Young children with developmental disabilities (DD) exhibit a range of strengths and weaknesses in cognitive, language, and adaptive skills. Identifying individual patterns of abilities across these domains is important for informing interventions. This study examines how 129 toddlers with significant developmental delays and less than 10 spoken words perform across different developmental domains and assessment methods (i.e., caregiver report and clinician-administered tests). Children exhibited statistically and clinically meaningful strengths and weaknesses across developmental domains, which may have important implications for differential interventions. Caregiver-reported and clinician-rated measures of cognition, language and adaptive functioning were highly related. However, the relation between caregiver report and clinician ratings was weaker for a subgroup of children with relatively more limited expressive language compared to other children in the sample.
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JBJS Case Connect
October 2024
Department of Pediatric Orthopaedic Surgery, Hospital for Special Surgery, New York, New York.
Case: A pediatric patient with focal fibrocartilaginous dysplasia (FFCD) developed angular deformity and growth arrest despite standard guided growth management. The patient underwent implant-mediated guided growth for proximal tibia varus deformity which recurred; subsequently, a physeal bar of the medial proximal tibia was diagnosed, which progressed to physeal arrest.
Conclusion: Treatment options for FFCD-associated angular deformity include observation and guided growth.
PLoS One
December 2024
Department of Developmental of Applied Psychology and Human Development, Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canadá.
This longitudinal study explored the contribution of transcription skills, oral language abilities, and executive functions in kindergarten to written production in grade 1 among Spanish-speaking children (N = 191) through structural equation modeling (SEM). Three dimentions of written production were assessed, including productivity, quality, and syntactic complexity. Accordingly, three SEM models were tested to explore these relationships, and the estimated models for each endogenous variable demonstrated good fit.
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January 2025
University of North Dakota School of Medicine, Department of Pediatrics, Grand Forks, North Dakota (Ms Washist and Dr Milanovich); Sanford Children's Hospital, Department of Physical Therapy, Sioux Falls, South Dakota (Dr Steventon); Sanford Children's Hospital, Department of Physical Therapy, Fargo, North Dakota (Dr Samuelson); Jamestown University, Department of Physical Therapy, Jamestown, North Dakota (Dr Anderson); University of South Dakota, Department of Physical Therapy, Vermillion, South Dakota (Dr Berg-Poppe); and Sanford Roger Maris Cancer Center, Department of Pediatric Hematology and Oncology, Fargo, North Dakota (Dr Milanovich).
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December 2024
Department of Neuroradiology, Istituto Giannina Gaslini, Genoa, Italy.
Various space occupying lesions can arise in the orbit, ranging from developmental anomalies to malignancies, and many of the diseases occurring in children are different from the pathologies in the adult population. As the clinical presentation is frequently nonspecific, radiologic evaluation is essential for lesion detection and characterization as well as patient management. While orbital masses may in some cases involve multiple compartments, a simple compartmental approach is the key for the diagnosis on imaging studies, and MRI is the modality of choice.
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December 2024
Medical University of Graz, Graz, Austria.
Developmental dysplasia of the hip is a prevalent condition in newborns. However, predicting the duration of conservative treatment remains challenging. This study aimed to determine the duration of treatment more precisely by analyzing associated factors.
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