Could the COVID-19-related Kawasaki Disease be the newest threat to our children?

"There is a growing concern that a Sars-CoV-2-related inflammatory syndrome is emerging in children in the UK."

From Euronews:

A new coronavirus-related syndrome impacting children could be emerging in the UK, the National Health Service (NHS) has warned.

NHS England has sent an urgent alert to GPs

Clinical features and aetiology of cerebral palsy in children from Cross River State, Nigeria

Paper by Duke R, Torty C, Nwachukwu K, Ameh S, Kim M, Eneli N, Onyedikachi A, Aghaji A, Burton K, Dyet L, Bowman R. 2020

OBJECTIVE: There are few studies on cerebral palsy (CP) in African children and our study aimed to describe the aetiology, characteristics and severity of CP in children from Nige

Supporting parent carers - A paper by Joanna Griffin on emotional wellbeing in parents of disabled children

'...professionals need to avoid making assumptions about parental responses to their child’s diagnosis and remain open to the individual’s experience.'

Extract: "We imagine our children before they are born, yet nothing fully prepares us for the realities of parenthood. Any parent takes time to adap

Most children sleep with mobile phone beside bed - Report

There are 57% who always have the phone beside their bed and 44% who feel "uncomfortable" if they are ever without a phone signal.

Extracts from an article by Sean Coughlan, BBC News family and education correspondent, 30 January 2020:

- More than half of children say they sleep with their mobile p

Key Principles of Early Intervention and Effective Practices

A crosswalk with statements from discipline specific literature

From the introduction:

Many states have been evaluating their early intervention practices and undergoing system change to incorporate effective practices related to providing services within the natural environment, as well as impleme

Building Core Capabilities for Life – from Center on the Developing Child

Adults need certain capabilities to get and keep a job, provide responsive care for children, manage a household, and contribute productively to the community

When these skills have not developed as they should, or are compromised by the stresses of poverty or other ongoing adversity, our communitie

Headsprout Early Reading in Special Schools project. Can you help? (UK)

Emily Tyler Roberts at Bangor University asks:

We are currently recruiting special schools with key stage 1 and 2 provision in the North West, West Midlands, South Yorkshire and Derbyshire, East Midlands, Gloucestershire and Oxfordshire. If you could pass this on to any special schools in these reg

Academic responsibilities in integrating health, education and social care around children with disabilities and special needs. Can you help?

Universities and colleges could be a driving force in promoting integration of support services around these children, but are they?

Can you help me collect information about where this is happening in the UK or Ireland? This will help in developing an emerging new network of colleges and universiti