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PEDIATRIC HABILITATION<br />
Series Editor<br />
ALFRED L. SCHERZER<br />
Cornell University Medical Center<br />
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1. Prevention of Mental Retardation and Other Developmental<br />
Disabilities, edited by Michael K. McCormack<br />
2. Developmental Disabilities: Management Through Nutrition<br />
and Medication, Eric Denhoff and Steven Feldman<br />
3. Early Diagnosis and Therapy in Cerebral Palsy,<br />
Alfred L. Scherzer and Ingrid Tscharnuter<br />
4. Parenting Children with Disabilities: A Professional Source<br />
for Physicians and Guide for Parents, Peggy Muller Miezio<br />
5. Visual Disorders in the Handicapped Child, John L. Goble<br />
6. Early Diagnosis and Therapy in Cerebral Palsy: A Primer<br />
on Infant Developmental Problems, Second Edition, Revised<br />
and Expanded, Alfred L. Scherzer and Ingrid Tscharnuter<br />
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Early Diagnosis and Intervention, edited by<br />
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8. Medical Care in Down Syndrome: A Preventive Medicine<br />
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9. Manual of Developmental and Behavioral Problems<br />
in Children, Vidya Bhushan Gupta<br />
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Diagnosis • Treatment • Management, Second Edition,<br />
Revised and Expanded, edited by Pasquale J. Accardo,<br />
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An Interdisciplinary Approach, Third Edition, edited by<br />
Alfred L. Scherzer<br />
12. Autistic Spectrum Disorders in Children, edited by<br />
Vidya Bhushan Gupta<br />
13. Genetics of Developmental Disabilites, edited by<br />
Merlin Butler and F. John Meaney<br />
14. Neural Tube Defects, edited by Sonya G. Oppenheimer<br />
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Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center<br />
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