Discovering the Unique Child We Can Do It: Discovering the Unique Child We Can Do It

This Book is about tapping the Potential of a unique child, that needs positive and constructive guidance to nurture a his/her strength and interest and eventually groom him/her to their Maximum Prowess of talent, gift and Potential. Considering their Mental age and chronological age. It highlights about Exploring the unique child and discovering what they love doing and building on that passion to develop their capabilities. It brings us to the types of play they need to engage in to facilitate their hidden strengths. it digress children's developmental abilities in areas of spatial awareness, bodily kinaesthetic, musical, interpersonal, intrapersonal and naturalistic. It elaborates on these eight areas of intelligence where an individual child is bound to excel in one or more areas of intelligence. The book also tals about disable children because not all children will have the same ability. the variations in ability renders a fraction of the child population to have learning difficulties. So the Author balanced the ordinary child with no or less learning issues with children who are detected to have learning issues. it goes on to talk about related mental health issues that engulfs a family when a child is finally diagnosed with the following; Autism, Asperger's syndrome, Attention deficit Hyperactive disorder and other related learning difficulty and disability issues. The individual adults in the family goes through a phase of denial and subsequent depression that can be serious. This sometimes tend to affect family lives in terms of quality and standards of living. It explains all the stages of grieve by Kluber Ross and also gives a picture of how mental health plays an important role and dynamics in exploring and discovering the unique child in our care. It goes on to explain the types of depression and some statistics surrounding it. It is alarming to read about some of the written statistics of suicide relating to depression and how family battles it...