Management guidelines: Development disability
Version 2, 2005
Therapeutic Guidelines Limited
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This title is a very practical and informative book, not only for health professionals, but also for carers of those with a developmental disability.
"I know of no other volume that is as succinct, readable and informative for this important area of medicine" Review in Medical Journal of Australia - version 1
The focus is on the health needs of the population with disabilities, both in general practice and in community health, covering the health care issues appropriate throughout the life-span from infants through to the elderly.
Version 2 has recently been released and includes the following completely new chapters:
- Common presentations of developmental disability
- Oral health
- Dysphagia
- Nutrition
- Preventive health care and health promotion
- Men's health
- Fetal alcohol syndrome
- Neurofibromatosis type 1
Major rewriting and additions include:
- Adult health care
- Aged care
- Assessment of developmental delay & disability
- Assessment of psychiatric disorders
- Autism spectrum disorders
- Cerebral palsy
- Challenging behaviour
- Epilepsy
- Communication with your patient
- Informing parents of their child's disability
- Legal issues
- Management of a child with developmental disability
- Management of an adolescent with developmental disability
- Sexuality
- Syndromes, including Angelman, Down, fragile X, Noonan, Prader-Willi, Rett and Williams syndrome
- Tuberous sclerosis
- Women's health
There is also a:
- list of patient/carer resource services, self-help associations for specific syndromes and many new web addresses for disability-related contacts and syndrome-specific associations in Australia
- detailed glossary of terms used to assist carers of persons with developmental disability
Developmental Disability Version 2 has been endorsed by the Australian Association of Developmental Disability Medicine Inc., the Australasian Society for the Study of Intellectual Disability, the Centre for Developmental Disability Health Victoria, the Centre for Developmental Disability Studies, the National Council on Intellectual Disability, the Queensland Centre for Intellectual and Developmental Disability, the Royal Australasian College of Physicians, the Royal Australian College of General Practitioners, and the International Society of Drug Bulletins.
For more information or to obtain a copy contact:
- Therapeutic Guidelines Limited
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- Website: Topics in Developmental Disability version 2
July 2005: review based on information provided by Therapeutic Guidelines Limited (TGL), an independent not-for-profit organisation whose aim is to promote the quality use of medicines through the writing, publication and sale of Therapeutic Guidelines.
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