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Special Needs > Cystic Fibrosis
The CF Transition to Adult Care: How to Prepare Your Teen for Independent Health Management
...coordinated by the same pediatric team for years. Somewhere...lung function, and medication non-adherence during...Transition Happens. Most pediatric CF centers transition...ready. Others extend pediatric care to 21 if the...can manage their medication schedule independently,...in Adult CF Care. Pediatric CF care is family-centered....appointments, manage medication schedules, and coordinate...
Health > Treatment
Getting Your Child to Take Medicine: Evidence-Based Strategies That Actually Work
Medication administration...that over 30% of medication errors in pediatric...medication errors in pediatric care occur at...won't take their medication, you're managing...the most common medication challenges: pill...sensory-driven medication resistance. These...taking actual medication. M&Ms and Skittles...practice from medication stakes. Your child...
Global Insights > Healthcare
The Healthcare Transition at 21: How to Prepare Your Child (and Yourself) for the Shift to Adult Care
...system that wasn't designed for adults who had pediatric disabilities. Fewer than half of children with...syndrome, or intellectual disabilities grew up seeing pediatric specialists who understood their baseline. Those...developmental milestones looked like in context, what medication side effects mattered for this population, and...
Special Needs > Spina Bifida
Transition to Adult Care in Spina Bifida: Why Planning Starts at 14 Not 18
Your child's pediatric spina bifida clinic has been your anchor for...concerns. Then your child turns 18, ages out of pediatrics, and that entire support structure ends. Most...shunt does and why it matters. The names of their medications and what each one treats. This isn't about them...
Health > Treatment
Transitioning to Adult Healthcare: Preparing Your Young Adult with Special Needs for the Move
...their communication style, what medications worked and which ones didn't. Now...where to begin. The transition from pediatric to adult healthcare is a documented...Do they know the names of their medications and what they treat? Can they describe...the next appointment, keeping a medication list...
Medical > Pediatrics
When Your Pediatrician Isn't Enough: Building a Medical Home for Complex Needs
...specialist orders tests, adjusts medications, and sends notes to the pediatrician's...question about whether the new seizure medication might be causing the digestive issues,...Home Does. The American Academy of Pediatrics defines a medical home as care that's...specialist, identifies conflicts between medications, and answers questions that fall...
Health > Alternative Medicine
Alternative Medicine for Special Needs: A Parent's Guide to Evidence, Safety, and Decision-Making
...don't disclose CAM use to their pediatricians. The American Academy of Pediatrics recommends open conversation about complementary therapies, but the data...and implement alternatives without professional guidance, which creates medication interaction risks and eliminates an important safety check. Which Therapies...
Parenting > The Early Years
Children’s Medical Records: 5 Things to Watch
...stunningly wrong about whether or not their children are at a healthy weight, highlighted by a study released December 2011 in the Archives of Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine. We are so familiar with our kids that they often look normal to us even when they are not. And more than 75% of parents...
Special Needs > Attention Deficit Disorders
New Treatment Guidelines for ADHD
...American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) created some...guidelines recommend medication treatment for children...such early use of medication "will further the...prescription of medication to young children."...side effects of the medications, such as loss of...by treatment with medication if the behavioral...easily available and medication is. Read more here....
Research > Genetics
When Genetic Testing for Autism Finds Nothing: What a Negative Result Means
...is one page long and says, in careful clinical language, that the lab found nothing to tell you. That page is one of the most misread documents in pediatric genetics. It does not say your child has no genetic cause. It says that the specific test that was ordered, read against the reference databases as...
Parenting > Adulthood
Transition from High School: A Year-by-Year Timeline for Planning Adult Life
...sequence of decisions that starts years earlier, and each one has a window that closes if you miss it. I've spent a career watching two systems, pediatric medicine and special education, hand a young person off to adulthood at almost the same time. Both transitions get treated as paperwork. Neither is...
Therapies > Speech
Virtual Speech Therapy: Does It Work as Well as In-Person Sessions?
...can evaluate before committing. What the Research Shows. Telehealth speech therapy has been studied longer than most parents assume, with adult and pediatric outcome data going back over a decade and accelerating sharply after 2020. The consistent finding: children working on articulation and expressive...