SELECTED ELEMENTS OF THE PSYCHOSOCIAL FUNCTIONING OF A GIRL WITH HOLOPROSENCEPHALY
Journal Title: Acta Neuropsychologica - Year 2014, Vol 12, Issue 1
Abstract
The medial structures of the brain play a key role in the integration of all environmental stimuli that become the object of conscious awareness. Their integrational functioning is a factor not only of the position of these structures, but also their anatomical structure. They provide communication and integration between the lower and higher functional levels of the central nervous system. Persons suffering from holoprosencephaly (HPE), then, can have difficulties with perception, operationalization, and organization in general. As a result, the dynamics of their psychosocial development can take a very specific form. We present excerpts from nine years of observation over the course of rehabilitation of a girl with the middle interhemispheric variant (MIHV) of HPE. This was a specific, exceptional, and unique course of development, and our encounter with this child in the course of rehabilitation allowed us to observe some very particular phenomena regarding her individual development in the domains of motor and sensory functions, communication and language, emotional development, and contact with people.Compensation of developmental deficits is possible and complete, if early support for the child can be commenced, as early as possible, virtually from the first moments of life, and certainly after an accurate diagnosis has been reached. This is how the proper course of rehabilitation should run.
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Aleksandra Szulman-Wardal, Arkadiusz Mański
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