Alternative Medicine for Global Developmental Delay (GDD)
Late development in general or better known as "Global Developmental Delay" (GDD) refers to children who do not reach their normal level of development according to their age in terms of language and communication, physical, cognitive, socio-emotional and environmental development. It can usually be identified in the early stages of a child's development, which is when a child is born up to the age of 18.
The child will be diagnosed as GDD when there is a delay in the development of more than 2 categories of these abilities:
- Fine and/or gross motor skills such as holding objects, writing, crawling, jumping, etc.
- Mind/thought/cognitive (cognitive) such as thinking to complete a task or do something etc.
- Speech and language such as speaking, communicating verbally and saying sentences to be understood
- Social Emotional (Social Emotional) such as giving the right reaction, emotion and body language response according to the right situation and stimulation
- Activities of daily living such as eating, drinking, cleaning
Causes of GDD
- Down syndrome, which is caused by genetics
- Germ/virus infection in the baby or the occurrence of problems during pregnancy and childbirth
- Premature birth (early birth/insufficient fetal age)
- Chronic ear infections in the early stages of infancy. This will cause hearing loss, which leads to a delay in speech.
- Autism spectrum disorder
- Cerebral palsy
- Fetal alcohol spectrum disorder
- Landau Kleffner syndrome
- Myopathies, including muscular dystrophy
Symptoms of GDD
Typical symptoms of GDD include:
- The child is late in sitting up, crawling, walking
- Limited reasoning or conceptual abilities
- Fine/gross motor difficulties
- Poor social skills/judgment
- Aggressive behaviour as a coping skill
- Communication problems
