• Part I. The Behaviour of Children with Disability: 1. Overview C. Gillberg; 2. Different disabilities - different behaviours? C. Gillberg and G. O'Brien; 3. Language disability I. Goodyer and C. Stott; 4. Learning disability G. O'Brien; 5. Sensory disability R. Freeman and M. Gröenveld; 6. Epilepsy D. Taylor; 7. Rett syndrome A. Kerr; 8. Landau Kleffner syndrome B. Neville; 9. Acquired brain damage G. O'Brien; Part II. Assessment of Behaviour in Disability: 10. General principles C. Gillberg; 11. Overview of behavioural analysis E. Emerson; 12. The psychiatric diagnostic approach J. Turk; 13. Recent advances in neuropsychological examination T. Kelly; 14. Electrophysiological techniques D. Bramble; Part III. Treatment of Behavioural Problems in Disability: 15. Medication M. Prendergast; 16. Multimodal therapy: psychopharmacology J. Harris; 17. Psychotherapy with disabled young people S. Hollins and V. Hawes; 18. Recent advances in behavioural management P. Howlin; 19. Organising services for behavioural problems in child disability G. Baird and M. Bax.

"Overall this is a timely addition to the increasing literature providing a fine understanding, with management recommendations, for developmental disability in children." The Canadian Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Review "This book makes a great contribution to the subject. It has a unique, multidisciplinary approach. Clinicians and other professionals dealing with this field will certainly find the book interesting and useful for the understanding, assessment and treatment of behavioural problems in children." European Journal of Paediatric Neurology