Screens, pressure at school, lack of family time. Worrying increase in the number of children with neurodevelopmental disorders.
It’s an increase “worrying”: there are more and more children, em Portugal com neurodevelopmental disorders – such as attention deficit, language delays, motor coordination disorders and early anxiety.
One in every 100 preschool children has brain spectrum disorders. autism; This is a considerable increase in cases diagnosed in recent years. There are 5% of children with mental disorders hyperactivity and 7% with attention deficit.
SalusLive, a clinical center in the area of pediatric intervention, warns of the three most common factors associated with this problem: excessive use of screens, early school pressure and lack of family time.
Children increasingly live in environments saturated with digital stimuli, with rhythms that exceed their capacity for self-regulation and the result is visible: more psychomotor agitation, behavioral regressions, social isolation and attention and learning difficulties.
A didn’t come to help. The pandemic worsened, eliminating fundamental moments of interaction and socialization, reads a statement sent to ZAP.
Raquel Cunha, clinical director at SalusLive, describes: “Children lost part of their childhood and parents often lost references. The challenge now is to rebuild the balance.”
A literacy emotional and sensitivity parental rights have increased in recent years – but misinformation digital too.
More and more parents are looking for answers first on the Internet; and this can delay appropriate diagnoses and treatments.
“Parents’ good intentions are evident, but when clinical monitoring is replaced by content advice that promises universal solutions, unrealistic expectations and serious risks for child development are created”, warns Raquel Cunha.
