Source: element5/Unsplash Optimal Match is a perspective on education in which each child—across all profiles of abilities and/or disabilities—is provided with learning opportunities that challenge them and also give them the right kinds of guidance and support, so they can learn as well as possible, and feel good about themselves at home and at school. […]
Don Bailey Distinguished fellowRTI International Millions of infants have benefited from Don Bailey’s work as a member of the US Advisory Committee on Heritable Disorders in Newborns and Children. For six years, he helped decide which conditions doctors should screen for in all babies born in the United States. The program is one of the […]
Fly View Productions / iStock Roald Øien professor, Arctic University of Norway For the past five years, Roald Øien has stress-tested the Modified Checklist for Autism in Toddlers (M-CHAT), a go-to-screen for autism introduced in 2001. His results are far from encouraging: the screen misses more than 70 percent of children who are later diagnosed […]
