In this Book the Author talks about tapping the Potential of a unique child, that needs positive and constructive guidance to nurture his/her strengths 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 elaborates on children's developmental abilities in areas of spatial awareness, bodily kinaesthetic, musical, interpersonal, intrapersonal and naturalistic. It points on these eight areas of intelligence where an individual child is bound to excel in one or more areas of intelligence. The book also talks about disabled children, because not all children will have the same ability. Variations in abilities render a fraction of the child population to have concerns. So the Author balanced the ordinary child with no or less negativities with children who are detected to have learning difficulties in their early age. It talks about related mental health illness that engulfs families if a child is finally diagnosed with the following; Autism, Aspergers syndrome, Attention deficit Hyperactive disorder and other related learning difficulty and disability problems. The individual adult 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 with the help of Professionals that are trained to assist and support individuals in such situation and conditions. It goes on to also throw light on Psychotic Depression and its symptoms. This is one of the enumerated types of Depression mentioned in the book. It also goes on to touch on one of the symptoms namely Hallucination. This area also describes more than six different types of hallucination that put emphasis on all the five human senses of touch, sight, smell, taste and hearing. Discovering at a later age of your special child that he/she is experiencing some sort of medical condition is a devastating situation to any parent but that is not the end of the world. An individual needs to adapt coping mechanism and move on with life given the best possible care to that unique child and still going along to tap their talent. This is because every child has a potential and it will amaze you to discover that, learning difficulty child is embedded with Talents. The book goes on to talk about unleashing that strengths through structured activities. These are activities that involve observation, planning and assessment to be able to ascertain the areas of interest of that particular child. Adults are to pick on their strengths in these activities by also asking constructive and meaningful questions to derive suitable answers that will enable evaluation in the near future. This book reiterates on linguistics. This is simply communication that is the core and fundamental crux of every child who is developing and growing into adulthood. A child develops language from 0 months through 24 months and onwards. This is the link of comprehension in our society. Communication skill is a vital component of our community and the very fabric of humanity. This book talks about the intelligent quotient and gives a brief history of those who started testing and measuring intelligence. It enumerates on the types of intelligence and concludes with safeguarding children.
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