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Prosecuting Cases for Children with Intellectual Disabilities

Children with intellectual disabilities have a high risk of being sexually assaulted. Learn how to protect these children by bringing their cases to court.

Preparing Children with Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder for Court

Learn how to help children heal from Post Traumatic Stress Disorder and successfully prosecute their cases.

Meeting the Needs of Parents with Disabilities: State Reforms

Parents with disabilites face barriers when creating and maintaining families. Some states are responding by reforming their laws.

Using Undiagnosed Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder to Prove Your Case: A Child’s Story

Children who have been abused often have undiagnosed Post-traumatic Stress Disorder. Understanding PTSD in children is key to successfully prosecuting sex crimes. PTSD can be profoundly disabling for the child. It can also help prove your case.

Seven Things Juvenile Court Judges Should Know about Learning Disabilities

Youth with learning disabilities present challenges to juvenile courts. Explore these challenges and how to address them by understanding laws and proven strategies.

Best Practices for Interviewing Children with Disabilities

Learn proven best practices for interviewing children with disabilities in child abuse cases.

Interviewing Children with Disabilities in Child Abuse Cases: A New Approach

Interviewing children with disabilities in child abuse and neglect cases requires a different approach. Child advocates in Bennington, VT have revamped their appraoch to identifying and communicating with children with disabilities, with positive results.

Babies and Toddlers Can Suffer Mental Illness, Seldom Get Treatment

Infants and toddlers can suffer serious mental health disorders, yet they are unlikely to receive treatment that could prevent lasting developmental problems.

An Overview of Juvenile Mental Health Courts

Studies show that up to 65 or 70 percent of youth held in American juvenile detention centers have a diagnosable mental illness. Further, a congressional study concluded that every day approximately 2,000 youth are incarcerated simply because community mental health services are unavailable.

Maintaining Families When Parents Have Disabilities

A child whose parent has a disability faces a serious threat of removal by child welfare authorities. Parents? attorneys and children?s representatives must have information and knowledge about the special challenges these families face in child welfare cases.

Ask the Psychiatrist: Q&A with Norton Roitman, MD

Norton Roitman, MD, is child and adult psychiatrist in private practice in Las Vegas, Nevada. In this new column, Dr. Roitman answers common questions lawyers have about mental health evaluations in child welfare cases.

Part 2: Ask the Psychiatrist: Q&A with Norton Roitman, MD

Norton Roitman, MD, is child and adult psychiatrist in private practice in Las Vegas, Nevada. In this new column, Dr. Roitman answers common questions lawyers have about mental health evaluations in child welfare cases.

Part 3: Ask the Psychiatrist: Q&A with Norton Roitman, MD

Norton Roitman, MD, is child and adult psychiatrist in private practice in Las Vegas, Nevada. In this new column, Dr. Roitman answerscommon questions lawyers have about mental health evaluations in child welfare cases.