Non-verbal communication skills of surgically treated children with infantile spasms.
The authors present preliminary findings on the effects of surgery on the development of early non-verbal social communication skills in eight children with intractable infantile spasms. After a mean follow-up of 15.2 months, there was no statistically significant change in the post-surgical non-verbal communication behavior of these children beyond the expected developmental change. Implications of these findings for the developmental impairment associated with infantile spasms are discussed.
Caplan
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Division of Child Psychiatry, University of California, Los Angeles 90024.
Guthrie
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D
Mundy
P
P
Sigman
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M
Shields
D
D
Sherman
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T
Peacock
W J
WJ
D002540:Cerebral Cortex / Q000601:surgery; D002675:Child, Preschool; D002658:Developmental Disabilities / Q000175:diagnosis*; D005260:Female; D005500:Follow-Up Studies; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D007804:Language Development; D008297:Male; D009633:Nonverbal Communication; D011183:Postoperative Complications / Q000175:diagnosis*; D011446:Prospective Studies; D012640:Seizures / Q000517:prevention & control; D013036:Spasms, Infantile / Q000150:complications / Q000601:surgery*