[Early psychological diagnosis in children with brain damage]

Considerations of the essential aspects of establishing diagnosis are explained fro a psychologist's point of view who has the possibility of observing the course of all children with cerebral injury registered early in the district polyclinic. Their qualitative performance parameters are evaluated, especially attention and the mother-child relation. Subsequently, we discuss the courses of development for 130 children who attended a rehabilitation nursery, and refer to constellations of symptoms which rendered it more difficult to establish early diagnoses.