ASSESSMENT OF YOUNG CHILDREN WITH SPECIAL NEEDS

The Bayley-III-NL Special Needs Addition A suitable developmental assessment instrument for young children with special needs

Promoting Inclusion for Young Children With Special Needs on Playgrounds

Playgrounds are underutilized for enhancing the social development of young children with special needs. The unstructured, fast-paced nature of play in this setting necessitates using teacher-mediated interventions to enhance inclusion of children with special needs in cooperative interactions with their typically developing peers. In this review, we discuss the importance of moving classroom c...

Language Intervention: Computer Training for Young Children with Special Needs

Three studies that explore the usefulness and effectiveness of computers for training language skills of young children with communication disabilities are reviewed. A study of eight toddlers with Down syndrome compared traditional individual language intervention with computer-based instruction for developing comprehension of vocabulary and early grammatical patterns over a period of three mon...

Children with special educational needs.

Sir, It was good to see Dr Ni Brolchain's interesting study of children with special educational needs (February Journal, p.56). They form a small but important subgroup of a practice child population. I suspect these children and their families may well have higher consultation rates than a control group without special educational needs. I trained for general practice (including nine months i...

Assessment and Intervention in the Adaption Process of Families of Children with Special Needs: Introducing the Double ABCX Model

Research findings indicate that parents of children with special needs may experience more stress in different contexts, which can affect family performance and lead to incompatibility and vulnerability. The present study aims to introduce a multifaceted and widely used model for assessing and explaining compatibility of families of children with special needs. This study employs a review desig...