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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

 

Meeting

    The National Center for Environmental Health (NCEH), Centers for 
Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), announces the following meeting.

    Name: Poverty-Associated Mental Retardation (PAMR) Prevention 
Technical Assistance Workshop for Planning Grant Recipients.
    Time and Date: 8:30 a.m.-4:30 p.m., May 10, 1994.
    Place: Swissotel Atlanta, 3391 Peachtree Road, NE., Atlanta, 
Georgia 30326.
    Status: Open to the public; limited only by the space available.
    Purpose: The primary purpose of this workshop is to provide 
technical assistance to recipients of CDC grants as they plan 
programs to prevent PAMR. The workshop is not designed to provide 
general information on mental retardation or on prevention of PAMR.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The workshop will convent a group of 
recipients of CDC PAMR Planning Grants.
    Seven of every 1,000 ten-year old children suffer from mild mental 
retardation, and three of every 1,000 suffer from more serious mental 
retardation. Poor children, especially those whose mothers have less 
than a high school education, are at risk of cognitive delay of as much 
as one standard deviation of IQ (15 points) at age three. Studies such 
as the Infant Health and Development Program and the Carolina 
Abecedarian Project have proven that an intensive early health and 
development intervention can prevent or reduce as much as two-thirds of 
PAMR. CDC is actively involved in research and planning to help States 
develop a community-based program to prevent PAMR.

CONTACT PERSON FOR ADDITIONAL INFORMATION: Edward A. Brann, M.D., 
Chief, Mental Retardation Prevention Section, Developmental 
Disabilities Branch, Division of Birth Defects and Developmental 
Disabilities, NCEH, CDC, Mailstop F-15, 4770 Buford Highway, NE., 
Atlanta, Georgia 30341-3724, telephone 404/488-7360.

    Dated: April 28, 1994.
Robert L. Foster,
Assistant Director for Special Programs, Office of Program Support, 
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
[FR Doc. 94-10642 Filed 5-3-94; 8:45 am]
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