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SummaryParental evaluations of current pre‐school provision for children with Down's syndrome were surveyed in two Scottish regions. Two methods were used: postal questionnaires and telephone interviews. Services covered were those provided by general practitioners, hospital specialists, health visitors, speech therapists, occupational therapists, physiotherapists, educational psychologists, home teachers, social workers and voluntary organizations. Regional differences were found in provision and in parental satisfaction with currently available services, with some of these differences being dependent on child age. Overall, parents felt they were being given insufficient professional support, with contradictory advice not uncommon. Findings indicate that if limited resources are to be used to the maximum benefit of family and child, both subjective and objective measures of the relative values of different kinds of support at different ages are urgently neede

ISSN:0305-1862    

DOI:10.1111/j.1365-2214.1993.tb00709.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1993

数据来源: WILEY

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SummaryA justification is offered for using micro‐computers and specially‐designed programs with severely visually impaired pre‐school children. It is argued that this technology optimizes the visual environment for the child and provides immediate feedback about the correctness of his responses to the stimuli displayed on the screen. Some of the problems encountered in such use are described, with examples taken from sessions in which teachers are working with children as young as 2 years of age, using teaching/learning sequences designed to promote and exercise visual perception skills. Among the issues addressed are the nature of the language interactions between child and adult, the effects of altering the complexity of the tasks, and the possible value of formal task analysis as a means of enabling the teacher to pinpoint critical stages in the learning pr

ISSN:0305-1862    

DOI:10.1111/j.1365-2214.1993.tb00710.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1993

数据来源: WILEY

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SummaryIn order to determine the incidence and acceptance of BCG scars, 287 high‐school children of different ethnic origins, in a London district, were examined for their BCG scars and interviewed for self‐appraisal of their scars 6–30 months after vaccination. BCG scars developed in a high proportion of children (89·5%). There was a female predominance among the 10·5% of children who did not develop scars (girls 12·8%, boys 5·9%,P13·24 mm, [i.e. 2 SD above mean]) were found in 3·11% and hypopigmented scars in 67·8% of the children and both tended to occur amongst hyperpigmented races. A high proportion of children found the scars unacceptable (23·4%), mostly girls (girls 35%, boys 7·8%,P<0·0·004) and they showed a preference for other sites including inner aspect of arm and buttoc

ISSN:0305-1862    

DOI:10.1111/j.1365-2214.1993.tb00711.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1993

数据来源: WILEY

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SummaryAll surviving infants with birthweight ≤ 1500 g born in 1982 and 1983 at St. James's University Hospital, Leeds, were followed up for 5 years. There were 88 survivors (including 5in uterotransfers) from the original cohort of 126 infants. In their fifth year the following assessments were made; neurological, audiological, intellectual, behavioural, growth and general health. A comparison group of full‐term male infants was also studied with respect to intellectual status, social and emotional behaviour and general health.Principal neurological impairments found were: cerebral palsy 9 (10·2%), hydrocephalus 1 (1·1%), epilepsy 2 (2·3%) and sensorineural deafness 2 (2·3%). One third of the VLBW children required the services of the child development centre. Seventy‐nine of the 88 VLBW children were tested with the WPPSL Seven (8·8%) scored below 70. The VLBW boys had mean IQ scores of 90·6 while the mean for the girls was 100–2. The very low birthweight boys were significantly intellectually impaired compared with their peers.Socially and emotionally they were largely comparable with their full‐term peers. The findings suggest that there has been no increase in severe disability following a policy of active neonatal intensive care. However, the quality of survival of VLBW children born in the 1980s, despite improvements care perinatal care, remains

ISSN:0305-1862    

DOI:10.1111/j.1365-2214.1993.tb00712.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1993

数据来源: WILEY

ISSN:0305-1862    

DOI:10.1111/j.1365-2214.1993.tb00713.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1993

数据来源: WILEY

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Attention Deficits, Learning Disabilities, and Ritalin by R. B. Johnston.Combatting Mental Handicap — A Multidisciplinary Approachedited by Peter L. C. Evans&Alan D. B. Clarke.Special Problems in Counselling the Chemically Dependent. Adolescent edited‐ by Eileen Smith Sweet.Primary Care of the Pre‐term Infantby Judy Bernbaum&Marsha Hoffman‐Wil

ISSN:0305-1862    

DOI:10.1111/j.1365-2214.1993.tb00714.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1993

数据来源: WILEY