Description
Book SynopsisDevelopmental and behavioural paediatrics is the assessment of children to ascertain their developmental status. This includes speech and language delay, learning difficulties, Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD), and social communication disorders, including Asperger’s Syndrome and Autism. Accurate diagnosis means that children, and their parents, can be given the appropriate support and advice required to ensure the best possible therapy and support (BMI Healthcare).
This book is a comprehensive guide to the diagnosis and management of developmental and behavioural disorders in children.
Beginning with an introduction to normal development and behaviour, the text then discusses surveillance and screening processes.
Each of the following chapters covers a different disorder or syndrome, from Down’s syndrome, neuroregressive disorders and ADHD, to cerebral palsy, selective mutism, visual and hearing impairments, and many more.
The final sections discuss therapeutic techniques including pharmacotherapy, counselling, and complementary and alternative medicine.
Key points
- Comprehensive guide to diagnosis and management of developmental and behavioural disorders in children
- Covers many different disorders and syndromes
- Includes discussion on medicolegal aspects
- Features illustrations and figures to enhance learning
Table of Contents
- History of developmental pediatrics
- Normal development and behaviour
- Theories of normal development and behaviour
- Developmental concerns in pediatrics practice
- Developmental surveillance and screening
- Approach to a child with developmental delay
- Developmental supportive care in the NICU
- Follow up of high risk newborns
- Genetics of developmental disorders
- Intellectual disability
- Multiple disabilities
- Down’s syndrome
- Turner syndrome
- Noonan syndrome
- Fragile X syndrome
- Klinefelter syndrome
- Prader Willi syndrome
- Angelman syndrome
- Williams syndrome
- Neurofibraomatosis
- Tuberous sclerosis
- Mucopolysaccharidosis
- Rett syndrome
- Sleep disorders
- Feeding disorders
- Elimination disorders
- Seizure disorders
- Cerebral palsy
- Motor disorders
- Neuroregressive disorders
- Inborn errors of metabolism
- Traumatic brain injury and stroke
- Neuromalignancy
- ADHD
- Disruptive behavioural disorders
- Anxiety
- Depression
- Tic disorders
- Hearing impairment
- Visual impairment
- Balance disorders and dizziness
- Development coordination disorder
- Sensory processing disorders
- Language and speech disorders
- Selective mutism
- Autism spectrum disorder
- Medical disorders in Autism
- Scholastic backwardness
- Specific learning disability
- Development and behavioural disorders in adolescence
- Child abuse
- Role of evaluations in management
- Therapies and interventions
- Early intervention
- Pharmacotherapy
- Counseling
- Electronic gadgets and media
- Use of technology in practice
- Role of complementary and alternative medicine
- Medicolegal aspects
