Disiability

Question 1

What is disability

Answer 1

Umbrella ter for impairment that leads to activity limitation and participation restriction
Approach is biopchological social model

Question 2

1 billion people 15% of the worlds pop are disabled T/F

Answer 2

True

Question 3

Health outcomes for people with disabilities

Answer 3

Poorer health outcomes
Poorer education outcomes
Reduced economic participation
Increased poverty

Question 4

People with disabilities 3x more likely to have a chronic illness

Answer 4

Increased risk of obesity ( poor diet / limited physical activity)

Question 5

Developmental delay definition

Answer 5

Term used for children BEFORE 5 not used after 5 y ears of age
Failure to develop skills in the expected time frame 3/4 behind
Eg by 12 months the child doing what a 9/12 old child will do
By 2yrs doing what a 18/12 old child will do
Regression at any age
Not rolling by 6/12
Not sitting by 8/12
No crawling by 10/12
Not babbling 12/12
Not pointing 12/12
No gestures 12/12
No turning to name 12/12
No single words 16/12
Not walking 18/12
No 2 word combination 2years

Question 6

Global developmental delay is a term reserved for under 5yrs
Clinically severe
Failed to meet development milestones in several area
What children how do they present

Answer 6

1 condition eg Down’s syndrome 
2 prem infant (targeted screening)
3 universal screening 
4 parental concerns 
5 failure to attain milestones

Question 7

Intellectual disability

Answer 7

Deficits in general mental abilities
Results in impairment of adaptive function onset BEFORE 18years
ADAPTIVE function is the important thing IQ<70 2% of the Australian population

Question 8

Causes of ID

Answer 8

Prenatal
Genetic eg Down’s syndrome / metabolic /fragile x/ microdelitions
Dysmpophic syndromes
Acquired toxins. Hypoxia/ infections /drugs /alcohol
Perinatal. Hypoxia/infections/ prematurity
Postnatal hypoxia /trauma/

Globally tetnus

Question 9

Children with ID have increased risk of comorbidites

Answer 9

Obesity

Psychiatric disorders /challenging behavior

Question 10

There are sensitive/ critical periods eg vision and language

Answer 10

Periods in development where a number of factors brain development sensory input, environmental factors act to promote the acquisition of a particular skill
Eg vision binocular vision and cataract
Deafness give the cochlear implant before 12/12 to enable acquisition of speech