Preschool screening

Maurci has also testified before lawmaking bodies, both state and national, and helped to get provisions enacted to require preschool screening of all children in the state and certificationfor abatement contractors. Lead paint abaters now have to be trained in the precautions necessary to protect children from lead dust, preventing tragic experiences like MaurcVs from occurring to others. ... 

There is a successful movement within psychiatry, implemented in many states, that makes it easy to force clinic outpatients to take long-acting injections of drugs. Under these outpatient commitment laws, if the person refuses to come to the clinic, mental health workers can come to the home to administer the injections by force. At the same time, there is a movement to screen schoolchildren, and even preschoolers, for so-called mental illness. This potentially disastrous movement is driven by drug company money and aims at increasing the market for their products. 

U.S. Preventive Services Task Force. (2006). Screening for Speech and Language Delay in Preschool Children Recommendation Statement. Originally in Pediatrics 2006 117 497—501. February 2006. Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, Rockville, MD. http // www.ahrq.gov/ clinic/ uspstfo6/speech/ speechrs. htm... 

Infant Preschool Children - DDST (Denver Developmental Screening... 

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