PART I

MEDICAL DISORDERS

Chapter 1

Spina Bifida and Hydrocephalus   Jack M. Fletcher and Maureen Dennis

3

Chapter 2

Children with Very Low Birthweight or Very Preterm Birth   H. Gerry Taylor

26

Chapter 3

Childhood Epilepsy   Michael Westerveld

71

Chapter 4

Pediatric Brain Tumors   M. Douglas Ris and Richard Abbey

92

Chapter 5

Traumatic Brain Injury   Keith Owen Yeates

112

Chapter 6

Acute Disseminated Encephalomyelitis and Childhood Multiple Sclerosis   Vicki Anderson, Benjamin J. Deery, Rani Jacobs and Andrew J. Kornberg

147

Chapter 7

Tuberous Sclerosis Complex   Anna W. Byars

167

Chapter 8

Perinatal Stroke   Joan Stiles, Ruth D. Nass, Susan C. Levine, Pamela Moses and Judy S. Reilly

181

Chapter 9

Environmental Toxicants   Kim N. Dietrich

211

Chapter 10

Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders   Sarah N. Mattson and Linnea Vaurio

265

PART II

NEURODEVELOPMENTAL DISORDERS

Chapter 11

Math Disabilities   Marcia A. Barnes, Lynn S. Fuchs and Linda Ewing-Cobbs

297

Chapter 12

Reading Disability   Robin L. Peterson and Bruce F. Pennincton

324

Chapter 13

Specific Language Impairment   Margaret J. Snowling and Marianna E. Hayiou-Thomas

363

Chapter 14

Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder   Erik G. Willcutt

393

Chapter 15

Autism Spectrum Disorders   Sally Ozonoff

418

Chapter 16

Intellectual Disability Syndromes   Carolyn B. Mervis and Angela E. John

447

PART III

CLINICAL ASSESSMENT AND INTERVENTION

Chapter 17

Maxims and a Model for the Practice of Pediatric Neuropsychology   Ida Sue Baron

473

Chapter 18

Interventions for Children with Neuropsychological Disorders   Stephen M. Kanne, Maureen O’Kane Grissom and Janet E. Farmer

499

Index

521