Psychology & Counseling, Aging, Psychiatry, General, Mental Illness, Social Sciences, Developmental Psychology 

Key Benefit: This guide provides valuable guidance for clinicians and educators who conduct diagnostic assessments or need to understand why educational accommodations do not automatically qualify one for accommodations under the ADA. Key Topics: It provides useful information to allow professionals and individuals with disabilities to effectively secure educational or legal accommodations by explaining the differences between legal and clinical/scientific definitions of disability, clarifying key diagnostic concepts, and focusing the assessment process on objective factors consistent with current diagnostic practices. Market: Clinicians, neuropsychologists, school psychologists, learning disability specialists, and other professionals engaged in the assessment of learning disability, especially in post-secondary education. - from Amzon