The Bayley-III-NL Special Needs Addition: A Suitable Developmental Assessment Instrument For 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...

Scale Validation of the FFIS for Mothers with Children with Special Needs

Objective: The aim of the present study was to investigate the features of the Family-Focused Intervention Scale (FFIS) for mothers of children with special needs. Materials & Methods: Descriptive-survey and validation research methods’ were applied for the survey. Participants were drawn from a sample of 200 mothers of/with children with special needs in were selected from the special schoo...