According to a survey, it has been found that it is difficult to get their 1 year old baby to sleep through the night. If your 1 year old baby is waking up at night, then it is high time you established a sleeping routine for your baby. According to sleep experts most parents have already established [...]
Continue reading …Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) is a common psychiatric disorder in children, characterized by three core-groups of age-inappropriate symptoms — a) hyperactivity, b) impulsivity and c) inattentiveness; leading to secondary problems like poor scholastic performance, conduct disorders, emotional and social maladjustment etc. While some children have all three components of Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, others [...]
Continue reading …Autistic spectrum disorder – The term autistic or pervasive development disorders denotes a spectrum of clinically similar disorders with variable severity, all characterized by a triad of — a) impaired social interaction, b) impaired verbal & nonverbal communication, and c) rigid, repetitive or obsessive behavior. While childhood Autistic spectrum disorder (Infantile autism) is the prototype [...]
Continue reading …Psychosomatic Disorders – Although emotional stress is a known precipitating/ exacerbating event for many medical illnesses e.g. asthma, diarrhea or epilepsy; two specific and important psychosomatic illnesses are conversion disorder and Munchausen syndrome by proxy, discussed here. Conversion disorder denotes loss or alteration of physical functioning without a demonstrable illness. This disorder is usually seen [...]
Continue reading …Anxiety Disorders – Anxiety/fear is a normal part of development, beginning with stranger’s fear by 6-8 months of age. The term anxiety disorders or neurosis denotes ‘disproportionately excessive anxiety to a real event or undue anxiety to an imaginary cause’. Common anxiety disorders include — a) Phobia e.g. school phobia or social phobia, b) Obsessive-compulsive [...]
Continue reading …
Behavioral disorders – Development of behavior in children is a complex process, influenced by inherent temperament as well as exogenous influences like family and social environment. Consequently, all children, like all adults, have unique behavioral traits, usually within the acceptable limits of deviance. It is important to differentiate these benign behavioral disorders from organic brain [...]
Continue reading …Learning disorders or disabilities (Minimum brain dysfunction syndrome) include a large group of low severity-high incidence disorders, all characterized by ‘difficulties in coping with academic skills (learning) due to problems related to attention span, speech, language or motor co-ordination, which can not be explained by intelligence quotient, visual and hearing handicaps or extraneous factors like [...]
Continue reading …It is important to know, that children vary in the rate at which they develop language skills. There are many cases where 22 month old not talking, but this does not indicate that he has a developmental disorder. There are many parents who are worried that their 22 month old not talking, as commonly children [...]
Continue reading …If your 29 month old not talking, then it would be advisable to get the child examined by a specialist. In case the child appears to be normal, then it is assumed that he is a late talker. According to the growth and developmental milestones for a 29 month old child, state that the child [...]
Continue reading …There are many parents who state that their 28 month old not talking, and the only few words that he utters are –mama, dada, bowl or doggy. According to the experts, this is common issue, but as long as the child appears to be growing and developing normally, it is not a matter of concern. [...]
Continue reading …