Children and Youth with Disabilities Document List

Youth and Disability Publications

• Defining Shyness by Analyzing Shyness in Children
  Findings showed temperamental shyness may exist in a distinct group of children over time, while a larger subset of children may experience shyness as an emotional state in some situations.
  Publish Date: 2023-04-25

• More Support Needed for Children with Disabilities When Online
  Children with disabilities need better support to manage their online lives and potential online risks, according to new research.
  Publish Date: 2023-03-24

• Decline of Child Mental Health Due to All Work No Independent Play
  Study shows adults' good intentions to protect children deprives them of the independence needed for mental wellbeing.
  Publish Date: 2023-03-12

• Behavior Problems and Excessive Electronic Device Use
  Fidgety, restless children are more likely to use digital devices, and parents are also more likely to engage their children with gadgets.
  Publish Date: 2022-08-10 - Updated: 2023-01-04

• Growing Pains - What Are They?
  Growing pains is a term used to diagnose musculoskeletal pain in children however what exactly are growing pains.
  Publish Date: 2022-07-22 - Updated: 2023-01-04

• 33% of Children with Disabilities Experience Violence
  Children with cognitive, learning disabilities, mental health conditions, and children with disabilities from lower income settings, are especially likely to experience violence.
  Publish Date: 2022-03-26 - Updated: 2022-03-27

• Nearly 25% of Youth Admissions to Psychiatric Hospitals Involuntary
  For young people with psychosis, the odds of an involuntary rather than voluntary hospitalization were more than three times higher than for those without psychosis.
  Publish Date: 2021-04-28

• Anaesthesia Web Helps Children and Parents Prepare for Hospitalization
  On Anaesthesia Web children of all ages and cognitive levels learn about the body, what it is like being in hospital and what happens before, during and after anaesthesia and surgery.
  Publish Date: 2021-04-15

• Children with Disabilities Often Invisible, Not Heard and Not Counted
  Mind the Gap research reveals children with disability are often invisible, as they are overlooked in many child and disability focused laws, policies and programs.
  Publish Date: 2021-03-30

• Certain Fluoride Unsafe for Children's Developing Brains
  Developmental neurotoxicity is a serious risk associated with elevated fluoride exposure, whether due to community water fluoridation, natural fluoride release from soil minerals, or tea consumption.
  Publish Date: 2020-03-02 - Updated: 2020-03-30

• More Than 50% of Parents of Children with Disabilities Fail to Make Care Plans
  Research reveals fewer than half of parents of children with intellectual and developmental disabilities make long-term plans about their childs care if the parent or relative providing care dies or becomes incapacitated.
  Publish Date: 2018-02-09

• Parent to Baby Eye Contact Helps Synchronize Brainwaves
  Study explores whether infants can synchronise their brainwaves to adults and whether eye contact might influence this.
  Publish Date: 2017-11-30 - Updated: 2017-12-15

• Why Babies Shouldn't Sleep Face Down
  Research has uncovered a developmental abnormality in babies that has been directly linked to cases of sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS).
  Publish Date: 2017-10-30

• Motherese - The Sound of Baby Talk Across Languages
  Mothers using motherese or baby talk plays important role in language learning, engaging child emotions and highlighting structure in language to help babies decode syllables and sentences.
  Publish Date: 2017-10-12 - Updated: 2018-05-01

• Global Estimate of Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder Among Children
  New global study reveals nearly eight out of every 1,000 children in the general population estimated to have Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder (FASD).
  Publish Date: 2017-08-21 - Updated: 2020-02-06

• Nearly 3,000 Preventable Adolescent Deaths Daily
  World Health Organization reports over 3000 adolescents die every day, totalling 1.2 million deaths a year, from largely preventable causes.
  Publish Date: 2017-05-16 - Updated: 2017-05-17

• Navigating Insurance to Secure a Safe Bed for Your Special-Needs Child
  Article assists parents with special-needs children navigate the medical necessity and insurance maze when it comes to providing a safe bed for their child.
  Publish Date: 2017-01-09 - Updated: 2022-09-02

• Spatial Talk Predicts Spatial Abilities in Young Children
  Study reveals preschool age kids often skip location words and lean on other relevant information to describe important spatial details.
  Publish Date: 2016-11-30 - Updated: 2021-11-29

• Importance of Loving Care in Child Institutions
  Children raised in daily contact with responsive and warm professionals display better physical, cognitive, and social development.
  Publish Date: 2016-10-08

• Bullying Can Result in Aggressive Response by Children with Disability
  Study finds children with disabilities more likely to respond aggressively when they are bullied, not only to their bullies but to other children as well.
  Publish Date: 2016-10-04 - Updated: 2020-11-16

• Mobility Plays Important Role in Development of Toddlers with Disability
  Oregon State University study reveals marked differences in play and activity among toddlers with and without disabilities.
  Publish Date: 2016-04-13 - Updated: 2021-06-04

• Use of Electronic Devices to Calm Kids
  Study reveals significant associations between difficult child behavior and use of mobile technology as a calming tool.
  Publish Date: 2016-03-03 - Updated: 2021-12-08

• Gastroschisis: Overview and General Information
  Information and overview of Gastroschisis, a form of birth defect of an infants abdominal wall.
  Publish Date: 2016-02-05 - Updated: 2020-07-30

• MADE KNOWN: Tips to Help Children with Disabilities
  Trying to have people with disabilities MADE KNOWN in their families, communities, villages, and countries.
  Publish Date: 2015-02-17

• Legislation to Aid Children with Disabilities of Military Families
  Defense Authorization Act allows military survivor benefit plans to designate special needs trust as beneficiary.
  Publish Date: 2014-12-13

• Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS) and Unsafe Bedding
  Nearly 55% of U.S. infants are placed to sleep with bedding that increases risk of sudden infant death syndrome or SIDS.
  Publish Date: 2014-12-03 - Updated: 2022-09-02

• Are Children Today Better Off Than 25 Years Ago
  Progress toward commitment to children in areas such as right to education, protection from child labor and child marriage, and discrimination of children with disabilities.
  Publish Date: 2014-11-21 - Updated: 2020-11-19

• Daycare Syndrome - Is There Such a Thing
  Facts and advice from physicians to parents and caregivers on viral illness season and child care settings.
  Publish Date: 2014-11-07 - Updated: 2021-04-09

• 10 Million Childhood Disabilities Prevented in End Polio Campaign
  The world has never been closer to this once-in-a-generation opportunity of eradicating polio for good.
  Publish Date: 2014-10-27 - Updated: 2016-06-12

• Children with Disabilities and Foster Care
  Data suggests children born with forms of disabilities are more often abused and relinquished to the child welfare system.
  Publish Date: 2013-12-14 - Updated: 2021-08-30

• Disabled Children Treated More Harshly in Developing World
  Largest study to date examines the link between child disabilities and discipline they may receive.
  Publish Date: 2013-07-30 - Updated: 2021-04-03

• Sibling Rivalry: What is It and Why Does it Happen
  Article looks at sibling rivalry with a focus on a child with disabilities or one who is ill and may require more time from a parent than their brothers or sisters.
  Publish Date: 2013-07-03 - Updated: 2021-04-09

• See the Child Before the Disability
  Children with disabilities and their communities would both benefit if society focused on what those children can achieve, rather than what they cannot do.
  Publish Date: 2013-06-01 - Updated: 2021-04-21

• Homeless Children with Disabilities in America
  In America there are more than 1.3 million children who are homeless at some point every single year.
  Publish Date: 2012-03-06 - Updated: 2021-10-09

• Debate Over SSI Benefits for Disabled Children
  Children with disabilities whose parents meet income limits may be eligible to receive cash benefits through Supplemental Security Income SSI.
  Publish Date: 2012-02-12 - Updated: 2021-10-17

• Children with Disabilities Must Not be Forgotten
  In conflict and crisis, children with disabilities must not be forgotten, UNICEF stated at an international conference.
  Publish Date: 2012-02-01 - Updated: 2022-06-27

• Childhood Hypersensitivity Linked to OCD
  Researchers establish a direct correlation between sensory processing the way the nervous system manages incoming sensory information and ritualistic and obsessive compulsive behaviors.
  Publish Date: 2011-12-28

• Disabled Children do Matter - ESRC
  Disabled children often experience discrimination exclusion and violence the biggest barriers are the attitudes of other people and widespread forms of institutional discrimination.
  Publish Date: 2011-12-02

• Protecting Children's Access to Care
  Families advocates and pediatric community urged to Speak Now for Kids in the face of threats to Medicaid and the Childrens Hospitals Graduate Medical Education program.
  Publish Date: 2011-11-28

• Special Kids Special Families - Caring for Children with Disabilities
  The mission of Special Kids Special Families is to promote strengthen, and support individuals with disabilities and their families.
  Publish Date: 2011-09-28 - Updated: 2019-01-12

• Mentorship for Youth with Disabilities
  Young people with disabilities have a great deal to gain from relationships with mentors who have the ability to guide them.
  Publish Date: 2010-07-14 - Updated: 2019-03-06

• SSI and SSDI Benefits for Children with Disability
  Children who are diagnosed as disabled may be eligible for SSI or SSDI benefits.
  Publish Date: 2010-05-24 - Updated: 2010-07-19

• Otoplasty Cosmetic Ear Surgery
  Otoplasty is a cosmetic solution for malformed ears otoplasty is minimally invasive and requires little recovery time.
  Publish Date: 2010-02-27

• NICHY - National Dissemination Center for Children with Disabilities
  NICHY provides information related to disabilities in children including youth programs and services for children with disabilities.
  Publish Date: 2010-02-27 - Updated: 2023-03-19

• The Child Development Institute and Children with Disabilities
  Parents of children who experience a disability play a crucial role in the educational process of their children.
  Publish Date: 2010-01-19 - Updated: 2010-06-25

• Positional Plagiocephaly - Facts and Information
  Plagiocephaly is a general term one that refers to a persons head which is shaped abnormally due to various causes.
  Publish Date: 2010-01-11

• Working for Children with Disabilities - Kids Together
  Kids Together is dedicated to inclusive communities and promotion of a sense of belonging for people with disabilities.
  Publish Date: 2009-10-26 - Updated: 2010-07-08

• KEEN Los Angeles - Kids with Disabilities - Recreation and FUN
  KEEN LA was launched in October of 2005, a mere three months after the people involved in its planning held their first community assessment meeting.
  Publish Date: 2009-10-24 - Updated: 2010-07-16

• Children and Speech or Language Impairments
  A speech or language impairment means an impairment of speech or sound production fluency voice or language.
  Publish Date: 2009-10-14

• The National Consortium on Deaf-Blindness - Resource for Children and Youth
  The National Consortium on Deaf-Blindness - A Resource for Children and Youth.
  Publish Date: 2009-10-12 - Updated: 2010-06-25

• Children and Orthopedic Impairments
  An article about Children with Orthopedic Impairments IDEA and Assistive Technologies.
  Publish Date: 2009-10-09 - Updated: 2017-06-03

• Children and Hearing Loss - Facts and Information
  About half of all children with a hearing loss do not have an identified cause for that hearing loss.
  Publish Date: 2009-09-30

• Children with Disabilities and H1N1 Flu
  Majority of children who have died because of H1N1 flu have had an underlying illness or developmental disability.
  Publish Date: 2009-09-05 - Updated: 2010-07-14

• Bullying Prevention Skills and Techniques for Children
  The main difference between child bullying today from the past is the nature of the bullying and the violence that occurs in the aftermath.
  Publish Date: 2009-09-01 - Updated: 2010-06-08

• Action For Kids - An Organization for Children and Young People with Disabilities
  Action for Kids provides mobility equipment, work-related learning to assist with access to employment and alternate career opportunities.
  Publish Date: 2009-08-27 - Updated: 2010-07-11

• Stories for Children Magazine
  Stories for Children Magazine features articles stories and featured guest interviews.
  Publish Date: 2009-08-16 - Updated: 2010-07-11

• Our-Kids Website Supports Parents, Family, and Caregivers
  Our Kids a website offering support for family members friends caregivers and others who support children with special needs.
  Publish Date: 2009-08-05 - Updated: 2010-07-08

• Are Kids Today Truly More Autonomous?
  Children have certainly mastered the art of selecting, negotiating and even refusing the chores their parents assign to them.
  Publish Date: 2009-08-04 - Updated: 2016-06-12

• Easter Seals Offers Free Disability Awareness Curriculum for Educators
  Elementary school educators free teaching tool to help young students learn about children and adults with disabilities.
  Publish Date: 2009-08-03 - Updated: 2009-08-31

• The NCLD and LD.org - A Website for Children and Families with Learning Disabilities
  The National Center for Learning Disabilities gives parents professionals and individuals with learning disabilities an incredible amount of information.
  Publish Date: 2009-07-26 - Updated: 2010-07-16

• Explaining Disability to Children
  Parents may face situations where disabilities and children are concerned, talking to kids about disabilities includes explaining disability, politeness and manners to children.
  Publish Date: 2009-04-28 - Updated: 2021-03-29