33 results match your criteria: "Westchester Institute for Human Development[Affiliation]"
J Voice
May 2024
The Sean Parker Institute for the Voice, Department of Otolaryngology - Head & Neck Surgery, Weill Cornell Medical College, New York, New York.
Introduction: Previous studies show that performers face higher risk of voice injury and experience greater impairment compared to nonperformers. Understanding the factors influencing support for performers is important for improving outcomes.
Methods: An anonymous online survey was distributed to a target audience of performers with past voice injury, inquiring about their understanding of voice injury "red flags," access to voice care support resources, treatment adherence, and comfort discussing injury with others.
Pacing Clin Electrophysiol
May 2024
Westchester Institute for Human Development, Valhalla, New York, USA.
Background: Individuals with developmental and/or intellectual disabilities (I/DD) are at a greater risk for atrial fibrillation (AF), the most common type of cardiac arrhythmia. AF is associated with heart failure, stroke, poor mental health, and reduced quality of life. Management and treatment decisions are based on the ability to detect AF; however, noninvasive, remote cardiac monitoring may not be tolerated by individuals with I/DD.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFAnn Otol Rhinol Laryngol
March 2024
Department of Otolaryngology, Westchester Medical Center, Valhalla, NY, USA.
Objectives: Previous research has shown the positive effects of cochlear implantation in children with a short duration of single sided deafness (SSD). This case series assessed the impact of cochlear implantation in a cohort of children with a longer average duration of SSD.
Methods: A retrospective chart review of 6 children who received a cochlear implant for SSD.
J Voice
August 2023
The Sean Parker Institute for the Voice, Department of Otolaryngology - Head and Neck Surgery, Weill Cornell Medical College, New York, New York.
Introduction: Past studies show that performers are more susceptible to voice injury, have higher incidence of injury, and experience greater vocal impairment than non-performers. Despite literature demonstrating otherwise, there remains fear and stigma that voice injury is a career-ending circumstance. Much of this is due to a lack of information about post-treatment vocal function.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFLaryngoscope
January 2024
Sean Parker Institute for the Voice, Department of Otolaryngology-Head & Neck Surgery, Weill Cornell Medical College, New York, New York, U.S.A.
Introduction: Although microlaryngoscopy has been recognized to be effective in addressing lesions in vocal performers, no detailed information regarding return to performance (RTP) following surgery exists. We describe our experience and offer proposals to establish standardized criteria for RTP among vocal performers.
Methods: Records for adult vocalists who underwent microlaryngoscopy for benign vocal fold (VF) lesions and had a clearly documented RTP date between 2006 and 2022 were reviewed.
Objective: This study examined the relationships between psychological factors and enuresis in a population of children placed in foster care in New York State.
Method: Participants included 228 children (55% female, 45% male; 64% Black, 19% Hispanic/Latino, 7% White, 1% Asian, 3% multiracial) who were recently placed in care and had obtained an intake and psychological and/or psychiatric evaluation at the time of placement, which included foster parent or caregiver report about enuresis concerns at the time of assessment. This study conducted a review of those for whom enuresis concerns were identified and examined the prevalence of social-emotional concerns among this group when compared with the nonenuresis sample and the general population.
Aesthetic Plast Surg
October 2021
Private practice, 011817, Bucharest, Romania.
Background: Female plastic surgeons face specific challenges in their careers that impact lifestyle and professional choices.
Objective: The authors sought to delineate these specific issues further through means of an anonymous survey and to suggest areas for improvement.
Methods: In August 2017, a link to an online email questionnaire via SurveyMonkey.
Adv Neonatal Care
June 2021
Westchester Institute for Human Development, Valhalla, New York (Drs Patrick and Canter); School of Health Sciences and Practices, New York Medical College, Valhalla (Drs Patrick and Brumberg); Department of Pediatrics, New York Medical College, Valhalla (Drs Patrick, Canter, Brumberg, LaGamma, and Altman); and Maria Fareri Children's Hospital at Westchester Medical Center, Valhalla, New York (Drs Canter, Brumberg, Sandhu, Trinidad, LaGamma, and Altman, Mss Dozor and Smith, and Mr Aboudi).
Background: An unsafe sleep environment remains the leading contributor to unexpected infant death.
Purpose: To determine the effectiveness of a quality improvement initiative developed to create a hospital-based safe sleep environment for all newborns and infants.
Methods: A multidisciplinary team from the well-baby nursery (WBN) and neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) of a 149-bed academic, quaternary care, regional referral center developed and implemented safe sleep environments within the hospital for all prior to discharge.
J Evid Based Soc Work (2019)
October 2021
School of Social Work, Boston University, Boston, MA, USA.
Purpose: Parents with intellectual disabilities (ID) are overrepresented in the child welfare system. Valid instruments are needed to assess parenting skills in this population. This research evaluates the psychometric properties of the Skills Assessment for Parents with Intellectual Disability (SAPID), an observational instrument completed to assess parents with ID with child welfare involvement.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFAutism Res Treat
August 2020
Westchester Institute for Human Development, New York Medical College, Valhalla, New York, NY, USA.
Although the conventional wisdom is that "earlier is better" when it comes to intervention for children with ASD, it is not clear what evidence exists to support this notion. This review examined a group of studies that addressed outcomes for young children with ASD who started early intervention at a range of ages. The review was selective by including only papers that examined the age of initiation of treatment as well as baseline cognitive, language, or adaptive level and, in addition, employed a method to control for the covariance between early ability level and age of beginning intervention.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFDisabil Health J
January 2020
Westchester Institute for Human Development, Valhalla, NY, USA; School of Health Sciences & Practices, New York Medical College, Valhalla, NY, USA.
Background: Technology and social media offer individuals with intellectual and/or developmental disabilities (I/DD) unique and innovative ways to facilitate active participation in their own healthcare process. What remains unclear is the extent to which devices are currently used by this growing patient population.
Objective: To explore the prevalence of technology and social media use, as well as the possible barriers, among adult patients with I/DD.
Soc Work
April 2019
Trupti Rao, PsyD, is director of psychology training; Elizabeth Reiman, PhD, LCSW-R, is coordinator of forensic and clinical services; and Ashley Ausikaitis, PhD, NCSP, is psychology postdoctoral fellow, Westchester Institute for Human Development, Valhalla, NY.
Children with developmental disabilities are overrepresented in the child welfare system. Although caseworkers play a key role in ensuring that the special needs of these children are met, little is known regarding caseworkers' knowledge about, exposure to, and comfort with people with developmental disabilities. In this exploratory study, through use of an online anonymous survey, local county caseworkers (N = 251) were asked to self-rate their knowledge, exposure, and comfort levels.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFJ Autism Dev Disord
November 2018
Young Adult Institute, New York, NY, USA.
This study follows 70 children determined to have Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) before age three (Time 1). Parents filled out questionnaires and standardized measures about their child when he/she was school-aged (Time 2), including information about their children's preschool, kindergarten, and grade school educational settings. At Time 2, the researchers placed children in three diagnostic groups of No ASD, ASD-Higher Functioning, and ASD-Lower Functioning.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFAutism Res Treat
December 2016
Westchester Institute for Human Development, Valhalla, NY, USA; School of Health Sciences & Practice, New York Medical College, Valhalla, NY, USA; Department of Pediatrics, New York Medical College, Valhalla, NY, USA.
Research on ASD in infancy has provided a rationale for developing screening instruments for children from the first year of life to age of 18 months. A comprehensive literature search identified candidate screening tools. Using methodological probe questions adapted from the Quality Assessment of Diagnostic Accuracy Studies (QUADAS), two Level 1 and three Level 2 screening instruments were reviewed in detail.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFJ Pain Symptom Manage
May 2017
School of Medicine, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, New York, USA; Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Winthrop University Hospital, Mineola, New York, USA.
Context: Given the high mortality of 30%-60% associated with septic shock, distinguishing which patients do or do not have a reasonable chance of surviving with aggressive treatment could help clinicians and families make informed decisions.
Objectives: To determine if intensity of vasopressor therapy accurately predicts in-hospital death.
Methods: This observational cohort study analyzed in-hospital mortality as a function of intensity of vasopressor therapy in a consecutive series of adults with septic shock treated over a four-year period.
Neurochem Res
June 2017
Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, New York Medical College, 15 Dana Road, Valhalla, NY, 10595, USA.
Ammonia is neurotoxic, and chronic hyperammonemia is thought to be a major contributing factor to hepatic encephalopathy in patients with liver disease. Portacaval shunting of rats is used as an animal model to study the detrimental metabolic effects of elevated ammonia levels on body tissues, particularly brain and testes that are deleteriously targeted by high blood ammonia. In normal adult rats, the initial uptake of label (expressed as relative concentration) in these organs was relatively low following a bolus intravenous injection of [N]ammonia compared with lungs, kidneys, liver, and some other organs.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFJ Emerg Med
September 2016
Office of Health Outcomes Research, Winthrop University Hospital, Mineola, New York; School of Medicine, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, New York.
J Spec Pediatr Nurs
July 2015
Department of Pediatrics, New York Medical College, Valhalla, New York, USA.
Purpose: To evaluate whether an educational video would impact infant sleep practices among new mothers.
Design And Methods: Survey responses of new mothers who did (n = 43) versus did not (n = 49) watch the educational video were compared to identify differences in observed and planned infant sleep practices.
Results: Mothers who watched the video were more likely to observe safe sleep practices while in the hospital (67.
The current study explored the longitudinal relation between parental expressed emotion, a well-established predictor of symptom relapse in various other disorders (e.g., schizophrenia) with externalizing behaviors in 84 children, ages 8-18 (at Time 2), with autism spectrum disorder (ASD).
View Article and Find Full Text PDFJ Autism Dev Disord
June 2014
Westchester Institute for Human Development, Cedarwood Hall, Valhalla, NY, 10538, USA,
Eighty children with early autism spectrum disorder (ASD) diagnoses (under 36 months) were identified using a chart abstraction protocol applied to early intervention charts. Parents filled out questionnaires by mail when the children were school-aged (ages 6-16 years). Similar to previous studies, approximately 20% no longer had ASD diagnoses; the other participants were assigned to Moderate/Severe versus Mild ASD outcome groups.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThree experiments used postclass formation within-class preference test performances to evaluate the effects of nodal distance on the relatedness of stimuli in equivalence classes. In Experiment 1, two 2-node four-member equivalence classes were established using the simultaneous protocol in which all of the baseline relations were trained together, after which all emergent relations probes were presented together. All training and testing was done using match-to-sample trials that contained two comparisons.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFRes Dev Disabil
July 2011
Westchester Institute for Human Development, Cedarwood Hall, Valhalla, NY 10595-1681, United States.
The present study evaluated the 23-item Screening Tool for Feeding Problems (STEP; Matson & Kuhn, 2001) with a sample of children referred to a hospital-based feeding clinic to examine the scale's psychometric characteristics and then demonstrate how a children's revision of the STEP, the STEP-CHILD is associated with child and parent variables. Participants included 142 children (95 boys, 47 girls; mean age = 61.4 months; 43 with autism, 51 with other special needs, 48 with no special needs).
View Article and Find Full Text PDFJ Intellect Dev Disabil
December 2008
Westchester Institute for Human Development, Valhalla, NY 10595, USA.
J Telemed Telecare
October 2008
Westchester Institute for Human Development, Valhalla, NY 10595, USA.
We conducted a pilot project to evaluate the potential of Personal Digital Assistant (PDA) technologies to improve the oral health of people with mild to moderate intellectual disabilities, chronic health problems and a long-standing history of poor oral health self-care. Oral health video and audio materials were prepared and transferred to PDAs. Patients were trained in the use of the PDAs at a regular dental appointment and the utilization of the PDA and any change in oral health status was tracked over the next six months.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFN Y State Dent J
June 2006
Dental Services, Westchester Institute for Human Development, New York Medical College, Valhalla, USA.
Down syndrome is one of the most frequently encountered and easily recognizable of all developmental disabilities. Patients with Down syndrome exhibit mental retardation and often present with associated medical conditions, such as cardiac defects, immune deficiencies and musculoskeletal disorders. It is important for the dental practitioner to be familiar with the medical aspects of Down syndrome, as well as the potential behavioral issues.
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