I'm going to make what I think is a non-controversial statement. The holidays are a pretty stressful time of the year. Because this is a stressful time of the year, right now seems a good time for a discussion of Coping . . .
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This article is the third in our series concerned with child development. The goals of this series are to discuss what is known about how children develop from birth through adolescence, and to offer tips on how to use this developmental knowledge to improve parenting skills. This particular document will survey child development between the age of 2 to 7 years, a period sometimes referred to as early childhood.
American families with autistic children received a major boost in 1997 with the passage of the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) which was designed in part to help make sure that autistic children would have government supported access to special education opportunities.
Mental Retardation is a diagnostic classification denoting significantly low intellectual functioning or other brain functioning problems. It is not a disease in of itself.
Classification of mental retardation indicates that developmental immaturities are present in the form of intellectual deficits, and often emotional deficits as well.
