About Dr. Gada
Dr. Srinivas (Sri) Gada has had a distinguished service in the NHS for 25 years. He has worked as a Consultant Neurodisability Paediatrician at Oxford University Hospitals NHS FT for nearly 14 years. Sri has continued to work at the University of Oxford as a Senior Hon Clinical Lecturer in Paediatrics.
Sri is the Editor of Oxford Handbook of Community Paediatrics, published by Oxford University Press and is sold worldwide. He has been awarded Clinical Excellence Awards for delivering innovative services in the field of Child Disability and Child Development.
Sri has served in the NHS in various roles such as Lead for Clinical Governance, Lead for Oxford Down Syndrome Service, Lead for West Oxfordshire Child Development Team, Course Director, Educational Supervisor, as a Consultant Appraiser and more. Sri has delivered care to over 20,000 children with complex needs, working closely with multi-disciplinary teams. His work has been covered by BBC Radio, ITV, and Oxford Mail.
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What? Why? Who? and How of Developmental Delay “A hundred years from now it will not matter what your bank account was, the sort of house you lived in or the kind of car you drove…but the world may be different because you were important in the life of a child”, said Forest Witcraft. Identifying delays in a child’s development and addressing these delays are some of the most crucial and life-defining things anyone can think of! Since earlier identification can lead to early interventions and given that the effectiveness of early interventions is evidence-based and beyond doubt, therefore, it is imperative to know about a child’s development and address any issues without delay. Charles Darwin, in 1877 published a detailed account of the development of one of his own ten… Continue Reading
Tips to improve attention in children with ADHD, ASD and Dyspraxia Attention is a precious and yet scarce resource. Moreover, ‘The quality of one’s life depends on the quality of one’s attention. Whatever you pay attention to will grow in your life and the rest withers’, said Deepak Chopra. Therefore, it is vital to learn how to maximise our attention and to use this essential and scarce resource intelligently. To make an already tough job even more demanding, many children with neurodevelopmental disorders such as ADHD, ASD, and Dyspraxia, have significantly less attention and are prone to distraction. Attention is critical in maximising children’s learning, their cognitive processes (language, information processing, memory, reasoning, problem-solving, planning, etc.), and their functioning. Therefore, in this article, I have summarised several strategies that one can… Continue Reading