Policy Statements and Guidelines

Febrile Seizures:  Clinical Practice Guidelines for the Long-Term Management of the Child With Simple Febrile Seizures, by the Steering Committee on Quality Improvement and Management, Subcommittee on Febrile Seizures, June 2008.

Clinical Report: Prescribing Assistive Technology Systems:  Focus on Children With Impaired Communication by the Council on Children With Disabilities, June 2008.

Identification and Evaluation of Children with Autism Spectrum Disorders, by Chris Plauche Johnson, MD, MEd, Scott M. Myers, MD, and the Council on Children With Disabilities, November, 2007.

Clinical Report: Management of Children with Autism Spectrum Disorders, by Scott M. Myers, MD, FAAP, Chris Plauche Johnson, MD, MEd, and the Council on Children with Disabilities, November 2007.

Clinical Practice Guideline: Treatment of the School-Aged Child with Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder , by Subcommittee on Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder and Committee on Quality Improvement, October 2001.

Clinical Practice Guideline:  Diagnosis and Evaluation of the School-Age Child With Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder, the Committee on Quality Improvement and the Subcommittee on Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder, May, 2000.

Clinical Practice Guideline:  The Management of Minor Head Injury in Children, by the Committee on Quality Improvement in collaboration with the American Academy of Family Physicians and its Commission on Clinical Policies and Research, December 1999.

AAP Endorsed and Other Applicable Scientific Statements

American Academy of Neurology Practice Parameter:  Pharmacological Treatment of Migraine Headache in Children and Adolescents, by the Quality Standards Subcommittee of The American Academy of Neurology and the Practice Committee of the Child Neurology Society, 2005.

Practice Parameter:  Diagnostic Assessment of the Child with Cerebral Palsy, The American Academy of Neurology and the Practice Committee of the Child Neurology Society, 2004.

American Academy of Neurology Practice Parameter:  Treatment of the Child with a First Unprovoked Seizure:  Report of the Quality Standards Subcommittee of the American Academy of Neurology and the Practice Committee of the Child Neurology Society, 2003.

Practice Parameter:  Neuroimaging of  the Neonate, by the Quality Standards Subcommittee of The American Academy of Neurology and the Practice Committee of the Child Neurology Society, 2002.

Practice Parameter:  Evaluating the First Non-Febrile Seizure in Children, by the Quality Standards Subcommittee of the American Academy of Neurology, the Child Neurology Society and the American Epilepsy Society, 2000.

Practice Parameter:  Screening and Diagnosis of Autism by the Quality Standards Subcommittee of the American Academy of Neurology, the Child Neurology Society, 2000.

Other Neurolgical Policy

American Academy of Neurology

Child Neurology Society

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