Children with developmental disabilities often show a variety of associated impairments that lead to a lifelong need for additional care. Careful assessment of these impairments is required not only for diagnostic purposes but also to inform the parents about the expected additional care needs in the future. We present a systematic review of the literature to identify instruments that classify ...

Children with developmental dif iculties constitute between 5% and 15% globally among general pediatric population [1,2]. Neuro developmental problems in preschool children are common and can have long-term adverse consequences if not detected and treated early. The preschool is a critical period for development and there is convincing evidence that early identi ication of developmental problem...

Better understanding of the developing brain's functional mechanisms is critical for improving diagnosis and treatment of different developmental disorders. Particularly, characterizing how the developing brain dynamically reorganizes during different cognitive states may offer novel insight into the neuronal mechanisms of cognitive deficits. Imaging the brain during naturalistic conditions, li...

Previous research has demonstrated high satisfaction and perceived relevance of Project DOCC (Delivery of Chronic Care), a parent led curriculum in developmental disabilities, across a sample of medical residents. AIMS The influence of such a training program on the clinical practices and professional activities of these residents once they are established in their careers as physicians, howe...

BACKGROUND Children with developmental disabilities who exhibit challenging behaviour are potentially subject to the use of coercive interventions. The aim of the study was to investigate the prevalence of the use of coercive measures by authorities, according to parents' reports. MATERIALS AND METHODS A postal survey was distributed, as a total population study, to 946 Finnish parents of chi...

Creating a new approach to performance measurement, UCLA researchers propose an initial set of measures that Medicaid and other agencies could use to track the delivery and quality of developmental services for young children. The Developmental Services Quality Performance Measurement (DSQPM) framework, which includes metrics at the individual, provider, county, health plan, and state levels, i...

Children with developmental disabilities often converse less frequently than their developmentally matched peers. This low conversational participation can cause problems for the children's future language and discourse development. The purpose of this experimental study was to test the hypothesis that adult topic-continuing wh-questions would elicit topic continuations in children with relativ...

We conducted functional analyses of aberrant behavior with 4 children with developmental disabilities. We then implemented functional communication training (FCT) by using different mands across two contexts, one in which the establishing operation (EO) that was relevant to the function of aberrant behavior was present and one in which the EO that was relevant to the function of aberrant behavi...

We compared the economic well-being and maternal employment of parents whose children did or did not have developmental disabilities. This prospective study is a secondary analysis of data from the Wisconsin Longitudinal Study, collected when respondents were aged 18, 36, and 53, on average. Although the two groups were similar at age 18, income and savings differed markedly by age 53, but stat...

BACKGROUND Most developmental disorders are defined by an achievement discrepancy in which achievement on one or more specific abilities is substantially less than a person's measured intelligence. We evaluated the validity of this discrepancy criterion by assessing parameters that determine variability across abilities and by assessing relationships between achievement discrepancies and behavi...