AOTA-Developmental Disorders Flashcards
What 3 key factors lead to an intellectual disability diagnosis?
- ** Psychoeducational assessment scores more than 2 SD below in one area; or 1 SD below in two areas**
- Onset before 18
- Impaired adaptive abilities necessary for ADL/IADLs.
What are the levels of intellectual disabilities?
Mild (IQ 55-70; 7th grade), moderate (IQ 40-55; 2nd grade), severe (IQ 25-40; some ADLs), profound (IQ below 25; requires caregiver assistance)
What are the common causes of intellecutal disabilities?
Problems acquired in childhood through trauma, toxins, or infections
Problems of fetal development and birth
Chromosomal problems
CNS malformations
Congenital anomalies
Metabolic, neurocutaneous, and endocrine disorders
Comorbidities:
Speech problems
Ambulation problems
Seizures
Visual problems
Chronic conditions (e.g., heart disease, diabetes, anemia, obesity, and dental problems)
What are the early indicators of intellectual disabilities?
- Delays in motor/speech milestones
- Unresponsiveness to handing and physical contact
- Reduced alertness
- Limited reactions to play
- Feeding difficulties
- Neurological soft signs (deficits in bal., motor asymmertry, perceptual-motor skills, FM skills)
Autism Assessment Tools to address sensory processing/modulation disorders
- SIPT
- SP
- SPM (home/school environment)
Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD)
characterized by severe and complex impairments in social interaction and communication skills and by the presence of stereotypical behaviors, interests, and activities; onset 3 y/o
Repetitive behaviors driven by sensory needs; behavioral issues; cognitive deficits (difficulty with empathy/theory of mind, inflexible); difficulties with motor skills (dyspraxia or poor motor planning abilities); GM/FM; social skills
Autism Spectrum Disorder- Interventions
Interventions include sensory integrative therapy, highly structured and specialized education programs, and visual supports (e.g., picture checklists, communication boards).; social skills training
sensory processing/modulation; hypersensitivity; underresponsitivity
4 S’s : SI, structure, support for visuals, social skills
Rett syndrome
a progressive neurological disorder caused by a genetic mutation that is found almost exclusively in girls; type of ASD; development appears normal for first 6 mos.; non ambulatory and non verbal by late childhood
Comorbidities (mircrocephaly, spasticity, and seizures)
Rett syndrom-Symptoms
- head growth slows down
- loss of hand skills, poor coordinated trunk and gait
- Loss of social skills (but can reemerge)
- hand-wringing; repetitive behaviors
- waking hyperventilation
What is the frontal lobe responsible for?
responsible for inhibition and attention control (ADHD)
ADHD-Assessments
- clinical observation in various settings
- interview
- assessment tools
ADHD- Assessment tools
- Assessment of Motor and Process Skills
- COPM
- SFA
- Short Child Occupational Profile
- SP
- SPM
ADHD-Interventions
- CBT [challenging automatic thoughts, reducing cognitive distortions, challenging underlying belief and assummptions, mental imagery, controlling recurrent thoughts and behaviors]
- behavioral modification
- educational interventions (safety awareness)
- social skills training
- modify environment/organzation
- self-management techniques
Purpose of ADHD interventions
- enhance sensory modulation
- support organizational routines
Zones of Regulation-RED
high state of alert/arousal; intesnse emotions
Zones of Regulation-Yellow
less arousal; heightened state of alertness
stress, anxiety, nervousness, feeling extremely silly
Zones of Regulation-Green
optimal state of alertness; ready to learn, work or play; calm, but attentive
Zones of Regulation-Blue
less than optimal state
Sad, illness, boredom, or fatigue
Learning disabilities- Interventions for early childhood
- sensory integration
- perceptual-motor integration
- writing skills
- play
- socialization
Learning disabilities- Interventions for School age
- sensory integration
- perceptual-motor integration
- writing skills
Learning disabilities-Interventions for early adolescence
- independent living skills
- social skills
- development of compensatory and adaptive techniques
Down syndrome
- Chromosomal disorder trisomy 21
- short stature, small heads, flat nose, slack jaw tongue protrusion, broad, short fingers/toes; single crease in hands
Why would a child with down syndrome require clearance for sports?
They may have atlantoaxial instability, which can lead to permanent spinal cord damage (neurological issues).
Precaution: do not hyperflex neck; do not perform front rolls.
Learning Disability-Interventions for early childhood
- sensory integration
- play
- perceptual-motor integration
- writing skills
Down syndrome-Evaluation
- interviews
- educate on child’s unquie development trajectory
- clinical observations
- standardized assessment tools
Down syndrome-Intervention
- feeding support
- education/family training
- motor planning
- cognitive development
- self-determination skills/prevocational training
- ADL/IADLs
- educational interventions
Patau’s syndrome
- Chromosomal Trisomy 13
- Survival rate 20%- survive up to 12 mo.
- They have multiple anomalies affecting their eyes, ears, nose, lip, palate, and digits; microcephaly and neural tube
- Cleft lip and palate, abnormally small eye(s), dec. distance btwn eyes
Turner’s syndrome
- **webbing of the neck, congenital edema of the extremities, **and cardiac problems.
- short, may develop obesity, and may lack secondary sexual characteristics
- NO intellectual disabilities, but has difficuties with visual perception
Cri du chat syndrome
- weak and “catlike” cry in infancy.
- microcephaly, down-slanting eyes, cardiac abnormalities, and failure to thrive.
- intellectual disability, hypotonia, and feeding and respiratory problems.
Klinefelter’s syndrome
- Extra X chromosome
- Learning disabilities
- emotional/behavioral problems
- tall, slim, small genitalia, unable to father children