March 2009
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Understanding AUTISM
Autism is a developmental disability that affects how the brain functions, specifically those areas of the brain that control social ability and communication skills and likely to have restricted interests and repetitive behavior. Boys are more likely to develop Autism, and most children are diagnosed before the age of 3.
Children and adults with autism typically have difficulty in both verbal and nonverbal communication. People with autism may have a difficult time relating to the outside world and may have unusual reactions to the people around them. People with autism may demonstrate aggressive behavior that may cause injury to themselves or others. The disorder also may cause sensitivity to the senses of sight, hearing, touch, smell, and taste.
Written by Dr.hala on March 20th, 2009 with no comments.
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Written by Dr.alex on March 12th, 2009 with no comments.
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Lots of people find difficulty to discriminate between Autism and Sensory integration Dysfunction (Sensory Processing Disorder)
I would like here to talk shortly about Sensory Integration Dysfunction, its classification and about some treatment methods by Occupational Therapists. And later on I’ll be talking about Autism in another article.
Sensory Integration Dysfunction (SID, also called sensory processing disorder (SPD) is a neurological disorder causing difficulties with processing information from the five classic senses (vision, auditory, touch, olfaction, and taste), the sense of movement (vestibular system), and/or the positional sense (proprioception). For those with SID, sensory information is sensed normally, but perceived abnormally. Unlike blindness or deafness, sensory information is received by people with SID; the difference is that information is processed by the brain in an unusual way that may cause distress or confusion.
Written by Dr.hala on March 9th, 2009 with no comments.
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Are you wondering if your child is up to his/her age? Do u want to test your child skills and judge? I’ll supply you with the way to do it. All the numbers and values are from medical books and accurate.
First I’ll talk about the Motor system and I’ll divide it into two parts the first as the gross motor which will be about the general motor activities and the other part is about the fine motor which talks about the special motor activities of the baby.
First Gross Motor:
Written by Dr.alex on March 7th, 2009 with no comments.
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