... Understanding Controversial Therapies forChildrenwith Autism, Attention Deficit Disorder, and Other Learning Disabilities JKP Essentials Understanding Motor Skills in Childrenwith Dyspraxia, ... supports research, and produces a number of publications APPLIED BEHAVIORAL ANALYSIS Applied behavioral analysis (ABA) is an educational methodology widely used withchildrenwithautismand other severe ... criteria for a particular diagnosis, and have developed protocols for testing and clinical assessment that can strongly suggest or confirm a diagnosis For example, all childrenwithautism spectrum...
... for discussion withchildrenand adolescents, including: • Disclosure of HIV status to children Being open withchildren about parental and child HIV status may help children to cope better with ... children • Children in foster care • Street children • Children living in centres • Children in conflict with the law • Childrenwith disabilities • Children affected by armed conflict • Children ... framework for both mainstreaming and scaling up 1.4 The status of evidence about family and community interventionsfor orphans and vulnerable children Programmes to assist children, families and communities...
... patients with concomitant asthma and sickle cell disease Table 2: Results in childrenwith sickle cell disease withand without asthma Patients with Sickle Cell & Asthma (n = 48) Admissions for Acute ... bronchoprovocation with methacholine and only had documented spirometry with consistent with airway obstruction, with reversibility of airway obstruction, and one with poor technique and unreliable ... gender and type of hemoglobinopathy (Table I) The cases (21 males and 27 females) consisted of 42 childrenwith HgbSS andwith HgbSC The control group (17 males and 31 females) included 41 children...
... Investing in Youth for National Development THE TIME IS NOW: INVEST IN SEXUAL AND REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH FORYOUNG PEOPLE www.prb.org Susan Brock and Rita Columbia, A Framework for Integrating Reproductive ... Boys andYoung Men in Promoting Sexual and Reproductive Health: Lessons, Research, and Programmatic Challenge, accessed at www.popcouncil.org/ pdfs/AYSRH/6.pdf THE TIME IS NOW: INVEST IN SEXUAL AND ... NOW: INVEST IN SEXUAL AND REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH FORYOUNG PEOPLE www.prb.org Demographic and Health Surveys between 2007 and 2010 Robert Blum, Risk and Protective Factors Affecting Adolescent Reproductive...
... policies and programs must also aid caregivers as they negotiate care forchildrenwith incarcerated parents One particularly helpful service might be to arrange formal and informal opportunities for ... incarceration (Katz 1998) Grandparents often will raise their grandchildren unofficially and without formal rights out of fear of disrupting the family, losing custody of the children, or implying ... of children 19 One study of childrenwith incarcerated mothers found that older children were more likely to hold secure attachments than were their younger children, suggesting that these children...
... used for mothers of childrenwith type diabetes [9,10], is a generic questionnaire that was not developed for parents of childrenwith diabetes It does not measure parents' satisfaction with ... social life, work, and families, and satisfaction with diabetes treatment (such as administering and preparation of injections, carrying, storing and disposing of the insulin, and flexibility in ... physical and emotional needs of childrenand adolescents as well as of their families [3] http://www.hqlo.com/content/6/1/3 new measure: the WEll-being and Satisfaction of CAREgivers of Children with...
... temperature compared with controls The detection limits were 0.2 ng/mL for HMGB1, 0.27 pg/mL for IL-1b, 0.23 pg/mL for IL-6, 0.21 pg/mL for IFN-g, 0.49 pg/mL for TNF-a and 0.22 pg/mL for IL-10 Statistical ... types: typical type for whom febrile seizures persist for < 15 minutes, are generalized tonicclonic, and only occur once within 24 hours; and atypical types for whom seizures persist for > 15 minutes, ... levels of IL-1b and HMGB1 (A), IL1b and IL-6 (B), IL-1b and TNF-a (C), and IL-6 and TNF-a (D) in febrile patients (N = 82) IL-1b levels are significantly correlated with HMGB1, IL-6, and TNF-a levels...
... levels of neurokinin A and anti-ribosomal P protein antibodies in childrenwithautism Gehan A Mostafa1,2, Laila Y AL-Ayadhi1 Autism Research and Treatment Center, AL-Amodi Autism Research Chair, ... than childrenwith mild to moderate autism, P < 0.001 Also, the frequency of increased serum neurokinin A levels was significantly higher in childrenwith severe autism (77.5%) than patients with ... in childrenwithautism CARS: Childhood Autism Rating Scale Figure Positive correlations between serum levels of neurokinin A and antiribosomal P protein antibodies in childrenwithautism 26 Table...
... 12.3 yr for ASD/SPAD children, 8.1 yr for ASD/non-SPAD children, 10.2 yr for normal controls, and 13.0 yr for non-ASD/SPAD children Ages of ASD/non-SPAD children were lower than ASD/SPAD and non-ASD/SPAD ... refer ASD/SPAD children as these ASD/SPAD childrenwith worsening behavioral symptoms and cognitive skills with immune insults in this study In both ASD/SPAD and ASD/non-SPAD children, autism diagnosis ... non-ASD/SPAD children Thus these abnormalities are likely to be more specific for this subset of ASD childrenand may be associated with their worsening behavioral symptoms/cognitive skills with immune...
... Self-Report form (YSR), the YSR is only constructed forchildren aged 11 years and older, and thus would not be suitable for use in the current study focused on children from age Furthermore, the information ... psychosocial status of childrenwith PE Moreover, we compared the patients with normal children matched for sex and age, and all subjects resided in the same health care catchment areas and assessment ... (CT) scans were performed in all patients to document the severity of the deformity 50 patients had grade deformity with a HI of 3.0 to 3.9, 149 patients had grade deformity with a HI of 4.0 to...
... used for mothers of childrenwith type diabetes [9,10], is a generic questionnaire that was not developed for parents of childrenwith diabetes It does not measure parents' satisfaction with ... social life, work, and families, and satisfaction with diabetes treatment (such as administering and preparation of injections, carrying, storing and disposing of the insulin, and flexibility in ... physical and emotional needs of childrenand adolescents as well as of their families [3] http://www.hqlo.com/content/6/1/3 new measure: the WEll-being and Satisfaction of CAREgivers of Children with...
... described previously,12 men and women 18 to 75 years of age were eligible if they had begun to have ischemic discomfort at rest within 12 hours before randomization and it had lasted more than ... respectively; data on thrombus were available for 1622 and 1619 patients, respectively; and data on stenosis and the minimal luminal diameter were available for 1560 and 1559 patients, respectively CI denotes ... need for early angiography (i.e., within 48 hours after randomization) for clinical indications (15.4 percent vs 18.6 percent, P=0.01) and a 21 percent reduction in the odds of the need for revascularization...
... skills, understanding and using language CHAPTER 2: PRACTICAL FOUNDATION AND METHODS DEVELOPING 1.4.4 Development ways forchildrenwithautism COMMUNICATION SKILLS FORCHILDRENWITHAUTISM In order ... information through understanding deal with difficulties of CwA and expressing language in speech, facial expression, gestures Through 1.3.3 Tools for diagnosis and assessment childrenwithautism ... care and education with teachers, classmates and people around them Children live and act in efficiency for CwA in general and develop communication skills for CwA their own world, isolated and...
... draft SY, DC and CM made revisions and edits to subsequent drafts All authors read and approved the final manuscript Authors’ information More information about ADHD, educational forums and training ... only foryoung people with ADHD transferring from child and adolescent services but also for those who are presenting for the first time as adults or those who have ‘fallen out’ of treatment and ... realistic and deliverable provisions can be made within services that are often required to work at high capacity within strict budgets Clinicians providing services for children, young people and...
... that boys younger than 11 years have difficulty with oculomotor inhibition in general [52,53] However, a study with younger children has also found differences between childrenwithand without ... sounds and difficulties with acoustic tasks when competing acoustic signals are present [75,76] Both, childrenwith APD andchildrenwith ADHD, have difficulty paying attention and remembering information ... difficulties when cues are visual and acoustic Methods Participants Sixteen childrenwith ADHD and sixteen children without ADHD were investigated Childrenwith ADHD were recruited at two child...
... dislocation and transit experiences (including types, extent, and duration of persecution and trauma) with: i different migration decisions and forms of migration – forced, planned and long-term, ... responsibilities reinforces individual and collective perceptions of transnational efficacy and strengthens confidence, perseverance, and power to sustain new and demanding psychological and physiological ... in spatial transition are resilient and searches for ways to reinforce and expand their capacity to tap into potentially rich reservoirs of family, community, and transnational health-care resources...
... cases of childrenwith both EBV and CMV infection and noted that the course of disease in these children was longer, but the last word is not yet in on whether coinfection with both EBV and CMV ... infections in children admitted with EBV/CMV infection, and the distribution of these pathogens was not random Despite this, because most of the childrenwith coinfection of EBV/CMV and multiple ... seven children showed both EBV and CMV primary infection They all presented with the typical manifestations of IM andwith a high occurrence of hepatomegaly (57.1%), splenomegaly (57.1%) and liver...
... safe and effective in the treatment of patients with asthma [30,31] In the phase I study, subjects with mild or moderate persistent asthma were withdrawn from their inhaled corticosteroids and randomly ... group withdrew for asthma exacerbations, compared with three of eight in the rhuIL-4R 0.5 mg group and two of eight in the placebo group Treatment with 1.5 mg of rhuIL-4R was associated with significantly ... Enbrel®, has been demonstrated to be safe and highly effective for the long-term treatment of rheumatoid arthritis in adults andchildren Clinical studies with rhuIL-4R (Nuvance™) The promising...
... relationship with disease severity and outcome Materials and methods Patients Childrenwith a clinical diagnosis of meningococcal sepsis or septic shock were included between July 1997 and March 2000 and ... IL-8 and IL-6 compared with survivors Using receiver-operating characteristic curve analysis, cutoff values of 65,407 pg/ml for MCP-1, 460 pg/ml for MIP-1α, 85,427 pg/ml for IL-8 and 361 ng/ml for ... levels between patients with sepsis and septic shock (P = 0.066) Chemokine levels on admission strongly correlated with each other, as well as with levels of IL-6 and TNF-α with Spearman correlation...