Promoting trans patient autonomy in surgical preparation for phalloplasty and metoidioplasty: results from a community-based cross-sectional survey and implications for preoperative assessments.

Background: Some transgender and nonbinary people undergo phalloplasty and/or metoidioplasty as part of their medical transition process. Across surgical disciplines, a variety of resources are used to assist patients who are preparing for surgeries, including educational materials, workshops, peer support, and lifestyle changes. For gender-affirming surgeries, patients undergoing assessments to discern whether they are ready to undergo the surgery, and to assist them in achieving preparedness when needed.

Development of a Curriculum for the Implementation of Stereotactic Radiation Therapy Programs in Middle-Income Countries.

Purpose: The aim of this work was to develop a curriculum to be used in the implementation of stereotactic radiation therapy programs in middle-income countries. The curriculum needed to be scalable and flexible to be easily adapted to local situations.

Methods: The curriculum was developed through a partnership between multidisciplinary teams from established clinics in both middle-income and high-income countries.

A Novel Approach to Understanding Social Behaviors in Pediatric Brain Tumor Survivors: A Pilot Study.

Background/objectives: Pediatric brain tumor survivors (PBTS) are at risk of experiencing challenges in social adjustment. However, the specific social behaviors of PBTS have rarely been directly assessed. This pilot study explores the first novel use of the Autism Diagnostic Observation Schedule, second edition (ADOS-2), to evaluate the social behaviors of PBTS.

Attention-Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) and narrative discourse in older adults.

Unlabelled: Attention-Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) encompasses other symptoms besides inattention, hyperactivity, and impulsivity, such as language problems. ADHD can have a non-remitting course and is also found in older individuals, although there are no studies on language problems in elderly individuals with the disorder.

Objective: To investigate the presence of language impairment in older adults with ADHD.

Oral narratives in monolingual and bilingual preschoolers with SLI.

Background: The body of literature on narratives of bilingual children with and without specific language impairment (SLI) is growing. However, little is known about the narrative abilities of bilingual preschool children with SLI and their patterns of growth.

Aims: To determine the similarities and differences in narrative abilities between preschoolers with and without SLI who are either monolingual or bilingual at two time points.

Self-regulation therapy increases frontal gray matter in children with fetal alcohol spectrum disorder: evaluation by voxel-based morphometry.

Children with fetal alcohol spectrum disorder show executive function (EF) deficits, particularly in self-regulation skills, and abnormalities in brain regions critical for these skills. None of the validated EF interventions for these children has been evaluated with regards to impacts on brain structure. Twenty-nine children with FASD were assigned to either an immediate-treatment (TX) or delayed-treatment control (DTC) group (DTC).

The relationship of partial syndrome eating disorders to anorexia nervosa and bulimia nervosa.

A variety of sociocultural, familial and individual features associated with the eating disorders were examined in subjects with full syndrome (FS) and partial syndrome (PS) eating disorders and in normal high school students. The EAT-26 was administered to 995 high school students. This was followed by individual interviews with those who scored in the symptomatic range.

Young blind children: towards assessment for rehabilitation.

Traditional assumptions about assessment need to be rethought, recast or rejected when blind children are to be assessed. Given that blind children follow a unique developmental route, rehabilitation specialists must take account of the impact of blindness on children and think of them also as clinically a special population. Dependence on standardized tests for the primary information about any child is always suspect; with regard to a blind child it is irresponsible.