How soon can one detect a disability in a child? What are the signs to watch out for?
A Children who are premature, and have not cried immediately after birth, have low birth weight, poor apgar score, have suffered fetal distress come under the high risk children category. They are vulnerable and their development needs to be watched. As they are growing their milestone achievement has to be reviewed. When did the child start head control, crawling, walking, speaking single words, making 2-3 word sentences etc. Any deviation of more then two months from the normal expected time of each milestone should alert the mother.
