disability and maltreatment

["Strathearn, Lane" <lxstrath@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

	I have just recently published an article on child maltreatment
among extremely preterm infants, showing that neglect is independently
associated with a progressive decline in cognition and head growth over 4
years, even after adjusting for the complications of prematurity. We did not
find that perinatal risk factors or physical disability (cerebral palsy,
blindness, deafness) were predictive of maltreatment referral; only parental
factors were independent predictors.
	As a majority of children classifed as "disabled" have a cognitive
or emotional disability, many cases of disability may represent on outcome
of, rather than a risk factor for, child maltreatment.
The reference is: Strathearn L, Gray P, O'Callaghan MJ, Wood D. Childhood
Neglect and Cognitive Development in Extremely Low Birth Weight Infants: A
Prospective Study. Pediatrics. 108(1) July 2001:142-151.  The pdf file is
attached.
 <<142.pdf.pdf>> 
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Dr Lane Strathearn
Fellow in Neurodevelopmental Pediatrics
Department of Pediatrics, Baylor College of Medicine
Meyer Center for Developmental Pediatrics
Texas Children's Hospital
MC 3-2335
Houston, Texas. 77030-2399
Ph: 832 824 3422; Fax: 832 825 3399
Email: lxstrath@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

 
-----Original Message-----
From: Eryn Goben [mailto:eryngoben@xxxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Friday, September 28, 2001 7:03 PM
To: Child Maltreatment Researchers
Subject: 

Hello, my name is Eryn Goben and I am a graduate student and researcher for
the Children and Family Research Center at the School of Social Work,
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. 
I am searching for articles on children with developmental disabilities who
are abused and articles on adults with developmental disabilities who abuse.
I have had very little luck locating any in large databases, such as Eric,
Medline, or Psychinfo. If anyone knows of any articles related to this
subject I would greatly appreciate it.
Thanks, 
Eryn Goben


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