AUTISM - DISORDER OF EARLY BRAIN DEVELOPMENT, EARLY DIAGNOSTICS OF AUTISM - THE COMMON MULTIDISCIPLINARY GOAL
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| Year of publication | 2010 |
| Type | Article in Proceedings |
| Conference | Řehulka, E. (ed.). SCHOOL AND HEALTH 21 Health Education: Contexts and Inspiration |
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| Keywords | autism, pervasive developmental disorders, neurodevelopmental disorders, pediatric neurologist, early diagnostics, epilepsy |
| Description | Due to its high prevalence (60-70 in 10 000 born children) autism (also known as pervasive development disorders) belongs to the most frequently occurring neurodevelopmental disorders. The group includes disorders with extremely heterogenous clinical phenotypes of multiple complex cognitive-behavioral deficits with developmental specificities that are manifested during childhood by the age of 6 at the latest. The diagnostic process as well as subsequent care of the child and its family members are conducted by a multidisciplinary team of specialists, embracing physicians, university graduates with non-medical education as well as parents, relatives and the lay public in general. With regard to physicians, the pediatrist, pediatric neurologist, pediatric psychiatrist, ophthalmologist and otorhinolaryngologist are involved. The role of the pediatric neurologist is to participate in early diagnosing of a disorder, make the differential diagnostics and conduct therapy of the related neurological co-morbidities, mainly represented by epilepsy. |