China
Africa
Explore chapters and articles related to this topic
The Role of the SLP and Assistive Technology in Life Care Planning
Published in Roger O. Weed, Debra E. Berens, Life Care Planning and Case Management Handbook, 2018
There are key areas relevant to the professions of SLP and audiology that have current state legislative and regulatory actions. States have enacted legislation or adopted regulations in many of these areas of licensure and scope of practice, health care and insurance, and education. Licensure and scope of practice revisions have occurred in 2016 in 20 states, to include the addition of music therapy, military licensure for spouses, ABA licensure, and board antitrust licensure. In health care and insurance, seven states have included insurance coverage for autism (Kansas, Kentucky, New York, North Carolina, Ohio, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania), four states included hearing aid coverage for a tax credit (Louisiana, Massachusetts, New Jersey, and New York), with many states including telemedicine in their laws. Many states have made changes in their laws to reflect Medicaid changes, insurance coverage for SLP services, and universal health care/EHB inclusions. State licensure laws have included educational components including early intervention/EHDI/EPSDT (Early Hearing Detection and Intervention/Early and Periodic Screening, Diagnostic, and Treatment), dyslexia, special education services, teacher certification requirements, salary supplement/loan forgiveness, and language acquisition.
Biological Dimensions of Difference
Published in Christopher J. Nicholls, Neurodevelopmental Disorders in Children and Adolescents, 2018
Healthcare availability is a political topic about which there are many strongly held beliefs and differing practices worldwide. In 1967, however, the United States Congress introduced the Medicaid benefit for children and adolescents, known as Early and Periodic Screening, Diagnostic and Treatment (EPSDT) program (Medicaid.gov., n.d.). Similar programs are in place in most countries around the world. The purpose of such screenings is to identify factors that can adversely impact child development, as early as possible.
Direct Practice in Community-Based Health Care
Published in Marcia Egan, Goldie Kadushin, Social Work Practice in Community-Based Health Care, 2012
Simonian and Tarnowski (2001) and others (Semansky, Koyanagi, & Vandivort-Warren, 2003) recommend the parent-completed PSC to screen for psychosocial problems in school-aged children and to identify children needing further assessment. Their research on the PSC produced clinical cut-points (i.e., scores above which further assessment and/or intervention is warranted). They suggest that the scale is sensitive to socioeconomic characteristics. The checklist is recommended in the evaluation of the federally mandated pediatric Early and Periodic Screening, Diagnosis, and Treatment (EPSDT) protocols.
Adverse childhood experiences and complex health concerns among child welfare-involved children
Published in Children's Health Care, 2019
Julie S. McCrae, Kimberly Bender, Samantha M. Brown, Jon D. Phillips, Shauna Rienks
This strongly suggests that caseworkers and other professionals consider the health of caregivers in their assessment of risk and health among children. Having maternal depression screening covered as a Medicaid preventive service in well-child visits and treatment for maternal depression as part of the Early and Periodic Screening, Diagnostic and Treatment (EPSDT) benefit is supported in this study, yet the results also point to the need to continue this approach among families with older children. Our findings show consistent, significant relationships between caregiver health and children’s own experience of clustered physical, developmental, and mental health concerns across preschool-age, school-age and adolescence. Boys are particularly susceptible to the interplay between ACEs, caregiver health, and increased health problems in the elementary school years, according to our study results. Other studies have found the importance of maternal mental health, in particular, in ACEs configurations related to child health (Lanier et al., 2017), pointing to the need for additional research concerning effective models of intervention orienting in the primary care health setting.
Adolescent Risk Screening Instruments for Primary Care: An Integrative Review Utilizing the Donabedian Framework
Published in Comprehensive Child and Adolescent Nursing, 2018
Deanna B. Hiott, Shannon Phillips, Elaine Amella
The American Academy of Pediatrics, the National Association of Pediatric Nurse Practitioners, and the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force are just a few of the organizations suggesting that yearly screening for behavioral risks is required for adolescents (Anand, Carroll, & Downs, 2012). In addition, the federal Early and Periodic Screening, Diagnosis, and Treatment (EPSDT) requires yearly behavioral and developmental screening of Medicaid-eligible children (Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services, 2014). Adolescents form many life-long health habits during these years; studies indicate that failure to screen for risky behaviors or activities subsequently affects future health outcomes (National Research Council & Institute of Medicine, 2007; Weitzman & Wegner, 2015).