The purpose of this article is to discuss classwide peer tutoring as an effective instructional procedure. The article is organized into three major sections: [a] general principles of instruction, (bj description of classwide peer tutoring procedures, and (c) review of effectiveness data concerning classroom process (i.e., ecological and behavioral factors) and student achievement outcomes. It...

This study explored the effects of contextual support, discourse genre, and the listener's knowledge of information on syntactic and phonologic production and fluency. Subjects were language-learning-disabled, reading-disabled, and normal primary school children. Clause structure complexity, fluency, and grammatical and phonemic accuracy tended to be highest when children were discussing absent...

Physical activity (PA) participation is widely recognized as a critical component of health and development for disabled and non-disabled children. Emergent literature reflects a paradigm shift in the conceptualization of childhood PA as a multi-dimensional construct, encompassing aspects of physical performance, and self-perceived engagement. However, ambiguity remains around how participation...

OBJECTIVE This study examined social behaviors related to attachment in children with autistic disorder and the differences in these behaviors from those observed in developmentally disabled children. Additionally, we aimed to investigate the relationship between attachment behaviors and clinical variables, such as age, cognitive development, severity of autism, language development, and mother...

Postmarketing data about the effectiveness of zonisamide in childhood epilepsy was collected from 759 children with various forms of epilepsy (ages 3 months-15 years) to compare the long-term efficacy of zonisamide in the treatment of epilepsy in intellectually normal versus intellectually disabled children. The follow-up period was 6 months-3 years; 291 children (245 intellectually normal, 46 ...

Disability history is a comparatively new field of study, and to date little use has been made of the British census as a source because of its perceived difficulties. This article shows that it is possible to study a local, disabled population in the second half of the nineteenth century from this source, even thought the way in which individuals' disabilities are described can sometimes vary ...

Dr Nicolette M Priaulx Lecturer, School of Law, Keele University If a healthy child born as a result of clinical negligence is a “blessing” which should not resound in child maintenance damages, can one create an exception for the birth of a disabled child? If so, should the law then permit a further exception for the disabled parent of a healthy child? And, even if the healthy child is not the...

OBJECTIVE The objectives of this study were to determine the relation between maternal education and various maternal risk factors, identify the impact of maternal education on the risk of childhood handicap and estimate the proportion of childhood handicap that can be prevented by maternal education. METHODS Data was collected from all married women attending the two major maternity and chil...

Many people object to preimplantation or prenatal screening for disability on the grounds that it is discriminatory, has pernicious effects on the lives of existing disabled people, expresses a hurtful view of disabled people, and reduces human diversity. I argue that if these objections are held to be strong enough to show that screening is wrong, they must also imply the permissibility of cau...

ren are given to illustrate a number of the conditions that may lead to this delay. Methods of trying to help children with particular disabilities are described, such as those for the deaf child, the emotionally disturbed child, the brain damaged and physically handicapped child, and the child who stammers. The work of a school for multiply handicapped children is reviewed, with particular ref...