For those who are interested in the placements many students with EBD experience, I have published a resource that might be of value. About 15 years ago, a group of us (Jim Kauffman, Kerri Martin, Betty Hallenbeck, and I) were interested in why students with EBD were unusually likely to be placed in more restrictive settings. To aid in that understanding we systematically gathered and assembled a data base of literature on placements of students with EBD.
I’ve put a copy of PDFs of that database in the documents section. This is the first time it has been published. It’s actually pretty dull stuff, but it might help start someone down the path of re-examining that literature in a more thorough and up-to-date review. To find the document, please follow the link to “documents” in the menu under the banner.
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Over on Behavior Mod Info I have a post about an article in the New York Times that discusses uses of management procedures such as physical restraint that I think are rarely justified. Of course, many of the students with whom educators have used these techniques are students with Emotional and Behavioral Disorders. Link to the entry.
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Over on Nature News Alison Abbott has a story about some of the difficulties researchers encounter in pursuing genetic causes of Emotional and Behavioral Disorders. It’s worth a read.
Psychiatric genetics: The brains of the family
Does the difficulty in finding the genes responsible for mental illness reflect the complexity of the genetics or the poor definitions of psychiatric disorders? Alison Abbott reports.
Continue reading ‘Genetic research and psychiatric classification’
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In Nature Medicine, Genevive Bjorn reported that parents of some children are foregoing vaccines, deciding to expose their children directly to other children who have illnesses such as measles or chicken pox. Apparently, parents who choose this method of developing their children’s immunities communicate with each other and, when one child becomes ill, they coordinate meetings—playdates—among the child and others who have not yet developed the immunity.
Continue reading ‘Natural-immunity parties’
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Guillermo Montes and Jill S. Halterman examined the relationships among multiple measures of family financial health and having a child with Autism. Based on earlier documentation that childhood autism is correlated with increases in expenses and decreases in income, they found that “Childhood autism is associated with increased enrollment into school-based settings for preschool-aged children. Parents are 7 times more likely to report that child care problems substantially affected employment decisions if they have a child with ASD.”
BACKGROUND. The impact of childhood autism on parental employment is largely unknown.
OBJECTIVE. The purpose of this work was to describe the child care arrangements of children with autism and to determine whether families of preschool-aged children with autism are more likely to report that child care arrangements affected employment compared with typically developing children and children at high risk for developmental problems.
Continue reading ‘Autism associated with family financial health’
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Lenny Shafer has posted his July calendar of events related to Autism. See it at Autism Calendar
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