Children Health - Diagnosis of Children Brain Development Disorder

Many parents in the U.S. complaint " Why don't they have a group of specialists who specialize in diagnosing children brain development disorder in the same hospital or children clinic, so all child can be diagnosis & treat quickly. Why do they as a child parent have to search for each specialist & the time for each child to see such specialist sometime exceed 3 months, etc...". In fact, each country has its own health care system & non of them is perfected.
Diagnosis of children's brain development is always painful & time consuming for the parent. From the first day when you take your child to see your relatives doctor, to the day you know what type of brain development disorder which your child has, you may come cross many "wrong" diagnosis & be suggested to take your child to see five specialist after another. Although there are many children brain development disorder specialists around, each specialist may only specialize in five field. The only hope is of that information collected from each specialist will eventually help to select the exact type of disorder, so that your child will be treated with corrected medication.
I. In Canada
Because of universal health care system, after your child is seen by your relatives doctor, they or they will be recommended to the department of brain development disorder of local children hospital. From there, the team of specialists will diagnose your child five by five & after all diagnosis are collected & the team final meeting, they will inform you, the type of brain development disorder of your child with suggested treatments.
The time of diagnosis in Canada may be shorter, but all doctors are pre determined. Like it or not, you can not select your own. You may refuse to see some doctors, but you will get your child to wait for weeks for next appointment & diagnosis is no, no to all parents.
1. There are many support group in your local area, If you will be given information to join 2. Your child will be sent back to your local brain development disorder local clinic 3. You will require to come back, depending to your doctor diagnosis from time to time ( usually eight months) or suggested by your relatives doctor or local clinical doctors. 4. All medication are free
II. U.S.
If you require to seek from the alternative medicine, you will have to pay for their services, but inform your relatives & clinical doctors.
A. In general
You will have to make you own appointment or have your relatives doctor do it for your. You have the right to select any doctor whom you think will be best for your child. Because of each doctor's specialty, some famous doctors in child brain development disorder, may take up to eight months of waiting for initial appointment that not only delays the child corrected diagnosis, but also increases the risk of condition becoming worse. Here are some tips which have worked well for some parents, I hope that they will kelp to reduce the time of waiting & to save time for parent walking around to find treatments for their children.
B. Joint parent child development support organization
1. Share your concern with your doctor or specialist 2. Listen to their suggestion 3. You may ask for initial screen by your relatives doctor 4. Seek help from other specialists as shortly as possible 5. Follow up your appointment 6. Seek a second opinion 7. Get your concerns & questions answer 8. Know obtainable treatments & education when the true causes are found 9. Get your child copies from all doctors who your child has been seen. 10. If you seek help from alternative medicine, make sure you are understood & understand, because most of the famous alternative practitioner came from non English speaking countries.
C. here are the suggested list of specialist team
1. Share your concerns with members 2. Find a place where you can talk quietly with member instead of raising your concern during meeting. 3. Raise your query in the general meeting 4. Share member experiences 5. Share your check list 6. No technical term & personal labeling 7. If you find other sources, share with your members 8. Be supportive & do not make any judgment.
They don't know that the list below are helpful to all parents, it's been used by other parent with high success rate in diagnosis. It is said that the list save parent time & prevent delay treatments to their children.
1. Development & behaviour pediatrician 2. Pediatric neurologist 3. Children psychiatrist 4. Children psychologist 5. Speech & language pathologist 6. Occupational therapist 7. Physical therapist 8. Play therapist 9. Social worker.
by:NuTKung