Childhood Brain Tumour

摘要: Children who survive brain tumour are a growing population, and increasingly seen in clinical caseloads worldwide. However, cure often comes at cost, with devastating neurocognitive communicative sequelae commonly children across the course of development. The impact treatment-related variables on development acquisition skills is considerable, includes direct effect located supratentorial infratentorial regions, raised intracranial pressure, treatment effects from surgical intervention, radiotherapy, and/or chemotherapy, other risk factors. Pragmatic abilities social competence disrupted childhood (CBT), quality life. This chapter addresses key constructs ability associated CBT addition to primary mechanisms underpinning pragmatic deficits CBT. Management requires an integrated approach assessment, treatment, long-term surveillance. It also important that these not ‘lost’ services considered essential ensuring improvements functioning competence. These approaches assessment intervention outlined.