Children with Special Health Care Needs CE

The National Maternal and Child Oral Health Resource Center (OHRC) is pleased to announce the availability of a new Web-based continuing education (CE) course, Special Care: An Oral Health Professional’s Guide to Serving Young Children with Special Health Care Needs.

The curriculum provides oral health professionals with information to ensure that young children with special health care needs have access to health-promotion and disease-prevention services that address their unique oral health needs in a comprehensive, family-centered, and community-based manner.

Four CE credits through the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Indian Health Service, or through the American Dental Hygienists’ Association will be awarded upon successful completion of the course. Module titles are as follows: (1) An Overview of Children with Special Health Care Needs and Oral Health, (2) Providing Optimal Oral Health Care, (3) Oral Health Supervision, (4) Prevention of Oral Disease, and (5) Behavior Management. The course is free of charge and is available at http://www.mchoralhealth.org/SpecialCare.

The Web-based curriculum was prepared by the National Maternal and Child Oral Health Resource Center at Georgetown University and designed by the Center for Advanced Distance Education at the University of Illinois at Chicago. Curriculum content was adapted from the Planning Guide for Dental Professionals Serving Children with Special Health Care Needs, prepared by the University of Southern California, University Center for Excellence in Developmental Disabilities, Children’s Hospital Los Angeles. Development of the planning guide and the CE course was supported by the Health Resources and Services Administration’s Maternal and Child Health Bureau.