METHOD FOR EVALUATING THE DEVELOPMENT OF COMMUNICATIVE ABILITIES IN 1-YR-AGED CHILDREN Russian patent published in 2006 - IPC A61M21/00 

FIELD: medicine, diagnostics.

SUBSTANCE: the present innovation deals with evaluating communicative abilities (CA) in 1-yr-aged children at inborn maxillary pathology (IMP). The method deals with evaluating the reaction to external stimulants: visual, auditory, tactile-motor, tactile-oral perception and child's free activity as series of the main and corresponding specified diagnostic tasks (MDT and SDT) according to the age. Moreover, at first, it is necessary to suggest MDT by the scheme "child-adult" as direct contact with an adult, then SDT should be suggested by the scheme "child-adult-object" as additional usage of an object. Suggestion of a stimulant for every method of perception deals with MDT and corresponding SDT, the results should be tested separately. If reaction to stimulant corresponds to age standard the results should be evaluated as 1 point, if reaction is immature - 0.5 point, at no reaction to stimulant - 0 point. Then it is necessary to calculate separately the sum of points according to MDT and SDT to compare them and evaluate child's CA within the norm, if 75-50% - CA are considered to be delayed rate of development, if 50-25% CA are below age standard, if resulting point is under 24% against maximally possible CA should be evaluated as a state being boundary with pathology. The innovation increases significance in evaluating CA development in children in case of IMP due to taking into account individual peculiarities of child's psychics.

EFFECT: higher accuracy of evaluation.

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