Developmental Epidemiology of Mental Retardation and Developmental Disabilities

Recent technical and theoretical advances have made developmental epidemiology possible of mental retardation and developmental disabilities. This book describes this emerging discipline by exploring the methodological, statistical, and theoretical advances within the field, followed by epidemiological findings employing these methods and procedures. Coverage includes record linkage as a research strategy, geographical analysis of large populations, and statistical methods to match variables, offset limitations of small sample sizes, and how best to deal with multiple outcome variables. The epidemiological findings discuss how often various conditions occur and what factors predispose children to these conditions, how parks and recreational programs prevent emotion-behavioral disorders, social predictors of disability, and the amount, types, and changes over time in maladaptive behavior and psychopathology in children with mental retardation and developmental disabilities.Urbano, Richard C. is the author of 'Developmental Epidemiology of Mental Retardation and Developmental Disabilities ', published 2006 under ISBN 9780123662330 and ISBN 0123662338.