Predicting elementary school participation in children with disabilities

Management of Children with Intellectual and Developmental Disability in an African Setting

“…Our schedule in this sector is to try to help children attending ordinary school with four years in preschool instead of two and two or three years in each form of primary school. The most advanceed of them was in primary 2.Education is important since these children could progress if they are well trained according to their specific capacities (Mancini et al, 2000;Kozulin et al, 2010;Giaouria et al, 2010). Supportive care was offered to some of our children.…”

Predicting mobility gains among children with cerebral palsy after application of botulinum toxin A

“…CART is a nonparametric, multivariate statistical method that develops a decision tree that is a graphic representation of the association between independent variables and a dichotomous dependent variable, thus defining favorable and unfavorable outcomes 16,17 .…”

“…Divisions are performed successively until there is a minimum number of cases in each division ( five for the present study), thus resulting in a terminal node 16,17 . Only the predictive variables that were more informative of favorable and unfavorable outcomes were chosen in each model.…”

Predicting additional care in young children with neurodevelopmental disability: a systematic literature review

“…The information should concern the individual child. 6,[12][13][14][15][16][17] Predictions about outcome in habilitation are usually expressed as functional performance, 18,19 for example, the motor functions in CP are classified according to the Gross Motor Function Classification System (GMFCS). 20 A child classified at GMFCS level V will need more additional care than a child at GMFCS level V. However, in several studies that have focussed on the consequences of non-progressive, permanent developmental disorders, it was concluded that there is an urgent need to define these consequences in terms of need of additional care.…”

“…[9][10][11]16,21,22 Defining the severity of disorders in this way is generic, and provides insight into the efforts parents, other caregivers, and the community must make, not only to provide the child with the necessary care, but also to prevent secondary health conditions and to contribute to resource policies and quality assurance. 19,23,24 Aim The aim of the present study was to identify, by a systematic literature search, instruments that classify, in children with permanent, non-progressive developmental disorders, the type and quantity of the additional care requirements and to predict the need for this care in the future.…”