Caplan R, Guthrie D, Mundy P, Sigman M, Shields D, Sherman T, Peacock W J
Division of Child Psychiatry, University of California, Los Angeles 90024.
Dev Med Child Neurol. 1992 Jun;34(6):499-506. doi: 10.1111/j.1469-8749.1992.tb11470.x.
The authors present preliminary findings on the effects of surgery on the development of early non-verbal social communication skills in eight children with intractable infantile spasms. After a mean follow-up of 15.2 months, there was no statistically significant change in the post-surgical non-verbal communication behavior of these children beyond the expected developmental change. Implications of these findings for the developmental impairment associated with infantile spasms are discussed.