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A screening program is an organized effort to detect, among presumably developmentally normal children in the community, disabilities that were previously undetected. Such a program also includes all the events that must occur after screening if it is to benefit a community’s children. These include diagnostic confirmation, therapeutic and preventive intervention, and follow-up.
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Cadman, D., Chambers, L., Walter, S., Sackett, D., Feldman, W. (1985). Methodologic Guides for the Evaluation of Community Developmental Screening Programs. In: Frankenburg, W.K., Emde, R.N., Sullivan, J.W. (eds) Early Identification of Children at Risk. Topics in Developmental Psychobiology. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4899-0536-9_31
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