CHILD HEALTH AND CHILD NEUROLOGY

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Learning Outcomes

Learns embryonic and normal brain development including speech and language disorders in children and comprehends the nature of communicative disorders according to the developmental milestones.
Learns the development of neuromotor skills throughout childhood as well as gross motor-fine motor, language, cognitive and social developing skills of central nervous system. Discusses the developmental milestones which are age-specific skills that most children can do at a certain age range.
Discusses the risk factors which are supposed to be involved in disability and follow up examination of high risky infants.
Discusses the clinical manifestations and neurological complications of central nervous system infections like meningitis and encephalitis that are seen in childhood a lot.
Learns the manifestations and causes of hearing loss as well as its effects on speech and language development in children. Discusses the introduction of nature of communicative disorders including hearing disorders in children.
Learns the manifestations and causes of hearing loss as well as its effects on speech and language development in children. Discusses the introduction of nature of communicative disorders including hearing disorders in children.
Discusses the definition and clinical manifestations of cerebral palsy which is a nonprogressive motor disorder and the most frequent cause of lifelong childhood disability. Learns rehabilitation alternatives and multidiciplinary approach of this disorder.
Discusses structures of childhood epilepsies and learns how to give first aid to a child having seizures.
Learns speech and language development in children, causes of delayed speech and its effects on communicative disorders.
Discusses the effects of neurological diseases found with autistic findings in childhood on speech and language development.
Draws attention to interdisciplinary team work in chronic neurologic diseases.
Learns how to diagnose physical child abuse as well as its neurologic and psychological affects. Discusses how to provide an awareness of physical child abuse in general population and its solutions.