Mac Keith Press
Mac Keith Press exists to improve the lives of disabled children by extending the knowledge and understanding of developmental medicine and paediatric neurology.
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This unique book focuses on enabling children and young people with neurodisability to participate in the varied life situations that form their personal, familial and cultural worlds.
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This practical guide provides strategies for managing the range of nutritional problems faced by children with neurodevelopmental disability.
New book!
Myasthenia is a rare, but underdiagnosed and sometimes life-threatening disorder in children. This book will help clinicians and families of children with this rare condition direct management effectively.
We are all facing challenges presented by COVID-19, but none more so than our health professional colleagues who are continuing to work diligently in the world’s health services. Our thoughts are with all those affected by the virus, directly and indirectly.
We are delighted to announce our Impact Factor has risen again this year:
2-Year Impact Factor: 4.406
5-Year Impact Factor: 4.311
Submission to first decision: 23 days
Acceptance to online publication: 52 days
Acceptance rate: 19%
Check out the August 2020 issue now!
Editor's Choice for August: Deep brain stimulation reduces pain in children with dystonia, including in dyskinetic cerebral palsy by Perides et al.
Check out other recent Editor's Choice papers.
Featured Podcast: In this podcast, Nofar Ben Itzhak discusses her paper 'Visuoperceptual profiles of children using the Flemish cerebral visual impairment questionnaire'.
Watch other DMCN podcasts on YouTube or listen on Apple Podcasts.
Letters to the Editor: The latest Letter to the Editor comes from the IAACD COVID-19 Task Force: Global COVID-19 Childhood Disability Data Coordination: a collaborative initiative of the International Alliance of Academies of Childhood Disability.
Open Access: Compliant with most Open Access funding requirements, all articles in DMCN become free to read 12 months after publication. July 2019 is the latest issue to become freely available.
Virtual Issues: Our North American Editor Peter Rosenbaum introduces the latest Virtual Issue on Cerebral Palsy Classification Systems.
60 years of DMCN: DMCN turned 60 in 2018! To celebrate, we picked one key paper per year from inauguration and made it free to read. Have a look at the papers we selected.
Interested in submitting a paper to our journal? Submit now online
Forthcoming Events:
AACPDM
Join us virtually for the AACPDM Annual Congress 22-26 September 2020, USA
ICNA
The 16th International Child Neurology Congress will take place 19-23 October 2020, San Diego, USA.
EACD
New date! Head online on 25-28 November 2020 for the next virtual EACD meeting. Get involved with discussions 'From childhood to adulthood with disability', organised by the team from Poznan, Poland.
BPNA
The 2021 BPNA Annual Conference will take place on 6-8 January 2021 in Oxford, UK.
EPNS
The EPNS Congress will be taking place in Glasgow 1-5 June 2021.
Featured Author:
Michael Wade talks about his book 'Movement Difficulties in Developmental Disorders', that he wrote with David Sugden.
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