Handbook of Children With Special Health Care Needs

Product description From the Back Cover Handbook of Children with Special Health Care Needs David Hollar, editorChildren with chronic conditions, developmental disorders, and birth defectsrepresent a sizeable minority of American children—as many as one in five.Often their families have financial or other issues limiting their access toappropriate care, thus limiting their adult prospects as well. Compounding theproblem, many valuable resources concerning this population are difficult toaccess although they may be critical to the practitionerswho work to deliver quality care and services. In response, theHandbook of Children with Special Health Care Needs assembles research,applied, and policy perspectives reflecting the range of children’s problemsrequiring special services. Widely studied conditions (e.g., communicationdisorders, substance abuse) and those receiving lesser attention (e.g.,tuberculosis) are covered, as are emerging ideas such as the “medical home”concept of continuity of care. Contributors offer screening and evaluationmethods, research guidelines, and diagnostic and treatment interventions toinform the greatest spectrum of readers, including: Quality of life in childrendiagnosed with ADHD or specific learning disabilities Evaluating school-agedchildren with visual impairments Deaf culture advocates on deaf learners’education Oral health access issues in children requiring special servicesDiagnostic and treatment issues in fetal alcohol spectrum disorders Addressingand preventing bullying of children with special health care needs Itsinterdisciplinary outlook makes the Handbook of Children with Special HealthCare Needs a vital, forward-looking text for pediatricians, early childhood and special education professionals, disability advocates, social workers, and providers for children with special health care needs. About the Author David Hollar, PhD is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Medicine, University of North Carolina School of Medicine, Chapel Hill. At UNC, he designs and analyzes educational research projects involving assessments of medical student and resident performances in simulated environments. He also performs epidemiological research on risk behaviors and diagnostic health conditions for persons with disabilities, using secondary longitudinal clinical and public health databases. He is an active member of the American Educational Research Association, the American Public Health Association (Disability Section), and is a member of the editorial board of the Maternal and Child Health Journal, published by Springer.