The role of carers
This is an additional video, hosted on YouTube. This step explores the role of carers through a video from Carers Worldwide. Throughout this course, we have discussed the importance of …
Course: Integrated Healthcare for Children with Developmental Disabilities
The importance of family-centred care
To start the week, we will think more about the role of parents and caregivers, and think about why it is necessary to consider their healthcare needs, as well as …
Collaborating with other healthcare services
Improving access to healthcare services for children with developmental disabilities across the healthcare journey cannot be achieved by one healthcare professional alone. Only by working with other healthcare service providers …
Improving access to healthcare services for children with developmental disabilities
How do we improve healthcare access for children with developmental disabilities? Let’s think back to the different steps in the healthcare journey, from perceiving that there is a need through …
Healthcare access: a professional’s perspective
In this step, we will hear from different professionals about effective ways in which to improve healthcare access for children with developmental disabilities and their families. Tom, Sheila, Tracey, Steve, …
Healthcare access: personal perspectives
In this video we will hear from parents of children with developmental disabilities and adults with disabilities, as they consider their experience of accessing healthcare services. We will first hear …
Challenges to healthcare access for children with developmental disabilities
In this step, we will discuss the barriers to healthcare access across the health journey for children with developmental disabilities. Before we begin to discuss the challenges that children with …
Case study: evolving healthcare needs
In this step, Jane Wilbur (LSHTM) discusses her research, in which she sought to understand and address the barriers to menstrual hygiene management for adolescents and young people with intellectual …
Evolving healthcare needs
As a child matures into adolescence and adulthood, their healthcare needs will change and evolve. Adolescents with developmental disabilities need access to new services, as well as information about how …
Case studies: healthcare needs
In this step, we will reflect upon our four case studies previously introduced, as we further explore specialist and general healthcare needs. Case Study 1. Justin: Justin is six years …
General healthcare needs of children with developmental disabilities
Of course, children with developmental disabilities can be healthy. However, there is good evidence that children with developmental disabilities are more vulnerable to poor health. For instance, a large international …
How Can Technology Assist Children with Developmental Disabilities?
Assistive products Assistive products are any external product (including devices, equipment, instruments and software) that maintain or improve an individual’s functioning and independence, and thereby promote their wellbeing. These products …
Specialist healthcare needs of children with developmental disabilities
Early intervention is crucial for children with developmental disabilities, but we must recognise that many children will require specialist healthcare support for much of their lives. In this step, Nathaniel …
Examples of early intervention programmes for children with developmental disabilities
In this step, we are going to highlight examples of early intervention programmes from low- and middle-income countries, in order to demonstrate what can work, even when services, resources and …
Early intervention programmes for children with developmental disabilities
Once diagnosed, it is important that children with developmental disabilities receive appropriate, effective early intervention, so they can be supported to maximise their development. In this step, Nathaniel Scherer (LSHTM) …
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