England's National Deaf Children's Society has made a film to promote the Stolen Futures campaign and petition against cuts to services for deaf children.

By April 2013 a third of England's councils will have made cuts to support for deaf children, including funding for Teachers of the Deaf, specialist teaching assistants and speech and language therapists. 

The film features some inspirational celebrities and deaf children and young people. 

You can watch it here: http://youtu.be/S7H_Xitdv3Q 

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Young Athletes is a motor play program for children with special needs (ages 3-7). Professors Gary Siperstein and Paddy Favazza from the University of Massachusetts Boston, are examining the adaptations of Young Athletes as it is being used in other countries. 

They need to identify people from different countries who are leaders in Early Childhood Special Education or those with expertise in Motor Development of Young Children with Intellectual Disabilities, who can inform them about the educational programs for young children with disabilities from Africa (Kenya, Tanzania), South America (Venezuela) and Eastern Europe (Romania). 

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Below is an abstract of a presentation by Dr L A Scott at The Ninth World Congress on Brain Injury International Brain Injury Association Edinburgh, Scotland, 2013. 

As a multidisciplinary team specializing in diagnosing prenatal brain injury (Foetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders) we have added sleep inventories and sleep studies to our practice. 

The results of that new initiative have resulted in our formalizing both how sleep difficulties are screened by participating in a Canadian Consortium on Sleep in FASD to develop a comprehensive list of screening questions as well as standardizing when/where the sleep studies are performed. 

The resulting research indicates that 100% of those who completed a comprehensive sleep study received at least one diagnosis under sleep issues. Snoring and apnea were least reported but high arousal indices and unusual findings within sleep architecture were frequently found.

We will present our findings of these sleep studies as well our recommendations for sleep studies being included as part of practice in other forms of ABI/TBI.

Dr L. A. Scott
Paediatric Neuropsychologist, Ontario, Canada

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