The social model of disability and the new sociology of childhood emphasize respectively the relevance of the environment to participation and the importance of quality of life. Such ideas can be readily understood by and shared among parents, young disabled people, professionals, and planners. They also make clearer what professionals are trying to do when supporting disabled children and thei...

This Evidence Briefing is primarily based on the report "What Works in Services for Families with a Disabled Child" and includes some updating and the addition of key publications recommended by experts in the field. Unless stated, all references can be found in the above. The editor of the overview, Greg Khine, takes responsibility for the interpretation. Date warning: this work was completed ...

The initial findings from 230 questionnaires' survey and 36 interviews, in which informants are CWD, children with non-disabilities (CWND), parents of CWD, and teachers in school settings, are stated as: (a) the general understanding of disability is based on medical model and individual model rather than social model, such understandings contribute great impacts to the CWD's experiences in the...

Implications for practice and research: Children with disabilities are at increased risk for virtually every type of violence that has been measured in this population. Healthcare providers and researchers need to take a more comprehensive, person-centered approach that focuses on the vulnerability to polyvictimisation and the interconnection among forms of violence for children with disabilities.

An estimated 200 million children worldwide experience various forms of disability. This critical review extrapolates from existing literature in 2 distinct areas of scholarship: one on individuals with disabilities in disaster, and the other on children in disaster. The extant literature suggests that various factors may contribute to the physical, psychological, and educational vulnerability ...

Many children with disabilities use their wheelchair as a vehicle seat when traveling. To date, few studies have focused on pediatric wheelchair users in transit. A computer model representing a manual pediatric wheelchair seated with a Hybrid III 6-year-old anthropomorphic test device subjected to a 20-g/48-kph (30-mph) frontal crash was developed in MADYMO. The wheelchair was secured using a ...

OBJECTIVE This study examined the occupations of mothering very young children with physical disabilities. METHOD Two single, urban, Black mothers in their mid-20s were interviewed with a semistructured protocol. The audiotaped, transcribed data were analyzed with a phenomenological method. RESULTS The context of the challenging urban environment was a constant influence that shaped the par...

A two-yers longitudinal study waz conducted in 1996.the data are letated to a cohort of 317 healthy neonated(164 girls and 153 boys) randomly selected in june 1996 from the city of shiraz followed from birth to two years of age.Firstly,logistic regression model and HRY (Healy-Rashash-Yang)method were used on ten selected milestones separately.secondly, we use an auto-regressive multivariate mul...