Diagnoses Flashcards
What is autism?
Neurodevelopmental condition that includes social communication and interaction deficits as well as repetitive patterns of behavior and interests.
What is social emotional reciprocity?
Social emotional reciprocity is one type of social interaction deficit. Challenges can include difficulties with sharing, participating in the back and forth of conversational exchange, and joint attention.
Joint attention is when two individuals use gestures or eye gaze to share focus on the same object or event.
What are social communication differences?
Social communication differences commonly include echolalia, one example of unconventional verbal behavior in which the individual repeats words and phrases heard from digital sources or people in their lives. In autism, echolalia may or may not have communicative meaning.
What is intellectual disability?
ID is characterized by deficits in intellectual functions that can vary in severity. These include reasoning, problem-solving, planning, abstract thinking, judgement, academic learning, and learning from experience.
These deficits lead to impairments in adaptive functioning that can impact personal, social, academic, and/or occupational functioning.
What is global developmental delay?
when an individual fails to meet expected developmental milestones in several areas of intellectual functioning
Describe mild intellectual disability.
Slowed development, modest difficulty in school
Higher level executive functioning
May sustain jobs
Individuals can often live independently with minimal support.
Describe moderate intellectual disability.
Can be independent in self-care
Difficulty interpreting social cues
Academic skills are significantly lower than peers
Communication is less complex
Extensive teaching and cuing supports are needed.
Environmental and visual cuing systems can help with communication, memory, and sequencing.
Describe severe intellectual disability.
Limited attainment of conceptual skills and cannot read or manipulate numbers
Communication is focused on the present
Understands simple speech and gestures
Speaks with limited vocab and grammar
Requires full time supervision
Significant support for all ADLs
Describe profound intellectual disability.
Dependent in ADLs
Nonverbal and non-symbolic communication and social interaction
May follow 1-2 step actions
Often co-ocuring with physical and sensory conditions
Caregiving support for all ADLs
What impact does ID have on sensory and motor functions?
Sensory functions, such as vision and hearing, are often compromised for people with intellectual disabilities.
Locomotor skills, postural balance, and object manipulation are often slower for individuals with an intellectual disability.
What is ADHD?
People with ADHD typically exhibit behaviors that are classified into two main categories: (1) poor sustained attention and (2) hyperactivity-impulsivity.
A comprehensive OT intervention for ADHD focuses on…
sensorineural, cognitive, motor, and psychosocial functions, and combined with the awareness of lifestyle considerations in medication management can provide a dynamic perspective to clients, their families, and their various treatment, educational, or vocational resources
What are neurodevelopmental disorders?
A group of conditions with onset in the developmental period
What is language disorder?
Reduced vocabulary, limited sentence structure, impairments in discourse
What is speech sound disorder?
Difficulty with speech sound production causing limits in effective communication.
What is social (pragmatic) communication disorder?
Difficulties in the social use of verbal and nonverbal communication resulting in functional limitations.
What is childhood-onset fluency disorder (stuttering)?
Disturbances in fluency and time patterning of speech (repetitions, prolongations, broken words, blocking)
What is developmental coordination disorder?
characterized by deficits in the acquisition and execution of coordinated motor skills and is manifested by clumsiness and slowness or inaccuracy of performance of motor skills that cause interference with ADLs.
What is stereotypic movement disorder?
diagnosed when an individual has repetitive, seemingly driven, and apparently purposeless motor behaviors (hand flapping, body rocking, head banging, self-biting, hitting)
What are tics?
sudden, rapid, recurrent, nonrhythmic, motor movements or vocalizations
What is tourette’s disorder?
motor and vocal tics persisting for more than 1 year
What is pica?
The label for behavior involved in eating nonfood.
Examples: dirt, coins, articles of clothing, etc.
Often occurs in context of a developmental disability.
What is rumination disorder?
Occasionally adults are diagnosed—typically in those with ID.
Diagnostic criteria: repeated regurgitation over at least 1 month.
The only specifier is whether the condition is in remission; must be distinguished from medical conditions that might explain the symptoms (such as anorexia or bulimia).
May result in failure to thrive, anemia, and other medical conditions that may affect the infant’s developmental progress
What is anorexia nervosa?
Often associated w/ disturbances of body image–perception that one is distressingly large despite obvious thinness.
Disorder in which persons refuse to maintain a minimally normal weight, intensely fear gaining weight, and significantly misinterpret their body and its shape.