exceptional child [ atypical child | irregular child ]

Definition: A type of pervasive developmental disorder that differs from childhood autism either in age of onset or in failing to fulfil all three sets of diagnostic criteria. This subcategory should be used when there is abnormal and impaired development that is present only after age three years, and a lack of sufficient demonstrable abnormalities in one or two of the three areas of psychopathology required for the diagnosis of autism (namely, reciprocal social interactions, communication, and restricted, stereotyped, repetitive behaviour) in spite of characteristic abnormalities in the other area(s). Atypical autism arises most often ...[+++]in profoundly retarded individuals and in individuals with a severe specific developmental disorder of receptive language. | Atypical childhood psychosis Mental retardation with autistic features

Definition: Problems related to contact or attempted contact with the child's or the other person's breasts or genitals, sexual exposure in close confrontation or attempt to undress or seduce the child, by a substantially older person outside the child's family, either on the basis of this person's position or status or against the will of the child.

atypical work | non-standard employment

atypical absence | petit-mal variant

atypical squamous cells of undetermined significance

intermediate form of leprosy

atypical antipsychotic | atypical neuroleptic | novel antipsychotic | novel neuroleptic

Definition: An ill-defined disorder of uncertain nosological validity. The category is designed to include a group of children with severe mental retardation (IQ below 35) who show major problems in hyperactivity and in attention, as well as stereotyped behaviours. They tend not to benefit from stimulant drugs (unlike those with an IQ in the normal range) and may exhibit a severe dysphoric reaction (sometimes with psychomotor retardation) when given stimulants. In adolescence, the overactivity tends to be replaced by underactivity (a pattern that is not usual in hyperkinetic children with normal intelligence). This syndrome is also often associated with a variety of developmental delays, either specific or global. The ...[+++]extent to which the behavioural pattern is a function of low IQ or of organic brain damage is not known.

Optional Protocol on the sale of children, child prostitution and child pornography | Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Rights of the Child on the sale of children, child prostitution and child pornography

Divorce laws modelled on an idealized notion of shared parenting, based on an atypical, socio-economic, ethnocentric vision of the family, will only exacerbate existing systemic biases against women, to their detriment and their children's.

The recommendations of Food Banks Canada are, one, increase federal and provincial support for the creation of affordable housing subsidies; two, at the provincial level, design an income support system of last resort to help our most vulnerable citizens become self-sufficient; three, increase the Guaranteed Income Supplement to ensure that no senior lives in poverty; four, improve Employment Insurance to better support older workers facing permanent layoffs and to better recognize Canadians in non-standard forms of unemployment; five, prioritize at the federal level the need to drastically improve the labour market outcomes of disadvantaged workers; six, invest in a system of high-quality, affordable, ...[+++] accessible early learning and child care; and seven, commit, at the federal level, to maintain the current annual increase of 3 per cent to the Canada Social Transfer to provincial governments.

Additional vaccination and antibiotic prophylaxis recommendation have also been added in section 4.2 for treatment of aHUS in adults and children

Additional vaccination and antibiotic prophylaxis recommendation have also been added in section 4.2 for treatment of aHUS in adults and children