Students identified by the special education classification Other Health Impairment (OHI) represent the third largest group of students receiving special education services in the United States. The special education services offered these students include both academic and health related supports. The delivery of these services is enhanced when a partnership exits between the primary stakeholders; the student, parents, the school personnel, and the medical personnel. The use of Family Centered Care principles in the delivery of these services supports and maintains the partnership. Following the qualitative analysis of a series of interviews of parents whose children were classified as OHI, descriptive and inferential themes were derived from the interview data. These themes are discussed relative to the parents’ belief that the classification provided; access to appropriate special education and school-based health care allowing their children to achieve their maximum potential, parental satisfaction with the special education and school-based health care services provided, and the use of Family-Centered Care principles. Key Words: special education, health impairment, OHI, family

AIM OF THE STUDY To describe prevalence and severity of periodontal diseases among urban and rural 11-15 year-olds in Lithuania and to evaluate risk factors, prevention and treatment needs. OBJECTIVES OF THE STUDY 1. To evaluate oral hygiene among 11-15 year-old schoolchildren and to describe dependence on gender, age, parients‘ education and living area. 2. To evaluate freequence of complaints of the bleeding gingiva among 11-15 year-old schoolchildren and to describe dependence on gender, age and living area. 3. To evaluate the dependence of freequence of complaints of the bleeding gingiva on oral higiene, living style and parients‘ education. 4. To describe prevalence and severity of periodontal diseases among urban and rural 11-15 year-old schoolchildren and to elucidate relation with local risk factors and oral hygiene. 5. T o evaluate treatment needs of periodontal diseases among urban and rural 11-15 year-old schoolchildren. 6. To create methods of prevention of periodontal diseases for the 11-15 year-old schoolchildren and present them too schoolchildren and dentists. ORIGINALITY OF INVESTIGATION OUTCOME For the first time in Lithuania the periodontal tissue condition of the eleven to fifteen years old town and village schoolchildren, the main periodontal disease risk factors, and the need for periodontal disease treatment was studied and evaluated, as well as the dental caries and periodontal disease risk factor relationship was identified. The periodontal... [to full text]