Neurological conditions can present a wide array of challenges that impact your child’s development and ability to engage in daily activities. These conditions can affect how the brain sends and receives messages, influencing movement, attention, and emotional regulation.
Challenges Neurological Conditions in Children Can Create:
- Movement issues: Difficulty with balance, coordination, and motor skills.
- Attention difficulties: Trouble focusing, paying attention, or processing information.
- Emotional challenges: Changes in emotional responses, behaviour, or regulation.
Megan Perumal has extensive experience working with children facing various neurological conditions, including:
- Cerebral palsy
- Developmental coordination disorder (dyspraxia)
- Traumatic brain injury
- Attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD)
- Phocomelia and amputations
- Hydrocephalus
- Microcephaly
- Epilepsy
- Dwarfism
- Intellectual disabilities
- Spina bifida
- Muscular dystrophy
- Spinal cord injuries
As the former Head of Department at a school for children with disabilities in Johannesburg, Megan worked within a multidisciplinary team to design and implement individualised treatment plans for children with physical disabilities. She utilises her skills and clinical reasoning to help develop an individualised treatment plan, considering both the child’s developmental goals and the parents’ objectives for the child within her treatment plans.
