Fine Motor Ability and Executive Function in Autistic and Non-autistic Toddlers.

Purpose: Examining early development is paramount to understanding neurodevelopmental disabilities such as autism. Executive functioning (EF) and motor skills are central to development in general and are often co-occurring areas of concern with functional impact for autistic children. This study was conducted to examine the relationship between fine motor (FM) skills and EF in very young children with and without a diagnosis of autism.

Sensitivity of Methods to Determine Presence of Baylisascaris procyonis Eggs in Raccoon (Procyon lotor) Feces.

Baylisascaris procyonis, a nematode parasite of raccoons (Procyon lotor), has important implications for human health and ecological conservation. Several techniques are available for detecting B. procyonis, and it is important to consider their limitations for the specific question to be answered.

Achieving Equity in Child and Adolescent Mental Health by Addressing Racism Through Prevention Science.

Prevention science is a multidisciplinary field dedicated to promoting public health and reducing early risk factors that lead to negative health outcomes. It has been used to successfully improve child and family mental health and well-being, including for families affected by adversity. Despite advances in prevention efforts, major public health inequities remain for Black, Indigenous, and other People of Color (BIPOC) children and families, in part because of equity-implicit "one-size-fits-all" approaches that do not directly address racism which in part underlies the very health concerns these efforts aim to prevent.

Supporting caregivers within caregiver-mediated interventions: a commentary on Brown et al. (2024).

A substantial portion of interventions designed to support autistic children are also designed to be delivered by caregivers (i.e. are 'caregiver-mediated').

Head circumference values among Inuit children in Nunavut, Canada: a retrospective cohort study.

Background: Inuit children from Nunavut have been observed to have high rates of macrocephaly, which sometimes leads to burdensome travel for medical evaluation, often with no pathology identified upon assessment. Given reports that World Health Organization (WHO) growth charts may not reflect all populations, we sought to compare head circumference measurements in a cohort of Inuit children with the WHO charts.

Methods: We extracted head circumference data from a previous retrospective cohort study where, with Inuit partnership, we reviewed medical records of Inuit children (from birth to age 5 yr) born between Jan.