role of the speech pathologist in treating children with asd

... patients with the inattentive type, particularly the study with adolescents In the study with children, only 19.5% of patients were of the inattentive type, whilst considerable 45.9% were of the inattentive ... ratings of the patients, the parents and the physicians at baseline and the following points in time Except for the first rating by the patients, all alpha values were above 0.80, indicating ... reflect the healthrelated quality of life in children and adolescents with ADHD [25] However, since the introduction of various long-acting ADHD medications, interest in duration of action of these...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 18:21

... satisfied with the efficacy of the study medication on their child's attention The majority of caregivers (93.1%) indicated a high level of satisfaction with the duration of effect of the study ... median, minimum, and maximum) statistics were computed Findings for the remaining secondary portions of the AIM-C, including the worry scales, behavior items, the missed-dose item, and the economic ... percentage of subjects requiring no extra hours of tutoring, nursing, home healthcare, or other services increased from 60.2% at baseline to 77.6% at endpoint Furthermore, from baseline to endpoint, the...

Ngày tải lên: 25/10/2012, 10:06

... from their perspective, or in other words, to "hear the voices of the children" in matters pertaining to their health and wellbeing for the youngest children possible [19] Several studies have investigated ... functioning in comparison to healthy children These findings are consistent with PedsQL™ ADHD findings from The Netherlands [22] and Thailand [44] These multinational consistencies support the potential ... or true inconsistencies with the current findings using the PedsQL™ However, given the number of proxy-reported differences between healthy children and children with ADHD reported in the literature,...

Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 15:20

... [35] is the most widely used instrument to aid in the diagnosis of children with ADHD The CRS comprises both a parent and teacher questionnaire, and includes a number of components including oppositional ... using the chi-square test Results were considered significant if p ≤ 0.05 Time spent playing video games, watching television, and using the internet was the independent variable The time intervals ... comply with adults' requests 21 Has trouble concentrating in class 22 has difficulty waiting in lines or awaiting turn in games or group situations 23 Leaves seat in classroom or other situation in...

Ngày tải lên: 08/08/2014, 21:20

... significant results (probably because of the insufficient power in all the studies), the findings from genome-wide approaches indicate a whole range of new and promising possibilities for ADHD molecular ... analyses, in the adult ADHD Spanish sample In the replication study, the association with this locus was also observed in the German sample, although there was a slight difference in the putative ... obtained for the Norwegian patients From these findings, the authors [18] concluded that genetic factors possibly influencing abnormal cerebral lateralization may be involved in ADHD etiology, with...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 12:20

... investigated the sustainable effects of MPH on ADHD behavioral symptoms often simply compared the endpoint with the baseline of the studies [21,22] In our study, we provided the time course of ... from the 18 criteria outlined in the DSM-IV for diagnosing ADHD Each of the items has a 4-point Likert scale scoring from to points (0 = never or rarely, = sometimes, = often and = very often) ... girls) with a mean age of 7.84 ± 1.64 years Fifteen of them were inattentive type, 11 were hyperactive-impulsive type, and 24 were combined type Using a cutoff point of 60 on the aggression scale of...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 15:22

... have been used in the treatment of ADHD The non-stimulant atomoxetine was introduced in the United States in 2002 It is a selective norepinephrine reuptake inhibitor Double blind studies have ... of the effect size in teacher rating of 0.62 [39] The meta-analysis reported a much smaller effect size for atomoxetine than that reported for MPH in studies using teacher ratings Therefore the ... high doses of atomoxetine (> 1.4 mg/ kg) administered twice daily [18,21,28] The outcome in three of these trials favoured atomoxetine suggesting that higher doses of atomoxetine administered...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 16:20

... some information on potential new candidates for follow up [5-7] Of particular interest is the convergent finding of association with variants within CDH13, a gene that lies within the ADHD linkage ... Parent Reports of ADHD Behaviour Written informed consent was obtained from parents and they were invited to assess their children s behaviour at two time points; 1) within two weeks of their second ... overactivity, inattention, and impulsivity Of the total sample 94% mothers and 6% fathers completed the questionnaires, with the same parent completing the questionnaire at both ages In the present...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 16:22

... 589 inmates between December 2006 and April 2009 Of those inmates, we did not invite 200 for screening, as we could not include them in the following trial because of deportation out of the country ... relevant These findings imply the need for considering these severities when introducing ADHD treatment programmes for prison inmates Page 12 of 13 Acknowledgements The Swedish Ministry of Health ... increasing the cut-off level for each personality disorder by one score, on the SCID II PQ to equal the cut-off score of the SCID II interview, dPsychopathy was defined as a total sum score of...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 16:22

... generated by the brain volume of interest Source sensitivity is dependent on the position of the source in the brain model, the number of sources in the montage, as well as the distance between the sources ... determined by the children Page of 10 Each trial began with a 1000 ms instruction slide depicting the nature of the required saccade by a prominent symbol the meaning of which had been explained ... following acoustic cues There is a particular interest in analysing inhibition deficits following auditory cues in children with ADHD as a high number of children with ADHD have difficulties with...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 16:22

... evidence in support of a treatment on the basis of the inclusion criteria used in the review process [89,90] Furthermore, empty reviews inform decision makers in health care when there is lack of robust ... homogeneous finding The chiropractic profession has over one hundred different techniques [59], and there was no shortage of variety in the studies found for this review The following were some of the ... strategy, which is in keeping within the scope of evidence based practices [96] If the chiropractic profession chooses to conduct research in the area of paediatric and adolescent AD/HD then appropriate...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 14:20

... contributing to the increasing acceptance and intensity of pharmacotherapy With the introduction of new products commanding higher units costs (cf Table 1), growth of pharmaceutical spending has ... activated only when metabolized in the gastrointestinal tract Shire filed the product with the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) in December 2005 for the treatment of ADHD in children aged to 12 Phase ... in 2012, compared to 1.8% in 2002 This increase is driven by the multiplicative effects of increasing awareness and recognition of ADHD, growing rates of pharmacotherapy, somewhat increased intensity...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 18:21

... predominantly inattentive subtype 239 (70.7%) of the boys and 39 (47.0%) of the girls were diagnosed with the combined subtype The predominantly inattentive subtype was diagnosed in 86 (25.4%) of the ... provided they were discontinued prior to enrolment in the study The protocol was approved by an ethics committee, and the study was conducted in accordance with the principles of the Declaration of ... the diagnostic assessment of ADHD in Germany [35] The items of this instrument correspond to those of the ADHD-RS [21,22] Patients had to have an IQ of ≥70 based on the clinical judgment of the...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 18:21

... Figure Times of the day children with ADHD find challenging compared to children without ADHD Times of the day children with ADHD find challenging compared to children without ADHD Baseline: all ... Mean number of personal injuries in children with and without ADHD over the last 12 months Mean number of personal injuries in children with and without ADHD over the last 12 months Baseline: all ... treatment across the day Given the importance of considering the treatment of ADHD symptoms outside of the school environment, there has recently been great interest in the use of longer acting stimulant...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 18:21

... (Brain scanning research has also suggested that the brains of some children with ADHD eventually "catch-up" with the brains of unaffected children [21].) Findings such as the one involving DRD4 ... an intuition about the value of accepting and affirming children "as they are" and allowing them to unfold in their own way, as opposed to seeking to transform them into our vision of how they ... Under-Diagnosis The Great Smoky Mountain study examined the prevalence of serious emotional and behavioral disturbances, including ADHD, in children in the western region of North Carolina [42] In the study,...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 18:21

... weeks, with scores remaining stable until week 24 (Table 3) Thus, the results obtained using the morning and the evening items of the GIPD are consistent with those obtained using the WREMB-R In the ... longacting ADHD medications, interest in the efficacy profile of these compounds over the day and the possibility of once-daily dosing has increased [14-18] Depending on the delivery profile of the ... period These findings are in line with findings from a double-blind, placebo-controlled atomoxetine study using the ADHD Rating Scale (ADHD-RS) to measure core symptom efficacy and investigate the...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 18:21

... frontal regions of both hemispheres of the brain are associated with the central executive functions of coordinating, processing and storage, controlling flow of information through working memory, ... study investigating the efficacy of atomoxetine in reducing symptoms of ADHD in individuals aged 10 to 16 years meeting DSM-IV diagnostic criteria for ADHD and dyslexia As part of this investigation, ... 12 centers in the United States The study protocol was approved and conducted in accordance with the principles of the Declaration of Helsinki, and all parents or legal guardian(s) of the patients...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 18:21

... Relations In the Risk Avoidance domain, there was a significant age interaction with the therapeutic effect of atomoxetine (p < 0.10) This interaction was due to the significant interaction found in the ... on the HR-QoL of the individuals and their family 4.1 Limitations The results of this meta-analysis need to be interpreted in light of a number of limitations First, the samples of the five clinical ... sub-domains as well as in the Achievement domain and the Academic Performance sub-domain On the other hand, children were significantly more impaired at baseline in the Emotional Comfort sub-domain The...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 18:21