrens developmental milestones and the typical growth steps at each stage special topics addressed include ADD/ADHD autism anxiety and depression bipolar disorder microcephaly hypotonia hypertonia seizures chromosome abnormalities and down syndrome.