Symposium on Challenging Behavior in CHARGE Syndrome

描述(由申请人提供)：关于Charge综合症挑战性行为的研讨会将作为2003年7月25日至27日在俄亥俄州克利夫兰举行的第六届国际Charge综合征会议的一部分举行。 Charge综合征指的是患有一组特定出生缺陷的儿童。“Charge”最初来自这些儿童最常见的特征的第一个字母：缺陷症、心脏缺陷、后鼻孔闭锁、生长发育迟缓、生殖器和尿路异常、以及耳朵异常和/或听力损失。诊断Charge的基础是在孩子身上发现几个这样的特征，可能还有其他特征。Charge于1979年首次被发现，随着时间的推移，人们对其发展有了更多的了解。家长们非常关注的一个问题是严重的行为问题的发展。许多被指控的儿童还被诊断为自闭症、注意力缺陷障碍、强迫症以及抽动障碍。 会议将汇集医疗和教育人员以及负责儿童的父母和家庭。为此寻求资金的研讨会的目的是将Charge行为部分的领先研究人员聚集在一起。有四个目标：1)分享有关儿童行为的研究和临床结果，以确定已知的、正在研究的和需要研究的；2)在负责的行为问题的研究中发展和促进合作；3)讨论和辩论基于研究的行为问题的诊断、病因、流行和描述的行为表型问题；以及4)提出当前和未来的研究需求。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The Symposium on Challenging Behaviors in CHARGE Syndrome will take place as a component of the Sixth International CHARGE Syndrome Conference to be held in Cleveland, Ohio, on July 25-27, 2003. CHARGE syndrome refers to children with a specific set of birth defects. "CHARGE" originally came from the first letter of some of the most common features seen in these children: coloboma, heart defect, atresia of the choanae, retardation of growth and development, genital and urinary abnormality, and ear abnormality and/or hearing loss. The diagnosis of CHARGE is based on finding several of these and possibly other features in a child. CHARGE was first identified in 1979, and more has been learned about its development over time. One issue that has been of considerable concern to parents is the development of severe behavior problems. Many children with CHARGE are also diagnosed with autism, attention deficit disorder, obsessive-compulsive disorder, as well as tic disorder. The Conference will bring together medical and educational personnel along with parents and families of children with CHARGE. The purpose of the symposium, for which funding is sought, is to bring together leading researchers in the behavioral components of CHARGE. There are four goals: 1) to share research and clinical findings regarding the behaviors of children with CHARGE in order to identify what is known, what is being studied, and what needs to be studied; 2) to develop and facilitate collaboration in the research on behavior problems in CHARGE; 3) to discuss and debate the behavioral phenotype issues of diagnosis, etiology, prevalence, and description of behavior problems based on research; and 4) to suggest current and future research needs.