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Total Child Health and Brookes Publishing Agree to Release ASQ-3™ on CHADIS
21 July 2010

American Board of Pediatrics approves CHADIS to certify pediatricians for their required Maintenance of Certification (MOC-4)
June, 2010

Video for Training Pediatricians in Autism identification created with Rethink Autism group.
June, 2010

Alternative Functional Criteria for ADHD – research presented at PAS - Pediatric Academic Society Annual Meeting, Vancouver, CA.
May, 2010

SBIR research award from NIMH for ADHD QI
April, 2010

Maryland Model for Autism Screening presented at OCALI Conference, Columbus, Ohio
November 2009

Infant Mental Health Symposium and ADHD School Identification research presented at SDBP - Society for Developmental and Behavioral Pediatrics, Portland Oregon
September 2009

NIMH award for ADHD research on community intervention with economic impact
September 2009

New Release Features!
September 2009

CHADIS releases a more complete ADHD module
July 2009

Pediatrics Article reports "high degree of satisfaction with the use of a computer-assisted previsit assessment (CHADIS)"
July 2009


ADHD research using CHADIS presented at PAS - Pediatric Academic Society Annual Meeting
 May, 2009

CHADIS releases new 'CHADIS 0-3' questionnaires for infant/toddler routine care and the assessment of mental health problems March 2009


NIMH, SBIR award to CHADIS to identify best methods for parent access: (phone vs. laptop vs. kiosk) and most accurate methods for early autism
January 2009

New Version of CHADIS Released
15 September 2008

CHADIS Praised at PAS Meeting
5 May 2008

CHADIS Release 10
26 April 2008

CHADIS Releases New Questionnaires
28 November 2007 CHADIS Release 9 Available
13 October 2007

NICHD Grant for the Validation of CHADIS 0-3
September 2007

CHADIS Releases new Questionnaires
6 September 2007

CHADIS 8 Release Available
16 April 2007

Cisco Foundation Awards ADHD Project Linking Teachers, Pediatricians, and Parents
20 March 2007
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CISCO Foundation Awards ADHD Project Linking Teachers, Pediatricians, and Parents

Baltimore, MD: 20 March 2007 — The Cisco Systems Foundation announced today a major award to the Center for Promotion of Child Development through Primary Care for a novel research project to identify and optimize the treatment of elementary school children with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder in three Mississippi school districts.

The project is designed to reduce the adverse outcomes for children with ADHD by assuring proper identification and treatment. The project will test this assumption by assigning the participants to either a "usual care" group or an intervention group in which the pediatrician uses CHADIS, a clinical support technology, and then following them over time. The research will examine whether children in the intervention group have fewer behavioral symptoms, fewer school problems including reports of disruptive classroom behavior, suspensions and expulsions, class absences, behavioral interventions and better grades than children in the usual care group. The Center expects that future follow-up studies will show less substance abuse, depression, conduct disorder, and fewer accidents and injuries.

Through the CHADIS technology, the project provides primary care physicians with access to both teacher observations about their students and parent observations about their children. This combination of parent and teacher data, including an in-depth computerized interview of the parent, is what is needed to confirm the diagnosis while avoiding over diagnosis and to detect associated mental health conditions that are often overlooked. At the same time CHADIS provides "point of care" physician education and decision support to assist the doctor in confirming and/or further exploring the problem, and in providing systematic treatment planning. The linked resource database gives access to thousands of relevant national and community resources for ADHD and other associated problems. In these ways and through bi-monthly case conference webcasts the project addresses the limited training and experience of many primary care doctors with ADHD.

Treatment for those with a diagnosis will include both non-medication and medication interventions. If medication is warranted and is chosen by the family as part of the treatment plan, the intervention protocol suggests that the effectiveness of the medicine be demonstrated through a "single patient placebo trial". This will also be used to optimize dosage. The treatment plan will also include parent education, use of competency building activities, tutoring and mental health referral when indicated. These activities help overcome the limitations that untreated ADHD otherwise imposes on children.

For more information contact: Barbara Howard at +1 410-807-4500
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