Exam 1 Part 6

Question 1

What is the role of the SLP in the NICU?

Answer 1

Communication and feeding and swallowing evaluation/intervention, parent education/counseling

Question 2

Evaluating the NICU baby in how they have reactions to sensory

Answer 2

Sensory threshold

Question 3

What are examples of determining sensory threshold?

Answer 3

Taste (sucking), tickling, stroking, smell, hearing, vision

Question 4

Involuntary behavior

Answer 4

Autonomic

Question 5

What are the 5 infant behaviors?

Answer 5

Autonomic, motor, state, attention/interaction, self-regulatory

Question 6

What are the roles of the SLP in terms of feeding in the NICU?

Answer 6

Identify signals of stress and stability, respond to maintain or regain stability, position of the infant, build positive parent-infant interaction, breastfeeding support, parent caregiving

Question 7

Why is sucking important?

Answer 7

Swallowing, oral-motor development for speech

Question 8

Looks at early peaks of crying

Answer 8

Maturational

Question 9

Looks at peaks of crying with pauses

Answer 9

Decoupling

Question 10

What are the 4 crying patterns?

Answer 10

Maturational, communicative, unexplained irritability

Question 11

Neh crying

Answer 11

Hunger crying

Question 12

Owh crying; yawning

Answer 12

Tired crying

Question 13

Eh crying; gas is in stomach

Answer 13

Burping crying

Question 14

More than 3 hours of crying and happens everyday

Answer 14

Colic crying

Question 15

What are the 7 required areas of evaluation for birth-3?

Answer 15

Physical development, fine motor, gross motor, cognitive, communication, social/emotional, adaptive/self-help

Question 16

What are 3 ways to acquire the 7 ares of evaluation?

Answer 16

Observation, parent input, facilitation with clinician or parent

Question 17

What are the components of the family assessment during evaluation?

Answer 17

Looking at the environment, roles and supports of child, parent-child interaction

Question 18

Visual representation of who the child is

Answer 18

ECO map

Question 19

What should we include in a pre-evaluation?

Answer 19

Interview, non-standardized surveys, child observation, diagnostic teaching (dynamic assessment)

Question 20

Family should _______ their top 3 concerns of the child

Answer 20

Prioritize