Global Developmental Delay Flashcards
Global developmental delay: definition (4)
- A significant delay in 2 or more developmental domains
- 5 areas of development: Gross/fine motor, speech/language, cognitive, social/personal, activities of daily living
- Those 5 and older are usually assessed by IQ testing, which identifies intellectual disabilities
- Usually reserved for children younger than age 5 years
What is the next step when delay is suspected? (4)
- Family history, including parent developmental history and function
- Review risk factors such as prematurity, co‐ occurring medical illnesses
- Confirm newborn screening results
- Formal hearing and vision evaluations
What tests should be done with neurological signs? (4)
- Brain MRI
- CK levels
- TSH
- Free T4
What tests should be done without neurological signs? (2)
- Array CGH
2. Fragile X
What tests should be done with regression or metabolic disturbance? (3)
- Amino Acid
- Organic Acid
- Others
Neuromotor examination: observe quality and type of movements (8)
a. Cranial nerve
b. EOM, papillary reactivity
c. Red reflex
d. Facial expression
e. Smiling and crying
f. Oromotor movement
g. Tongue fasciculations
h. Quality of shoulder shrug
Neuromotor examination: observe strength (4)
- Observe symmetry while tripod sitting with symmetrical posture observe walking and then running, climbing, hopping, and skipping in the older child
- Use of a Gower maneuver, characterized by an ambulatory child’s inability to rise from the floor without pulling or pushing up with his arms.
- Muscle bulk and texture, joint flexibility, and presence or absence of atrophy should be observed.
- Quality and intensity of grasp is most easily assessed by observation during play
When do you do neuromotor examinations?
9, 18, 34 and 39 months
What Are the Red Flags in AAP Policy? (8)
- Elevated Creatine Kinase three times normal
- Do TSH/free T4 to rule out thyroid myopathy
- Fasciculations:
a. Motor Neuron diseases
b. Spinal Muscular Atrophy - Facial Dysmorphia, joint contractures, heart failure, organomegaly
a. Mucopolysaccharidosis - Respiratory insufficiency and generalized weakness
a. SMA type 1 requiring admission - Motor delays present during minor illness
a. May indicate mitochondrial disease - Loss of milestones indicates a neurodevelopmental disease
a. SMA, Retts syndrome - Mitochondrial disease is best picked up when the child gets sick
Dysmorphology exam (3)
- Yield is from 40 to 80%
- Many disorders are readily identified by primary care providers—Down syndrome, FAS, Neurofibromatosis
- Major malformations/minor anomalies/ growth deficiency help to make diagnosis
Normal Phenotypic Variant (8)
- Saddle (mildly upturned nose)
- Mild to moderate in bowing of lower leg Sacral dimple, not deep
- Mild syndactyly of second and third toes
- Toenail hypoplasia in the newborn
- Hydrocele of the testicle
- Epicanthal folds
- Unilateral epicanthal fold is indicative of torticollis Slanting of the palpebral fissures
- Brushfield spots (20% of normal newborns)
Minor Anomalies of the Face (11)
- Synophrys; Fused eyebrows
- Flat bridge of nose
- Hypotelorism
- Anteverted nostrils
- Epicanthal fold
- Iris freckles
- Upward palpebral slant (mongoloid slant)
- Downward palpebral slant (antimongoloid slant)
- Blue sclera
- Epicanthal folds
- Different eye colors
Minor Malformations (3)
- Circular pattern of hair (cowlick)
- Kinky hair, brittle hair including eyebrows.
- Hair patterning
a. Look for unusual hair pattern Low set hair line
b. Widow’s peak
c. Webbed neck
Minor Anomalies of the Auricular Region (8)
- Large ears
- Lop ear
- Lack of lobulus
- Lobe crease
- Thick helix or attached to scalp
- Protruding ears (due to lack of development of the posterior auricular ear muscle
- Low set ears
- Ears slanted greater than 15 degrees from the perpendicular
Minor Anomalies of the Hand (6)
- Clinodactyly
- Syndactyly
- Hypoplastic
- Asymmetric length
- Camptodactyly; Contractures of the fingers
- Malportion or disharmony in the length of particular segment of the hand