Publications by authors named "K Albritton"

Emergent Bilinguals (EBs) comprise nearly a third of children enrolled in early childhood classrooms across the United States. Unfortunately, EB populations are often met with barriers that limit their opportunity to thrive in the school setting. Bilingual school psychologists (BSPs) are uniquely positioned to provide culturally and linguistically responsive academic and behavioral services to these young students.

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Social-emotional skills are a growing area of focus for early childhood educators due to their contributions to young children's school readiness and long-term positive outcomes. Current research also highlights the need to confront biases leading to the overestimation of challenging behaviors in racially and ethnically minoritized children. When enacted into policy and practices, biases and overestimation of challenging behaviors result in disproportional, exclusionary disciplinary practices towards children from racially minoritized and economically marginalized backgrounds in early childhood educational settings.

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Background: Neighborhood socioeconomic deprivation has been linked to adverse health outcomes, yet it is unclear whether neighborhood-level social determinants of health (SDOH) measures affect overall survival in adolescent and young adult patients with cancer.

Methods: This study used a diverse cohort of adolescent and young adult patients with cancer (Nā€‰=ā€‰10ā€Š261) seen at MD Anderson Cancer Center. Zip codes were linked to Area Deprivation Index (ADI) values, a validated neighborhood-level SDOH measure, with higher ADI values representing worse SDOH.

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The AYA Psycho-Oncology Screening Tool was developed to assess adolescent and young adult (AYA) patients' distress during cancer treatment. The on-treatment distress screening tool has been validated with AYAs and includes a 10-point distress thermometer (DT) and a 53-item problem checklist (PCL). However, previous studies have not solely examined AYA cancer distress within a children's hospital.

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GLI1 -altered mesenchymal tumor is a recently described distinct pathologic entity with an established risk of malignancy, being defined molecularly by either GLI1 gene fusions or amplifications. The clinicopathologic overlap of tumors driven by the 2 seemingly distinct mechanisms of GLI1 activation is still emerging. Herein, we report the largest series of molecularly confirmed GLI1 -altered mesenchymal neoplasms to date, including 23 GLI1- amplified and 15 GLI1 -rearranged new cases, and perform a comparative clinicopathologic, genomic, and survival investigation.

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