The primary purpose of this study was to compare the ability of language-impaired and reading-impaired children to process (i.e.', encode and retrieve) phonological information. Four measures of phonological awareness and several measures of word and sentence repetition abilities were used to evaluate phono!ogica! processing skills. Two additional measures assessed children's awareness of lexic...

BACKGROUND/AIM Almost 200 cochlear implantations were done in the four centers (two in Belgrade, per one in Novi Sad and Nis) in Serbia from 2002 to 2009. Less than 10% of implantees were postlingually deaf adults. The vast majority, i.e. 90% were pre- and perilingually profoundly deaf children. The aim of this study was to assess the influence of improved auditory perception due to cochlear im...

One of the most devastating effects of congenital hearing loss is that normal development of speech is often disrupted. As a consequence, most hearing-impaired children must be taught the speech skills that normal-hearing children readily acquire during the first few years of life. Although some hearing-impaired children develop intelligible speech, many do not. For many years, it was believed ...

PURPOSE Disability is a significant problem and is accepted globally as a health priority in childhood. Like nonvisually impaired children, visually impaired children also need to use health services during childhood. The purpose of this study was to determine the health problems of visually impaired children. METHODS A descriptive design was used. The subjects were 74 children with visual im...

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVE Approximately 1 in 5 child passenger deaths in the United States involves an alcohol-impaired driver, most commonly the child's own driver. The objective of this study was to document recent trends and state-specific rates of these deaths. METHODS A descriptive analysis of 2001-2010 Fatality Analysis Reporting System data for child passengers aged <15 years killed in ...

OBJECTIVE To determine the effect of different regimen of first hour fluid administration rates on mortality and severe consequences of impaired circulation in 2 to 60 months old children with impaired circulation. DESIGN Systematic review of randomized controlled trials. DATA SOURCES Various databases including PubMed, Cochrane Library and EMBASE were searched. RESULTS We found only two ...

PURPOSE Obesity is one of the most important nutritional disorders in the world which has an obvious relationship with the incidence of metabolic diseases. Obesity prevalence has increased among children and adolescents during recent decades, leading to a rise in Type 2 diabetes mellitus (DM II) prevalence in these two age brackets. Hence, the aim of this study was to assess impaired glucose to...

OBJECTIVE The aims of this study were to document the incidence of impaired cerebral autoregulation in children with traumatic brain injury using transcranial Doppler ultrasonography and to examine the relationship between autoregulatory capacity and outcome in children following traumatic brain injury. DESIGN Prospective cohort study. SETTING Harborview Medical Center (level I pediatric tr...