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Aron LY, Loprest PJ, Steurle E. 1996. Serving children with disabilities: A systematic look at the programs. Washington, DC: Urban Institute Press, 182 pp.

Annotation: This book provides a comprehensive accounting of public expenditures on children and families. It compares expenditures across all the major programs. It develops guiding principles about how to allocate resources in order to simplify programs, integrate efforts and find more cost-effective ways to respond to families' and children's needs.

Keywords: CSHCN programs, Children with developmental disabilities, Children with special health care needs, Eligibility determination, Entitlements, Head Start, Program coordination, Program evaluation, Special education, Statistics, Supplemental Security Income

George Washington University Medical Center, Center for Health Policy Research. 1996. Site visit report: Clinical Training Unit, Center on Human Development and Disability, The University of Washington. (Edited draft). Washington, DC: George Washington University Medical Center, Center for Health Policy Research, 37 pp.

Annotation: This report describes the site visit to the Clinical Training Unit of the Center on Human Development and Disability. This unit provides interdisciplinary training to a variety of professionals in the field of neurodevelopmental disabilities. The report reviews the unit organization and structure, content and process of training, and assesses perspectives on interdisciplinary training from the CTU. The site is one of thirty-four training programs funded by the Maternal and Child Health Bureau for Interdisciplinary Leadership in Neurodevelopmental and Related Disabilities (LEND).

Keywords: Developmental disabilities, Evaluation, MCH training

U.S. Maternal and Child Health Bureau. 1995. Maternal and Child Health Bureau Behavioral and Developmental Pediatrics Fellowship Training Programs: Evaluation summary. [No place: No publisher], 136 pp.

Annotation: This summary report describes first eight years of the U.S. Maternal and Child Health Bureau training programs in Behavioral and Developmental Pediatrics (BDP), which started in 1986 with grants to eleven medical school and hospitals. The report includes chapters about the following: components of the educational program; types of training received by medical students and pediatric residents; evaluations of the program by current fellows; professional accomplishments of former fellows; academic productivity of program faculty; postgraduate education; new programs initiated; and the impact of fellowship programs. The concluding summary is an argument for continuation of the program as an cost-effective investment in our nation's future. Appendices include: BDP Training Program components; fellowship evaluation forms summary; and a compilation of publications by program faculty and fellows. [Funded by the Maternal and Child Health Bureau]

Keywords: Behavioral medicine, Curricula, Developmental pediatrics, Federal grants, Fellowships, Internship and residency, MCH training programs, Medical education, Medical students, Pediatricians, Pediatrics, Productivity, Professional education, Professional training, Program evaluation, Publications, Research methodology, Statistics

Kozlowski BW, ed. 1980,1982 r . Meeting nutrition service needs of clients of Crippled Children's Services and Supplemental Security Income Disabled Children's Programs. Columbus, OH: Ohio State University, Nisonger Center, 184 pp.

Annotation: These proceedings report on the First National Workshop on Nutrition in Crippled Children's and Supplemental Security Income/Disabled Children's Programs. The purpose of this workshop was to improve the delivery of nutrition services to children with special health needs. The deliberations of the report focus on the identification of the need for nutrition services and the means for meeting these needs. Standards of professional practice and delivery systems are addressed. The workshop concluded with specific recommendations for the training of personnel, the development of networks to meet continuum of care needs and, the improvement program evaluation mechanisms. A list of participants is included in Appendix A.

Keywords: Child nutrition, Children with developmental disabilities, Children with special health care needs, Health care delivery, Nutrition, Nutrition programs, Program evaluation, Service coordination

Knobloch H, Pasamanick B, eds. 1974. Gesell and Amatruda's developmental diagnosis: The evaluation and management of normal and abnormal neuropsychologic development in infancy and early childhood. (3rd ed. rev. and enl.). Hagerstown, MD: Harper and Row, 538 pp.

Annotation: This book discusses the need for, and process of, developmental diagnosis of early childhood. Part one discusses principles and methods and includes topics on the development and assessment of behavior, the stages of development, and the conduct of the evaluation. Part two focusses on defects and deviations of development and includes problems of differential diagnosis, mental subnormality, neuromotor and brain dysfunction, the low birth weight infant, and disorders of convulsive seizure, communication, visual, autistic, psychotic, and other disturbed behaviors. Part three outlines the protection of early childhood development through screening, guidance and management, clinical aspects of child adoption, and professional training for developmental diagnosis. The appendices include examination techniques, a growth trend chart, examination equipment, audiovisual aids, and a bibliography. The book concludes with an index.

Keywords: Behavior disorders, Child behavior, Child development, Developmental stages, Evaluation methods, Professional training

Bi-Regional Institute on Earlier Recognition of Handicapping Conditions (1970: University of California, Berkeley). 1970. Proceedings. Berkeley, CA: University of California, School of Public Health, 159 pp.

Annotation: These proceedings discuss acrocephalosyndactyly, craniofacial dysotosis, and related syndromes; genetic counseling clinics; minor anomalies as indicators of altered morphogenesis; biochemical aspects of handicapping conditions; biochemical screening; evaluation of screening procedures; what happens after screening; children and computers; prevention of mental retardation; fetal and neonatal assessment; newborn hearing screening; congenital dislocated hip in the Navajo Indian; mass computer evaluation of school children for heart disease; implications of screening techniques for comprehensive care; prevention of behavior disorders in early childhood; remediation of learning disabilities; poverty; and delivery of health services to children in the inner city.

Keywords: Acrocephalosyndactylia, American Indians, Assessment, Behavior disorders, Biochemical genetics, Children, Computers, Congenital hip dislocations, Craniofacial abnormalities, Developmental screening, Diagnosis, Disabilities, Evaluation, Genetic counseling, Genetic screening, Health services delivery, Hearing screening, Heart diseases, Inner city, Learning disabilities, Mental retardation, Newborn infants, Poverty, Prevention

World Health Organization, Expert Committee on Maternal and Child Health. 1969. The organization and administration of maternal and child health services. Geneva, Switzerland: World Health Organization, 34 pp. (World Health Organization technical report series; no. 428)

Annotation: This document with an international perspective discusses aims of maternal and child health (MCH) services, problems of concern to MCH services, trends in efforts to improve MCH services, planning, administrative functions, reaching the whole population, the relation of family planning to other MCH activities, a broader concept of school health programs, adoption, institutional care, child care, children with developmental disabilities, training, program evaluation and operational research, legislation, and related recommendations.

Keywords: Adoption, Child care, Child health, Children with developmental disabilities, Children with special health care needs, Institutionalization, Legislation, MCH services, Management, Program evaluation, Research, School health programs, Training

Regional Meeting of Consultant Nurses in Crippled Children's Services (1963: Chicago, IL). 1963. Report of Regional Meeting of Consultant Nurses in Crippled Children's Services. Chicago, IL: No publisher, 68 pp.

Annotation: These proceedings discuss trends in crippled children's services, implementation of the recommendations of the President's Panel on Mental Retardation, program evaluation, the possibility of studying functions of nurses employed in crippled children's services, a report of evaluations of the Illinois County Health Department, continuity of nursing care, nursing referrals to local nurses serving children with disabilities, nursing service to children with cystic fibrosis, local nursing services to the young paraplegic, contributions of a nursing advisory committee to crippled children's services, and improving state consultant services to meet new trends in crippled children's services.

Keywords: Children with developmental disabilities, Children with special health care needs, Conferences, Cystic fibrosis, Illinois, Nurses, Paraplegia, Program evaluation, Referrals

Lee E, ed. 1962. Proceedings: Institute on Administration in Crippled Children Services: Berkeley, California, June 24-29, 1962. Berkeley, CA: University of California, School of Public Health, California State Department of Public Health, and U.S. Children's Bureau, 126 pp.

Annotation: These proceedings discuss administrative problems in crippled children services (CCS), selling CCS programs, county government and barriers to selling health programs, selling a program in the legislature, program administrator's commodity, legal aspects of standards for medical care goods and services in the Crippled Children Program, standard setting in medical care programs, expenditure controls in a medical care program, estimating program trends, budget presentation, administrative costs in a CCS program, case management for CCS, the responsibility of administration for case management, the role of the public health nurse in case management of CCS cases, supervision and training of personnel, analysis and improvement in health service offices, and evaluation in CCS programs.

Keywords: Administration, Budgeting, Case management, Child health programs, Children with developmental disabilities, Children with special health care needs, County government, Personnel, Program evaluation, Public health nurses, Standards, State legislatures
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