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This case study highlights issues surrounding the transition of a 19‐year‐old man with moderate learning disabilities and a psychotic illness from child and adolescent mental health services to adult services. He had undergone hemispherectomy following Rasmussen's encephalitis at a young age. Important issues in transition of care are discussed.

Sturge-Weber-Krabe syndrome (SWS), also known as encephalotrigeminalangiomatosis and named the forthfacomatosis, recall the names of the authors who first describedit in its basic clinical, radiological andanatomopathological aspects. We report here 14 cases of Sturge-Weber disease. In 6 of these, despite what had been previously described in literature, an extension of the angioma has been noted in other parts of the body. The study of these subjects stresses not only the need for a pharmacological/neuropsychomotor intervention, but alsothe need of a psychotherapeutic approach, for the emotional and affective implications thatcould derive from this syndrome. The reported cases are similar to those presented in literature for their main features. In particular, two elements are interesting: i) the exceptional diffusion of the red nevousto the whole hemicorpo; and ii) the evaluation of the way the patients live the disease, which has not beenpreviously considered in literature. We can conclude that SWS is a multisystem disorder that requires the neurologist to be aware of the possible endocrine, psychiatric, ophthalmological, and other medical issues that can arise and impact on the neurological status of the patients.

This chapter is structured for teaching young learners with other health impairments in special education. Under the Individuals with Disabilities Education Improvement Act (IDEA, 2004), other health impairments represent chronic or acute health problems such as asthma, attention deficit disorder or attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), diabetes, epilepsy, a heart condition, hemophilia, lead poisoning, leukemia, nephritis, rheumatic fever, and sickle cell anemia and adversely affect a child’s educational performance. The chapter is organized around definitions, prevalence, etiologies, intervention strategies, and teaching considerations for selected disabling conditions in this disability category.

The study of left brain/right brain effects in the human brain has been the subject of research and discussion for many years. It is generally believed that the right and left hemispheres of the brain perform different functions. The left hemisphere is better at such tasks as reading, speaking, analytical reasoning, and arithmetic. The right hemisphere is better at spatial tasks, recognizing faces, and music. Research on this phenomenon can be of particular value to the advertising industry. A number of studies have examined the impact of an advertising message on left‐ and right‐brain dominant persons. This paper reports the results of a study conducted to investigate the effects of “informational” versus “visual” appeals used in print advertisements on left‐ and right‐brain dominant individuals. The results reveal that the evaluation of the effectiveness of an advertisement is dependent upon both the appeals used and the brain dominance orientation of the respondent.

WE understand that the retiring President of the Library Association made a charming farewell speech to the Council in January and hope that it will duly appear in the L.A. Record; and that also applies to the initial address by Mr. Sydney. However it is probably desirable that the major utterance of a president shall always be made at the Annual Conference. That, however, is over eight months distant and therefore given at a time when most of the president's work for his year has been accomplished. There is much to be said for the old custom of the Association which was to instal a new president at the Annual Conferences with a whole presidential year ahead of him, but, no doubt, the Association had good reasons for making the term co‐extensive with the calendar year although we do not know now what they were. The key to Mr. Sydney's remarks was that his election recognized the work for more than half a century of the medium and smaller library which had been the backbone of the public library movement and it dwelt upon the loneliness of their librarians and the fight they had made against local obscurantism and obstacles. He wanted to get nearer in his year to librarians in all parts of the country by personal visits. We can only say that for such a task Mr. Sydney is fully equipped.