1. Policy:  Its History, Intentions and Consequences for Children with Special Health Care Needs -- 2. Severe Communication Disorders -- 3. Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD), Perceived Competence, and Self-Worth -- 4. Quality Of Life In Children Diagnosed With Specific Learning Disability Or Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder -- 5. Children and Adolescents with Mobility Limitations -- 6. Rethinking Deaf Learners Education – A Human Rights Issue -- 7. Childhood eye disorders and visual impairment -- 8. Evaluating School-Aged Children with Visual Disabilities -- 9. Oral Health Access Issues for Children with Special Health Care Needs -- 10. Tuberculosis: the special needs of children -- 11. Children with multiple sclerosis -- 12. Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders: Review of Teratogenicity, Diagnosis and Treatment Issues -- 13. Newborn screening for congenital disorders in routine and research -- 14. Genetic and Metabolic Conditions for Children with Special Health Care Needs -- 15.  Development from Conception through Adolescence: Physiological and Psychosocial Factors Impacting Children with Special Health Care Needs -- 16. Using Population-Based Survey Data to Monitor the Health of Children and Youth with Special Health Care Needs and Disabilities -- 17. Secondary Conditions in Youth with Disabilities -- 18. Accessible Substance Abuse Prevention for all Children -- 19. Research Methods and Epidemiology for Children with Special Health Care Needs -- 20. Addressing Bullying Among Students with Disabilities within a Multi-Tier Educational Environment -- 21. Building a Medical Home for Children and Youth with Special Health Care Needs -- 22. Epilogue: Advancing Health Outcomes and Social Participation for CSHCN.

Handbook of Children with Special Health Care Needs David Hollar, editor Children with chronic conditions, developmental disorders, and birth defects represent a sizeable minority of American children—as many as one in five. Often their families have financial or other issues limiting their access to appropriate care, thus limiting their adult prospects as well. Compounding the problem, many valuable resources concerning this population are difficult to access although they may be critical to the practitioners who work to deliver quality care and services. In response, the Handbook of Children with Special Health Care Needs assembles research, applied, and policy perspectives reflecting the range of children’s problems requiring special services. Widely studied conditions (e.g., communication disorders, substance abuse) and those receiving lesser attention (e.g., tuberculosis) are covered, as are emerging ideas such as the “medical home” concept of continuity of care. Contributors offer screening and evaluation methods, research guidelines, and diagnostic and treatment interventions to inform the greatest spectrum of readers, including: Quality of life in children diagnosed with ADHD or specific learning disabilities Evaluating school-aged children with visual impairments Deaf culture advocates on deaf learners’ education Oral health access issues in children requiring special services Diagnostic and treatment issues in fetal alcohol spectrum disorders Addressing and preventing bullying of children with special health care needs Its interdisciplinary outlook makes the Handbook of Children with Special Health Care Needs a vital, forward-looking text for pediatricians, early childhood and special education professionals, disability advocates, social workers, and providers for children with special health care needs.