Rehabilitation for Developmental Disabilities

Upper-Limb Rehabilitation With Adaptive Video Games for Preschool Children With Developmental Disabilities.

OBJECTIVE This study used a novel device to make video games accessible to children with developmental disabilities (DD) by modifying the training software and interfaces to enhance motor training. METHOD In the pretest-posttest design, 20 children (13 boys, 7 girls; mean age=5.2 yr) with DD received adaptive upper-limb motor rehabilitation consisting of fifteen 30-min individual sessions 3 t...

Newborn Screening for Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities

Screening for developmental disabilities in developing countries.

Despite waxing international interest in child disability, little information exists about the situation of children with disabilities in developing countries. Using a culture-free screen for child disability from the 2005-2007 Multiple Indicator Cluster Survey, this study reports percentages of children in 16 developing countries who screened positive for cognitive, language, sensory, and moto...

Health care financing for severe developmental disabilities.

The 1985-86 data from 308 children and young adults under age 25 with autism and from 326 with severe or profound mental retardation can be compared to national data from the 1980 MNCUES and the 1987 NMES because the methods are similar. These data provide detailed answers to the questions, what health care services are used? what are the expenses? Who pays them? Until now, the absence of compr...

Early Intervention for Children with Developmental Disabilities