Articles

Growth and Stature

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

Self Assessment Quiz 3  Quiz on screening implementation in a medical office

Self Assessment Quiz 5 Questions  Questions on Developmental Screening

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

Self Assessment Test 4 Answers  Answers for quiz on screening test standards

Understanding Cultural Diversity: Asian American Family Roots

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

Coding Conundrums Fall 2005

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

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

Handouts

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

10 Guidelines for Living with Children

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.

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.

Multisystem Developmental Disorder  This articles describes a common problem in young children that is felt to be related to autistic disorders.

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

Parents and Careers  Pros and Cons of working parents.

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

Pictorial Pediatric Symptom Checklist Form  Printable checklist in English and Spanish