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Lacourse, Eric; Baillargeon, Raymond; Dupere, Veronique; Vitaro, Frank; Romano, Elisa; Tremblay, Richard – Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 2010
Background: Investigating the latent structure of conduct disorder (CD) can help clarify how symptoms related to aggression, property destruction, theft, and serious violations of rules cluster in individuals with this disorder. Discovering homogeneous subtypes can be useful for etiologic, treatment, and prevention purposes depending on the…
Descriptors: Criminals, Predictive Validity, Early Adolescents, Child Development
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Wishart, Diane; Jahnukainen, Markku – Emotional & Behavioural Difficulties, 2010
In Canada, there is a recent trend toward non-categorization of services of students with emotional and behavioural disabilities (EBD). Yet in Alberta, the coding of students with EBD provides opportunities to diagnose students' learning difficulties but is hindered in this process, in large part, by being tied into special needs funding. Current…
Descriptors: Learning Problems, State Aid, Classification, Foreign Countries
Alberta Education, 2009
Alberta Education provides programming support and funding to school authorities to develop and implement special education programming for ECS children and students in grades 1 to 12. "Special Education Coding Criteria 2009/2010" outlines criteria within specific categories to help school authorities identify those children and students…
Descriptors: Individualized Programs, Criteria, Foreign Countries, Educational Environment
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Lloyd, Jennifer E. V.; Irwin, Lori G.; Hertzman, Clyde – Educational Psychology, 2009
In British Columbia, Canada, two population-based databases have been linked at the level of the individual child: the "Early Development Instrument", a Kindergarten school readiness measure; and the "Foundation Skills Assessment", a Grade Four academic assessment. Utilising these linked data, we explored the early school…
Descriptors: School Readiness, Numeracy, Foreign Countries, Kindergarten
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Boyle, Michael H.; Cunningham, Charles E.; Georgiades, Katholiki; Cullen, John; Racine, Yvonne; Pettingill, Peter – Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 2009
Background: This study examines the use of the Brief Child and Family Phone Interview (BCFPI) to screen for childhood psychiatric disorder based on Diagnostic Interview Schedule for Children Version IV (DISC-IV) classifications of attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), oppositional defiant disorder (ODD), conduct disorder (CD),…
Descriptors: Health Services, Mental Health Programs, Mental Health, Child Health