toys and play for the handicapped child What to say and what to do when mostly your friends love reading? Are you the one that don't have such hobby? So, it's important for you to start having that hobby. You know, reading is not the force. We're sure that reading will lead you to join in better concept of life. Reading will be a positive activity to do every time. And do you know our friends b...

Children Belong in Homes In the Clinical Report “Out-of-Home Placement for Children and Adolescents With Disabilities,” Friedman and colleagues review options for placing children with disabilities in congregate care settings. However, the report omits discussion of the best interests of the child in selecting out-of-home options and fails to review and prioritize noninstitutional models of car...

In this study influences of maternal prenatal stress on the cortisol reactions of children to a vaccination were determined. Prenatal stress at around 16 weeks of gestation was measured through questionnaires and a cortisol day curve. Cortisol reactions were determined preceding and following the vaccination. A total of 24 children (age between 3.11 and 5.9 years, mean age 4.9 years) and their ...

Superior response inhibition is an essential component of the advanced cognitive abilities of gifted children. This study investigated response inhibition in intellectually gifted children by recording event-related brain potentials (ERPs) during a Go/NoGo task. Fifteen intellectually gifted children and 15 intellectually average children participated. Our present findings showed that intellect...

sumes responsibility for the teaching of mentally handicapped children and the training of their teachers. On the surface, taking over from the Department of Health appeared to involve a minor readjustment, in fact repercussions have been loud and farreaching. Stanley Segal, principal of Ravenswood Centre for Special Education, clarifies the complexities and warns that the wrangles must be reso...

ood health often depends on having a good job and economic security. At the same time, staying healthy is often critical to keeping a job. For women, the tie between health and economic security is intensified by their responsibilities for caring for sick children or family members. In fact, The Commonwealth Fund 1998 Survey of Women’s Health finds that half of all lowincome, nonworking women a...