The Court Report recommended that every health district should maintain a register of children with handicap.' These registers, however, rarely meet their stated objectives, cannot provide data readily, and even yield unlikely variations in incidence of conditions like Down's syndrome and spina bifida.2 The requirements of the 1981 Education Act and advances in desk top microcomputing have rene...

The working memory skills of children with four categories of special educational needs (SEN) were investigated: general learning difficulties, language problems, literacy problems, and attentional and behavioural problems. Children with general learning difficulties performed poorly on measures of all three components of the working memory model: the phonological loop, central executive, and t...

als with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA, 1997) and the one proposed by the National Joint Committee on Learning Disabilities (NJCLD, 1994), a consortium of representatives from organizations interested in LD. In many countries there has been a dilemma concerning school membership for students with learning disabilities. Should these students be kept in mainstream schools or moved into special...

In this paper a comparison of the same computer game with two interaction styles is achieved: through tactile interaction in a digital board or using tangible interaction on a tabletop. Tests were carried out with children with special needs, who have different degrees of disability. The aim of the paper is to compare usability and accessibility of each interface, as well as the experiences of ...

OBJECTIVE To identify the feasibility of home care and difficulties of mothers who deliver this care for children with special health needs (CRIANES) and to analyze the role of nurses as facilitators of this care. METHODS This descriptive study with a qualitative approach included ten mothers of CRIANES who completed a semi-structured interview at a teaching hospital in the municipality of Ri...

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVE Outcomes for children with special health care needs (SHCN) can vary by their patterns and persistence over time. We aimed to empirically establish typical SHCN trajectories throughout childhood and their predictive relationships with child and parent outcomes. METHODS The 2 cohorts of the nationally representative Longitudinal Study of Australian Children were recrui...

INTRODUCTION Dental caries is a common condition amongst young children that negatively impacts on their quality of life, It is an added burden on children with special healthcare needs (CSHCN) who have an increased risk of developing caries due to the high sugar contents in their medications, regular consumption of cariogenic foods and a poor salivary flow. AIMS AND OBJECTIVES to analyse the...