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This article is a summary of significant advances in evidence-based practices related to ASD diagnosis, characterization, and treatment. It includes a discussion on the scientific, ethical, policy, and communication aspects of translating new discoveries into clinical and diagnostic tools.
Early interventions that address sensory and motor development may facilitate a child’s integration into daycare programs and schools and ease the burden of care for parents.
NeuroDevNet hopes that the ASD Demonstration Project will improve clinical care and the daily lives of individuals with ASD and their families by promoting earlier diagnoses, concrete prognoses, and individually targeted treatments.
This study adds 6 potential target loci to the list of genetic mutations that are associated with ASD. Continuing study of important genetic markers will help scientists develop earlier outcome prediction and therapeutic intervention in children with ASDs.
The FOXP1 and FOXP2 genes provide interesting genetic targets for further investigation into the molecular mechanisms underlying neurodevelopmental disorders like intellectual disability, ASD, and language impairment.
Combining patient information into a physician billing claim data-base (the ramq database), which is readily available, may be a valid method of estimating injury occurrence among children.
Some children, after a mild traumatic brain injury, appear to lack confidence in their ability to perform well during physical activities as compared to before their injury. This occurs even though the children are still participating in physical activities at comparable levels to before injury.
This article shows us that children with mild traumatic brain injury do a good job of complying with the activity restrictions given to them by health care professionals. This finding is a stepping stone for further studies looking at the effectiveness of restricting activity for better recovery from MTBI.
A gradual, closely-supervised active rehabilitation program provides not only means to a faster recovery, but also, qualitatively speaking, increases the self-efficacy and confidence of the child, as well as the empowerment of the parents.
Young children with global developmental delay are a group at high- risk for later developmental and functional impairments.
Children with global developmental delay are likely to exhibit ongoing delays across domains at school age.
Your child’s primary care physician needs to be mindful of limitations of developmental screening tools.