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Many caregivers of shaken baby syndrome survivors do not know that they may be able to get help for the baby if the child was abused before the critical incident of abusive head trauma. In order to educate caregivers about the ways and reasons they can receive help, child abuse attorney Chris Keane created a [...]
In order to inform those who would like to know more about shaken baby syndrome, child injury lawyer Christopher Keane of San Francisco, California, explains in a video how abusive head trauma (shaken baby syndrome) can cause long term disabilities. Many parents of shaken baby survivors do not know that their child’s symptoms may change [...]
In an effort to prevent future cases of shaken baby syndrome, the state of Ohio has enacted Claire’s Law, named after the little girl, now 8, who was shaken by a babysitter as a baby and still suffers from the incident. Claire’s Law is intended to track serious cases of shaken baby syndrome in the [...]
Although many news stories have been reporting about various conferences, training events, and even social gatherings that focus on educating the public on the dangers and effects of shaken baby syndrome, few of them have written of the meetings among experts intended to deepen their insight on the subject. According to the STL Today website, [...]
Experts at Vanderbilt Children’s Hospital in Tennessee have confirmed the assumptions around the country that domestic violence, including cases of shaken baby syndrome, is linked in part to the economy, according to the News Channel 5 website. With an increasing number of shaken baby and other child abuse cases in middle Tennessee, the Northeast, and [...]
Shaken baby syndrome awareness is spreading throughout the country, with some of the educational efforts coming from groups that are not directly linked to child abuse prevention. One group in particular is the Healthy Start Coalition of Santa Rosa County, Florida, which has announced the details for its second annual baby shower and expo, according [...]
Memorial Hospital for Children in Colorado Springs has already treated 25 abused babies this year, with six of the children suffering fatal injuries and the rest of them inflicted with brain damage, blindness, paralysis, or other serious conditions, according to the Colorado Springs Gazette. Twenty-six total cases of child abuse were handled by the hospital [...]
Police in the metropolitan Las Vegas area have recently found that the number of child abuse cases in Clark County, NV, have risen 17 percent this year, according to Fox 5 News Las Vegas. According to the news channel, Metro Lieutenant Ray Steiber attributes the increase in broken bones and shaken baby syndrome at least [...]
Joining the shaken baby syndrome (now formally called abusive head trauma) prevention effort, Salem Hospital in Oregon is providing educational resources to parents of newborns to explain how frequently babies cry and how to handle the tears, thanks to a $26,500 grant from the Children’s Trust Fund of Oregon. According to the Statesman Journal online, [...]
Shaken baby syndrome (abusive head trauma) demonstrations involving a doll with a visible brain are becoming more and more prevalent across the country in an effort to educate parents and other caregivers about the dangers of shaking a baby even mildly for a few seconds or just a few times. According to the Citrus Daily [...]
