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Learning disabiliti...
Learning disabilities in a population-based group of children with hydrocephalus
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- Lindquist, Barbro, 1950 (författare)
- Gothenburg University,Göteborgs universitet,Institutionen för kvinnors och barns hälsa, Avdelningen för pediatrik,Institute for the Health of Women and Children, Dept of Paediatrics
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Carlsson, G. (författare)
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- Persson, Eva-Karin, 1956 (författare)
- Gothenburg University,Göteborgs universitet,Institutionen för kvinnors och barns hälsa, Avdelningen för pediatrik,Institute for the Health of Women and Children, Dept of Paediatrics
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- Uvebrant, Paul, 1951 (författare)
- Gothenburg University,Göteborgs universitet,Institutionen för kvinnors och barns hälsa, Avdelningen för pediatrik,Institute for the Health of Women and Children, Dept of Paediatrics
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- 2005
- 2005
- Engelska.
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Ingår i: Acta Paediatr. - 0803-5253. ; 94:7, s. 878-83
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Abstract
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- AIM: To assess cognitive functions in a population-based group of children with hydrocephalus and to analyse differences between children with and without myelomeningocoele (MMC); with hydrocephalus already present at birth and those who developed it later; children born at full term and those born preterm. METHODS: Of 103 children with hydrocephalus born in the western-Swedish region in 1989-1993, 73 were assessed using the Wechsler Intelligence Scales or the Griffith Developmental Scales. RESULTS: One-third of the children were normally gifted (IQ >85), another 30% had a low average IQ of 70-84 and 37% had learning disabilities with an IQ of <70. The median IQ was 75, verbal IQ 90 and performance IQ 76 (p<0.001). An IQ of <70 was found in 19 of 45 (42%) children without MMC and in 8 of 28 (29%) of those with MMC. Children born preterm had a lower IQ of 68 than those born at full term with an IQ of 76, while children with hydrocephalus present at birth but without MMC had a lower IQ of 60 than the others with an IQ of 77. Children with cerebral palsy and/or epilepsy (n=22) had a lower IQ of 66 than the IQ of 78 in those without these impairments (p<0.01). CONCLUSION: Cognitive functions in children with hydrocephalus need to be carefully assessed before school age to ensure adequate support and education. Even the one-third near normally gifted children with an IQ of 70-85 require special attention, due to the profile of relatively well-preserved verbal functions but greatly impaired perceptual and non-verbal abilities.
Nyckelord
- Child
- Child
- Preschool
- Cognition
- Female
- Humans
- Hydrocephalus/*complications
- Infant
- Newborn
- Infant
- Premature
- Infant
- Premature
- Diseases
- Intelligence
- Learning Disorders/epidemiology/*etiology
- Male
- Meningomyelocele/complications
- Mental Retardation/epidemiology/etiology
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- art (ämneskategori)
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