The Centre for Continuous Development and Education at Basra University organized a workshop on language disorders and communication in children and their relationship to nutrition

The aim of the workshop is to increase knowledge and awareness of the relationship between the prevalence of communication disorders in children and the poor diet of the child and his or her enormous lack of essential nutrients responsible for enhancing brain functions in other words, to demonstrate the relationship between nutrition and the communication and cognitive functions of the brain.

The workshop I gave included

Teaching Amani Nouri Saeed, presentation on linguistic and communication disorders in children, their types, causes and ways of addressing them in general, focusing on two types of disorders that are most common in the world in general and in Iraq in particular, namely autism spectrum disorder, hyperactivity disorder and poor concentration, and then indicating the role of nutrition and the child's diet in increasing these disorders on the one hand and in treating them on the other.

Finally, the recommendation was that parents and educators in particular should know about the different types of disorders and the most important early signs for early diagnosis and treatment, focusing on the role of the child's diet in the emergence and exacerbation of these disorders.