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Acta Medica Medianae
Vol. 40
No 3, 2001
UDK 61
YU ISSN 0365-4478

 




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Jordan TROKANOVIĆ
Service for Children and Youth Protection of the Medical Center, Negotin

 

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 hearing