Lecture 11: Developmental Assessments & Growth Abnormalities Flashcards
When should developmental assessments occur?
Every well-child visit
How common are developmental delays?
About 1 in 5 children have delays/conditions placing them at risk.
What is birth to 3?
Federally funded home visits for developmental therapies
After 3, via school.
What is the M-CHAT?
- Modified checklist for autism in toddlers
- 18-30mo
- two stages (20 questions for parent, then probing questions by provider w examples)
- takes 5 min (+2 min for scoring)
0-2: low, 3-7: mod, 8-20: severe
What is the Denvver Developmental Screening Tool?
- 125 Question test for 2 weeks to 6 years
- Parent + direct obs
- Subjectively allows clinican to observe and assess overall behavior
- Normal = 0 delays and 1 caution max
What are the main issues with the Denver developmental screen?
- Only identified about 50% of children that needed help
- Long time to do
- High sens but low spec (AKA it mainly rules out)
- Low sample size
What is the Ages and Stages Questionnaires?
- 19 surveys
- 1 month to 5.5y
- Language, personal-social, fine/gross motor, problem solving
- Determines if a child is on schedule
What are the 5 areas of the ASQ and the cutoff?
- Communication
- Gross Motor
- Fine Motor
- Problem Solving
- Personal/Social
Cutoff is 2 SD below the mean: at least 1 cutoff = diagnostic referral indicated.
Close to cutoff = rescreen after practicing 4-6months.
Developmental Milestones for 1-2 months
V3-CHERT2S
* V - “vocal” (vocal reciprocal play, engages in vocalizations, alert responds to voices)
* C - Cooing
* H - Holds head erect and lifts head
* E - “Eyes” regards face and follows objects through visual field
* R - recognizes parents
* T - “turns and toys” turns from side to side and drops toys
* S - smiles spontaneously!
Developmental Milestones for 3-5 months
“M-SPURTLE” - like a raspeberry!:)
- M - “mouth” reaches for and brings objects to mouth
- S - “sits” - sits with support!
- P - “puppy prop” weight supported on forearms w head up
- U - ulnar grasps thne later thumb opposition
- R - raspberry sound!
- T - “turns” from front to back
- L - “laughs” and “looks” towards voice
- E - “exists” can follow object in field of vision but the object no longer exists once they cannot see it
Developmental Milestones for 6-8 months
“MICROBES” - microbes has 8 letters (6-8m)
- M - “midline” passes objects from hand to hand in midline
- I - inhibited by word no
- C - Commando crawl!
- R - Rolls from back to stomach
- O - “opposition” first scoops pellet then grasps it using thumb opposition
- B - “bye bye” immitation!
- E - “eats” feeds themselves puffs and cherios
- S - sits alone for a short period
Developmental Milestones for 9-11 months
“CO-PRINCES”
- C - Crawls and commands. follows 1 step commands “come here”
- O - object permanence begins
- P - pat-a-cake and peek-a-boo imitations!
- R - Repetition of sounds “bababbaba”
- I - “index finger” uses thumb and index finger to pick up small items (neat pincer grasp)
- N - “name” recognition! (they know their name)
- C - Comprehension of words begins
- E - eats puffs and cheerios by themself
- S - “standing” can pull self into standing position and stand alone for short periods of time
Developmental Milestones at 1 year
“T-MOWING”
- T - “tower” of 2 cubes
- M - “mama” and dada
- O - “objects” points if they want something!
- W - “words” can say 1-2 other words
- I - independently walks!!(if youre gonna mow you gotta walk by yourself!)
- N - neat pincer grasp is perfect!
- G - “gives” toys on request!
Developmental Milestones at 18 months
“C-STRAW-BED”
- C - “command” unerstands 2 step commands!
- S - “sits and stairs” sits self in chair and walks up/down stairs w help
- T - “Tower” - builds tower of 3-4 cubes
- R - “recognizes” 3 body parts
- A - “animal” carries stuffed animal or doll
- W - “words” can say 4-20 words
- B - “ball” throws a ball!
- E - “Eats” w a spoon or fork!
- D - “Dumps” things out of cups/bottles
when do children develop protodeclarative and protoimperative pointing? what does this mean?
15-18 mo
Developmental Milestones at 2 years
“BI-TWO” (get it cuz theyre two)
- B - kicks “balls” and turns “book” pages by themselves!
- I - “imitates” imitative behaviors, parallel play, mimicry
- T - “tower” of 6-7 cubes
- O - “object” points to named objects or pictures
- W - “words” 50 word vocab, short phrases of 2+ words. giant leap in vocab and languade development!
Developmental Milestones at 30 months
“WHIPCOT” turn the W to the left and its a 3 for 30 months (im strugglin hang w me)
- W - Walks backwards
- H - hops on one foot
- I - refers to self as “I”
- P - uses “prepositions”
- C - copies “Crude circle” and holds “crayon” in fist
- O - “object” pointing described by use of object (“what changes channe?” points to remote)
- T - talks enough to carry conversations
Developmental Milestones at 3 years
- Holds crayon with fingers
- Tower of 9-10 cubes
- Copies circle
- Gives first and last name
- Rides tricycle with pedals
- Can dress with supervision
Rule of 3s: 3 numbers, 3 letters, 3 colors, 3 shapes, 3 wheels
idk i dont have one for this
Developmental Milestones at 3-4 years
“CABNETS”
- C - Climbs stairs w alternating feet
- A - Answers “what do you like to do for fun?”
- B- buttons and unbuttons
- N - gives full “name”
- E - eats by self at mealtime (feeds self)
- T - takes of shoes and jacket
- S - knows own Sex
Developmental Milestones at 4-5 years
- Runs and turns without losing balance
- Stands on 1 leg for 10s
- Draws a person without a torso
- Copy a square
- Knows days of the week
- What do you do if you’re cold/hungry? answers
- Self-care at toilet (might need help with wiping)
- Dresses self (need help with tying shoes)
Developmental Milestones at 5-6 years
- Can catch a ball
- Skips smoothly
- Tells age
- Knows right and left hand
- Can describe favorite tv show with detail
- Does simple chores at home
- Good motor ability but little awareness of dangers
Developmental Milestones at 6-7 years
- Knows morning from afternoon
- reads several one syllable words
Developmental Milestones at 7-8 years
- Ties shoes
- Knows current day of the week
- Adds and subtracts 1 digit numbers
Developmental red flags
- Persistence of Moro after 6 months
- No joyful expressions by 6 months
- No sitting by 9 months
- No babbling/pointing/gesturing by 12 months
- No single words by 16 months
- Not walking independently by 18 months
- Hand dominance prior to 18 months
- Failure of 2 word sentences by 24 months
- Failure of 3 word sentences by 36 months
- Regression at any point
What is the best predictor of cognition and school achievement?
Language development
2y: 50%
3y: 75%
4y: 100%
Weight gain
When is head circumference measured?
Birth to 24 months
What is the red flag when it comes to growth charts?
Major percentile drops
MC growth abnormality
Type 1: Head circumference same, but weight drops faster than height
MCC of type 1 growth abnormality
- Inadequate caloric intake
- Excess loss of calories
- Inability to use calories peripherally
Describe a type 2 growth abnormality
- Normal head circumference
- Depressed ht and wt
- D/t genetically short, endocrinopathies, growth delay, heart/renal dz, skeletal dysplasias
Describe a type 3 growth abnormality
- Decrease in Ht, Wt, and Head circumference
- D/t CNS issues, chromsomal defects, or in utero/perinatal insults