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Assessing Children With Disabilities
Resources on identifying, screening, and assessing maltreatment in children with disabilities.
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.
Assistance for Special Educators, Law Enforcement, and Child Protective Services in Recognizing and Managing Abuse and Neglect of Children With Disabilities
Virginia State Department of Social Services (1999)
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This booklet is designed to help professionals recognize and understand abuse and neglect of children with disabilities, improve reporting accuracy when there is suspicion of child abus or /neglect, and provide strategies for interdisciplinary collaboration that will facilitate a sensitive and effective response.
Child Abuse and Disabilities: A Medical Perspective
Botash & Church
APSAC Advisor, 12(1) 1999
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Describes the risk factors for abuse of developmentally disabled children and highlights the need for physicians and other professionals to be prepared to identify and report suspected abuse among patients with disabilities.
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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