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01-12-2014 | Meeting abstract
Language and movement disorders: early risk identification
Authors:
Francesca Pardo, Elena Vanadia
Published in:
Italian Journal of Pediatrics
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Special Issue 1/2014
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Excerpt
Psychomotor development is a maturational process that in the early years of life enables the child to acquire postural, motor, cognitive, communicative and relational skills and abilities. It is a continuous progress, essentially dependent on the maturation of the central nervous system (CNS), with variable timing and conditions for each child, but where is possible to identify the "stages" that are achieved in a similar sequence [
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6]. Knowledge of this "normal" development is needed to identify the early indicators of risk and to enable a project of "Care" which has as its objective the support of the child and its potential. …