Journal Article Critique
HCA/220
August 24, 2014

The article that I have chosen is Spinal Bifida a Multidisciplinary Prospective. In this article it explains the different effects of spinal bifida within different domains, with an effort to promote awareness and different treatments. This article also focuses on treatment strategies and that can help with the developmental disabilities associated with Spinal Bifida.

Since Spinal bifida does affect the Central nervous center (CNS), and is considered a neurogenic disorder with a complex etiology that involves genetic and environmental factors. The most common form of spinal bifida, myelomeningocele is often used interchangeably with spinal bifida

Since spinal Bifida can be diagnosed before birth, treatments also begin when the fetus is in-utero and continue threw out life. Spinal Bifida is the leading neurological disorder that is cognitive. It is a life long struggle when someone suffers from Spinal Bifida. Spinal Bifida effects cognition, adaption along with behavior. The characteristics that affect the brain also include neurological dysfunction on multiple organ systems. Spinal Bifida still does not receive the acclaim in should for the effects that it has on social, development and behavioral abnormalities that it causes one. In the public school system it is often view as an orthopedic impairment rather than a developmental issue, even though most people with Spinal Bifida have congenital malformations of the brain. Theses malformations affect speech, reading and comprehension along with some information not being able to be retained.

This article also speaks about the environment and dietary effects that cause spinal Bifida to occur across the span of different countries and ethnic backgrounds. This article helps to give insight to the risk factors that can cause this neurological abnormality.

In this article light is shed on how spinal Bifida can affect a family and the development of a child with Spinal Bifida. Since spinal Bifida affects the mental and developmental parts of the brain, the way a family adapts to the disruptive quality of this disorder can greatly effect a child’s behavioral development. The psychosocial, and emotional, as well as behavior can be triggered.