In 2007 I was appointed by Governor Crist to serve on the Florida Developmental Disabilities Council.
He took me under his wing when we served together on the Florida Developmental Disabilities Council.
March is a time to reflect and participate in Developmental Disabilities Awareness month.
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Scientific research has linked exposure to phthalates to rising asthma rates as well as various learning and developmental disabilities in children.
The sequencing came up with a result: Calvin has a rare genetic disorder called Pitt-Hopkins syndrome, which causes intellectual and developmental disabilities.
Ms. PARKER: My second job, I work for a company that provides support to adults with developmental disabilities that are living independently.
Researchers say that the younger a child's brain is, the more malleable it is, making it easier to help the child avoid long-term developmental disabilities with the help of therapy.
The Wethersfield team worked directly with individuals who have developmental disabilities working at CW Resources, a nonprofit organization in New Britain, CT which employs and provides services to people with disabilities.
Nationwide, approximately 4.6 million Americans live with developmental disabilities.
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With one phone call to the Developmental Disabilities Resource Center, I found a partner organization that would pick up my ordered food, fill the sacks of food, and deliver the sacks to the schools.
Through the example of Aspire Coffeeworks, we want to show companies that integrating people with developmental disabilities into the work force is not some daunting task, but is easy and beneficial to the company.
Jeffrey Monsour, a 14-year employee of the Office for People with Developmental Disabilities, seeks unspecified damages, claiming violations of his rights to free speech and equal protection under the law, breach of contract and defamation.
Ann Cameron Williams, chief research and innovations officer with The Arc, a national organization of and for people with intellectual and related developmental disabilities, asks what will happen to those one in 50 children once they enter adulthood.
Though skeptics remain on the proper course of action, health professionals and educators are paying more thought to developmental delays, says Marshalyn Yeargin-Allsopp, chief of the developmental disabilities branch at the CDC and an author of the report in Pediatrics.
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These are primary tools to help the growing cadre of kids diagnosed with developmental disabilities, up 17% between the late 1990s and the late 2000s, according to a 2011 report published in Pediatrics, the journal of the American Academy of Pediatrics.
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The survey wasn't designed to determine causes but is useful in assembling a "more complete picture of autism" and in helping communities plan services for children, said Coleen Boyle, director of the CDC's National Center on Birth Defects and Developmental Disabilities.
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There is no adequate explanation for this imbalance in the sex ratio, though it must be recognized it is also true for other developmental disorders of early childhood such as learning disabilities and attention deficit disorder.
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