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Neurodevelopmental Children

Neurodevelopmental Children

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Edited by: TOP DOCTORS® at 18/03/2019

Child neurological development is important because it defines the physical and social characteristics of the child. There must be a constant evaluation in the first months of baby's life, and if you notice abnormalities, go to pediatric neurologist to make an accurate diagnosis and concise

Dr. Rizzoli Córdoba

growth and development Child development is a process of change in which children's brain develops and acquires skills and increasingly complex processes of feelings, emotions, thoughts and relationships with others; ranging from pregnancy and up to the first 6 years of life, is a very important period because it is where develops about 95% of the brain and how and circuits that develop at this stage is how a person will behave the rest of life.

As an example: A person who at 4 years shoelaces tied him and never learned to do as an adult will cost you tie them work; a person who as a child did not speak to him or not clearly told him by name as such in adult stages, when spoken to by his first name, you can feel attacked or assaulted or not recognize it; Another example is a person who in adulthood always late and has trouble making commitments, may be the cause originates in the first 5 years of life and how to behave, so child development is very important to help each child to reach their full potential.

Areas of child development

The areas of child development are 5:

The first part is the driving. It has to do with the movement of the body and allowing the children to get to play, run, climb stairs, go down; but also drawing and writing and art to make things well in hand-eye coordination. The most common problems at this stage may be that the child does not read because it may not look good, so it is important specialized medical evaluation to rule out vision problems; You might also have movement problems, and that a neurological evaluation is required to rule that there is any part of the body has a limited movement.

Another area of ​​development is part of the communication, this involves both hearing and hear how to get to speak, the most common is to see that children are aware and are not speaking clearly, or they guess thought and it is not possible to express their ideas, but it is also important to rule out having any problems hearing or in the brain that makes children can not attend and understand the instructions they are given. Another important point to rule in this area is that there are problems in the oral cavity or muscles, both the tongue and the throat, which cause no good pronunciation, in this case there are three areas that are related to how parents or significant adults to children, who are personal social part, which has to do with the interaction with adults, children and social role they occupy behave.

It is also part of self-care and personal responsibility, which is what will allow children to adulthood can fend for themselves and do their thing, and also the cognitive part, this requires making a diagnostic evaluation for see what level of skills that have each of these areas so we can make a plan for each child to reach their full potential.

Evaluation

All children must have a developmental assessment as part of the activities performed by physicians who care for them and give them follow-up, the importance of this is because that can be detected in a timely manner any problems and go to an additional valuation. As part of these tools is the test "assessment of child development," among others.

When to go to the pediatric neurologist because of problems in development?

When the doctor or pediatrician identifies that the child is not doing what touches you nor your previous age group through a screening test. The consultation by pediatric neurology is going diagnose whether it actually exists or not and whether additional studies are required, in general, the study used to corroborate developmental problems is a diagnostic evaluation that can be performed by personnel psychology. From the medical point of view the studies required depend on the type of case, there is no laboratory test or cabinet to make the diagnosis of developmental problems. The problem is detected through consultation, imaging studies such as CT and resonance, which can be very important to help the doctor know what the structure of the brain and if there is something wrong there.

Warning signs to go with the pediatric neurologist

Children need to start talking and articulate words from the year if a child speaks very consensual, it seems to understand everything, but does not have a vocabulary of over 100 words at 2 years, or does not say phrases like "Mom I want milk "or make isolated sounds, it may be an indication that you have problems in communication and consultation is required for it. Also if children make excessive tantrums and outbursts in malls, they can not wait their turn and very difficult to handle, it may be another indication to go to consultation. Another thing to watch out and take into account is that children under 1 year have no contact with the eyes and the eyes of the parents, who are isolated, they do not make much noise and it appears that there were no child at home.

Additionally, if children are having trouble moving any body part or your eyes are not moving properly can be indicative of some type of problem. Finally, if upon entering the school has trouble sustaining attention and hyperactive, it may be another indication of a problem that requires an appraisal.

Most of these cases can be handled providing counseling and discarding a disease, but the assessment by pediatric neurology is very important to see what the accurate diagnosis and, from there, to structure a treatment plan and management for each child reach their full potential.

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