[Intelligence assessment using the Kaufman Assessment Battery for Children: a pilot study of a sample of children with language development disorders]. / Intelligenzbeurteilung mit der Kaufman Assessment Battery for Children (K-ABC): Pilotstudie an einer Stichprobe sprachentwicklungsgestörter Kinder.

The German version of the Kaufman Assessment Battery for Children, which will soon be available commercially, was administered to 29 children with developmental speech and language disorders between 7;4 and 11;11 years of age who were patients on an inpatient child psychiatry unit. The correlations of the test results with the WISC-R (German version), the AID (a German intelligence test) and the Raven Coloured Progressive Matrices were calculated; furthermore, an assessment was made for differences in performance on tasks requiring sequential processing and those requiring simultaneous processing. The results of the study indicate that the K-ABC enables a relatively broad-based assessment of cognitive development in speech-and language-disordered children despite the children's verbal handicaps and that the instrument yields information of relevance in planning remedial programs.

[Incidence of psychic disorders in children and adolescents (author's transl)]. / Häufigkeit psychischer Störungen bei Kindern und Jugendlichen.

The paper summarizes the most important findings of an epidemiological investigation in child psychiatry on the incidence of psychic disturbances and behavioral pecularities in patients aged from 3 to 14 years. Connections between psychic disturbances and behavioral peculiarities on the one hand and developmental residues, bodily symptoms and abnormal psychosocial circumstances on the other are pointed out. Finally the situation regarding provisions for psychically disturbed children and those with behavior peculiarities is discussed.

[Disorders of short-term memory, a necessary category in the multiaxial classification scheme?]. / Kurzzeitgedächtnisstörungen, eine notwendige Verschlüsselung im Multiaxialen Klassifikationsschema?

Problems with short-term memory have been reported in conjunction with numerous psychiatric disorders of childhood. Deficits in both visual and auditory short-term memory were found more frequently in a group of 23 children between the ages of 7 and 11 years with specific developmental speech and/or language disorders and in an unselected group of 23 children seen at the inpatient unit of a child psychiatry facility than in a control group of children of comparable age and sex without language or behavior problems. Because of the diagnostic and therapeutic relevance of visual and auditory short-term memory deficits, the authors argue for the inclusion of the disorder in the Multi-axial Classification Scheme.

[The treatment of children with psychiatric disorders by general practitioners and paediatricians in South-East Bavaria (author's transl)]. / Die Inanspruchnahme von neidergelassenen Arzten durch Kinder und Jugendliche mit psychischen Störungen und Verhaltensauffälligkeiten.

The treatment of children and juveniles with psychiatric disorders is seen as a problem of case identification. Paediatricians and general practitioners can treat behavior disorders of best together with a child psychiatrist.

Prevalence and treatment of psychiatric disorders in 3 to 14-year-old children: results of a representative field study in the small town rural region of Traunstein, upper Bavaria.

In a representative sample (n = 358) 18.4% of the children aged 3 to 14 were classified as having psychiatric disorders, mostly special symptoms (13.4%) (ICD 307). Using the multiaxial classification of child psychiatric disorders developed by Rutter et al. (1), connections between a psychiatric diagnosis on the one hand and developmental delays, medical conditions and abnormal psychosocial circumstances on the other are pointed out. Finally, the situation regarding help for children with psychiatric disorders is discussed. Only 2.0% of the children were receiving treatment for such conditions.