Report on the Iowa Braille and Sight Saving School, Vinton, Iowa, for the year ended June 30, 2010

Report on the Iowa Braille and Sight Saving School, Vinton, Iowa, for the year ended June 30, 2010

Report on a special investigation of the Sunrise Sunset Daycare of the Southeast Warren Community School District for the period September 1, 2010 through September 26, 2011

Report on a special investigation of the Sunrise Sunset Daycare of the Southeast Warren Community School District for the period September 1, 2010 through September 26, 2011

Report on a special investigation of the Starmont Community School District for the period July 1, 1993 through November 30, 2010

Report on a special investigation of the Starmont Community School District for the period July 1, 1993 through November 30, 2010

Audit report on Mid-Iowa School Improvement Consortium, Carlisle, Iowa for the year ended June 30, 2011

Audit report on Mid-Iowa School Improvement Consortium, Carlisle, Iowa for the year ended June 30, 2011

Youth Leadership Forum for Students with Disabilities, July 10-July 15, 2011

Five day leadership training program for 10th, 11th and 12th grade high school students with disabilities. Model program sponsored by the U.S Department of Labor Office National Collaborative on Workforce and Disability and developed locally by a collaboration of state and private agencies.

Activation and inhibition of bimanual movements in school-aged children

The development of motor activation and inhibition was compared in 6-to-12 year-olds. Children had to initiate or stop the externally paced movements of one hand, while maintaining that of the other hand. The time needed to perform the switching task (RT) and the spatio-temporal variables show different agerelated evolutions depending on the coordination pattern (inor anti-phase) and the type of transition (activation, selective inhibition, non selective inhibition) required. In the anti-phase mode, activation perturbs the younger subjects' responses while temporal and spatial stabilities transiently decrease around 9 years when activating in the in-phase mode. Aged-related changes differed between inhibition and activation in the antiphase mode, suggesting either the involvement of distinct neural networks or the existence of a single network that is reorganized. In contrast, stopping or adding one hand in the in-phase mode shows similar aged-related improvement. We suggest that selectively stopping or activating one arm during symmetrical coordination rely on the two faces of a common processing in which activation could be the release of inhibition

Audit report on Clay Central/Everly Community School District in Royal, Iowa for the year ended June 30, 2011

Audit report on Clay Central/Everly Community School District in Royal, Iowa for the year ended June 30, 2011

Report on the Iowa School for the Deaf, Council Bluffs, Iowa for the year ended June 30, 2011

Report on the Iowa School for the Deaf, Council Bluffs, Iowa for the year ended June 30, 2011

Report on the Iowa Braille and Sight Saving School, Vinton, Iowa, for the year ended June 30, 2011

Report on the Iowa Braille and Sight Saving School, Vinton, Iowa, for the year ended June 30, 2011

Audit report on Starmont Community School District near Arlington, Iowa for the year ended June 30, 2010

Audit report on Starmont Community School District near Arlington, Iowa for the year ended June 30, 2010

Etude romande sur le jeu: une collaboration entre IUMSP et ISPA sur mandat du Programme Intercantonal de Lutte contre la Dépendance au Jeu (PILDJ)

En Suisse, l'offre en matière de jeu est très importante. Que ce soit pour les loteries ou les casinos, les revenus bruts des jeux (RBJ) ont augmenté considérablement au cours de ces dix dernières années. Une offre de prévention et de traitement s'est développée en Suisse romande et le nombre de joueurs qui consultent ne cesse d'augmenter. Toutefois, il n'en reste pas moins qu'il s'agit là d'une petite proportion des joueurs problématiques qui font appel aux services d'aide. Le Programme intercantonal de lutte contre la dépendance au jeu (PILDJ) vise en premier lieu à sensibiliser la population au problème du jeu excessif. Il prévoit pour cela, notamment, de faciliter l'accès à l'information et au traitement. Par ailleurs, il a aussi pour objectif de sensibiliser les professionnels, afin d'améliorer la détection et la prise en charge des joueurs pathologiques. Le PILDJ entend finalement centraliser les informations relatives aux actions menées dans les cantons afin d'améliorer l'échange d'expériences. La coordination de ce Programme a été confiée au Groupement romand d'études des addictions (GREA). Le PILDJ comprend la mise sur pied de 4 modules parmi lesquels figure l'Etude romande sur le jeu. Ce rapport présente les résultats des volets couverts par l'Etude romande sur le jeu. [résumé, p. 5]

Le refus scolaire [School refusal]

Pediatrician are often questioned by school refusal which relies on a wide range of psychopathological features and necessitates specific approaches. This disabling condition remains underestimated and is still increasing. A poor prognosis associated with a prolonged school absence is the common hallmark of school refusals, regardless of its heterogeneity. Its seriousness warrants early identification and prompt intervention by childhood healthcare professionals, teachers and social workers. A specialized treatment is needed, closely linked with families and school. Promising developments come from a functional rather than symptomatic concept of school refusal. They offer tailored interventions which fit the clinical diversity of school refusals. After a brief historical summary and current definitions of school refusal, the authors review the main clinical features and comorbidity before taking up treatment modalities.