Sep 26, 2023

Drowning prevention resources

The Drowning Prevention Foundation partners with the Consumer Product Safety Commission as a Pool Safely Campaign Safety Leader. Watch this video and learn how to keep children safe around pools. Follow the links below for more water safety information. Originally posted...

Apr 02, 2023

Nevada buses hundreds of mentally ill patients to cities around country

Over the past five years, Nevada’s primary state psychiatric hospital has put hundreds of mentally ill patients on Greyhound buses and sent them to cities and towns across America. Since July 2008, Rawson-Neal Psychiatric Hospital in Las Vegas has...

Oct 12, 2022

New Data Shows Half of All Children with Autism Wander and Bolt from Safe Places

The Interactive Autism Network (IAN), www.ianproject.org, the nation’s largest online autism research project, recently revealed the preliminary results of the first major survey on wandering and elopement among individuals with autism spectrum disorders (ASD), and announces the launch of...

Sep 14, 2022

Monkeypox

Since mid-May, cases of monkeypox have been reported from several countries that are non-endemic for this rare disease, including the United States. Several cases have been reported in California, including in Sacramento County. Sacramento County Public Health continues to...

May 15, 2022

National Autism Indicators Report: The Intersection of Autism, Health, Poverty and Racial Inequity

In the year (2020) about 5 percent of four-year-old kids in California received an Autism diagnosis, which is concerning compared to the CDC’s average of 2.2 percent for the same age group nationwide. Research has been actively exploring the...

Nov 21, 2021

Section 4511.6

Welfare and Institutions Code – WIC DIVISION 4.5. SERVICES FOR THE DEVELOPMENTALLY DISABLED ( Division 4.5 added by Stats. 1977, Ch. 1252. ) CHAPTER 1.6. General Provisions ( Chapter 1.6 heading added by...

Sep 22, 2021

To unravel autism’s mysteries, one neuroscientist looks at the developing brain

As the number of children diagnosed with autism spectrum disorder increases, so too has research on the complex and poorly understood disorder. With powerful genetic tools, advanced brain-imaging methods and large groups of children to study, the field is...

Aug 10, 2021

Is Autism An Epidemic?

A majority of experts agree that the number of children diagnosed with autism appears to be on the increase. However, it is not clear whether this is due to better detection and reporting of autism, a real increase in...

Jun 05, 2021

Infant Development Program

Special Education Primary Contacts Andrea Lemos, Ed.D., Director(916) 228-2381 Michael Bernardis, Program Specialist(916) 277-5900 ext. 1112mbernardis@scoe.net Coretta Sayers, Program Secretary(916) 277-5900 ext. 2csayers@scoe.net Wendy Roberts, IDP Intake Specialist(916) 277-5900 ext. 1132wroberts@scoe.net The program serves infants and toddlers, birth to...

Nov 19, 2020

Q & A with “Lego Boy” Brynjar Karl

What is your full name? “Brynjar Karl Birgisson.” What is your mother’s full name? “Bjarney Sigrun Ludviksdottir.” What is your grandfather’s full name? “Ludvik Baldur Ögmundsson.” Why do you have a different last name than your mother or grandfather?...