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Special requests should be addressed to the Editor. 0305-1862/90/$10.00. Printed in Great Britain by Nuffield Press Ltd Contents | iii Volume 19, Number 1, January/February 1993 1 Parents evaluation of pre-school services for children with Down’s syndrome in two Scottish regions JENNIFER G. WISHART, HAMISH A. MACLEOD and CATHIE ROWAN Pre-school visually impaired children: visual stimulation and micro- computers N. W. Bozic, E. W. HILL and M. J. ToBIN BCG vaccination scars: incidence and acceptance amongst British high- school children JANE W. S. FANG, BEN M. L. Ko and JupitH A. WILSON Five-year-follow-up of very low birthweight infants: neurological and psychological outcome S. H. Roussounis, P. A. HUBLEY and P. R. F. DEAR Correspondence Book reviews Editorial Volume 19, Number 2, March/April 1993 71 Prevention of childhood disability in the People’s Republic of China JIANHUA CHEN and RUNE J. SIMEONSSON Reliability and validity of the Portage assessment scale for clinical studies of mentally handicapped populations MariA Arvio, JARKKO HAUTAMAKI and PIRKKO TIILIKKA Are primary school children gaining heart health benefits from their journeys to school? MIKE SLEAP and PETER WARBURTON Gastrooesophageal reflux in children with cerebral palsy A. L. Reyes, A. J. CAsH, S. H. GREEN and I. W. BOOTH Annotation: Care of children in hospital BEVERLEY CHALMERS Contents Handedness in children at school entry: does the ‘Mesker test’ provide a valid method for testing writing handedness? ELISABETH WARREN and IAN MCKINLAY Book reviews Volume 19, Number 3, May/June 1993 149 Behaviour problems in children with learning disabilities: to what extent do they exist and are they a problem? HELEN SAXBY and HILARY MORGAN Assessment of the reliability of school nurse height measurements in an inner-city population. (The Hackney Growth Initiative) A. M. CoTrerRiL_, W. H. MasrowskI, S. J. HEARN, S. JENKINS and M. O. SAVAGE Deleterious effects of the prone position in the full-term infant throughout the first year of life LAURENCE DOURET Liverpool visual assessment team 1985—1989: 5 years on. CHRISTINE Hirst, JUDITH J. POOLE and G. SIAN SNELLING Sleep management — the hidden agenda JENNIFER WALTERS Parents’ views of community care for children with motor disabilities CLARE L. Hay.Lock, M. ANN JOHNSON and VALERIE A. HARPIN Training needs of staff in Romanian institutions for young children PATRICIA STEPHENSON, CARMEN ANGHELESCU, STELIANA FUMAREL, ADRIAN GEORGESCU, DANIELA IORGULESCU, ROSEMARY MCCREERY, Ropica NANU, GEORGETA PALACARI, STELIAN Popa, ALIN STANESCU and ECATERINA STATIVA Book reviews Contents Vv Volume 19, Number 4, July/August 1993 239 Screening and assessment of childhood deafness: experience from a centralized multi-disciplinary service ANNE E. O’HaARE, JACQUELINE GRIGOR and DAvip COWAN Everyday beliefs about sources of advice for the parents of difficult children EDMUND SONUGA-BARKE, MARGARET THOMPSON and JANE BALDING Children with haemophilia: same or different? F. A. LoGAn, B. Gipson, I. M. HANN and W. Li PARRY-JONES The relations between Griffiths scales assessments in the pre-school period and educational outcomes at 7+ years PHILIP CONN Book reviews Volume 19, Number 5, September/October 1993 295 A descriptive study of blind children in nurseries with sighted children GUNILLA M. PREISLER 317 Assessing the written information given to families prior to their attendance at a child development centre JULIE REED, JULIA CONNEELY, PAUL GORHAM and SAMANTHA COxHEAD Alcoholic parents and their children STURE MUTZELL Children and adolescents with brittle bones — psycho-social aspects JANE BRODIN Correspondence Book reviews vi Centents Volume 19, Number 6, November/December 1993 355 Promoting inter-agency collaboration in child services ROGER BRADFORD 369 Easing the strain: assessing the impact of a Family Fund grant on mothers caring for a severely disabled child Bryony A. BERESFORD Assessing response to a proposed peto-inspired early education group at a pre-school assessment and treatment centre ROSEMARY CHESSON CHARGE association looking to the future — the voice of a family support group Kim D. BLAKE and DAviD BROWN Impact of cerebral visual impairment on the everyday life of cerebral palsied children A. J. F. SCHENK—ROOTLIEB, O. VAN NIEUWENHUIZEN, N. SCHIEMANCK, Y. VAN DER GRAAF and J. WILLEMSE Book reviews Author index to Volume 19