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Non-verbal communication skills of surgically treated children with infantile spasms
1Division of Child Psychiatry, University of California, Los Angeles 90024.
Abstract:
The authors present preliminary findings on the effects of surgery on the development of early non-verbal social communication skills in eight children with intractable infantile spasms. After a mean follow-up of 15.2 months, there was no statistically significant change in the post-surgical non-verbal communication behavior of these children beyond the expected developmental change. Implications of these findings for the developmental impairment associated with infantile spasms are discussed.
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