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Practice Prevention Columns and Fact Sheets
With an emphasis on the effects of neurotoxicants and environmental hazards on the developing human brain, these publications summarize recent scientific research for a nonscientific audience. Please feel free to link to these articles or include them in your own newsletters or other publications. We appreciate knowing if our materials are having an impact; please let us know if you use our materials. Practice Prevention ColumnsFact SheetsLDDI MEDICAL ADVISOR |
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Larry B. Silver, MD, serves as LDDI's medical advisor on our Practice Prevention columns. Dr. Silver is a child and adolescent psychiatrist in private practice in the Washington, DC, area. He is clinical professor of psychiatry at Georgetown University Medical Center. For more than 30 years his primary areas of research, clinical and teaching interest have focused on the psychological, social and family impact of a group of related, neurologically-based disorders – learning disabilities, language disabilities, sensory integration dysfunction and attention deficit hyperactivity disorder. Dr. Silver has more than 150 publications, including the popular book The Misunderstood Child: A Guide for Parents of Children with Learning Disabilities. |
 Pamphlet for Expectant Moms, September 2009. The American Association on Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities (AAIDD) has developed a color, tri-fold, cross-cultural pamphlet to be given to women at ob-gyn appointments: Environmental Health Risks and Your Pregnancy.
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