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Family Assessment


Family Assessment



BIRTH OF A SICK OR HANDICAPPED BABY - IMPACT ON THE FAMILY

By: Trout, Michael

Real families speak of their experiences and the results of a two-year study are offered. Long-term consequences for the parents, siblings, and for the emotional and mental development of the handicapped child are discussed.

This tape is appropriate for viewing by parent groups, educators, health-care professionals, and clinical trainees in infant mental health, social work, nursing, psychology, psychiatry, and obstetrics


DVD / 57 minutes

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ACCESSIBLE IEPS FOR ALL: GATHERING THE EXPERTS AROUND THE TABLE

By: Juliana Fabrocini Matt Adler and Laura San Giacomo

When professionals and parents meet to discuss a child's goals all team members will find that confidence comfort and equality are crucial to a successful planning partnership. Filmed at the renowned CHIME School, it gives viewers an inside look at an actual IEP meeting for Alejandro a young boy with multiple disabilities. General and special educators demonstrate their commitment to working together to focus on the best interest of a child they clearly know and care for.

Viewers will discover the benefits of tapping into parents' expertise and honoring them as equal partners who are deeply invested in IEP planning and student success see a student-centered collaborative process with connections to standards-based curricular access create an easier less intimidating IEP process through realistic practical tips learn from real-life parents and education professionals as they explain the ups and downs of their own IEP planning experiences find inspiration in the respectful interaction between adults

This clear and candid DVD will help IEP teams maximize every participant's expertise and develop measurable and meaningful goals that really improve child outcomes. It is ideal for staff professional development and parents alike.


DVD / 40 minutes

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AGES & STAGES QUESTIONNAIRES: A HOME VISIT (THIRD EDITION)

By: Jane Farrell, M.S., LaWanda Potter, M.S., & Arden Munkres, M.F.A.

This program is a companion to the ASQ and shows a home visit with a family who have three children.

The home visitor guides the family through the questionnaire and demonstrates how to explain the screening process to parents, create opportunities for children to demonstrate skills, encourage siblings and other family members to participate, redefine various items to reflect a family's values and culture, and promote parent-child interaction and optimum child development.

The program also offers suggestions on scoring ASQ during the visit, on activities for parents to implement with their children and suggests leaving additional questionnaires with the family.


DVD / 22 minutes

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CONDUCTING AN INFANT MENTAL HEALTH ASSESSMENT

By: Michael Trout

Presents a discussion of the methods used to elicit material from families regarding the nature of their relationship with their baby and the etiology of the breakdown in their bond with their baby.

Vignettes of interviews with families are used to demonstrate how information is sometimes offered by way of parent-infant interaction or by way of stories or behaviors that appear unrelated to the questions at hand. Suggestions are offered about how to organize material for a report.

This tape is intended principally for use in professional training.


DVD / 58 minutes

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THE NEWBORN, THE FAMILY AND THE DANCE

By: Trout, Michael

Describes, with tape clips from both normal and troubled families, ways in which real or imagined characteristics of the newborn affect the way in which he or she is integrated into the family.

Examines the impact of the real or imagined characteristics on the nature of the baby's relationships with primary caretakers.

Highlighted is the two-way character of infant-parent interactions and of the evolving relationship as well as problems of "fit".

Developed for childbirth preparation classes, parent and pre-parent groups, and for training infant mental-health clinicians and other health-care professionals.


DVD / 58 minutes

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PARENT-PROFESSIONAL PERSPECTIVES IN EARLY INTERVENTION

By: Deborah Chen Ph.D. & M. Diane Klein Ph.D. CCC-SLP

This engaging DVD will prepare current and future professionals to work more effectively with young children by trusting and learning from the perspectives of other experts including parents and professionals from other disciplines.

Viewers will watch footage of two young children with disabilities as parents and professionals conduct observations during typical home activities.

Segment 1: Ryan an infant with visual impairment and cerebral palsy carries out a range of developmental activities with the expert guidance of his mother and a physical therapist. Segment 2: Michael a toddler with visual impairment and hearing loss engages in play by himself and with his parents and sibling.

Through these enlightening clips viewers will get an inside look at real-life professionals in action and they'll deepen their appreciation for the expertise a child's parents can offer. They'll also discover how insights from other professionals can help them in their own work as the two segments are replayed with voiceover commentary from an occupational therapist a physical therapist a speech-language pathologist and specialists in visual impairment and deafness.

Ideal for students in a wide range of programs including early intervention early childhood special education occupational therapy physical therapy social work and psychology. This DVD will help practitioners think beyond their own disciplines and form strong mutually beneficial partnerships with parents and other professionals.


DVD / 45 minutes

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FAMILY FOCUSED INTERVIEW

The Family Focused Interview was developed at Frank Porter Graham Child Development Center to provide Early Interventionists with an ongoing process of interacting with families in a collaborative spirit to implement a truly family-focused intervention program.

This two-part program shows this interview format presented by Dr. Pamela Winton of the Frank Porter Graham Child Development Center.

In Part I the five phases of the Family Focused Interview are described, examples are given, and the Interview's interrelationship the IFSP process is explained.

Part II provides the viewer with concrete skills necessary to conduct the interview.

The workbook is used to develop skills shown in the tape. This is a self-instructional program that will develop initial skills in conducting the Family Focused Interview.


DVD / 95 minutes

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FAMILY TRANSITIONS: YOUNG CHILDREN SPEACK THEIR MINDS ABOUT DIVORCE

By: Michael Trout

When a young child experiences the divorce of his parents, the child's voice is often lost. Sometimes it is lost because the adults are temporarily unable to hear it, overwhelmed as they are at the moment with their own sorrow or rage or disorientation.

Legal disputes can further silence a child when the child is asked questions impossible to answer. This program is an effort to collect in one place the many things young children say-in their drawings, in their behavior, and sometimes even in their words-when their families are coming apart.

This title is designed for mediators, judges, support programs for divorcing couples, and for the parents themselves as they examine the feelings of young children of divorce


DVD / 16 minutes

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FIRST IEP, THE: PARENT PERSPECTIVES

By: Deborah Chen Ph.D. & Annie Cox M.A.

A must for early childhood programs and for practitioners in training this encouraging informative DVD answers common questions about individualized education programs (IEPs) and helps parents and new professionals come together to ensure children's smooth transition from early intervention to preschool.

Viewers will learn from parent's who've been there as they discuss their child's special needs their IEP preparation and how they got the results they wanted. Watch parent-professional collaboration at work as a mother meets with an early interventionist. See a simulation of an IEP meeting for a boy with disabilities and follow-up clips of th echild in his new school.

Perfect for guiding parents and training new and future practitioners this encouraging unintimidating resource answers common questions and concerns about IEPs gives viewers an accurate picture of the process and promotes dialogue between families and professionals.


DVD / 30 minutes

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INVOLVING PARENTS IN INFANT ASSESSMENT

This program is based on the experiences of parents and professionals who participated in First Years Together, an early-intervention program for high-risk infants and their families.

The staff of First Years Together have developed a model assessment process which recognizes the concerns parents bring to an evaluation of their infant--the infant's worrisome start as well as their own questions and concerns about their ability to parent.

The program demonstrates the significance of involving parents in infant assessment as an opportunity for intervention, support and education. In both formal and informal assessment situations the needs of parents and infants alike can be addressed.

Designed for professionals in mental health and health-related fields and for families whose infants were born prematurely or with conditions requiring follow-up.


DVD / 19 minutes

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GROWING THROUGH PLAY: COGNITIVE AND SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT

Filmed in a year-round, all-day child-care center, children from infancy through five years of age are seen in a variety of play situations as they demonstrate various stages of play and their mastery of skills through play.

In this program emphasis is placed on the thoughtful arrangement of classrooms and pre-school yards that create opportunities for age-appropriate play and open-ended learning experiences. In these environments children are able to choose their own activities.

Using exploration, experimentation, purposeful play, and categorical learning, the children gain proficiency in eye-hand coordination, problem solving, vocabulary, attentiveness, pre-literacy, sociability, and in other areas.

The program focuses on the whole learning experience that takes place in the course of play. It is designed to increase understanding of how teachers can organize and direct children's play without interfering with the children's natural interests, growth, and development


DVD (With Study Guide) / 25 minutes

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IDENTIFYING DEVELOPMENTAL DELAYS

This program was developed for early childhood educators, caregivers, students, parents, and others who serve young children, infants through preschool.

The series presents real-life demonstrations of a wide range of developmental delays in young children. The series features pediatricians specializing in developmental delays and early intervention educators.

The goals of the programs are to
1) support caregivers and teachers in recognizing possible delays in children birth to five,

2) offer instruction on how to discuss observations and concerns with parents so that they will have their child fully evaluated by a qualified professional.

A World of Hope: Identifying Developmental Delays Ages 0 to 3.
21 min. Illustrates developmental milestones for children ages birth to three.

Next Steps: Identifying Developmental Delays Ages 3 to 5.
30 min. Illustrates developmental milestones for children ages three to five.

Talking to Parents.
29 min. This program helps teachers learn to share their findings with parents by explaining the many emotional reactions parents may experience when they hear that their child needs to be further evaluated by their pediatrician.


3 DVDs / 80 minutes

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INTERDISCIPLINARY TEAMWORK

This two-part program emphasizes the effects of team process on the recipients of team service, young children with disabilities, and their families.

Both segments provide the opportunity to see a team in action, first not functioning effectively and then learning to do things right.

In Part I, A Team In Name Only, members of the team express their personal perspectives regarding the team's problems and what is needed.

In Part II, Becoming an Effective Team, the team members describe changes in team functioning and how the changes were achieved.

The program and training guide were designed to facilitate discussion and analysis of both positive and negative team processes. Developed as a training resource for professionals, parents, and students


DVD / 44 minutes

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ANDREWS FAMILY - PARENTS SET ASIDE DIFF. AND WORK TOGETHER FOR SAKE OF CHILD

By Staton, Ph.D., Jana

Mother, father, one child. The son is two-years-old and was born with multiple congenital malformations, including Dandy-Walker syndrome, cerebral palsy, and hydrocephaly.

The concentration is on the parents' determination to their child and their efforts to cooperate (although they are now separated), difficulties in getting respite care in a rural area, and the attitude of the family and its town toward a child with severe disabilities. The family is working class, European-American. Setting: family home, child with severe disabilities.


DVD (Closed Captioned) / 60 minutes

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BERNARDO FAMILY: PARENTAL INTUITION MAKES DIFF. FOR CHILD WITH AMBIGUOUS DIAGNOSIS

By Staton, Ph.D., Jana

The Bernardo family consists of the mother, father, two children: two- and four-years-old. The oldest boy has speech delays and possible diagnosis of A.D.D.

The focus is on the parents' difficulties and stress in decision making when the diagnosis is uncertain or ambiguous, the parents' sensitivity toward their child's needs, parental differences over advice not to use native language (Spanish) in the home because of speech difficulties, and financial concerns due to mother working only part-time in order to meet child's needs.

Family is middle-income, Latino. Setting: family home. Family consultant: Halcyone Bohen, Ph.D.


DVD (Closed Captioned) / 60 minutes

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BOND FAMILY - LOVE CHANGES EVERYTHING: A YOUNG COUPLE FORMS A NEW FAMILY

By Staton, Ph.D., Jana

Mother, father, and five children. Only the two-year-old son, born prematurely with hydrocephaly and developmental delays, is present.

The focus is on the development of a couple bond, family-of-origin relationships and acceptance, medical and EI services, and hopes for the future. The parents, a young working couple, are middle-income, African-American. Setting: office


DVD (Closed Captioned) / 60 minutes

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BUILDING A FAMILY PARTNERSHIP

By Staton, Ph.D., Jana

This program addresses strategies to build a family and professional partnership. The program includes unedited excerpts from conversations with 5 diverse families facilitated by experienced and well-known family consultants. Segments were selected to highlight generic communication strategies helpful in joining with a family and building a collaborative partnership.

Strategies include having a conversation rather than an interview, sharing power by letting the family do the talking, focusing on family members' strengths, asking open-ended questions, and encouraging expression of different viewpoints. Experienced family consultants meet with families from African-American, Hispanic/Latino, and European-American backgrounds from all income levels.


DVD / 50 minutes

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COLTON FAMILY - A FAMILY FIGHTING FOR ITS VISION OF CARISSA WITH COLTON FAMILY: ONE YEAR LATER

By Staton, Ph.D., Jana

The Colton family includes two parents and three children. The one-year-old daughter, Carissa, has Down Syndrome and her typically developing brothers are six and eleven years old.

The focus of both interviews (one year apart) is on the family hopes and vision for Carissa (in contrast to that of some providers), the family's decision making and interactions, the needs of the older children, the role of brothers in caring for their little sister, and strengths from religious faith and extended family.

Family is middle-income, African-American. Both interviews with family consultant Jana Staton, take place in the Colton family home.


2 DVDs (Closed Captioned) / 120 minutes

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DUTTON FAMILY - 2 WISE WOMEN DEMONSTRATE STRENGTH OF INTERGENERATIONAL PARENTING TEAM WITH DUTTON FAMILY: ONE YEAR LATER

By Staton, Ph.D., Jana

Mother and grandmother, and three children: two-, three- and four-years-old. The three-year-old boy has cerebral palsy.

The concentration of this program is on the strengths of family support, the family's combined determination for the well-being of the child, the tensions between mother and grandmother over discipline and family rules, the difficulties with getting EI services, and making the transition from early intervention to public schooling.

The family is limited-income, African-American. Setting: church parlor. Family Consultant: Insoo Kim Berg, ACSW.


2 DVDs (Closed Captioned) / 120 minutes

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ESPINOZA FAMILY - KEEPING THE DIAGNOSIS FROM TAKING OVER THE FAMILY

By Staton, Ph.D., Jana

Mother, sister, and mother's best friend, with only child, a boy, six-years-old (husband/father was working and could not be present).

The boy was diagnosed with autism at four after diagnosis of PDD in infancy. The focus is on the family value of inclusion in family life and in education, the differences in parents' roles in child-rearing, support from sister and friend in providing care, family attitudes toward diagnosis of autism and confronting attitudes within Latino culture toward children with special needs. The family is from a middle-income background and Latino.


DVD (Closed Captioned) / 60 minutes

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EXPLORING FAMILY STRENGTHS

By Staton, Ph.D., Jana

This is a highly focused presentation of the rationale, examples, and strategies for engaging families in conversations about their strengths as well as their problems.

This program explains why recognizing family strengths is essential to building a family partnership, demonstrates the essential importance of the provider's belief that all families have strengths, and illustrates how early interventionists can explore and elicit strengths with families from diverse economic and cultural backgrounds, even under difficult and stressful circumstances.

All the families and family therapists from the Listening to Families series are shown.


DVD / 30 minutes

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JOHNSON FAMILY - LOVE ACROSS GENERATIONS: GRANDMOTHERS CARING FOR GRANDCHILDREN

By Staton, Ph.D., Jana

Grandmother, great-grandmother, and three children. The children are two, three, and four, born to a drug-abusing mother who no longer lives at home. All three children have developmental delays; one had seizures.

Their EI home visitor and a family neighbor/friend also join in the conversation. The focus is on family strengths, differences in child-rearing philosophy across generations, impact of drugs on family life and continuity, importance of extended family, friends, social services, and spiritual values. The family is limited-income, African-American. Setting: family home.


DVD (Closed Captioned) / 60 minutes

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KING FAMILY - WHEN SUPPORT ISN'T ENOUGH WITH KING FAMILY: ONE YEAR LATER.

By Staton, Ph.D., Jana

Mother, father, and two children: a girl, two-and-a-half, and a boy, four. The younger child has C-H-A-R-G-E, a syndrome with multiple birth defects affecting major organ systems.

The focus is on parenting roles, stress on the parents and on their relationship from caring for a medically fragile child, the needs of the older sibling, interactions with medical and EI providers, conflicts over diagnosis and treatment, and financial and future concerns.

The family is middle-income, European-American. Setting: family home


2 DVDs (Closed Captioned) / 120 minutes

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RIVAS FAMILY - HOPES OF A STRONG IMMIGRANT FAMILY ON FRAGILE GROUND

By Staton, Ph.D., Jana

Mother, father, four children. The two boys, five and seven, have sex-linked mental retardation; the girls are 14 months and four years old. The parents are from rural El Salvador. The focus is on the family's hopes for the children, the parents' understanding of the boys' disabilities and abilities, EI services available, the parents' employment difficulties, and the support from the extended family and the church community. Family is limited-income, Latino. Setting: family home.


DVD (Spanish, Closed Captioned, With Subtitles) / 60 minutes

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THOMPSON FAMILY - HANGING IN THERE: TWO GENERATIONS WITH ALTERED PRIORITIES

By Staton, Ph.D., Jana

A single father and his parents. The child, a boy of 18 months, has serious asthma (he was ill and not able to participate). The father has returned to live with his parents, who share in care-giving for their grandson.

The focus is on the boy's medical condition, the attitudes of medical staff towards the family, financial difficulties, communication, and tensions over the shared responsibilities and altered priorities of the grandparents. The family is middle-class, European-American. Setting: church parlor


DVD (Closed Captioned) / 60 minutes

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WILLIAMS FAMILY - STRENGTH AND VULNERABILITY IN A FAMILY WITH MANY CONCERNS

By Staton, Ph.D., Jana

Young mother, her mother, two children, four and almost three, and mother's niece, seven months. The three-year-old son has been diagnosed with neurofibromatosis. The focus is on family strength and vulnerabilities, multiple caregiving demands brought on by the mother's worsening sickle cell anemia, the three-year-olds special needs and EI services, custody issues with niece, the strengths and support of the African-American family, the community and church, and the mother's hopes for the future for herself and her children. Family is limited-income, African-American. Setting: family home.


DVD (Closed Captioned) / 60 minutes

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NURTURING THE FAMILIES OF CHRONICALLY ILL OR DISABLED CHILDREN

By Trout, Michael

This tape features a lecture by Michael Trout mixed with program segments from interviews with parents and their children who have a disability. The tape focuses attention on the array of survival skills employed by families who have a sick or disabled child.

When families successfully marshal resources on their own--and their child's--behalf, their goals may or may not turn out to be the same as those of professionals. The spirit of P.L. 99-457 says something must be done about this.

At the very least professional behavior with families and program design can reflect an ability to see the work from the family's point of view.

Developed for the training and education of early-intervention/early-education professional and health-care providers


DVD / 86 minutes

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PROJECT CRAFT: CULTURALLY RESPONSIVE AND FAMILY FOCUSED TRAINING

By Chen, Brekken and Chan

This program explores the subtleties of working with culturally diverse children and families. The tape examines, in depth, stereotypes and the media, family values, relationship building, communication styles, and language acquisition.

Families from various backgrounds and the early childhood professionals who work with them share their experiences and feelings about cultural differences, living with a child with disabilities, and negotiating the special education system. Suggestions for improving service delivery and multicultural family support are included.

The accompanying booklet--with topical headers, scenarios, key points, and handouts--offers questions and activities to facilitate group discussions.


DVD / 60 minutes

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RESPECTING HOW CHILDREN LEARN THROUGH PLAY

By Basche, Karey

This program emphasizes the crucial importance of play in early childhood education. It integrates research and classroom practice by providing a body of knowledge about child development and learning and focuses on play as a solid foundation on which to build learning.

It specifically highlights sociodramatic play and presents an overview of the ways in which play contributes to children's cognitive, linguistic, emotional, social and physical development.

The program and accompanying guide outline how to set up environments that best facilitate children's learning and offer suggestions for planning learning trips into the community as well as follow-up activities.


DVD (With Guide) / 32 minutes

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SECRET WOUNDS: WORKING WITH CHILD OBSERVERS OF FAMILY VIOLENCE

Part I of this tape, A Guide for Helping Professionals, introduces issues regarding children in domestically violent families. Insights are provided into both the short- and long-range needs of these children.

The program includes a view of the problem from a family court judge, a discussion among helping professionals, and recollections from an adult who had been a child observer of violence in the home.

Part II, Working with Child Observers of Family Violence, which can be used directly with children, contains eight animated vignettes based on drawings by child observers (1-4 minutes each). The children's voices are heard discussing their experiences.

The Leader's Guide and Activity Sheets provide supportive materials to children to address the following topics: self-concept, self-esteem, labeling feelings, social isolation, safety skills, anger, not being unique, fear, problem-solving, and ownership of problem.


DVD (Closed Captioned) / 32 minutes

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SEEING IS BELIEVING

By: Martha F. Erickson, PhD with Julie Endersbe, MEd, Jill Simon, MSW

Every aspect of the lives of parents has an effect on the life of their baby. Sometimes the daily rhythm of a family becomes so chaotic that the baby seems to be on the sidelines instead of at center court.

Service providers working with these parents strive to provide the most effective support possible--support that will allow parents to see situations from their baby's perspective and to encourage responsive and secure parent-child relationships. Seeing is Believing helps parents increase their sensitivity and responsiveness to their baby's signs and cues by using a videotaping strategy.

The home visitor or facilitator is trained to videotape parent and baby in short sequences as they go about their everyday activities (e.g. feeding, bathing, playing). Together the parent and home visitor discover the unique characteristics of the child.

By joining the parent in these observations, the home visitor can enhance the parent's ability to read the baby's cues and signals and to appropriately meet the needs of the baby. At the end of the work together the family keeps the video as a documented memory of the baby's development and this magical time of their lives.


DVD (With Manual) / 50 minutes

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SHARING SENSITIVE INFORMATION WITH FAMILIES

The purpose of this program is to make professionals aware that delivering sensitive information is not just a one-time, brief encounter with parents.

Parents of children with special needs express their need for an empathetic professional who provides support, information, resources, and follow-up when sharing difficult news.

Demonstrates ways professionals can inform parents about a medical condition or a disability. Developed for health-care professionals, educators, and parents


DVD / 30 minutes

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