Acta Medica Medianae
Vol. 40
No 3, 2001
UDK 61
YU ISSN 0365-4478
Contact:
Jordan
TROKANOVIĆ
Service for
Children and Youth Protection of the Medical Center, Negotin
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PSYCHOMOTORIC DEVELOPMENT OF PRESCHOOL CHILDREN; ESPECIALLY THOSE WITH
DAMAGED HEARING AND THEIR TREATMENT AND REHABILITATION IN THE
MUNICIPALITY
OF NEGOTIN
Jordan TROKANOVIĆ
and Nensi MITROVIĆ
Service for
Children and Youth Protection of the Medical Center, Negotin
An analysis of case
histories of newly-bom children, records from the Counseling Department
and reports done by the Commission for Classifying Children Disturbed in
Growth within a six-years period in the Municipality of Negotin has been
done just as a classification has been made with respect to gender, age,
diagnosis, degree of damage and some other parameters. Out of 2.736
newly-born children, 509 or 20,9% have been with some risk factor. The
etymological factors are numerous, but, among them, the most prominent
are CNS infections, genetic factors, perinatal injuries, prematurity,
etc. The children with risk whose mothers are workers or farmers are
more numerous; likewise, the child delivery has an important influence
upon injuries during the delivery itself as well as upon later
disturbances in growth.
Regarding the risk children, 196 of them are mentally retarded; they are
classified in the following way: 135 are considered as suffering from
slight mental damage, 25 from moderate, 10 from more serious and 17 from
serious mental damages; that is, 104 of male and 92 of female children.
About 70% of the registered children are slightly mentally disturbed;
more of them are male, beside mental retardation, a considerable number
of children have speech disturbances, hearing damage or combined
problems.
In a group of children with damaged hearing that have been tested and
examined concerning the sound location in space, of 4 to 8 years of age,
boys have given better results; a degree of hearing damage and the
rehabilitation period duration are in a positive correlation with the
sound localization in space. The nature of the sound source also
positively affects the sound localization in space since deeper sounds
are more perceptible than high ones. The sound spreading gives the best
results if the sound comes from the "backward' direction.
A timely prevention, diagnostics, treatment and rehabilitation of the
children with disturbed growth, disturbed speech and hearing damage are
considerably favorable for the development of cognitive behavior
functions, socialization and enabling the children for becoming
independent personalities and useful members of the social community.
Key words:
psychomotors development, speech disturbances, children with damaged
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