The Sibling Support Project and the Kindering Center are pleased to announce GKSN—Grandparents of Kids with Special Needs.

We believe that no one understands a grandparent's unique joys and concerns better than another grandparent of a child with special needs.  

On the GKSN website, grandparents will have a chance to meet other grandparents through our Yahoogroup or Facebook groups, share ideas for supporting their kids and grandkids, and even post pictures of their grandkids!  

Please visit www.gksn.org and help us spread the word!  

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Director, Sibling Support Project
 

A Kindering Center program

Seattle

USA
 

This is an on-line peer-reviewed journal interested in any aspect related to health communication. 

The International Journal of Communication and Health is ready to receive manuscripts on all aspects concerning health communication, particularly those of international relevance. 

Contributions exploring any context of health communication are welcomed. The journal welcomes high-quality research and analyses from diverse theoretical and methodological approaches from all fields of communication, media, and health.

The journal is particularly interested in new approaches of health and communication that have the potential to increase the body of knowledge on the subject and generate future studies. 

The Journal invites original empirical (qualitative or quantitative) research, literature reviews, theoretical or methodological contributions, integrative reviews, meta-analyses, comparative or historical studies on the following topics:

media, health and illness,
communication, health and illness,
policy of health communication,
organizational aspects of health communication,
culture and health communication,
health communication in the community,
health communication in mass media,
interpersonal health communication,
media and medical prevention campaigns,
medical errors in the media, media and medical myths,
E-health – new technology and health communication 

The deadline of submitting the article is July 1st 2013

Visit - http://communicationandhealth.ro/call-for-papers/

If you have any questions, please contact the editors at: 

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Below are four research alerts: 

1. There are common barriers that general population and people with ID share and include late referral to hospice, reluctance to broach subject, payment restrictions, lack of adequate resources, providers' knowledge of hospice, carers' familiarity with hospice, limitations of care, and ethical dilemmas related to overtreatment. However, the barriers are even greater for people with ID and include additional issues in delay in diagnosis of life-limiting condition, hospice provider's knowledge of ID, incomplete communication of treatment options, conflicts between carers and surrogate decision makers, ethical dilemmas related to undertreatment, and challenges with informed consent. 

Please read further at http://www.healthmattersprogram.org/trending/files/4cd80092bbbaadd6ab9189500aac0ed1-36.html 

2. A Health Handbook for Women with Disabilities Women with disabilities often discover that the social stigma of disability and inadequate care are greater barriers to health than the disability, itself. This Handbook, developed with the help and experience of women with disabilities in 42 countries, can help women with disabilities overcome barriers, i mprove their general health, self-esteem and ability to care for themselves, as well as increase their participation in their communities.(http://en.hesperian.org/hhg/A_Health_Handbook_for_Women_with_Disabilities)  

3. The service provision for people with Autism Spectrum Conditions (ASC) in mainland China included healthcare, mainstream education, private special education, and state-run special education. The literature on the situation of the healthcare system and educational services for children with ASC in China was profoundly limited. There were great financial problems faced by the parents of children with ASC, which were partly due to the under-developed healthcare and educational system for ASC.

Please read further at http://www.healthmattersprogram.org/trending/files/c24dd790e61abda14150730599b7b9f4-34.html 

4. Latino and Black children with autism and other DD experienced poorer health care quality compared to White children. Latino and Black parents reported less satisfaction with their health care providers on issues such as making them feel like a partner, spending more time, or understanding their family culture.

 Please read further at http://www.healthmattersprogram.org/trending/files/60d6883624ba837ab9bd718e7c839eb7-31.html 

HealthMatters Alerts: www.HealthMattersProgram.org