Tagged With "Developmental Disabilities"

Sponsored by the Family Resource Center-Parents Helping Parents May 12,2018 in San Jose,CA

For many healthcare providers, it can be challenging to distinguish between behaviors associated with a developmental disability and behaviors resulting from adverse childhood experiences (ACEs). It takes coordination across multiple disciplines to ensure early and accurate diagnosis and treatment of ACEs and/or developmental disabilities. Research has shown that individuals with disabilities are at increased risk for experiencing violence of all types, especially physical violence and...

This is so important. Thanks for sharing. Trainings such as this are needed in all towns and cities.

Hi Suzanne, Thanks so much for posting this. I know there's some research around the association between parents' ACE scores and concerns around developmental issues in their young children. I came across a study recently that was correlating parental ACE scores with mothers' concerns about developmental issues in their infants. It must be said that the findings were not statistically significant, but it was interesting that parents whose ACE scores were between 1 and 3 were 1.86 more likely...