Child Development Centre

Child Development Center Objective:

  • To provide comprehensive and high quality tertiary level services with the child and family by multidisciplinary team for children with complex disabilities
  • To involve parents in the day-to-day management of ‘physically and mentally delayed children’ and ensure their counselling
  • To follow up the entire high risk neonate’ regarding neurodevelopment progress and provide intervention where necessary.
  • To prevent disability, optimize development and improve quality of survival of all children in Bangladesh
  • To apply standardized tools, methodologies and strategies for early Screeningassessment and interventiontreatment and management of the entire range of developmental delays, disorders, impairments and disabilities
  • To provide psychosocial services to families and empower parents and primary care-providers to optimize their child’s development

List of Doctors

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Conditions Treated

Our service starts from the very beginning of stepping into the centre. There is no inequality regarding ethnicity, gender and religion.

We value and respect every parent who has any question or concern about development or problems relating to neurological aspect. From this point, our dedicated and devoted associates help children where to go.

The children, who have come for the first time, are taken to our ‘Walk-In-Clinic’, the already diagnosed epilepsy children to ‘Epilepsy Clinic, the ‘High Risk Baby’ to ‘Multiple disability clinic: We always encourage and welcome parents to accompany their children as we strongly believe that parents are the ones who know their children the best and without their active participation it is impossible to make any changes for these affected children.

Child Development Centre Facilities:

  • Well baby clinic (Inclusion criteria – Parents who are curious about their child development and Child who had history of hospital admission in 1st 28 days of life due to any cause)
  • Speech Therapy & Language/Communication clinic
  • Epilepsy clinic
  • Autism intervention Clinic
  • Visual Stimulation clinic
  • Feeding and Seating problem clinic
  • Psychological Assessment
  • Counselling/Family Counselling

Team Member of Child Development Centre:

  • Child Health Physician
  • Child Psychologist
  • Developmental Therapist

For Newborn to 16 years of age

Following Delays Warrant an Immediate Evaluation

  •  By 28 Days: History of hospital admission due to any cause
  •  By 6 Months: No back-and-forth sharing of sounds, smiles
  •  By 12 Months: Lack of response to name, No babbling, No pointing/showing/waving
  •  By 16 Months: No Single meaningful word
  •  By 24 Months: No meaningful two-word sentence/ imitate/repeating

Warning Sign for Teenage, Adolescents

  • Excessive Sleeping, beyond usual teenage fatigue, which could indicate depression
  • Loss of self-esteem
  • Abandonment/Loss of Interest in academic performance
  • Personality Change such as aggressiveness/excess anger

Some Concerning Behavior

  • Decrease in Enjoyment, time spent with friends & family
  • Strong Resistance to attend school/absenteeism
  • Problems with Memory & attention/concentration
  • Feelings of Hopelessness, Sadness, Anxiety, Crying often
  • Sees/Hears things that others do not

We also deal with

  • Cerebral palsy
  • School phobia
  • Low attention
  • Slow learner
  • Learning difficulties
  • Behaviour problem
  • Hyperactivity
  • Anxiety disorder
  • Pica
  • Obsessive compulsive disorder
  • Habit disorder

 

For Developmental Assessment of your child, please contact: Child Development Centre (CDC) Evercare Hospital Dhaka
Child Development Centre
Phone:8431661-5, Ext. : 4301/ 5151
Appointment: 10678,  (02)-55037242