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What is it called when a child cannot cross the midline?
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My pediatrician is suspecting that my 3 yr old cannot cross the midline. We are still waiting a bit to see before doing an MRI. I cannot remember what he called this but I would like to read more about it but can't look it up without a name?

 

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April 19 2:58 AM (47 minutes and 51 seconds later)
         
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Range of movement:

An important area in physical development is a child's ability to make movements that span the entire length of her body. A significant milestone is the ability to make movements that go from one side of the body to the other, referred to as "crossing the midline" This skill is necessary for a child to do tasks such throwing a ball or passing an object from one hand to another. This concept is also important for the area of fine motor development.

Here are some websites that might be helpful to you. Bridgette


http://www.audiblox2000.com/learning_disabilities/letter_reversals.htm

http://www.diannecraft.com/processing.html

http://p103.ezboard.com/ffosteringandadoptingolderchildrenfrm47.showMessage?topicID=85.topic

http://www.tsbvi.edu/Education/roots-0to3.htm





Edited by ziggy06 on April 19 2006 at 5:57 AM
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Reply to bridgette's Post: Thanks for the information. My pediatrician actually had some clinical name for it, something about the right brain and left brain not communicating but I can't remember what he said, is there another name for it? So if he had this he would not be able to throw a ball or pass objects from one hand to another? He can do that but my pediatrician had him working on drawing crosses and squares and he could not do that. Would this be the same thing?
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The corpus callosum connects the two sides of the brain. I believe the condition you are speaking of is called agenesis of the corpus callosum, AKA absent corpus callosum, corpus callosum hypoplasia, ACC, CCA, collasal agenesis, or collasal dysgenesis.

If the agenesis is an isolated condition, there may be no symptoms or difficulties with skills that require matching visual patterns. The two hemispheres of the brain can't communicate, thus images seen by one eye aren't connected to images processed by the other. Sometimes there are other associated chromosomal abnormalities, and when the agenesis of the corpus callosum is a part of one of those syndromes, there can be varying degrees of learning difficulties. Check the following link for more specific information.

http://www.healthline.com/gale/Genetic-Disorders/Corpus-Callosum-Agenesis/gegd_0002_0001_0_00104.html

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