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Accident and Injury Prevention

Managing normal tantrums: 10 tips for parents.
Strategies for avoiding tantrums and keeping them from coming back.
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Behavior

10 Guidelines for Living with Children
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Angry Children: How to Help
Handling children's anger can be puzzling, draining, and distressing for adults. This article gives advice on how to manage children who are angry, explosive, or difficult.

Behavior

Perfectionistic Children
Perfectionist students are not satisfied with merely doing well or even with doing better than their peers. They are satisfied only if they have done a job perfectly, so that the result reveals no blemishes or weaknesses. To the extent that perfectionism involves striving for difficult but reachable goals, it involves the success-seeking aspects of healthy achievement motivation and functions as an asset to the student and as an ally to the teacher.
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Growth and Nutrition

Growth and Stature

Advocacy

Teaching Social Skills: A Guide for Parents
This article illustrates ways to help children learn appropriate behavior.

Attention Disorders

Clinical Attention Problem Scale
Brief rating scale for measuring attention and impulse control symptoms in a classroom

Screening

Self Assessment Quiz 3
Quiz on screening implementation in a medical office
Self Assessment Quiz 5 Questions
Questions on Developmental Screening
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Pediatric Symptom Checklist Description
Brief description of screening test for emotional and behavior problems in primary care
Self Assessment Quiz 5 Answers
Answers to the self assessment quiz
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Self Assessment Test 4 Answers
Answers for quiz on screening test standards

Cultural Competency

Understanding Cultural Diversity: Asian American Family Roots
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Post-Partum Depression

Edinburgh Postnatal Depression Scale
Widely used scale to screen for postpartum depression in primary care.
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Screening

Screening Statement from AAP Released
Revised (2006) statement on developmental screening and surveillance in primary care released by the American Academy of Pediatrics.
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Hearing Disability

ASHA Connections: Preventing Hearing and Speech Disorders
Noise induced hearing loss is preventable. It can lead to communication disorders in children.
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Screening

Building an Effective System of Developmental Screening and Diagnosis, Greenville, SC
This article describes a pilot program in South Carolina which promotes developmental screening.
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Early Intervention

Developmental/Behavioral Pediatrics in Hawaii
Brief description of Hawaii's approach to identifying children in need of early intervention services.
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Healthy Steps for Young Children
Description of a program for promoting development in primary care practices
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Behavior Therapy

Selective Mutism
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Parenting

Risks: Autonomy vs. Parental Control
Advice to parents about how to deal with autonomy in adolescents
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Behavior

Weather Anxiety
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Academic Resources

Evidence levels
Describes different scales for assessing scientific evidence for clinical recommendations
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Normal Child Development

Developmental Milestones
Traditional list of developmental milestones.
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Coding and Reimbursement

Payment for Telephone Care – The Time Has Come
Payment for Telephone Care
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Neuromotor Disorders

Developmental Screening Tools: Gross Motor/Fine Motor for Newborn, Infants and Children
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Behavior

What Makes Time-Out Work (and Fail)?
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Resident Training

Resident Training Curriculum
The 1999 Curriculum for resident training in Developmental and Behavioral Pediatrics is a useful guide for program directors. It is inclusive and comprehensive.
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Developmental Disabilities

Book Review: Could It Be Autism? Wiseman N. New York, New York: Broadway Books, 2006
ASD occurs in 1 out of 166 children
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Coding and Reimbursement

Coding Conundrums: Screening and Testing for Autism
CPT 96116: Screening and Testing for Autism
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Speech and Language

ASHA Connections: Early Intervention for Speech and Hearing Disorders
When a child stutters
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Parent Resources

Helping parents help their children: An innovative Australian program
Encouraging parents to actively participate in the early years of their children’s lives is integral to improving early childhood development.
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Attention Disorders

The Impact of Sleep Disorders in ADHD
Abnormal sleep patterns in ADHD
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