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Children with disabilities are at least three times more likely to experience abuse and neglect compared to their peers, and a new underscores the role of pediatricians in preventing maltreatment and offers guidance on how they can support families.
鈥淚鈥檓 always struck by the numbers of kids that are abused, and how prevalent abuse is in the population of children with disabilities,鈥 says the lead author of the report, Lori A. Legano, MD, director of in the at 嘿嘿视频 Health.
Dr. Legano says the report, which is an update to a 2007 American Academy of Pediatrics paper, allows busy pediatricians, especially those without specific expertise on child maltreatment or disability, to be more aware of the increasingly well-documented issue and approach it in an informed and sensitive way. The report looked broadly at disability in children and adolescents as 鈥渁ny significant impairment in any area of motor, sensory, social, communicative, cognitive, or emotional functioning.鈥
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