Aquatics for Children with Challenges

Challenges of palliative care for children with cancer in Iran: a review

Pediatric palliative care is a holistic caring approach for children and families that begins with diagnosis of a life-threatening illness and continues until death; it aimed to relieve pain and other symptoms in physical, mental, social and spiritual aspects. In spite of available evidence concerning optimal outcomes of the provision of palliative care, establishment of a palliative care syste...

Challenges in prescribing drugs for children with cancer.

Paediatric oncology has achieved high cure rates despite the limited availability of drugs that have been specifically studied for use in children with cancer. Efficacy of these drugs has received more attention than their safety, but permanent side-effects in growing children need to be considered. An absence of pharmacokinetic data, dose-defining studies, schedules defined by age, and appropr...

Challenges of caring for children with functional gastrointestinal disorders.

Embodied Agents in Language Learning for Children with Language Challenges

Given the value of face-to-face interaction in communication and learning, our persistent goal has been to develop, evaluate, and apply animated agents to produce realistic and accurate speech. We have implemented these agents as computer-assisted speech and language tutors for hard of hearing and autistic children, and other children with language challenges. Our languagetraining program utili...

Challenges in Evaluating Recommendations for Children

Recommender systems research and development cannot advance without robust evaluation strategies. While many evaluation strategies have proven effective for deploying and testing recommenders for general audiences, child-oriented recommendations pose unique challenges, and adult-oriented evaluation strategies do not necessarily translate. In this position paper, I briefly describe several of th...