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Assessing Children With Disabilities
Resources on identifying, screening, and assessing maltreatment in children with disabilities.
Abuse and Neglect of Children and Adults With Developmental Disabilities: A Problem of National Significance: A Web Course for Health Professionals and Other Professionals Serving People With Developmental Disabilities
Partnership for People with Disabilities (2004)
Addresses the complexity of issues that surface when abuse or neglect of children or adults with developmental disabilities is suspected, including prevention strategies. Paid registration required.
Assessment of Maltreatment of Children With Disabilities
American Academy of Pediatrics
Pediatrics, 108(2), 2001
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A discussion of the need for pediatricians to learn the unique ways to assess for the maltreatment of a child with disabilities, including the pediatrician's role in identifying and reporting, providing treatment, educating caregivers, preventing abuse, and advocating for the child.
Maltreatment of Children With Disabilities
Hibbard, Desch, & American Academy of Pediatrics Committee on Child Abuse and Neglect
Pediatrics, 119(5), 2007
Discusses the need for early recognition and intervention of child abuse and neglect of children with disabilities, as well as the ways that a medical home can facilitate the prevention and early detection of child maltreatment.
The Nature and Consequences of Child Maltreatment
Beckett (2003)
In Child Protection: An Introduction
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Focuses on the abuse of children with disabilities, including considerations for working with disabled children and assessing their families.
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