childhood conditions 1 Flashcards
speech/language don’t develop normally
language disorder
trouble getting meaning across
expressive language disorder
issue understanding other’s meaning
difficulty following directions
receptive language disorder
MC group of dev delayed children, with wk muscles, DTR are WNL, walking 24-30m, good prognosis
benign congenital hypotonia
progressive degen dz, hypotonia dt deg in ant horns of sc and motor nuclei of CNs - no DTRs
spinal muscular atrophy
hand dominance occurs around 2-3. if it occurs prior to 1 yr, suspect:
hemiplegia
test for spastic hemiplegia
crother’s slap test
hypotonic at birth, us delayed onset, 3-6m dev spasticity or rigidity, seizures, drooling, strabismus, etc
spastic quadriplegia
group of gen d/o, gradual degen of muscle fibers, atrophy, pseudohypertrophy from fatty infiltrates
duchene’s muscular dystrophy
pp toe walking, waddling gait, clumsy, gower’s sign, inc L lordosis and calf muscles, trendelenberg
MD
gower sign indicative of
MD
JRA
damage to the left brain will cause ___ for right handers and vv
apasia
trouble using words/sentences
expressive aphasia
trouble understanding others
receptive aphasia
trouble with using and understanding words
global aphasia
motor speech d/o, child knows what to say but can’t neurologically
apraxia
motor speech d/o, weak facial muscles
dysarthria
weak tongue tip muscles, lies too far forward, persistent tongue thrust reflex causes
orofacial myofunctional d/o
MC congenital ant chest wall deformity
pectus excavatum
looser’s zone on an xray along with osteopenia, coarsened trabeculation indicates
osteomalacia
thumb overlaps 5th digit around wrist, marfan
walker wrist sign
thumb hangs out over fist, marfan
steinberg sign
part of brain that controls homeostasis, emotions, survival, threat avoidance, social interaction and learning
limbic system of CNS
part of brain that controls emotional conditioning, social signs of emotion (facial, posture)
amygdala of CNS