Schizencephaly is a developmental disorder of the human brain caused by a defect of neuronal migration. We observed a 7 month old african boy suffering from nystagmus and hemiparesis. The neuroimaging reveals a large cleft in cortical and subcortical structures and typical changes of polymicrogyria....
Among the lost features, differences (Additional file 1) were noted in gross motor skills (come to sit and walking with support), fine motor skills (hold bottle, transfer, pincer grasp, and finger feeding, receptive language (fix and follow), and expressive language (babble, single words, ...
Intellectual Disability is under-ascertained worldwide and is associated with greater physical and mental health difficulties. This research aimed to identify clinical features and characteristics of children with Intellectual Disability in a population of 126 6–18 year olds in mainstream school, attending...
Hello, my name is Julia and I’m an adult living with a diagnosis of Pathological Demand Avoidance (PDA). I also have a diagnosis of ADHD and Psychotic Episodes. PDA is a lifelong Pervasive Developmental Disorder and was first described by the late Prof. Elizabeth Newson in 1980. PDA is ...
Research in the field of child spiritual health is challenged by the multidisciplinary nature of the concept and the fact that there are subtle differences in language and definitions applied across disciplines, and approaches to presentation of findings. Child spirituality has been referred to as a ...
While parental aloofness and psychological distress were found to have mediated relations to child autistic behaviour, another parent characteristic was related to child behaviour without there being evidence of mediation through parent-child interaction variables. Greater maternal pragmatic language difficulties...
(Humphrey & Lewis,2008b). Learning difficulties, such as dyslexia, dyspraxia and attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, are different from intellectual disabilities as they are specific problems with processing certain forms of information that do not affect general intellect (Foundation for People ...
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Research on sex-related differences in Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) has been impeded by small samples. We pooled 28 datasets from 18 sites across nine Eu
The Spence Children’s Anxiety Scale—Parent version (SCAS-P) is often used to assess anxiety in children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD), however, little is known about the validity of the tool in this population. The aim of this study was to determine whether the SCAS-P has the sam...