In the past decade, American and Canadian pediatric societies have recommended that pediatric care clinicians follow a schedule of routine surveillance and screening for young children to detect conditions such as developmental delay, speech and language delays and disorders, and autism spectrum disorder. The goal of these recommendations is to…

The Adolescent Behavior Checklist is a self-report scale used to assess the likelihood that an adolescent with mild mental retardation or borderline intelligence has a diagnosable mental illness. The scale was found to be more effective in screening in adolescents with psychiatric diagnoses than in screening out adolescents without psychiatric…

Special education is now an established part of public education in the United States--by law and by custom. However, it is still widely misunderstood and continues to be dogged by controversies related to such things as categorization, grouping, assessment, placement, funding, instruction, and a variety of legal issues. The purpose of this…