Not exact matches
Work done by German has provided significant improvements in our
understanding of how infants coordinate sucking, breathing and swallowing and what happens during some
of the most common neurological
traumas of the
head and neck in infants.
The full impact
of repetitive
head trauma from sports injuries is not fully
understood.
«This research increases our basic
understanding of the effects
of head trauma, particularly for those severe single injuries that can and do happen in military service and contact sports,» said Naomi Rosenberg, Ph.D., dean
of the Sacker School and vice dean for research at Tufts University School
of Medicine.
We can have
understanding for a war veteran who is terrorized at night, or avoidant
of loud noises and other things that resemble their traumatic experiences; yet we somehow expect children, babies at heart, to connect, relate, trust, love, reciprocate relationship when their early life experience was marinated in
trauma; being beaten for crying, left with tiny broken bones and
head injuries, being used for adult sexual gratification, born drug addicted because
of a mother drug use, having rarely been held in safe arms, having felt the pain
of hunger over days, being left to cry until there are no more tears and no one to soothe.
Purpose and Overall Goal The purpose and overall goal
of this tutorial is to help early childhood mental health consultants as well as Early
Head Start and
Head Start staff
understand what is meant by
trauma, recognize the developmental context
of trauma in early childhood, and extend their own knowledge for intervention through consultation.