Parenting Matters: Parenting a child with difficulties in learning caused by trauma

Children who are looked after or adopted may experience various learning difficulties that are caused by trauma and disruptive relationships during their early lives. These difficulties may exist not just in education, but also in social skills, in the ability to relate and attach to others, and to absorb new information. For parents and carers who want to help children manage or overcome these difficulties, the past must inform the present – to relate this early trauma to the child’s difficulties now, and to use this knowledge to inform healing and development. 

This title in the Parenting Matters series provides authoritative, clinical guidance for carers and adopters on why these learning difficulties can occur and what can be done about them. In straightforward language, it explains how children’s difficult early experiences can affect their learning; the importance of play to being able to learn; how to understand what the child is experiencing and why, and how carers and parents can help. In the second half of the book, an adopter explores what it is like to live with affected children, and what did and did not work for their family. 

This book is part of CoramBAAF’s Parenting Matters series which explores many of the health conditions commonly diagnosed in looked after children.

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