SUMMARY The question of whether problems of motor co‐ordination in early childhood recede with age has rarely been addressed. This paper reports the findings from a follow‐up study of 17 children, identified by their teachers as having poor motor co‐ordination at age six. Now age 16, these children and their matched controls completed a battery of assessments. The results suggest that the majority of children still have difficulties with motor co‐ordination, have poor self‐concept and are experiencing problems of various kinds in school. However, there are individual differences in the extent to which the children have learned to cope with their continuing difficulties over the years. RÉSUMÉ Maladresse chez l'enfant: disparait‐elle? Etude de suivi durant dix ans La question de savoir si les problèmes de coordination de l'enfance régressent avec l'ǎge a été rarement posée. L'article rapporte les données d'une étude longitudinale de 17 enfants, chez qui les enseignants avaient détecté une coordination motrice médiocre à l'ǎge de six ans. Ces sujets ont étéévalués par une batterie, avec des contrǒles appariés, a l'ǎge de 16 ans. Les résultats suggèrent que la majorité des sujets présentaient encore des difficultés en rapport avec une mauvaise coordination motrice, avaient une mauvaise image de leurs capacités et avaient eu des problèmes variés à l'école. Il y avait cependant des différences individuelles dans I'aptitude à intégrer les difficultés au cours des annees. ZUSAMMENFASSUNG Ungeschicklichkeit bei Kindern: wie stehen die Chancen für eine Normalisierung? Eine Verlaufstudie über 10 Jahre Es ist selten die Frage gestellt worden, ob Probleme der motorischen Koordination im frühen Kindesalter im Laufe der Jahre verschwinden. In dieser Arbeit werden die Ergebnisse einer Verlaufsstudie bei 17 Kindern dargestellt, die im Alter von sechs Jahren von ihren Lehrern eine schlechte Beurteilung ihrer motorischen Koordination bekommen hatten. Jetzt, im Alter von 16 Jahren, wurden diese Kinder, sowie ihre Kontrollen, einer Reihe von Untersuchungen unterzogen. Die Ergebnisse zeigen, da8 die Mehrzahl der Kinder noch immer Schwierigkeiten bei der motorischen Koordination, sowie ein mangelhaftes Selbstwertgefühl und verschiedene Probleme in der Schule hat. Es gibt jeoch individuelle Unterschiede, wie die Kinder gelernt haben, ihre fortbestehenden Schwierigkeiten im Verlaufe der Jahre zu meistern. RESUMEN Torpeza en niños:? Ilegan con la edad a libererse de ella? Estudio a lo largo de diez años Sólo muy raramente se ha planteado la pregunta de si los problemas de coordinación Ilegan a desaparecer con la edad. Este trabajo expone los hallazgos obtenidos en un estudio continuado de 17 niños, identificados por sus maestros como teniendo una coordinacion pobre a la edad de seis años. Ahora, con 16 años estos niños y un grupo control sa ha completado una bateria de exámenes. Los resultados sugieren que la mayoria de niños tienen todavia dificultades en la coordinacion motora. Tienen un autoconcep...

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This study examines the concordance between adolescent reports of abuse and abuse determinations from Child Protective Service (CPS) agencies. It also compares the utility of adolescent reports of abuse, relative to CPS determinations in predicting adolescent psychological adjustment. The sample included 350 early adolescents, ages 12 to 13 years, who were initially identified prior to age 2 years as being at elevated risk of maltreatment. An Audio-Computer Assisted Self Interview (A-CASI) was used to assess lifetime experiences of physical, sexual, and psychological abuse. The A-CASI interview elicited prevalence rates of abuse 4 to 6 times higher than those found in CPS records. However, 20 of 45 adolescents with CPS determinations of abuse failed to report abuse during the study interview. Adolescent psychological adjustment was more strongly associated with self-reports than with CPS determinations. The implications of these findings are discussed for validity of adolescent self-reports of childhood abuse and for the ongoing debate about disclosure patterns among victims of child sexual abuse.

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Maltreatment (regardless of type) predicts sexual intercourse by 14 and 16. Emotional distress explains the relationship by 14. By 16, other factors likely contribute to intercourse. Maltreated children are at risk for early initiation of sexual intercourse and sexually active adolescents should be evaluated for possible maltreatment.

Telephone interviews were conducted with 146 14- to 16-year-olds who incurred an occupational injury treated in an emergency department during the period July through September 1992. Thirty-two percent of the injuries occurred as the result of using equipment. Over half the workers reported not having received prior training on how to avoid injury. The injury limited normal activities for at least 1 day for 68% of the youth and for more than a week for 25%, corresponding to an estimated 6,208 (95% CI: 4,277, 8,139) and 2,639 (95% CI: 1,580, 3,699) youths nationwide, respectively. Employment in retail trades, equipment use, lack of training, and burn injuries were associated with increased limitation of normal activities. Nineteen percent of the youths appear to have been injured in jobs declared to be hazardous, or typically prohibited for their age (14- and 15-year-olds) under federal child labor laws. The prohibited job directly contributed to the injury in 64% of these cases.

The conduct of research in the area of child abuse and neglect may be one of the most difficult tasks in social science research. One requirement for valid research is knowledge of the type and amount of exposure. Official reports have been demonstrated to provide a serious undercount of the frequency of maltreatment, and parent report is of limited usefulness. LongSCAN, a consortium of longitudinal studies of abuse and neglect, made the decision to ask children for self-report, but with five independent study sites with unique study-to-sample relationships, ethically implementing this choice demanded customized participant protocols. This article describes the consortium's approach to asking children for direct reports at age 12, the relevant methodological and ethical challenges, and solutions developed with institutional review boards at 4 of the 5 study sites. The wording of consents and the variations in protocol related to reporting to Child Protective Services are discussed.