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Developmental Disabilities

 Subject
Subject Source: Medical Subject Headings
Scope Note: Notes = Disorders in which there is a delay in development based on that expected for a given age level or stage of development. These impairments or disabilities originate before age 18, may be expected to continue indefinitely, and constitute a substantial impairment. Biological and nonbiological factors are involved in these disorders.,Created For = LHSA-Dott

Found in 110 Collections and/or Records:

PR2.14124, 1954-1959

 Item
Identifier: LHB1 CC/24/PR2.14124
Scope and Contents

Typed case summary, correspondence, handwritten notes, charts and reports relating to male patient from Edinburgh and the Lothians aged 0 at first examination in 1954. Conditions mentioned include: vomiting; communicating hydrocephalus; epilepsy; retarded development; paresis; internal strabismus; and speech indistinctness. Surgical and nonsurgical treatment given. Patient discharged.

Dates: 1954-1959

PR2.14387, 1954-1962

 Item
Identifier: LHB1 CC/24/PR2.14387
Scope and Contents

Notes and correspondence relating to male patient from Scotland (outside Edinburgh and the Lothians) aged 6 at first examination in 1954. Conditions mentioned include: personality disturbance; retarded intellectual and emotional development; extra-pyramidal motor syndrome; and post-encephalitic residual lesions. No treatment given. Patient discharged.

Dates: 1954-1962

PR2.14474, 1954

 Item
Identifier: LHB1 CC/24/PR2.14474
Scope and Contents

Typed correspondence and notes relating to female patient from Edinburgh and the Lothians aged 5 at first examination in 1954. Conditions mentioned include: retarded physical and mental development; bilateral ptosis; and speech disorder. No treatment given. Patient discharged.

Dates: 1954

PR2.14559, 1954-1955

 Item
Identifier: LHB1 CC/24/PR2.14559
Scope and Contents

Correspondence relating to female patient from Scotland (outside Edinburgh and the Lothians) aged 6 at first examination in 1954. Conditions mentioned include: retarded mental development; epilepsy; unsteady hands; and unsteady gait. No treatment given. Patient discharged.

Dates: 1954-1955

PR2.14701, 1955-1958

 Item
Identifier: LHB1 CC/24/PR2.14701
Scope and Contents

Typed case summary, note, charts and correspondence relating to female patient from Edinburgh and the Lothians aged 3 at first examination in 1955. Conditions mentioned include: transient blindness; loss of consciousness; mentally and physically backward; vomiting; and hydrocephalus. Nonsurgical treatment given. Patient discharged.

Dates: 1955-1958

PR2.15056, 1955

 Item
Identifier: LHB1 CC/24/PR2.15056
Scope and Contents

Notes and correspondence relating to female patient from Edinburgh and the Lothians aged 4 at first examination in 1955. Conditions mentioned include: mental under-development. No treatment given. Patient discharged.

Dates: 1955

PR2.15237, 1955-1956

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Identifier: LHB1 CC/24/PR2.15237
Scope and Contents

Typed case summary, correspondence, notes, charts and reports relating to female patient from Great Britain (excluding Scotland) aged 1 at first examination in 1955. Conditions mentioned include: cerebellar medulloblastoma; vomiting; developmental delay; intracranial pressure; papilloedema; nystagmus; hydrocephalus; hypotonia; and hemiparesis. Nonsurgical treatment given. Patient discharged.

Dates: 1955-1956

PR2.15377, 1955-1958

 Item
Identifier: LHB1 CC/24/PR2.15377
Scope and Contents

Typed case summary, correspondence and notes relating to male patient from Great Britain (excluding Scotland) aged 1 at first examination in 1955. Conditions mentioned include: hydrocephalus; hemiparalysis; enlarged head; jaundice; birth injury; vomiting; developmental delay; epilepsy; and seizures;. No treatment given. Patient discharged.

Dates: 1955-1958

PR2.15424, 1955-1959

 Item
Identifier: LHB1 CC/24/PR2.15424
Scope and Contents

Typed correspondence, notes, charts and reports relating to male patient from Scotland (outside Edinburgh and the Lothians) aged 0 at first examination in 1955. Conditions mentioned include: hydrocephalus; occipital meningocele; phlebothrombosis; epilepsy; seizures; cerebral damage; intracranial pressure; developmental delay; a vegetable mentally. Surgical and nonsurgical treatment given. Patient discharged.

Dates: 1955-1959

PR2.16174, 1956-1960

 Item
Identifier: LHB1 CC/24/PR2.16174
Scope and Contents

Correspondence, handwritten notes and report relating to female patient from Great Britain (excluding Scotland) aged 2 at first examination in 1956. Conditions mentioned include: premature birth; ataxic gait; atonic diplegia; mental retardation; microcephalus; and foot drop. No treatment given. Patient discharged.

Dates: 1956-1960