The aim of this book is to provide busy teachers with a user-friendly text and worksheets to enable them to identify and provide for pupils with outstanding gifts and talents. Such children have special educational needs, and often face particular problems in developing their capacities.

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Definitions and recognition of gifted and talented children; characteristics; identification strategies - tests of creativity, questionnaires, rating scales, checklists, nominations; teaching strategies - acceleration, enrichment, extension, differentiation, performance indicators, examples of good practice, worksheets, policies; the affective curriculum; useful addresses.

Though there has been much written about dying and bereavement in recent years, the particular stress of terminal illness in childhood - as it affects both the families and the professionals - is only beginning to be better understood. In this book Dorothy Judd, a child psychotherapist who has worked with ill, disabled and dying children and adolescents for many years, places her clinical experience in the context of a full understanding of death, the moral and ethical issues raised by some of the treatments for life-threatening illness, and the current research into new developments in approaches to terminal illness.|At the heart of the book is a very moving diary of Judd's work with Robert, a seven-year-old suffering from leukaemia. Judd's account of therapeutic work in the hospital setting, away from the privacy of the consulting room, will be of special interest to mental health professionals.|"Give Sorrow to Words" combines great sensitivity to the experience of terminal illness with an astute awareness of the more theoretical debates in this increasingly important area of research. First published in 1989, this 2nd edition has been updated and revised.

Part 1 Framework: the death of a child; children's attitudes to death; the dying child's awareness of death; should we talk to children about death?; the stages of emotional reactions to terminal illness; support available. Part 2 Robert, aged seven and a half: diary of my work with Robert over three months; postscript; brief retrospective analysis. Part 3 Survival or death: prolonging dying; those who survive; after the death of a child.

This book is a state-of-the-art report, reviewing recent results of research carried out by leading figures in this field. Beginning with a comprehensive introduction to the central concepts of current linguistic theory, the chapters of the book champion the neurolinguistic perspective, according to which linguistic and psycholinguistic theories are crucial for understanding brain/language relations.