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Very little information is available that can address neurodisability risk across different cultures and low-resource settings. This chapter summarizes the ways in which the ten questions questionnaire (TQQ) has been used to gather epidemiological information and to screen for childhood cognitive, motor, seizure, and sensory disability or delay in low-resource settings. Several validation studies have been done in a variety of locations which show the usefulness of the TQQ as a screening measure. However, its ability to detect developmental disability is limited to that of a screening measure, particularly for gathering epidemiological information across a large number of children. Those children identified by the TQQ to be at risk for disability should be assessed with more thorough diagnostic measures in order to specifically address psychiatric, neurological, neurocognitive, or neurodevelopmental manifestations of disease.
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This research was primarily funded by R34MH082663 (Boivin) and NICHD grant RO1HD070723 (Boivin, Bass). Funding support to Erin Lorencz for her work in Uganda was provided by the Michigan State University College of Human Medicine Medical Student Summer Research Program and the Michigan State University Graduate School International Studies program. The authors recognize the on-site supervision assistance provided by Drs. Paul Bangirana and Robert O. Opoka of Makerere University Medical School.
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Lorencz, E.E., Boivin, M.J. (2013). Screening for Neurodisability in Low-Resource Settings Using the Ten Questions Questionnaire. In: Boivin, M., Giordani, B. (eds) Neuropsychology of Children in Africa. Specialty Topics in Pediatric Neuropsychology. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-6834-9_7
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