[Federal Register Volume 60, Number 9 (Friday, January 13, 1995)]
[Notices]
[Page 3249]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 95-883]



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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES

Poverty-Associated Mental Retardation Prevention Technical 
Assistance Workshop; 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., January 30, 1995.
    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 convene 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 for 
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 404/488-7400.

    Dated: January 6, 1995.
William H. Gimson,
Acting Associate Director for Policy Coordination, Centers for Disease 
Control and Prevention (CDC).
[FR Doc. 95-883 Filed 1-12-95; 8:45 am]
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