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Howell E, Pergamit M, Chen V. 2013. Behavioral and developmental health problems and Medicaid costs for youth approaching adulthood by gender and basis of eligibility in selected states: FY 2006. Washington, DC: Urban Institute, Health Policy Center, 10 pp.

Annotation: This paper describes the use and cost of Medicaid behavioral and developmental health services for adolescents who reached their 18th birthday sometime during fiscal year 2006. The authors also examine differences between groups including gender differences and differences between adolescents receiving Supplemental Security Income (SSI), adolescents in foster care (excluding those receiving SSI), and all other adolescents enrolled in Medicaid.

Keywords: Adolescents, Costs, Developmental disabilities, Foster care, Health care utilization, Medicaid, Mental health services, Sex linked developmental differences, Statistical data, Supplemental security income

Eliot L. 1999. What's going on in there?: How the brain and mind develop in the first five years of life. New York: Random House, Bantam Books, 533 pp.

Annotation: This book explores neural and psychological development from conception to age five. It covers topics such as critical prenatal influences, infant stimulation, sex linked developmental differences, and the nature nurture controversy. The author devotes a chapter each to the development of touch, balance and motion, smell, taste, vision, hearing, motor skills, social and emotional growth, and the emergence of memory. The final chapter is suggestions for raising a smarter child.

Keywords: Brain, Child development, Cognitive development, Early childhood development, Infant development, Infant stimulation, Intellectual development, Language development, Memory, Nature nurture controversy, Neural development, Prenatal influences, Psychological development, Sex linked developmental differences
   

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