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INTELLECTUAL PERFORMANCE AND READING SKILLS AFTER LOCALIZED HEAD INJURY IN CHILDHOOD
Author(s) -
Chadwick Oliver,
Rutter Michael,
Thompson James,
Shaffer David
Publication year - 1981
Publication title -
journal of child psychology and psychiatry
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 3.652
H-Index - 211
eISSN - 1469-7610
pISSN - 0021-9630
DOI - 10.1111/j.1469-7610.1981.tb00538.x
Subject(s) - unconsciousness , psychology , audiology , cognition , amnesia , brain damage , head injury , borderline intellectual functioning , developmental psychology , poison control , anesthesia , psychiatry , medicine , medical emergency
SUMMARY Ninety ‐seven school‐age children who had previously sustained B unilateral compound depressed fracture of the skull, involving a tear in the dura and observed damage to the underlying brain, were studied using tests of intelligence and reading attainment together with more specialized tests of specific cognitive Functions Intellectual impairment was significantly associated with the overall severity of brain trauma, as reflected in the duration of unconsciousness and treatment for cerebral oedema It was also probably associated with the severity of local trauma, as reflected in late post‐traumatic epilepsy or motor abnormalities contralateral to the side of the injury. Neither die child's age at injury nor the hemisphere damaged had much effect on the pattern of cognitive deficit.