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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.
The cause of developmental delay or intellectual disability is still unknown in many children with these disabilities. More specialized genetic testing is likely to play a role in the future in determining causes.
A careful search by a specialty physician for a cause in children with global developmental delay is indeed worthwhile as the search is quite often successful.
Parent report questionnaires can, in general, be used in the setting of a pediatric clinic to screen for development.
Children with macrocephaly and global developmental delay should have a bone age measured in order to determine if the child has Sotos syndrome.
Health providers should not immediately equate global developmental delay with cognitive impairment.
A single strategy cannot be applied worldwide to diagnose, prevent, and treat intellectual disability and global developmental delay.