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Foster, Sophie Vivien; Degeneffe, Charles Edmund – Rehabilitation Research, Policy, and Education, 2019
Background and Objective: This article compares the policy, care systems, and legislation surrounding acquired brain injury (ABI) in the United Kingdom (UK) and the United States (US). Consistent with their shared histories, many similarities in terms of culture, language, and politics, and their history of cooperative relations in military and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Adventitious Impairments, Head Injuries, Neurological Impairments
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Theodorou, Nana; Shipman, Tracey – British Journal of Visual Impairment, 2013
A retrospective study was carried out to evaluate the paediatric visual impaired population attending the Low Vision Clinic at Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, over a period of 14 years. Data were collected and analysed for children less than 17 years for prevalence, demographics, registration status, aetiologies, and types of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Visual Impairments, Children, Assistive Technology
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Stevens, Suzanne E.; Sonuga-Barke, Edmund J. S.; Kreppner, Jana M.; Beckett, Celia; Castle, Jenny; Colvert, Emma; Groothues, Christine; Hawkins, Amanda; Rutter, Michael – Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology, 2008
The current study examined the persistence and phenotypic presentation of inattention/overactivity (I/O) into early adolescence, in a sample of institution reared (IR) children adopted from Romania before the age of 43 months. Total sample comprised 144 IR and 21 non-IR Romanian adoptees, and a comparison group of 52 within-UK adoptees, assessed…
Descriptors: Early Adolescents, Attention, Hyperactivity, Foreign Countries