A Multisite Study Evaluating the Benefits of Early Intervention via Telepractice

This study sought to determine the effectiveness of telepractice as a method of delivering early intervention services to families of infants and toddlers who are deaf or hard of hearing.

A Multisite Study Evaluating the Benefits of Early Intervention via Telepractice

Behl, Diane D. MEd; Blaiser, Kr

Electrical Grounding Technique May Improve Health Outcomes of NICU Babies - by Penn State University

Extract: A technique called "electrical grounding" may moderate preterm infants’ electromagnetic exposure in the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU)

- and improve their health outcomes, according to Penn State College of Medicine researchers.

Equipment in the NICU produces low-frequen

Exposed: Child labour behind smart phone and electric car batteries – video and report

Extract from Amnesty website dated 19 January 2016:

“Major electronics brands, including Apple, Samsung and Sony, are failing to do basic checks to ensure that cobalt mined by child labourers has not been used in their products, said Amnest

Disability Benefits Consortium benefits survey 2017- England UK

The Disability Benefits Consortium (DBC) is a national coalition of over 80 different charities and other organisations committed to working towards a fair benefits system for disabled people, people with long-term conditions and their carer

Your perspective and understanding on disability. Call for papers - international

The Scottish Journal of Residential Child Care (SJRCC) is inviting submissions for a special themed issue on disability, to be published in December 2018.

Whether you are a caregiver, an academic, or a young person reflecting on your own experience of care and disability, this is your chance to get

Strong Foundations: Getting it Right in the First 1000 Days. Major project and paper from Centre for Community Child Health, Melbourne, Australia

From the Strong Foundations Project website: The ‘first thousand days’ refers to the period of development from conception to age 2. While early years experts have long been aware that this is an important period of development, researchers

Psychosocial experiences of adults with an intellectual disability and a chronic illness

Samantha Flynn writes: I’ve recently updated the searches for my PhD systematic review. The review aims to identify, summarise and evaluate all available evidence pertaining to the psychosocial experiences of adults with an intellectual disa

Vitamin D deficiency during pregnancy tied to autism risk. Article by Hannah Furfaro

From Spectrum website: Children born to women who had low blood levels of vitamin D while pregnant more than double their risk of autism.

The findings come from a study of more than 4,000 children in the Netherlands. Only 68 of the children