Bathing equipment for children and adolescents with special needs: 2

Objetivo: revisar na literatura estudos que abordem os sinais e sintomas de doença em crianças e adolescentes com deficiência. Método: trata-se de uma revisão integrativa, no período de 2000 a 2018, realizada nas bases de dados: LILACS, SCOPUS, MEDLINE/PUBMED e CINAHL, de artigos na íntegra em inglês, português e espanhol, e tratar sobre sinais e sintomas de criança e adolescente com deficiência. Resultados: identificou-se 16 artigos, nos quais foram encontrados 68 sinais e sintomas: dor, distúrbios musculoesqueléticos, distúrbios neurológicos e distúrbios gastrointestinais como os mais frequentes nas crianças e adolescentes com necessidades de cuidados especiais. A identificação de sinais e sintomas é um desafio para pais/cuidadores e profissionais que prestam assistência a esse público, não percepção destes, podem influenciar negativamente no processo de reabilitação. Conclusão: Ressalta-se a importância de instrumentos que avaliem as condições de saúde das crianças e adolescentes, tendo como exemplos protocolos de enfermagem.

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Case History for the Pediatric Eye Examination

10.4018/978-1-7998-8044-8.ch001 ◽

2022 ◽

pp. 1-19

Author(s):

Amy Moy

Keyword(s):

Children And Adolescents ◽

Special Needs ◽

Social History ◽

Case History ◽

Active Listening ◽

Listening Skills ◽

Infants And Toddlers ◽

Birth History ◽

Elementary Aged Children ◽

Eye Examination

The art of taking a patient's case history is essential for a solid understanding of pertinent details before proceeding with an examination. While establishing rapport with the patient, the clinician should ask questions about birth history, developmental history, educational and social history. Active listening skills and flexibility of the provider are useful tools for an effective start to the examination. This chapter reviews categories of questions needed for optimization of case history for the pediatric patient. This includes questions focused on specific age categories, including infants and toddlers, preschoolers, elementary-aged children, and adolescents. The chapter author provides clinical pearls for a more efficient and effective exam, including a section on assisting children with special needs.

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Implementation of video modeling in the occupational therapy intervention process for children and adolescents with special needs: A scoping review

Occupational Therapy In Health Care ◽

10.1080/07380577.2021.1876967 ◽

2021 ◽

pp. 1-18

Author(s):

Nurbieta Abd Aziz ◽

Masne Kadar ◽

Dzalani Harun ◽

Hanif Farhan Mohd Rasdi

Keyword(s):

Occupational Therapy ◽

Children And Adolescents ◽

Special Needs ◽

Scoping Review ◽

Video Modeling ◽

Intervention Process ◽

Occupational Therapy Intervention ◽

Therapy Intervention

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Gender Differences in Peer Influence on Autistic Traits in Special Needs Schools—Evidence From Staff Reports

Frontiers in Psychology ◽

10.3389/fpsyg.2021.718726 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 12 ◽

Author(s):

Gina Nenniger ◽

Verena Hofmann ◽

Christoph M. Müller

Keyword(s):

Gender Differences ◽

Children And Adolescents ◽

Special Needs ◽

Peer Influence ◽

Longitudinal Design ◽

Autistic Traits ◽

Individual Level ◽

School Year ◽

Gender And Age ◽

General Functioning

Children and adolescents with an intellectual disability (ID) and autistic traits often attend special needs schools where they are surrounded by peers with diverse characteristics. Given the role that peers can play in social development, we examined whether autistic traits development in students with ID and high levels of such characteristics are influenced by the level of autistic traits among the schoolmates they like most. Furthermore, we investigated the degree to which this peer influence susceptibility depends on students’ gender. A longitudinal design, with data collection points at the beginning and the end of a school year, was used. Staff reported on 330 students with high levels of autistic traits (20.6% girls; age 10.17 years, SD = 3.74) who attended 142 classrooms in 16 Swiss special needs schools. Results showed that students’ future individual level of autistic traits (T2) was not predicted by the autistic traits level of preferred peers (T1), controlling for individual autistic traits at T1, level of general functioning, gender, and age. However, the peer effect was significantly moderated by students’ gender, indicating that girls but not boys were susceptible to peer influence. These findings are discussed in terms of implications for understanding autistic traits development and directions of support for children and adolescents in their peer context.

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Health Care Reform and the Special Needs of Children

PEDIATRICS ◽

10.1542/peds.93.3.504 ◽

1994 ◽

Vol 93 (3) ◽

pp. 504-506

Author(s):

James M. Perrin ◽

Sheila R. Bloom ◽

Robert S. Kahn ◽

Stephen Davidson ◽

Bernard Guyer ◽

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Keyword(s):

Health Care ◽

Children And Adolescents ◽

Special Needs ◽

Health Care Reform ◽

Well Being ◽

Public And Private ◽

National Health Care ◽

Service Programs ◽

Care Services ◽

Us Children

Health care reform may well address many of the needs of children and adolescents, offering greater emphasis on prevention and providing insurance to the large number of US children currently uninsured. Yet key public health and community health service programs essential to the well being of children and adolescents have gained little attention in the current national health care reform debates. Most discussions focus on insurance and cost containment and fail to address other systemic barriers to health care. Insurance alone will not solve the health problems faced by children and adolescents. SPECIAL NEEDS OF CHILDREN AND ADOLESCENTS Addressing the health risks that children and adolescents face requires combining public and private efforts and community-oriented and personal care services.

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