Special Needs Children •
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We provide therapies for special needs children of age group two to seventeen years old. When a brain injury is moderate, the symptoms would be a child who can not use both eyes together properly, lacks the fine tuning to handle the common sounds in the environment. The child will be either very sensitive to touch or not sensitive enough to touch and a child may not yet be able to work at age level in regards to moving or talking or use his hands. When traumatic brain injury(TBI) is mild, the child would not be able to read, write or do math at age level and who may lack the balance, coordination, language and manual competence of his peers.
Brain Injury Symptoms •
A brain injury could have many symptoms. This is quite obvious as the brain runs everything. When the brain becomes disorganized, the symptoms could range from daunting (seizures, rigidity, severe ill health, failure to thrive) to unusual (screaming, repetitive actions, biting, smelling, and tasting inadequate) to a hundred other symptoms that may seem odd, funny or simply mysterious.
The Causes Of Brain Injury •
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Unfortunately, a good brain can get hurt in many ways. We have seen the children who get hurt in utero because of some injury or illness that mother experienced as the baby was developing (trauma, Rh incompatibility, German measles, hydrocephaly, drugs, alcohol). Often problems may occur in the first nine months that are not obvious to mother or her physician (hydrocephaly, oxygen deprivation). Sometimes an injury may occur during the delivery (compression of the umbilical cord, placenta abruption, C-section, prolonged, placenta previa, precipitous, or delayed) or before the delivery (premature, postmature), or immediately after the delivery (seizures, cardiac arrest, respiratory distress, jaundice, stroke) of the baby.
Misconceptions About The Brain • We speed up Brain growth and development by increasing the frequency, intensity, and duration of visual, auditory and tactile stimulation in accordance with the orderly way in which the special child brain develops. We then provide maximum opportunity for the child in an ideal environment to use and develop the motor pathways. • Our interventions are based upon the fact that the brain grows by use. Scientists now believe in the plasticity of the human brain and confirm that the brain is very much capable of recovery and rehabilitation. This is called neuroplasticity. An injured brain can recover and become well.
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