For decades, public schools have been required by law to provide a “free and appropriate education” to children with disabilities. The system for making that happen is a complicated web of acronyms and regulations that govern services and support. We call it special education. Special education ...
Substantial progress has been made in the understanding of anorexia nervosa (AN) and eating disorder (ED) genetics through the efforts of large-scale collaborative consortia, yielding the first genome-wide significant loci, AN-associated genes, and insig
Few studies have examined the mental health needs of African children and teenagers. Based on this gap, this scoping review aims to identify barriers to mental health services, treatments and services sought, and where mental health services are received. Methods To pursue the stated objectives, we...
Today's adolescents have increased capacity to interact 435 436 CHILDREN, ADOLESCENTS, AND THE MEDIA Figure 9.1 The social media landscape. SOURCE: FredCavazza.net. with one another and the larger world using media, enhanced opportunities to explore and experiment via media, and ...
they’ll put the whole process in the lap of the IRS who will link it to current salary (as in, you get back a percentage of the taxes you paid last year), they’ll give a big portion of the money to the schools (“You know this is supposed to go to student debt relief. Play...
When you are a parent you have to put your children first a lot of the time: you cannot claim that an addict can do this. Does the need to eat meals or sleep interfere with parenting? Or put another way, would eating and sleep as little as possible make someone a better parent?
It looked like it had formed from no apparent reason on the outside of the windscreen and the wipers could only get a small percentage of it off, the rest wouldn’t budge and left a filmy coating, just like condensation would on the inside of a vehicle, with that “oily” kind of ...
6. There is a need for inclusion of the sex chromosomes in GWAS of ADHD and ASD; re-analyses of existing GWAS to include the sex chromosomes can potentially provide unique data and new insights: As evident from results of our search of existing GWAS data, a substantial percentage of existin...
Self-injurious behavior, either suicidal or non-suicidal, involves the deliberate infliction of harm on oneself [1]. Different terms have been used to describe such behavior. Deliberate self-harm (DSH) has often been used as a broader term for self-injurious behavior that includes both direct ...
Our reliance on university students in each country is a pronounced limitation of this and prior examinations of cross-cultural differences in autism stigma (Obeid et al.2015; Someki et al.2018). Participants comprised only a small percentage of all undergraduates at the two universities from whic...