Moving from parent “consultant” to parent “collaborator”: one pediatric research team’s experience

Pediatric electroencephalography. Parent`s knowledge and experience.

E (EEG) remains the single most important physiologic test of the cerebral cortex. It is a very important tool in investigating and managing children with epilepsy. However, the patient’s cooperation is needed to minimize movement and muscle artifacts, which can interfere with EEG interpretation. When the clinical suspicion of epilepsy is high, and the awake recorded EEG is normal, sleep EEG ma...

part one PARENT – CHILD NARRATIVES

Children develop narrative ability in the context of the conversations they have with significant others, mainly family members. Within these conversations, children acquire language and literacy and become socialized to the discourse patterns, beliefs, and values of the community inwhich they live. Recent research has begun to highlight that Latino mothers scaffold their children’s narratives ...

Viability of Booby Offspring is Maximized by Having One Young Parent and One Old Parent

It is widely expected that the quality of offspring will vary with the age of their parents and that this variation should influence animals' choice of mates. However, theoretical predictions for age effects are contradictory and, to our knowledge, we do not know for any wild animal how the quality of offspring is affected by both parents' ages across their lifespans, or whether mothers' and fa...

Validation of a parent outcome questionnaire from pediatric cochlear implantation.

This paper analyzes the reliability and validity of a questionnaire designed by Archbold, Lutman, Gregory, O'Neil, and Nikolpoulos (2002) for the assessment of pediatric cochlear implantation. Parents of 61 youngsters (age range 5 to 16 years), who had the implant for at least 3 years, responded to the questionnaire and to an interview. The alpha reliability of the 11 questionnaire scales varie...

Parent involvement in pediatric pain interventions