Children with School Problems: A Physician's Manual
A comprehensive reference to help paediatricians and family physicians evaluate children with learning difficulties

1998, spiral bound, 260 pages
ISBN: 0-9682409-1-7
Price: $49.95
Member price: $42.50     

Children with School Problems is an essential tool for all physicians who work with children.

Physicians want to know more about learning disabilities, and parents want paediatricians and family physicians to provide more help when their kids struggle in school.

That’s why the Canadian Paediatric Society developed Children with School Problems, written and edited by the country’s leading experts in behavioural and developmental paediatrics. This 260-page manual contains four sections:

The Essentials reviews the scientific literature on learning disabilities, theoretical approaches to child development and skill acquisition, educational philosophy, and special education legislation in Canada.

Diagnostics contains practical information and tools for use in the physician’s office, including reviews of data gathering, the physical examination, differential diagnosis, academic skills, and medical investigations. This section features 20 pages of questionnaires that can be reproduced.

Management discusses feedback to parents and school, educational interventions, behavioural and medical management, and controversial therapies. It also includes advice on what parents and physicians can do to encourage reading, as well as chapters on learning disabilities in adolescence and adulthood.

Resources features a series of illustrative cases, a worksheet to help physicians put together their own referral teams using local resources, a glossary, and a thorough index for quick and easy reference.

The book was edited by Dr. A. Mervyn Fox, Emeritus Professor of Paediatrics, University of Western Ontario, and Dr. William J. Mahoney, Associate Professor of Paediatrics Emeritus, Faculty of Health Sciences, McMaster University. Five other developmental paediatricians contributed to this manual