Background: The "AMA Guidelines for Adolescent Preventive Services" (GAPS) recommends annual medical evaluations during adolescence, emphasizing screening and counseling regarding psychosocial issues. In Israel, seventh graders undergo medical examinations within the school health services, focusing on the detection of physical…

In this study, we compared the depressive symptoms reported by Mexican American elders who scored higher and lower on a linguistic acculturation scale. Prevalence, equality of covariance matrices, equality of error variances, and factor structures were examined for the 20 items included in the Center for Epidemiologic Studies Depression (CES-D)…

This article presents position statements, issue briefs, and resolutions and consensus statements of the National Association of School Nurses (NASN). The Position Statements include: (1) Allergy/Anaphylaxis Management in the School Setting; (2) Caseload Assignments; (3) Child Mortality in the School Setting; (4) Chronic Health Conditions, Managed…

The purpose of this study was intended to investigate the current system of early intervention needs assessment in Taiwan in order to understand the problems encountered and provide the coping strategies for improving the system. Documentary analysis, phone interview and participant observation were employed in the study to collect the research…

Women remain perhaps the forgotten majority of persons to survive clergy-perpetrated sexual abuse. The impact of this abuse of women has been largely overlooked. Through a qualitative exploration of narratives from semistructured interviews of 25 women sexually abused by clergy (18 as adults and 7 as children), this study examined how the women…

A study examined the possibility of using kindergarten screening scores to predict whether a student would qualify for the reading intervention program in first grade. A total of 243 students were selected from the 7 Ashland, Ohio, elementary schools. The scores for 121 students were subjected to logit regression analysis. The remaining 122…

A study was conducted to determine which of five tests used in the Early Prevention of School Failure (EPSF) program were the best predictors of student academic success at the end of first grade. The tests, which were administered upon children's entrance to kindergarten, were the Peabody Picture Vocabulary Test (PPVT), the Preschool Language…

This paper describes the Children's Diagnostic Center, an innovative model project at Hampton University in Virginia. The center was established to provide high quality, multi-disciplinary evaluations of children thought to have conditions likely to interfere with normal development; to describe resources and services available to parents to…

The paper states the need for providing services to handicapped youthful offenders. Obstacles to compliance with P.L. 94-142, the Education for All Handicapped Children Act, for this population are noted, including lack of staff and funding. Research is cited to show the extent of the problem and project the effects of inadequate programing. The…

A large school district (Jackson, Mississippi) has implemented a state-of-the-art teacher evaluation procedure that yields a numerical performance value. A screening procedure for teacher employment has also been developed that provides several quantitative variables against which performance can be analyzed. All teachers are subject to the school…

Each of 64 kindergarten children in an international day school (a Western-oriented educational program for foreign national students in Taipei, Taiwan) were administered original and revised forms of the Developmental Indicators for the Assessment of Learning (DIAL and DIAL-R), two tests widely used in early childhood screening. Of the 24 items…