Download or read book Learning Disabilities and Prenatal Risk written by Michael Lewis and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page 394 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Childhood Learning Disabilities and Prenatal Risk written by Catherine Caldwell Brown and published by . This book was released on 1983 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The booklet summarizes proceedings from a conference on prenatal and perinatal factors associated with learning disabilities and neurological problems. Many of the papers report data from the Collaborative Perinatal Project of the National Institute of Neurological and Communicative Disorders and Stroke, a longitudinal study of pregnancy conditions. The first 12 papers consider the following interdisciplinary factors in learning disabilities: genetics, hormones and the brain, microneuronal hypoplasia, nutrition, maternal infections, environmental pollutants, prenatal drugs, smoking and drinking, obstetric medications, obstetrical trauma, low birth weight, and issues in infant assessment. A report of participants' discussion focuses on definitional issues; animal models and human behavior; links between biochemistry and behavior; and prediction, prevention, and intervention. (CL)
Download or read book Prenatal Exposures written by Roy P. Martin and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2008-02-01 with total page 283 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this first compendium in the growing literature of behavioral teratology, readers will discover an easy-to-access, concise presentation that covers a huge range of subjects. The book synthesizes important findings that help explain why prenatal events may result in abnormal behavior and learning disabilities later in life. It goes further to examine the role of prenatal perturbations in conditions as varied as dyslexia, schizophrenia, fetal alcohol syndrome, and autism.
Download or read book Materials on Prenatal Risk in the Clearinghouse written by and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 14 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Perinatal Complications as Predictors of Neuropsychological Outcome in Children with Learning Disabilities written by Xue Jie Ma and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Disorders of Development Learning written by and published by Mosby Elsevier Health Science. This book was released on 1996 with total page 548 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This resource provides concise and practical information to focus on managing children with developmental disabilities and outlines common disorders in this area. Covers appropriate assessment and intervention measures as well as specific disorders. Uses the DSM-IV revisions for psychiatric diagnostic criteria. Updated material includes screening issues, additional information on the most commonly known causes of mental retardation, the development consequences of prematurity and bronchopulmonary dysplasia, and an appendix of standardized tests
Download or read book Finding and Educating High risk and Handicapped Infants written by Craig T. Ramey and published by . This book was released on 1982 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Neurological Psychiatric and Developmental Disorders written by Institute of Medicine and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 2001-01-01 with total page 458 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Brain disordersâ€"neurological, psychiatric, and developmentalâ€"now affect at least 250 million people in the developing world, and this number is expected to rise as life expectancy increases. Yet public and private health systems in developing countries have paid relatively little attention to brain disorders. The negative attitudes, prejudice, and stigma that often surround many of these disorders have contributed to this neglect. Lacking proper diagnosis and treatment, millions of individual lives are lost to disability and death. Such conditions exact both personal and economic costs on families, communities, and nations. The report describes the causes and risk factors associated with brain disorders. It focuses on six representative brain disorders that are prevalent in developing countries: developmental disabilities, epilepsy, schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, depression, and stroke. The report makes detailed recommendations of ways to reduce the toll exacted by these six disorders. In broader strokes, the report also proposes six major strategies toward reducing the overall burden of brain disorders in the developing world.
Download or read book Prevention of Developmental Disabilities written by Siegfried M. Pueschel and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Minimal Brain Dysfunction written by Paul L. Nichols and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-08-18 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The concept of Minimal Brain Dysfunction (a previous term for ADHD) has had a tumultuous, and some would say, checkered history. Originally published in 1981, this title was one of a series of volumes dealing with specific developmental problems in children whose mothers registered for prenatal care in the Collaborative Perinatal Project (NCPP) of the National Institute of Neurological and Communicative Disorders and Stroke (NINCDS). In this volume, relationships between symptoms of minimal brain dysfunction and more than 300 prenatal and postnatal variables are examined in a cohort of nearly 30,000 7-year-old children. Despite greater understanding more recently, diagnosis and treatment continue to cause controversy. This is an early investigation into the concept of MBD and its causes, today it can be read in its historical context.
Download or read book Preterm Birth written by Institute of Medicine and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 2007-05-23 with total page 791 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The increasing prevalence of preterm birth in the United States is a complex public health problem that requires multifaceted solutions. Preterm birth is a cluster of problems with a set of overlapping factors of influence. Its causes may include individual-level behavioral and psychosocial factors, sociodemographic and neighborhood characteristics, environmental exposure, medical conditions, infertility treatments, and biological factors. Many of these factors co-occur, particularly in those who are socioeconomically disadvantaged or who are members of racial and ethnic minority groups. While advances in perinatal and neonatal care have improved survival for preterm infants, those infants who do survive have a greater risk than infants born at term for developmental disabilities, health problems, and poor growth. The birth of a preterm infant can also bring considerable emotional and economic costs to families and have implications for public-sector services, such as health insurance, educational, and other social support systems. Preterm Birth assesses the problem with respect to both its causes and outcomes. This book addresses the need for research involving clinical, basic, behavioral, and social science disciplines. By defining and addressing the health and economic consequences of premature birth, this book will be of particular interest to health care professionals, public health officials, policy makers, professional associations and clinical, basic, behavioral, and social science researchers.
Download or read book Rudolph s Pediatrics written by Abraham M. Rudolph and published by McGraw-Hill/Appleton & Lange. This book was released on 1996 with total page 2337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Provides descriptions of the clinical features of diseases of childhood, and of therapeutic approaches, and also to review biological principles underlying etiology, diagnosis, and treatment.
Download or read book Crime Victims with Developmental Disabilities written by Committee on Law and Justice and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 2001-02-20 with total page 89 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although violent crime in the United States has declined over the past five years, certain groups appear to remain at disproportionately high risk for violent victimization. In the United States, people with developmental disabilities—such as mental retardation, autism, cerebral palsy, epilepsy, and severe learning disabilities may be included in this group. While the scientific evidence is scanty, a handful of studies from the United States, Canada, Australia, and Great Britain consistently find high rates of violence and abuse affecting people with these kinds of disabilities. A number of social and demographic trends are converging that may worsen the situation considerably over the next several years. The prevalence of developmental disabilities has increased in low-income populations, due to a number of factors, such as poor prenatal nutrition, lack of access to health care or better perinatal care for some fragile babies, and increases in child abuse and substance abuse during pregnancy. For example, a recent report of the California State Council on Developmental Disabilities found that during the past decade, while the state population increased by 20 percent, the number of persons with developmental disabilities in California increased by 52 percent and the population segment with mild mental retardation doubled. Because of a growing concern among parents and advocates regarding possible high rates of crime victimization among persons with developmental disabilities, Congress, through the Crime Victims with Disabilities Awareness Act of 1998, requested that the National Research Council of the National Academy of Sciences conduct a study to increase knowledge and information about crimes against individuals with developmental disabilities that will be useful in developing new strategies to reduce the incidence of crimes against those individuals. Crime Victims with Developmental Disabilities summarizes the workshop and addresses the following issues: (1) the nature and extent of crimes against individuals with developmental disabilities; (2) the risk factors associated with victimization of individuals with developmental disabilities; (3) the manner in which the justice system responds to crimes against individuals with disabilities; and (4) the means by which states may establish and maintain a centralized computer database on the incidence of crimes against individuals with disabilities within a state.
Download or read book Advances in Clinical Child Psychology written by Benjamin B. Lahey and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-11-11 with total page 425 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Psychologists have long been interested in the problems of children, but in the last 20 years this interest has increased dramatically. The in tensified focus on clinical child psychology reflects an increased belief that many adult problems have their origin in childhood and that early treatment is often more effective than treatment at later ages, but it also seems to reflect an increased feeling that children are inherently important in their own right. As a result of this shift in emphasis, the number of publications on this topic has multiplied to the extent that even full-time specialists have not been able to keep abreast of all new developments. Researchers in the more basic fields of child psychol ogy have a variety of annual publications and journals to integrate research in their areas, but there is a marked need for such an integra tive publication in the applied segment of child and developmental psychology. Advances in Clinical Child Psychology is a serial publication designed to bring together original summaries of the most important developments each year in the field. Each chapter is written by a key figure in an innovative area of research or practice or by an individual who is particularly well qualified to comment on a topic of major contemporary importance. Each author has followed the stan dard format in which his or her area of research was reviewed and the clinical implications of the studies were made explicit.
Download or read book Assessing Risk Factors for Adverse Birth Outcomes and Early Childhood Respiratory Illness an Examination of Supplement Initiation and Participation in Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women Infants and Children During Pregnancy written by Vivian Alfonso and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the United States, rate of preterm birth peaked in 2006 and little progress has been made to date despite ambitious Healthy People 2020 goals. Infants born premature are at higher risk of death and disability, including psychological conditions, learning difficulties and medical disabilities, than term newborns. Additionally, adverse birth outcomes are associated with asthma, the leading cause of chronic childhood illness and disability. According to the 'Barker hypothesis', intrauterine exposures may serve as a programming stimulus that alters the development of biologic systems and the risk or susceptibility to future disease. One such programming stimulus is maternal nutrition in pregnancy as previous research has shown associations between prenatal nutrition (such as vitamin supplement use and Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants and Children enrollment (WIC)) and birth and early childhood respiratory health outcomes. Through this dissertation, we address gaps in knowledge regarding supplement use in pregnancy and prenatal enrollment in the nutrition program among low-income, minority women, allowing for better informed public health messages. In the first study, we identified WIC eligible parous women who gave birth to first and second siblings between 2007 and 2011 from California electronic birth records to assess the impact of program enrollment on recurrent preterm birth. WIC eligibility in the second pregnancy was based upon both an income criteria (assessed through Medi-Cal as the second pregnancy primary payer for prenatal care) and "nutritional risk" (assessed through a premature first birth). We found that eligible second pregnancy non-enrollees had a higher risk of recurrent preterm birth than program participants among both first pregnancy WIC non-enrollees and first pregnancy WIC enrollees. These findings suggest that the benefits provided by WIC to patrons, including vouchers for food supplementation, counseling and referrals to health and social services, may improve birth outcomes of the women electing to enroll in the program. In sensitivity analyses, we also found the magnitude of this association was strongest for the following high risk subgroups of eligible women: first pregnancy Medi-Cal participants, younger, and Black or Hispanic mothers with the shortest time between births. The second study used data from a Los Angeles based case-control study nested within the 2003 birth cohort to assess the relationship between the timing of pre-natal supplement initiation and birth outcomes. This study limited analyses to non-Hispanic white and Hispanic women, the predominant racial/ethnic groups among respondents. Among Hispanic mothers, we observed an increased odds of preterm birth the later a woman initiated pre-natal supplement use in pregnancy and the magnitude of the association was larger in US-born compared to foreign-born women. The case-control respondents were followed approximately three years later to assess offspring respiratory outcomes. The third study objective was to assess whether adverse early childhood respiratory health is associated with the timing of folic acid supplement initiation in pregnancy. Among all study participants, timing of folic acid use (derived from reports of both folic acid and pre-natal supplements) was not associated with wheeze in the first three years of life, current wheeze, or lower respiratory tract infection in offspring even after re-weighing the population to account for premature birth and censorship. Among mothers with a history of eczema, hay fever or asthma, we found late folic acid supplement initiators had between 1.7-1.9 times the risk of adverse respiratory health outcomes compared to their first trimester initiating counterparts. No association was found among non-atopic mothers. In conclusion, our results support that prenatal nutrition in pregnancy may serve as a programming stimulus as timing of supplement initiation and nutrition program enrollment were found to be associated with offspring health. Both are potentially modifiable factors and the information obtained through these studies highlights the importance of tailored public health interventions for those at highest risk of adverse birth and childhood respiratory health outcomes.
Download or read book The SAGE Encyclopedia of Intellectual and Developmental Disorders written by Ellen Braaten and published by SAGE Publications. This book was released on 2018-01-29 with total page 1928 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This encyclopedia provides an inter-disciplinary approach, discussing the sociocultural viewpoints, policy implications, educational applications and ethical issues involved in a wide range of disorders and interventions.
Download or read book Learning Disabilities written by Interagency Committee on Learning Disabilities (U.S.) and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
