Sentences with phrase «developing cognitive delays»

«Low - income children are at increased risk for developing cognitive delays, but the specific environmental and biological factors that influence these outcomes are less understood,» explains Melissa L. Sturge - Apple, assistant professor of psychology at the University of Rochester, who was part of the research team.

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There's a wide range in the age at which babies develop language skills, so communication and other cognitive delays in babies can be difficult to diagnose, even for experts.

Children with intellectual disabilities (which may include Down syndrome, Fragile X syndrome, and other cognitive delays or disabilities) need physical activity just as their typically developing peers do.

Dr. Greenspan also developed Floortime therapy, a treatment approach for children with autism and developmental disabilities that addresses the speech, motor and cognitive skill delays of affected children holistically, via emotional development and interpersonal communication, through the parent - child attachment relationship.

Dravet patients usually develop moderate to severe cognitive delays and some features of autism, and are at increased risk of SUDEP (sudden unexplained death in epilepsy).

In addition to her expert skill as a clinician, Dr. Frontera also has many research interests including identifying biomarkers and predictors of early brain injury and vasospasm / delayed cerebral ischemia after subarachnoid hemorrhage and their impact on outcome; determining the efficacy of therapeutic strategies and developing guidelines for the management of patients with intracranial hemorrhage; evaluating the cost, length of stay, quality of life, functional and cognitive outcomes in a broader population of intracranial hemorrhage patients; developing guidelines for the integration of palliative care into the intensive care unit setting; and evaluating the relationship of Zika virus infection, Guillain - Barre, and other neurologic disorders.

Concussion affects the developing adolescent brain and may delay key cognitive processes, hampering the brain's ability to change focus and pay attention.

[8] Exercise can also delay any further deterioration in individuals who have already begun to develop cognitive problems like Alzheimer's.

«There is a lot of evidence that [people] with cognitive decline are at highest risk of later developing dementia, so it is likely that preventing or delaying cognitive decline today will help reduce risk of dementia tomorrow,» says Grodstein, who was not involved in the research but wrote an editorial accompanying the study.

«Redshirting,» or the act of delaying a student's kindergarten entrance by one year, many parents believe, will give their child time to develop cognitive and social skills that will make him more successful in school.

Because studies have shown that children with cognitive developmental delays exhibit poorer social skills and problem solving abilities than typically developing children (Fenning et al., 2011; Wieland et al., 2014), only children with a full - scale IQ of 85 — 115 were examined in the current study (mean IQ for the sample was 105.13; SD = 8.29).