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Direct linkPevsner, Jonathan; Silverman, Wayne – Exceptional Parent, 2007
At one time or the other, virtually every parent has gone to the doctor concerned about his or her child. Thanks to the advances of modern medicine, the doctor can diagnose the problem most of the time and treat it successfully. Many potential problems, some life-threatening like diphtheria and neural tube defects, can even be prevented altogether…
Descriptors: Developmental Disabilities, Genetics, Clinical Diagnosis, Medical Research
Peer reviewedScience Teacher, 2005
Age-related macular degeneration is the leading cause of blindness in older adults, yet researchers are still in the dark about many of the factors that cause this incurable disease. But new insight from University of Florida (UF) and German researchers about a genetic link between rhesus monkeys with macular degeneration and humans could unlock…
Descriptors: Blindness, Primatology, Medical Research, Ophthalmology
Ramsey, Collette – Volta Rev, 1970
Paper presented at the Summer Meeting of the Alexander Graham Bell Association (Philadelphia, June 24-27, 1970) in which the author reviews the research supported by The Deafness Research Foundation. (RD)
Descriptors: Etiology, Exceptional Child Research, Foundation Programs, Genetics
Peer reviewedSafyer, Andrew W.; Miller, Robert W. – Journal of School Health, 1977
Epidemiologic research has revealed a wide spectrum of etiologic information concerning childhood cancer. (MB)
Descriptors: Cancer, Children, Clinical Diagnosis, Diseases
Download full textGELHART, ROBERT P. – 1966
EIGHTY-FIVE BOOKS AND ARTICLES DEALING WITH DOWN'S SYNDROME (MONGOLISM) ARE LISTED. DATING FROM 1933 THROUGH 1965, THE ITEMS CITED FOCUS ON BIOCHEMICAL AND GENETIC FACTORS AS WELL AS THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE MONGOLOID CHILD. (JD)
Descriptors: Bibliographies, Biochemistry, Child Development, Down Syndrome
CROME, L.; STERN, J. – 1967
DATA FROM RECENT COMPREHENSIVE STUDIES OF THE PATHOLOGY OF MENTAL RETARDATION ARE ASSEMBLED, INCLUDING MATERIAL ON ETIOLOGY, MORPHOLOGY, BIOCHEMISTRY, AND LABORATORY DIAGNOSIS. AREAS COVERED ARE (1) GENETIC CAUSES OF MENTAL RETARDATION, (2) DISORDERS OF GESTATION, (3) BIRTH INJURY, (4) GENERAL CONSIDERATIONS OF POSTNATAL CAUSES OF MENTAL…
Descriptors: Biochemistry, Biological Influences, Clinical Diagnosis, Diseases
Robb, Preston – 1965
A discussion of the incidence of epilepsy is followed by a discussion of etiology including the following causes: genetic and birth factors, infectious diseases, toxic factors, trauma or physical agents, heredofamilial and degenerative disorders, circulatory disturbances, metabolic and nutritional disturbances, and neoplasms. Epileptic seizures…
Descriptors: Biochemistry, Classification, Clinical Diagnosis, Communicable Diseases
National Inst. of Child Health and Human Development (NIH), Bethesda, MD. Mental Retardation and Developmental Disabilities Branch. – 2001
This report highlights some of the projects supported by the Mental Retardation and Developmental Disabilities (MRDD) Branch of the Center for Research for Mothers and Children at the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development since its last report in January 1997. The MRDD Branch provides support for research, research training,…
Descriptors: Adults, Autism, Children, Clinical Diagnosis
Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, Washington, DC. Secretary's Committee on Mental Retardation. – 1969
Part II of a two-part publication listing mental retardation grants awarded by the U.S. Department of Health, Education, and Welfare in fiscal year 1968 (July 1, 1967, to June 30, 1968), the text includes grants awarded in the areas of research and demonstration. (Part I covers grants in training and construction.) Grants are arranged according to…
Descriptors: Abstracts, Biochemistry, Congenital Impairments, Demonstration Programs
United Cerebral Palsy Association, New York, NY. – 1969
The proceedings include seven selected papers. In one, Brewster S. Miller reports on the 1968 activities of the Medical and Scientific Department of the United Cerebral Palsy Associations. In another, James J. Gallagher anticipates the next 20 years in special education for the handicapped. Also considered are the following topics: new directions…
Descriptors: Agency Role, Cerebral Palsy, Clinical Diagnosis, Down Syndrome
