Lecture 3

Question 1

What are the domains of child development?

Answer 1

1. motor development- gross & fine motor
2. speech and language development-expressive and receptive
3. social and emotional
4. cognitive- including visual perceptual and visual motor

Question 2

what are the principles of management?

Answer 2

-early intervention
-response to intervention approach
-remediation
-accomodation
-behavioural intervention
-pharmacology

Question 3

how can developmental delays affect a child?

Answer 3

their ability to:

-interact with their environment
-initiate and maintain relationships
engage in functional daily activities

Question 4

what may an OT assessment of a child include?

Answer 4

-interview with caregivers, teacher, and any other significant people in the Childs life

-observation of motor skills, play skills, self care skills, and responses to sensory stimuli in multiple environments

-standardized assessments (COPM, peabody, questionnaires, etc)

Question 5

what is behaviour?

Answer 5

anything you can observe, hear, feel, from another person and/or anything you may say or do

Question 6

what are problems with behaviours of concern?

Answer 6

-may be uncomfortable for all involved/nearby
-may prevent the individual/family from reaching identified goals
-be painful of even dangerous
-be misunderstood

Question 7

what are possible functions of behaviour?

Answer 7

Sensory
escape/avoidance
attention
tangible

Question 8

what are setting events?

Answer 8

generally things that are occurring in the individuals life that are often out of our immediate control and that may have an effect on how likely the individuals are to or not to engage in a behaviour of concern

Question 9

how can we determine what the function is for behaviours of concern?

Answer 9

collect some ABC data from you observations and don’t forget about the possible setting events

Question 10

what does ABC stand for and mean?

Answer 10

A- antecedent (what happened directly before the behaviour)
B- Behaviours (what did you see, hear, feel?)
C- consequence (what happened directly following the behaviour?)

Question 11

what are some positive behaviour support strategies?

Answer 11

1. co-regulation
2. consistent expectations/routine
3. follow the individuals lead/interests
4. reinforcement
5. catch the individual “being good”
6. first/then language
7. provide choices
8. talk about what you want them to do rather than what not to do
9. visuals
   10.warnings
10. use a timer
11. give breaks
12. talk less

Question 12

what are different methods of reinforcement?

Answer 12

-positive/negative
-continuous/intermittent
-fading reinforcement
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Question 13

what are different types of reinforcement?

Answer 13

praise
food items
toy
activity
ending/leaving/someone else doing non preferred