Birth Seasonality in Developmentally Disabled Children

1989 ◽  
Vol 64 (3_suppl) ◽  
pp. 1213-1214 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jeffrey A. Atlas
Keyword(s):  
Developmentally Disabled ◽  
Disabled Children ◽  
Autistic Children ◽  
Birth Seasonality ◽  
Childhood Schizophrenia ◽  
Negative Syndrome

26 children with diagnoses of autism and 22 children with diagnoses of childhood schizophrenia or a variant thereof were compared on the variable of winter birth. Analyses showed that autistic children had a higher proportion of winter births than schizophrenic children. These findings are related to other research linking winter birth to negative-syndrome adult schizophrenia.

A Comparison of One-to-One versus Couplet Instruction with Autistic Children

1983 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 22-26 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jan S. Handleman ◽  
Sandra L. Harris
Keyword(s):  
Basic Skills ◽  
Developmentally Disabled ◽  
Disruptive Effect ◽  
Disabled Children ◽  
Autistic Children ◽  
Training Conditions ◽  
One To One

Alternatives to one-to-one teaching for severely developmentally disabled children are being investigated. The present study compared individual and couplet instruction with 4 autistic children. Each child was taught four sets of nonverbal imitation items, two sets in each condition, and probed for generalization of their partner's responses. Results indicated that couplet training had a disruptive effect for 2 of the children as compared to one-to-one instruction. One child learned responses faster when provided with couplet training than when instructed individually. The 4th child displayed little differences between the two training conditions. In all cases, the percentage of partner's material learned during couplet instruction was consistently low. While one-to-one instruction may be effective for teaching basic skills, for some children these skills can be taught as well when they are paired with other students. Couplet training can also facilitate the transition of children to less restrictive environments.

Behavioral treatment of food refusal and selectivity in developmentally disabled children

1980 ◽  
Vol 1 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 95-112 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mary M Riordan ◽  
Brian A Iwata ◽  
Marianne K Wohl ◽  
Jack W Finney
Keyword(s):  
Behavioral Treatment ◽  
Developmentally Disabled ◽  
Food Refusal ◽  
Disabled Children

Medical-Legal Partnerships Benefit Families of Developmentally Disabled Children

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 85-96
Author(s):  
Salathiel Kendrick Allwood ◽  
Susan Mc Laren ◽  
Robert Pettignano
Keyword(s):  
Developmentally Disabled ◽  
Disabled Children

scholarly journals The End of Responsible Relative Liability

1987 ◽  
Vol 54 (2) ◽  
pp. 171-175 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mark C. Weber
Keyword(s):  
Life Skills ◽  
Developmentally Disabled ◽  
Cost Of Care ◽  
The State ◽  
Recent Case ◽  
Disabled Children ◽  
Residential Placement ◽  
Handicapped Children ◽  
The Cost

Responsible relative liability laws exist to shift some of the cost of care of residentially placed handicapped children from the state to the children's parents. Because residential placement of handicapped children, particularly developmentally disabled children, would not be undertaken but for the need to teach these children life skills, the Education for the Handicapped Act would dictate that these placements be free of cost to parents. Recently, the courts have resolved the tension between the preexisting state-responsible relative laws and the Education for the Handicapped Act. Ruling in favor of the parents, they have invalidated the responsible relative charges. This article describes the conflict, its resolution in the recent case Parks v. Pavkovic, and some of the implications of that decision.

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