AHRQ Research and Quality Evidence Report and Technology Assessment: Number 72 - Failure to Thrive - Criteria for Determining disability in Infants and Children summary.The Social Security Administration (SSA) requested that the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ), through its Evidence-based Practice Center (EPC) program, provide a systematic review of the scientific evidence on whether children, defined by investigators as failing to thrive or grow adequately, have a concurrent disability, or will have one within 6 months. The population of interest includes children age 18 years or younger, both male and female, of all racial, ethnic, and socioeconomic groupings. The evidence report was prepared to assist SSA in updating its Listing of Impairments and revising its disability policy, as may be appropriate.
Research Study for Children to Test Balance. Researchers at the University of Kentucky College of Health Sciences are conducting a research study to investigate the reliability of a test of balance for typically developing children and children with cerebral palsy
Dr. Christine Houlihan of the University of Virginia is conducting a clinical study to look at how childrens bones grow and mature when they have Cerebral Palsy. This information will be compared to growth in children that do not have Cerebral Palsy